Jim Balsillie, Mike Lazaridis, And The Giant With No Legs
Research In Motion (RIMM) was back in the news this week, but for all the wrong reasons. It seems like RIM is always in the…
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Google Beefs Up Mobile Search With Direct Answers To Common Queries
Google (GOOG) is smart enough to know that when users type "weather" into its search engine, they don't want to see a Wikipedia entry or…
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Early Unaired Mac Ad Even More Smug And Obnoxious Than Reviled 'Genius' Ads [Video]
Apple's (AAPL) history of creating advertisements featuring smug, cocky "geniuses" goes back well before the recent "Genius" ads and even before the old-school "Mac-versus-PC" ads.…
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Verizon Tops Customer Loyalty For The Ninth Consecutive Quarter
Verizon Wireless (VZ) this week announced that for the ninth consecutive quarter, the nation's largest carrier has led the industry in customer loyalty. Verizon's postpaid…
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Apple Sold More Smartphones In Two Quarters Than Samsung Sold In Two Years In The U.S.
Between June 2010 and June 2012, Samsung (005930) sold a whole lot of smartphones in the United States. According to records the company was forced…
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Four Major U.S. Carriers Team Up To Form Mobile Payments Committee
The Electronic Transactions Association this week announced a new task force that looks to unite the mobile payments industry. The Mobile Payments Committee includes representatives…
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Apple Begins Selling iPhone 4S At $149.99 To Match Sprint Discount
Apple (AAPL) Stores around the country will now match Sprint's sales price on the iPhone 4S, according to a recent report. Earlier this week, Sprint…
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Google To Pay $22.5 Million To Settle FTC Privacy Charges
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced that Google (GOOG) has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $22.5 million to settle charges that it misrepresented…
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HTC In Hell
This HTC warning was different. There has been a stream of them since last November, but the latest one broke the back of Wall Street's…
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Lenovo's First Windows 8 Pro Tablet Set For October Release
Lenovo (0092) isn't going to let the Microsoft (MSFT) Surface have all the Windows 8 tablet glory. The ThinkPad manufacturer on Thursday announced that its…
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This Is Nokia's First Windows Phone 8 Handset, And It Looks Just Like Its First Windows Phone 7 Handset
Images published earlier this week that allegedly showed an unannounced Nokia (NOK) smartphone have reportedly been confirmed to be authentic, revealing what one blogger claims…
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Watch Out, Siri - Google's Enhanced Voice Search Is Coming To The iPhone And iPad [Video]
Google (GOOG) on Wednesday announced that it will be updating its Search application for the iPhone and iPad. The new version of Google Search will…
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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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iPhone 5 Will Be Just 7.6mm Thin - Thinner Than The Galaxy S III And Even HTC's One S
Apple's (AAPL) next-generation iPhone, a mock-up of which is pictured above, will reportedly be one of the thinnest smartphones in the world when it launches…
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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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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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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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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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Google's Self-Driving Cars Have Logged More Than 300,000 Accident-Free Miles
Google (GOOG) on Tuesday announced another milestone for its driverless car program. The Internet giant revealed that its self-driving cars have now logged more than…
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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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Acer CEO Issues Mafia-Style Warning To Microsoft Over Surface Tablet
Steve Ballmer had better watch out: it sounds like some of Microsoft's (MSFT) OEM partners want to put a horse head in his bed over…
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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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iPad Just Barely Beats Out Kindle Fire In Customer Satisfaction Survey
It's official: people really do like their tablets. The latest survey of around 6,000 tablet users from comScore found that tablet users on the whole…
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