Sharp And Sony To Terminate Joint LCD Venture
Sharp and Sony on Wednesday released a joint statement to announce the end of the companies' joint venture to produce and sell LCD panels. Due…
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HP Beats The Street In Q2; Confirms Plans To Cut 27,000 Jobs As Q3 Guidance Misses
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday reported its second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations. Analysts expected the computer giant to report revenue of $29.92 billion and earnings…
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Android, iOS Gain Share In Q1 As Symbian, BlackBerry Plummet
Google's Android operating system and Apple's iOS platform showed big market share gains in the first quarter of 2012 as Symbian and BlackBerry shipments plummeted.…
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'Phablets' Are Here To Stay
BGR called for the death of the "phablet" this past February when we reviewed Samsung's mammoth Galaxy Note, but the market has spoken loud and…
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Apple's Design Boss Says The Best Is Yet To Come
During an interview with The Telegraph published on Wednesday, Apple's design boss Jonathan Ive said that his most impressive work at Apple has yet to…
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Samsung's Galaxy S III Smashes Preorder Records In U.K.
Samsung's Galaxy S III hasn't even launched yet and it's already setting records. News of the high demand among carriers for the upcoming flagship Samsung…
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'Xbox 720' Slated For November 2013 Release, Report Claims
Microsoft plans to launch its next-generation Xbox video game and home entertainment console ahead of the holidays next year, according to a recent report. The…
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WikiLeaks Launches Encrypted Social Network
Backers of the whistle-blowing organisation WikiLeaks recently launched Friends of WikiLeaks (FoWL), an encrypted social network for like-minded individuals. "Friends of WikiLeaks is a network…
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Verizon Says Global Capabilities Coming To Select Android Handsets This Summer
Verizon Wireless on Monday confirmed that the DROID RAZR, RAZR MAXX, HTC Rezound, and DROID 4 will receive global roaming capabilities later this summer, enabling the…
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Best Buy Tops Expectations In Q1, Online Revenue And Mobile Sales Up
Best Buy on Tuesday reported results for the first quarter of 2012. The electronics retail giant posted better-than-expected earnings per share, despite declining store sales.…
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80% Of Mobile Banking Apps May Have Security Flaws
Neal O'Farrell, executive director of the nonprofit Identity Theft Council, spoke about the seriousness of mobile security as part of San Francisco Small Business Week,…
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Hollywood Loves Sequels: MPAA To Push SOPA Follow-Up In 2013
The first version was hardly a hit, but Hollywood is already planning a sequel to the Stop Online Piracy Act that it will push in 2013,…
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Google Closes Motorola Acquisition
In line with earlier reports, Google on Tuesday finalized its acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The $12.5 billion merger was approved by regulators in China on…
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'Anonymous' Hackers Release 1.7GB Of Stolen DOJ Data
Hackers associated with well known hacker-activist group "Anonymous Operations" have released a massive cache of data they say was obtained when they hacked a website…
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Hulu Looks To Take On Netflix With New Original Shows
Hulu on Monday announced 10 original and exclusive TV shows that will premiere this summer, including one from writer-director-actor Kevin Smith. Smith, known for the…
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Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Comes To Facebook [Video]
Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, is filled with a large selection of social and casual games, such as Draw Something, Words With Friends…
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3-Year-Old iPhone 3GS Primed For Revival
Apple's iPhone 3GS was unveiled nearly 3 years ago in June 2009, and some found its familiar styling and modest hardware upgrades to be disappointing.…
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Facebook Hit With $15 Billion Privacy Suit On IPO Day
Facebook is officially a public company as of Friday morning shortly after 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, and what better way to celebrate the milestone than…
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Microsoft Kinect Transformed Into Surgical Assistant
Microsoft's Kinect motion and voice-based controller accessory was launched with gaming in mind, but researchers have taken the technology in a number of different directions.…
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Facebook Prices IPO At $38, Valuation Set At $104 Billion
Facebook on Thursday set the share price for its initial public offering at $38. Shares of Facebook will begin trading on the NASDAQ exchange after…
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BitTorrent Piracy Found By Study To Boost Music Sales
A recent study found that contrary to arguments repeatedly posed by major record labels — and perhaps contrary to logic as well — BitTorrent piracy…
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Apple, On Siri Complaints: Buy A Different Phone
Some believe Siri is a driving force behind Apple's record-breaking iPhone 4S sales, but not everyone is impressed with the Cupertino, California-based company's virtual assistant.…
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HTC EVO 4G LTE Review
Successfully launching an iconic smartphone is a daunting task, and following up a blockbuster flagship phone launch is even more difficult. Apple and Samsung might…
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Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes Leave Drivers With Privacy Concerns
The United States Senate has already passed a bill that would require data-recording "black boxes" to be equipped on every vehicle for the 2015 model…
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Android Fragmentation Gets Visualized, Again
Android's rise to the top of the mobile operating system food chain as measured by device proliferation has been remarkably swift, but not without its…
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Global Mobile Phone Sales Now In Decline
Despite some vendors seeing record smartphone sales, worldwide sales of mobile phones declined 2% year-over-year to 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, according to…
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Apple's Next iPhone Will Have A 4-Inch Display, WSJ Says [Updated]
Apple's sixth-generation iPhone handset will reportedly feature a larger display that measures "at least 4 inches diagonally." Mirroring numerous earlier reports, The Wall Street Journal on…
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