Microsoft Surface Review: A Tale Of Two Tablets
Some time ago, top executives at Microsoft (MSFT) realized the company needed to make some major strategic changes to adapt in a marketplace that was…
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A Month With The iPhone 5
Record-breaking preorders. Anticipation. Lines that begin forming a week in advance. Excitement. Launch-day lines that extend for blocks. Chaos. Supply shortages. Heartbreak. Preorder delays. Panic.…
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Microsoft Bounces Back To Profitability In Q3, Posts EPS Of $0.55 On $16.01 Billion In Revenue
Microsoft (MSFT) has a lot going on ahead of next week's Windows 8 launch, what with it being in the early stages of a major…
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Sony Announces 2,000 More Layoffs
Working at Sony (SNE) can't be very much fun at the moment, as the company on Friday announced another round of layoffs that will reduce…
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Verizon Profit And Revenue Grow In Q3 As iPhone 5 Boosts Subscriber Additions
Boosted by the launch of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5, Verizon (VZ) on Thursday reported a solid quarter with net subscriber addition figures that crushed Wall…
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The Pirate Bay Moves Entire Operation To The Cloud, Thwarts Copyright Cops
The Pirate Bay has grown tired of government agents raiding its data treasure trove and is smuggling away all its booty to the cloud. As…
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A Moment Of Truth For Verizon On Thursday
On Thursday morning, Verizon (VZ) will report its third-quarter numbers. All eyes will be on the mobile subscriber addition figure. Verizon previously added 888,000 new…
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Microsoft Surface Preorders For Base Model Sell Out In Under 24 Hours
Though the odds are against it and pricing seems questionable to some, launch-day preorders for the base model of Microsoft's (MSFT) debut tablet are already sold…
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Scientists Added Rabbit DNA To A Houseplant, And Now It's An Air Purifier
Plants are very good at producing oxygen that we all need in order to breath, but what about clearing the air of harmful chemicals? Past…
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Microsoft's Surface Pricing Is Flat-Out Crazy
I was pretty bullish about Microsoft's (MSFT) line of Surface tablets until I learned what they'd actually cost. Now, I understand that some people think that Windows…
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Beneath The Surface: Inventing The Tablet That Reinvents Microsoft
Both literally and figuratively, Microsoft's (MSFT) Surface is more than just a tablet. In the literal sense, the sleek device is something of a tablet-notebook…
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Democrat Says Congress Will Slap The FTC If It Dares To Sue Google
Consider yourself warned, Federal Trade Commission. The Hill reports that Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) has issued a stark warning to the FTC that Congress will act…
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Yahoo's Grand Homepage Redesign Leaks Out
Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer has wasted no time in turning the Internet portal into a lean and mean Web machine since she landed the…
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Best Buy To Match Online Retailer Pricing This Holiday Season, Including Amazon
Best Buy (BBY) is looking to better compete with online retailers such as Amazon (AMZN) this holiday season and will reportedly begin to match prices…
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Apple Hires Away Former Star Samsung Chip Designer
The rivalry between Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) just became a whole lot more intense. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple has hired former…
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Study: Patent Trolls File 40% Of All Patent Suits
A new study confirms what we've all suspected based on anecdotal evidence: Suits filed by patent trolls have gone way up over the past few…
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Verizon's 2G And 3G CDMA Networks Will Go Dark By 2021
Verizon (VZ) customers who are still clinging onto devices that can only operate on the carrier's 2G and 3G CDMA network have nine years to…
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Nikkei: SoftBank In Talks To Acquire Sprint For $20 Billion [Updated]
Why is Sprint (S) suddenly less interested in MetroPCS (PCS)? According to a report from Nikkei on Thursday, it's because Japanese carrier SoftBank is in…
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Researchers Say iPhone Fans Wait In Long Lines To Boost Self-Esteem, Make Friends
Laugh at the "iSheep" all you want for camping outside of Apple (AAPL) stores the night before new products release, but some researchers say that…
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How To Stop Verizon From Selling Your Location Data And Other Usage Stats To Advertisers
It seems like companies are doing everything they can to squeeze extra revenue out of their customers these days by taking advantage of the personal…
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Twitter Might Build Its Own Video Hosting Service
Twitter is reportedly mulling over creating its own video hosting service, unnamed sources have told AllThingsD. The addition of a home-grown video hosting solution would further…
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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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