T-Mobile USA Subscriber Losses Worsen To 205,000 In Q2
T-Mobile USA on Thursday reported its financial results for the second quarter. The company's experimentation with a number of new plan options and hardware subsidy…
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Anonymous Targets Ukrainian Government Over Demonoid Shut Down [Video]
Following reports that claimed the popular torrent website Demonoid was taken down by the Ukrainian government as a gift to the United States, notorious hacking…
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HP Braces For Record $9 Billion Quarterly Loss
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) announced on Wednesday that it will report its biggest-ever quarterly loss for the third quarter of fiscal 2012. Amid a number of organizational…
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Apple Could Screw Over iPhone Repair Shops With Crazy New Screw Design
People who think Apple (AAPL) products are difficult to repair now haven't seen anything yet. A Reddit user named "thrownawayyesok" has posted a picture of…
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Android Surges In Q2, Accounts For More Than Two-Thirds Of All Smartphones Shipped
Android expanded its dominance of the global smartphone market last quarter and accounted for 68% of all smartphones shipped in Q2 2012, according to IDC.…
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Court Makes Spying On Americans Legal With New Warrantless Wiretap Ruling
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of President George W. Bush's controversial Terrorist Surveillance Program, which allows the government to spy on…
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Verizon Has Five Secret Data Plans You Can Only Get If You Know About Them
Verizon Wireless (VZ) killed its previous data plan offerings in late June and replaced them with a series of "Share Everything" plans, which give smartphone…
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Budget Operators Keep Shocking Wall Street
It was another quarter of shocks and surprises for small budget wireless operators offering cheap mobile plans. AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ) chugged along…
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132-Page Internal Document Shows How Samsung Set Out To Copy The iPhone Pixel By Pixel
An internal memo from February 2010 emerged in the Apple (AAPL) vs. Samsung (005930) trial on Monday that was fairly damaging to Samsung's case. In…
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Analyst Projects iPhone 5 Sales Could Reach 250 Million Units
If each new generation of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone sells roughly the same number of devices as all the previous generations combined, then what does that…
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Samsung: The iPhone Is Like 'Heaven' And We're Stuck On Earth
For those who haven't been following the news from San Jose, California, Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) are suing each other. Again. We've seen a number of daggers…
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Best Buy Founder Makes $8.5 Billion Bid To Take Company Private
Best Buy (BBY) founder and the company's largest shareholder Richard Schulze has offered as much as $8.5 billion to take the company private, Bloomberg reported…
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Microsoft's Patent Pressure Pays Off: $800M In Fees From Samsung, HTC Dwarf Q2 Windows Phone Sales
Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Phone platform continues to struggle but its income from the smartphone industry is booming. How is this possible? Simple: patent royalties. Microsoft…
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Apple Swallowed 77% Of The Mobile Industry's Profits In Q2
A new study from Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt shows that Apple (AAPL) is absolutely crushing its rivals where it matters most: the bottom line. According…
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Hate Siri All You Want - It's Still The Future
I recently penned a quick piece on Apple's (AAPL) Siri and Google's (GOOG) new voice command support in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, explaining that while there…
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Sony Q1 Profit Plummets 77% Despite $19.2 Billion In Sales
Sony (SNE) on Thursday reported its results for the first fiscal quarter of 2012. The struggling Japan-based consumer electronics giant posted $79 million in operating…
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AT&T Orders Retail Staff To Sell Anything But The iPhone, Multiple Sources Tell Us
IPhone activations at AT&T (T) grew by just 3% in the second quarter this year, and many industry watchers pointed to the flood of next-generation…
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'Anonymous' Hackers Realize Intellectual Property Rules May Have Value After All [Video]
Memo to foolhardy companies: Anonymous does not like having its Intellectual Property rights violated. The Register reports that the famed hacker collective is in a state…
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Samsung Wraps iTunes, Spotify And Pandora Into One With New Music Hub Service
Samsung (005930) on Tuesday announced the immediate availability of Music Hub, the company's new streaming music service for the United States market that wraps iTunes,…
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Are Middle-Aged Women Taking Over The iPad?
One of the most interesting topics in the app market right now is the divergence between iPhone and iPad application markets — over the past…
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Ad Exec Who Named The iMac Says Apple's New Mac Ads Deserve 'Gagging Response'
Apple's (AAPL) new television commercials for its Mac computers attempt to target a new audience but according to widespread chatter on the Internet, they fail…
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University Sues Apple For Allegedly Stealing Tech That Powers Siri
A Taiwanese university has sued Apple (AAPL) for allegedly infringing upon its voice recognition patents, Reuters reported. Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University claims the technology…
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Amazing Alex And The Cruelty Of The Mobile App Market
18 days after it debuted in the iOS App Store, "Amazing Alex" has dropped to No.10 on Apple's (AAPL) paid iOS app chart and to…
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Sprint Sizzles - Is AT&T And Verizon's Greed The Reason?
A fallen angel took flight as Sprint (S) soared by 20% on Thursday after an interesting June quarter. The overall net subscriber loss number for…
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Facebook's Stock Is Tanking - Did Investors Get Played By Big Banks?
Although Facebook (FB) met expectations in its first-ever earnings report on Thursday, the reaction from investors has been decidedly ugly so far. By the end of…
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Best Buy: Customers Returned Samsung Tablets Because They Thought They Were Getting iPads
Here come some more juicy tidbits from recently unsealed documents tied to the upcoming Apple (AAPL) vs. Samsung (005930) extravaganza! From rejected settlement offers to muscle…
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Kim Dotcom Claims Vindication After Leaked Music Industry Report
Kim Dotcom may be zany, but he also has some compelling facts on his side. In an interview with Ars Technica Thursday, the embattled Megaupload founder…
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