HTC Profit Plummets 58% In Q2
HTC on Friday reported disappointing unaudited second-quarter earnings that showed a huge drop in profit as the struggling smartphone maker's woes continue. The Taiwan-based vendor…
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Developer Hacks Raspberry Pi To Play Super Nintendo Games
A small, ugly computer playing old, primitive video games normally wouldn't be news. But most small, ugly computers aren't nearly as cool as the Raspberry…
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Apple's Spotless Record Tarnished By App Store's First Malicious Spam App [Updated]
Apple's spotless record of keeping the App Store clear of malicious spam apps has been tarnished. Researchers at Kaspersky have discovered an app called "Find…
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DNSChanger Malware Set To Kick 277,000 Computers Off The Web Monday
Anyone who hasn't scanned their computer for malware some time during the past year should seriously do so before this coming Monday. That's because the…
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RapidShare Unveils Dropbox Competitor: RapidDrive
RapidShare this week unveiled a new cloud sync and storage solution called RapidDrive. The service competes directly with offerings such as Dropbox and SugarSync, integrating…
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Apple To Continue Dominating Ultra-Thin Notebook Market Following Windows 8 Launch
Despite the launch of Windows 8 later this year and the wave of ultra-thin Microsoft-powered notebook computers that will accompany the new operating system, Apple…
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Corrupt Apps Sweep Apple's App Store [Updated]
A laundry list of iOS and Mac apps updated over the past day are crashing on launch due to an issue with Apple's App Store…
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Top Problems With iPhone 4S, Galaxy S III, Other Leading Phones Revealed In New Report
Though some people seem to form unhealthy attachments and allegiances to their smartphones, no handset will ever be perfect. The screen is too small, the…
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Meet The New Spray-On Battery That Comes In A Can
Scientific American reports that a team of scientists from Rice University in Houston and the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium have been working on a…
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Toshiba Hit With $87 Million Fine Over LCD Price Fixing Scandal
A Northern California jury on Tuesday found Toshiba guilty of conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal displays. Customers brought a civil lawsuit against the…
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Bill Gates To PC Makers: Don't Be Mad About Surface
Microsoft may be going it alone in making its first tablet but company chairman and founder Bill Gates says that Windows PC original equipment manufacturers…
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Tablets Are (Slowly) Taking Over For Paper Books And Magazines, Gartner Finds
Paper-based books aren't in any danger of becoming vinyl record-style novelties anytime soon, but Gartner says that they're increasingly being read less frequently in favor…
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Apple Stock Hits $600 For First Time Since April
Shares of Apple's stock hit the $600-mark on Tuesday for the first time since April 27th. The company's stock price sky-rocketed earlier this year after Apple…
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Google+ Is An Uninviting Digital Man Cave, Say Female Technologists
Google+ was apparently designed by guys who have never lived with a woman. Or, at least that's the impression that five female technologists gave during…
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How A Century Of Telephone Expertise Doomed Ericsson
The mobile phone industry is used to vendors flaming out, sometimes just a couple of years after companies peak. Yet few handset companies have self-destructed…
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Apple's 'iPad Mini' To Launch Soon For $249-$299, Report Claims
Apple's "iPad mini," a smaller version of the company's popular iPad tablet, will soon launch at a price point that may send shockwaves through the…
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Google Joins Samsung In Patent Dispute With Apple
A new player has entered into what seems like a never-ending patent war between Samsung and Apple. After the United States District Court for Northern California…
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Mozilla's HTML5-Based Firefox OS Coming In Early 2013
Mozilla on Monday revealed that its Boot to Gecko mobile platform has been rebranded as Firefox OS. The HTML5-based OS will power smartphones built to…
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Apple Testing New Genius Bar Setup To Boost Capacity
The next time Apple fans head to their local stores for a Genius Bar consultation, they might notice some slight changes. ifoApplestore writes that Apple stores are…
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And The World's Most Popular Browser Is... Who Knows?
Computer World's Gregg Keizer writes that two firms have put out two wildly different sets of numbers for which browsers were the most used in…
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Siri Still Can't Match Old-Fashioned Google Search, Analyst Says
Fortune reports that Piper Jaffray has conducted a little study comparing Siri and Google in terms of both query comprehension and response accuracy, and has not surprisingly…
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HP Ditches Windows RT Tablet Plans, Microsoft Surface To Blame
Hewlett-Packard originally planned to release a Windows RT-powered tablet later this year. Due to Microsoft's recent Surface announcement and the high cost of licenses, however, the…
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Apple Wins Injunction On U.S. Galaxy Nexus Sales
Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction banning sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the United States. U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh…
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South Carolina Clamps Down On Municipal Wi-Fi Menace
Ars Technica has a steller report on the South Carolina state legislature's recent passage of a bill that "effectively makes it difficult, if not impossible" for…
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NPD: Ultrabooks Are Saving The High-End Notebook Market
For people who want super-thin computers and who don't feel like paying more than $2,000 for a Retina MacBook Pro, ultrabooks are a blessing. And…
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Adobe Won't Support Flash In Jelly Bean, Installs End On August 15th
The late Steve Jobs famously predicted the death of Flash more than five years ago, and barred it from the company's iPhone and iPad. One…
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Chrome For iOS Hits No.1 In Apple's App Store
Google's Chrome browser quickly became one of the most popular desktop Web browsers in the world, and now Google has its sites set on mobile.…
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