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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Apple's New App-Switching Patent Could Spell Trouble For Android
Apple recently won an injunction that could prevent HTC from importing several Android phones into the United States, and now it has been granted a patent…
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Analyst Boosts Q1 iPhone Shipment Estimates To More Than 30 Million Units
Susquehanna issued a note to its clients on Wednesday in which the firm said it is increasing its iPhone shipment forecast for Apple's first fiscal…
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Jobs's Passing And Fear Of Stalled Innovation Prompt Apple To Enter Israel, Former Exec Says
News emerged earlier this week that Apple had acquired Israel-based fabless chip maker Anobit for as much as $500 million. Beyond the team and flash memory…
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ITC Finds Motorola Mobility Guilty Of Infringing On Microsoft Patent
The United States International Trade Commission ruled late Tuesday that Motorola Mobility is guilty of infringing on one of Microsoft's patents. The patent is related…
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RIM Reportedly Rejected Takeover Talks With Amazon This Summer
Research In Motion reportedly cut short takeover talks with Amazon and other companies, preferring to instead attempt to solve its own financial woes. Reuters broke news of…
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LightSquared Demands Approval From FCC
LightSquared on Tuesday issued a letter to the Federal Communications Commission ostensibly demanding approval to build out its 4G LTE network. LightSquared executive vice president of regulatory affairs…
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