Sprint To Help Finance Clearwire's 4G LTE Network
Sprint announced on Friday that it will offer new notes due in 2018 and 2021, the proceeds of which may be used in part to…
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iPhone 4S Now No.1 Smartphone At Top-3 U.S. Carriers, iPhone 4 Still Hot
Apple looks to be following up its surprising miss in the September quarter with a huge holiday quarter for its popular iPhone line. According to…
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Siri Suffering From Extended Outage
Apple's new virtual personal assistant Siri is currently suffering from a major outage — the first extended outage since the service launched on October 14th.…
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Samsung Focus Flash Review
Samsung's Focus Flash will soon join the Samsung Focus S on AT&T's shelves as the South Korea-based company's second and third Windows Phone devices in…
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Microsoft Tears Into Google, Says It Lacks A Product Roadmap
Microsoft's senior director of online services Tom Rizzo recently published a blog post titled "Google Graveyard" that tore into Google's practice of launching products and…
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LightSquared Wants To Be America's Dumbest Pipe
LightSquared, a wholesaler of satellite and terrestrial broadband services, took to the stage at the Open Mobile Summit on Wednesday to clarify the company's goal: to…
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AT&T Asks Sprint To Disclose Competition Plans Pending Outcome Of Planned Merger
AT&T recently requested that a federal judge push Sprint to reveal what its plans for competition will be pending the outcome of AT&T's planned acquisition…
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House Puts 5-Year Freeze On New Mobile Taxes With Wireless Tax Fairness Act
The United States House of Representatives approved the Wireless Tax Fairness Act on Tuesday, an initiative that prevents new local and state taxes on wireless…
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Mobile Coupon Industry Will Be Worth $46 Billion By 2016, Analysts Say
A recent report from Juniper Research suggests that the mobile coupon market will be worth $46 billion by 2015, a large jump from the $5.6…
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Siri Said To Be Driving Force Behind Huge iPhone 4S Sales
Strong sales of Apple's new iPhone 4S smartphone can be attributed in large part to Siri, Apple's new virtual personal assistant, one analyst believes. The…
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Samsung VP Gavin Kim Departs To Lead Microsoft's Windows Phone Product Management
Samsung's vice president of consumer and enterprise services Gavin Kim has left the company to join Microsoft as general manager of the Windows Phone team,…
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Samsung Requests Source Code In Effort To Ban iPhone 4S In Australia
Samsung recently asked Apple to provide it with source code for the the firmware used in its iPhone 4S, ZDNET reported on Tuesday. The South Korea-based…
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China Mobile Lures 5 Million New iPhone Users With Wi-Fi, Rebates
China Mobile has yet to convince Apple to partner on an iPhone that supports its proprietary TD-SCDMA 3G network, but that hasn't stopped the carrier…
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HP PC Exec Phil McKinney Announces His Exit
HP personal systems group (PSG) chief technology officer Phil McKinney announced recently that he will be retiring from the company. A few days ago, HP…
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Microsoft Lawyer Defends Android Licensing Strategy
Speaking with The San Francisco Chronicle recently, the deputy general counsel of Microsoft's intellectual property group, Horacio Gutiérrez, discussed his company's decisions to chase down other firms for…
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HTC Takes Top Smartphone Spot In U.S. According To Q3 Data From Canalys
Samsung blew past Apple and Nokia in the third quarter to become the No. 1 smartphone vendor in the world, but another emerging smartphone vendor…
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Apple's iPhone To Make Up More Than Half Of Q4 Smartphone Sales Across Top-3 U.S. Carriers
In the third quarter of 2011, Apple offered just two smartphones: the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS. The latter was sold by just one…
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Best Buy Offering $150 32GB TouchPad With HP Notebook Purchase
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. Best Buy announced on Monday that customers who purchase an HP or Compaq laptop, desktop…
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HTC Reports Record Q3, Smartphone Shipments Up 93%
HTC on Monday reported a record third quarter that saw profit grow 68% on shipments of 13.2 million handsets, up 93% from the same quarter…
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Apple, Samsung Eye RPO Patents For New Touch Tech, More Ammo In Patent Wars
Apple and Samsung are among the companies expected to take part in an upcoming sealed-bid auction of RPO's manufacturing assets and patent portfolio, which covers…
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HP May Layoff 500 Employees, Finally Bury webOS
HP said earlier this year that it was planning to kill off its webOS hardware business, and reports suggested it was planning to sell the…
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HP Windows 8 Tablets Arriving Next Year, CEO Says; webOS Future Up In The Air
During the company's third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, HP CEO Meg Whitman confirmed that her company will launch tablets powered by Microsoft's Windows 8 operating…
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Motorola Mobility Beats Q3 Estimates; Android Phone Sales Remain Strong, Tablet Sales Weaken
Motorola on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates thanks to strong sales of the company's Android-powered smartphones. Motorola doubled Wall Street's EPS estimate…
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HP Will Not Spin Off PC Business
After announcing this past August that it was considering a spin off of its PC business, HP confirmed on Thursday that it would keep its…
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HTC Titan Review
BGR Executive Editor Zach Epstein reviews the HTC Titan, a supersized Windows Phone Mango smartphone headed to AT&T in fall 2011.
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Class-Action Suit Filed Against RIM After BlackBerry Outage
BlackBerry users have filed a class-action lawsuit against Research In Motion after the company's massive service outage earlier this month, the Financial Post reported on…
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Apple's Newsstand Causes Surge In Magazine Subscriptions
Apple's Newsstand application, which allows iOS 5 users on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to subscribe to and purchase magazines, has resulted in a…
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