$6 Billion In 'Cyber Week' Sales Sets New Record
Online spending during the week ending on December 2nd totalled nearly $6 billion according to comScore, setting a new single-week record. The market research firm…
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Apple, Samsung And Six More Companies Sued Over Carrier IQ Scandal
Apple, HTC, Samsung, Motorola, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Carrier IQ have been sued in a federal court by what the lawyers involved have deemed a…
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Microsoft Gets Head Start On Rumored 'iTV' With Voice Controlled TV For Xbox
"A revolution is happening in the living room," Microsoft proclaimed late Sunday as it unveiled a new update to its Xbox 360 software that enables…
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Kindle Fire To Be Second Hottest Tablet Behind iPad In Q4
Amazon's Kindle Fire will be the second most popular tablet in the world this quarter according to new projections published on Friday by market research…
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Lawsuits Filed Against HTC, Samsung And Carrier IQ
Class action lawsuits have been filed against Samsung, HTC and Carrier IQ. Carrier IQ has been in the spotlight after a security expert revealed that…
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Available Apps Across Major Mobile Platforms Approaching Million-App Milestone
The total number of mobile applications available across the top-four smartphone platforms in the world is now approaching the 1 million-app milestone, further highlighting the rapid…
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Think Carrier IQ Is Bad? Wikileaks Founder Says All Smartphones Can Be Hacked With Ease
During a recent speech to delivered at the City University in London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that most smartphones can be hacked remotely with…
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S&P Cuts HP Credit Rating On Lack Of Strategy, Management Turnover
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Hewlett-Packard's credit rating earlier this week, citing poor policies, a high turnover rate among top executives and an…
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AT&T 4G LTE Now Live In New York, Phoenix; Tests Show Blistering Speeds Up To 40Mbps
BGR noted during our hands-on look at the LG Nitro HD that AT&T's next-generation 4G LTE network has gone live in New York ahead of…
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Drunk RIM Execs Handcuffed To Seats, Force Air Canada To Make Emergency Landing [Updated]
Two Research In Motion executives were so drunk on a recent Air Canada flight that the airline was forced to make an emergency landing to…
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LG Nitro HD Hands-On
We just dropped by an LG event in New York City to check out AT&T's third 4G LTE phone, the LG Nitro HD. The device…
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Barnes & Noble Nook Business Jumps 85% To $220 Million
Barnes & Noble on Thursday reported its results for the second fiscal quarter of 2012, in which it revealed its Nook business has seen stellar…
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Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Explodes In Man's Pocket
Apple has accused Samsung of copying its designs on a number of occasions. While the foundation for Apple's accusations is questionable, this is one area…
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Senate Gives Carrier IQ Until December 14th To Address Privacy Concerns
Senator Al Franken, chairman of the Senate subcommittee on privacy, technology and law, sent a letter to Carrier IQ on Thursday asking the company to…
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AT&T Issues Scathing Response To FCC Report [Updated]
AT&T has issued a scathing letter in response to the FCC's decision to release a staff report on its findings surrounding AT&T's planned $39 billion…
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Sprint And Clearwire Ink New 4G WiMAX And LTE Agreement
Sprint and Clearwire on Thursday announced a new 4G LTE and WiMAX agreement that will extend over the next few years. The agreement could be…
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RIM Responds To PlayBook Root, Says Investigation Is Underway
A group of security researchers recently demonstrated on video that they have successfully gained root access to the QNX-based operating system found on Research In…
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Chrome Usage Surpasses Firefox For The First Time
Google's Chrome web browser surpassed Mozilla's Firefox in global browser market share for the first time ever in November. Research firm StatCounter found that Chrome's…
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Carrier-Installed 'Carrier IQ' Spyware Found In Android, iOS; Should We Panic? [Video]
Last week, research published by security expert Trevor Eckhart pulled back the veil on Carrier IQ, a suite of what can seemingly be described as spyware…
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ITC Ruling Clears HTC In Patent Case With Former Apple Subsidiary
The International Trade Commission has ruled that camera technology used in HTC devices does not infringe on patents registered to former Apple subsidiary FlashPoint Technology.…
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Hands On With Spotify's Brand New App Platform [Video]
Spotify's New York City press conference just wrapped up and we spent some time checking out several of the popular music service's new apps. There's…
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Record $1.25 Billion Spent Online On Historic Cyber Monday
U.S. consumers spent a record $1.25 billion online on Cyber Monday, the second time the U.S. has ever spent more than $1 billion online in…
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Spotify Officially Announces Apps, Opens Platform To Developers
We're live from Spotify's New York City press conference where CEO and founder Daniel Ek took the stage to announce several new Spotify features, most…
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HP To Decide Fate Of webOS Within Two Weeks
Hewlett-Packard's webOS hardware is dead and buried but the fate of the platform itself remains to be determined. HP may hold on to the OS…
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Samsung Announces Dual-Core Exynos 5250 SoC Clocked At 2GHz
Samsung on Wednesday announced the Exynos 5250, the company's latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), which packs two ARM Cortex-A15 processors clocked at 2GHz. Samsung said the dual-core…
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Australian Court Overturns Samsung Tablet Ban In Apple Patent Case
Samsung recently won a appeal lawsuit against Apple in Australia that overturned a ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the country. An appeals…
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AT&T Granted Approval To Withdraw T-Mobile Merger Application From FCC
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday granted AT&T permission to withdraw its application to purchase T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. Two public policy groups, Public…
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