Sprint Gives LightSquared 30 Extra Days To Gain FCC Clearance
Sprint recently told LightSquared that it has an additional 30 days to gain approval from the Federal Communications Commission to launch its 4G LTE network.…
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On Top Of The World: A Visit To The Times Square New Year's Eve Ball
Each year on the evening of December 31st an estimated one million people from around the world flock to New York City's Times Square to…
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Chinese Vendors Form Alliance To Battle Apple And Other Patent Predators
Handset makers in China have formed an alliance to prepare for possible patent battles with Apple, Microsoft and Nokia. Coolpad, Konka, TCL, ZTE and Lenovo…
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Nokia Lumia 710 Review
Nokia proved it was back in the smartphone game when it launched the Lumia 800 last year. But can its Lumia 710 gain the attention of…
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Amazon: More Than 4 Million Kindles Sold This Holiday Season
Amazon announced on Thursday that the 2011 holiday season was the best ever for sales of its Kindle devices. While the online retailer didn't specifically…
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Looking Back At 2011: HP Kills, Revives And Then Open Sources webOS
There's no question about it: HP made one of the biggest blunders of the year when it comes to how the company handled Palm and…
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Looking Back At 2011: Google Eyes Motorola Buy In Bid For Android Control, Patent Ammo
2011 was a wild, wild year to follow the technology industry. AT&T failed to buy T-Mobile USA, things got rough for RIM and Apple and Samsung…
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Google+ Reportedly Passes 62 Million Users, Adding 625,000 New Users Per Day
If you turned on your television over the holidays you most likely encountered one of many Google advertisements. The Mountain View company has been pushing brand…
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Holiday Spending Jumps 15% From Last Year To $35.3 Billion
U.S. Consumers spent $35.3 billion during this year's holiday season, up 15% from the same period last year. Shoppers also spent a total of $2.8…
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Apple's Siri-Powered HDTV Could Offer Customized Channel Subscriptions
Apple's much rumored Siri-powered HDTV may offer a feature many TV viewers have been wanting for quite some time: customized channel lineups. According to Sterne Agee…
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Looking Back At 2011: RIM On The Ropes
2011 was a huge year for the wireless industry. Global mobile connections surpassed 6 billion as the world's total population hit 7 billion people, and…
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Kindle Accessory Maker Sues Amazon For Extortion
M-Edge Accessories has filed a lawsuit against Amazon with a federal court in Maryland that accuses the online retailer of bullying it into coughing up…
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Intel May Unveil New 22nm Ivy Bridge Processors On April 8th
Intel could be preparing to unveil most of its next-generation 22nm Ivy Bridge processors "on or around" April 8th according to a recent rumor. The company is…
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Looking Back At 2011: AT&T's Bid To Acquire T-Mobile Is Defeated
AT&T made headlines in March of this year when it announced plans to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. Here we are…
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NTT DoCoMo, Samsung And Four Others Create Joint Venture For LTE Development
NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Semiconductor, NEC and Panasonic announced plans on Tuesday to establish a joint venture in which the firms hope to work…
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Republic Wireless Ditches Limits On Its $19 Unlimited Plan
Republic Wireless, a Sprint MVNO that launched in November, announced late last week that it is ditching its "fair use threshold" and is now offering…
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Samsung To Buy Sony's Share Of S-LCD Joint Venture For $940 Million
Samsung will purchase Sony's 50% share of S-LCD, a joint venture created by both companies in 2004, for $939.6 million. Both companies will continue to…
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2012 May Be A Flat Year For PC Shipments, Analyst Says
Despite the launch of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system and the introduction of ultra-thin Intel-powered ultrabooks, Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes thinks the PC industry…
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Every 60 Seconds: Apple Sells 925 iPhones, 2 Million People Watch Online Porn, More
Apple sold 925 iPhone 4S handsets each minute during the device's debut weekend, and it sells 81 iPads every 60 seconds on average. Research In Motion sells…
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Asus Expects To Ship 3-6 Million Tablets Next Year, Including Windows 8 Transformer Models
Asus CEO Jonney Shih said he expects his company to ship between 3 million and 6 million tablets next year, a big leap from the…
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Hynix, Micron Turn To Taiwan Following Apple's Anobit Buy
News broke earlier this week that Apple has acquired Israel-based fabless flash memory firm Anobit for as much as $400 million according to TheMarker, adding…
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AT&T Spectrum Buy Granted FCC Approval
Now that its bid to acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 billion has been put to bed by strong opposition, AT&T has to look elsewhere in an…
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Rhapsody President Shaves Head As Service Tops 1 Million Paid U.S. Subscribers
Rhapsody announced on Thursday that it now has more than 1 million paying subscribers in the United States. The company claims it is now the…
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Major Japanese Carriers Join Forces To Adopt International NFC Standard
NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and SoftBank have created the "Japan Mobile NFC Consortium," which will help the three carriers coordinate and adopt an international NFC standard.…
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Apple's Sinking Share In France And Germany May Be Fueling Patent Wars
Whether or not competing products do in fact infringe on Apple's patents, Apple may have another reason to attack its rivals so aggressively in France…
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Biggest Week In Online Holiday Shopping History Pushes Holiday Spending Over $32 Billion
The week ended December 18th was the heaviest week for online holiday shopping ever, with shoppers spending more than $6.3 billion, up 15% from the…
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Apple Unlikely To Win German Ban On Tweaked Samsung Tablet
Apple is not likely to succeed in its efforts to ban Samsung's revised flagship tablet in Germany, the judge presiding over the case said on…
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