Record iPhone 5 Sales Could Be Short-Lived As RBC Slashes Q4 Estimates
Selling 5 million smartphones in three days is no easy feat, and with so many people rushing to buy Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 5, the…
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Steve Jobs Vowed To Patent Everything And Anything After Losing A $100 Million iPod Lawsuit
Believe it or not, Steve Jobs and Apple (AAPL) weren't always the schoolyard bullies of patents. In fact, the Cupertino-based company rarely patented any of…
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Microsoft Mistakenly Asks Google To Block CNN, Wikipedia And U.S. Govt Sites, Among Others
Microsoft (MSFT) routinely asks Google (GOOG) to remove links from its search engine for webpages that display or distribute copyrighted material. While a majority of…
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Android: I Love You, But Fragmentation Is Bringing Me Down
I've been a pretty big fan of Android for a long time now. Having an open-source mobile operating system that different OEMs can experiment with…
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Newly Released Documents Suggest Samsung Might Not Be An Apple Copycat After All
A nine person jury in August found Samsung guilty of infringing Apple's (AAPL) design and software patents this past summer, and awarded the Cupertino-based company…
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4,000 Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Quality Control Measures, Inadequate Training [Updated]
China Labor Watch is reporting that another Foxconn strike broke out on Friday at the Zhengzhou factory in China. The report says 3,000 to 4,000…
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MIT Researchers Create Computerized Jacket That 'Hugs' You After Facebook 'Likes'
The engineering minds at MIT have concocted a new invention that will bring warm feelings to lonely Internet nerds. The Atlantic has discovered a new computerized…
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Zynga Plans To Write Off Up To $95 Million Over OMGPOP Merger Flop
Zynga's (ZNGA) $210 million purchase of Draw Something OMGPOP is officially a dud. In Zynga's latest preliminary financial report, the company revealed that its third quarter…
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Microsoft's $300 Million Investment In Barnes & Noble Is Now Called NOOK Media
Microsoft (MSFT) and Barnes & Noble (BKS) announced on Thursday that their joint venture partnership announced back in April will be called NOOK Media LLC.…
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With Windows Phone Still Failing To Gain Traction, Microsoft Plans To Launch Its Own Smartphone
When Microsoft (MSFT) announced earlier this year that it will launch an own-brand tablet to compete directly with its various vendor partners working on Windows 8-based…
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How 'Liking' A Facebook Post In The Philippines Could Get You Tossed In Jail
Complain about American Internet legislation like SOPA all you want, but realize that things could always be much worse. Case in point: The Philippines, which CBS…
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Instagram Surpasses Twitter In Daily Active Mobile Users In U.S.
Facebook's (FB) newly acquired Instagram is growing like crazy. According the latest comScore research, Instagram pulled in 7.3 million active users per day on mobile…
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CEO Tim Cook Apologizes For Apple's Awful Maps App, Recommends Bing And Other Alternatives
Tim Cook on Friday issued a statement to iOS device owners apologizing for the quality of its Maps app in iOS 6. In the letter,…
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New Zealand Government To Kim Dotcom: Sorry For The Illegal Spying
Imagine how embarrassed President Barack Obama would feel if he had to issue a formal apology to Snooki. Well, something very similar has happened in…
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European Regulators Set To File Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
Regulators in Europe are reportedly set to file an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft (MSFT) related to the company's failure to comply with a three-year-old ruling…
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Samsung Calls In The Big Guns In Fight Against Apple
Following the company's crushing $1 billion loss in its high-profile patent lawsuit with Apple (AAPL), Samsung (005930) on Wednesday confirmed that it plans to hold…
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Dozens Injured, 20 Arrested When Massive Riot Erupts At Foxconn Plant [Video]
Approximately 40 people were injured and 20 were arrested when a massive riot broke out Sunday at Foxconn's (2038) Taiyuan plant in Northern China. Details are…
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Apple: iPhone 5 Sales Top 5 Million In Debut Weekend, 100 Million iOS 6 Upgrades
Shocking no one, Apple (AAPL) announced on Monday that its brand new iPhone 5 smartphone set a new record for opening-weekend sales. The company confirmed…
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iPhone Is Top Choice For AT&T Customers While Android Dominates Verizon
The iPhone's availability on Verizon Wireless (VZ) and Sprint (S) has done little to erode AT&T's (T) standing as the carrier of choice for iPhone users.…
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Apple's iOS 6 Maps App Is Awful, And Now The World Knows It
People who have been using beta versions of iOS 6 for the past few months have known how awful Apple's (AAPL) new Maps app is,…
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Samsung's Galaxy Note To Become Official 'Phablet' For American Airlines Flight Attendants
We've been hearing about companies deploying iPads to their workforces for a long time now, but Samsung's (005930) Galaxy Note phablet is about to get some…
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Live From HTC's Windows Phone Press Conference
We're live at HTC's (2498) press conference , which is set to get started in just a few minutes. What will HTC announce? Will it…
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AT&T's FaceTime Policy Could Get It Slapped With An FCC Fine
AT&T's (T) decision to limit FaceTime over its cellular network to shared data plan subscribers hasn't been very popular with many iPhone users, but a…
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iOS 6 Review: Refining The World's Most Refined Mobile OS
Like OS X Mountain Lion is to Lion, iOS 6 is a refinement of a mobile operating system that Apple (AAPL) had in place in…
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After Suing Mark Zuckerberg, The Winklevoss Twins' Dream Comes True At Last
Back when they were students at Harvard, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, along with their fellow alum Divya Narendra, had a vision for a hoity-toity social networking…
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Yahoo CEO Gives Workers Free Smartphones Of Their Choice... Unless They Want A BlackBerry
Ever since taking over as CEO of Yahoo (YHOO), Marissa Mayer has used a series of carrots and sticks to boost employee morale at the…
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Scientists Calculate How Much Carriers Are Overcharging You On Data Charges
Anyone who has ever suspected that carriers overcharge for monthly wireless data can now feel some vindication: A new study from UCLA suggests they're probably right.…
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