The Dark Side Of Apple's iBeacons
Alongside the introduction of Apple's latest mobile operating system iOS 7, the company also rolled out its answer to the NFC technology it has gone…
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Samsung: We Don't Cheat On Benchmarks
BGR reviewed Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 recently and said that the humongous handset is likely the best smartphone Samsung has ever made. As good as…
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Dell Unveils The Venue 11 Pro, A Windows 8.1 Tablet Priced To Beat The Surface Pro 2
Anyone who thinks the new Surface Pro 2 looks terrific but is put off by the price may have a new alternative. Dell on Wednesday…
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WhatsApp's Engagement Drop Could Be A Big Red Flag
Even as rival messaging apps such as WeChat, LINE, Kik and Tango have made progress in various markets in Latin America, Africa and Asia, it has seemed…
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Apple's $147 Billion Cash Pile Accounts For 10% Of All U.S. Corporate Cash
So it seems as though Apple has been doing pretty well for itself over the past few years. Per The Wall Street Journal, Moody's now…
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Another Blow For HTC: Company Must Change Chip Design After Losing Patent Fight With Nokia
HTC is working with Qualcomm to alter a chip design that has been judged to infringe on Nokia's radio patents, The Wall Street Journal reports.…
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Google Seemingly Close To Settling EU Antitrust Case
Google looks like it's about to skate it yet another antitrust probe. The Wall Street Journal reports that Joaquín Almunia, who serves as the European Union's…
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Galaxy Note 3 Juices Benchmark Tests, Phil Schiller Takes Note
There's no question that the Galaxy Note 3 is one of the most powerful Android smartphones on the market, but Samsung appears to have designed…
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The Death Of The Blue Screen Of Death
The "blue screen of death" that signifies a system failure has historically characterized Microsoft's Windows operating system as much as the windows-based user interface itself.…
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Former Microsoft Privacy Advisor: 'I Don't Trust Microsoft Now'
It's doubtful that Microsoft will recruit its former privacy advisor Caspar Bowden to help it come up with witty one-liners for its next round of "Scroogled"…
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Google Nexus 5 Photo Shows Highest-End Nexus Device To Ever Be Released
Google's upcoming Nexus 5 smartphone has leaked several times already, but eager Android fans waiting for the company's newest pure Google device to launch certainly won't mind…
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Surface 2 Tablet Reportedly Won't Take Microsoft Very Far In The Mobile Market
There is absolutely no question that Microsoft's second-generation Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets represent a huge improvement over the company's first-generation slates. Where…
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Hulu's New Tricks To Narrow The Gap With Netflix Seem Like Too Little, Too Late
Just days after expanding its roster of British shows dramatically, BGR sister site Variety reports that Hulu is considering an ad-free service that could be a…
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BlackBerry: Where It All Went Wrong
It's not just about the second-quarter earnings which showed a near $1 billion write-down for unsold BlackBerry Z10 phones. It's not about the fact that…
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Thursday Night Slaughter — Broadcast Television Takes Another Beating
Changes in American consumer behavior were on full display as most network shows had gruesome season debuts on Thursday. Glee was down 35% from last…
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Nvidia: It Is 'No Longer Possible' For Video Game Consoles To Catch Up To PCs
When Sony and Microsoft announced the specs of their new video game consoles, gamers were quick to realize that the architecture of the next-generation console…
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The Wild $5 Billion Candy Crush Saga IPO And Its Implications
UK-based King, the creator of "Candy Crush Saga," has filed for an IPO in the United States. Expected valuation tops $5 billion. King is the…
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BlackBerry's Q2 Earnings As Ugly As Expected
BlackBerry released its second-quarter earnings report on Friday and it's just as bad as the company warned us it would be last week. On the…
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Netflix 4K Streaming Will Require Twice As Much Bandwidth As U.S. Average
As 4K TVs slowly make their way into the living room, streaming services like Netflix are gearing up to provide higher resolution streams to match…
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Samsung Says It's Not Developing Smartphone Fingerprint Scanners Yet
Samsung may have been willing to release a gold Galaxy S4 but it's apparently not willing to follow Apple into the realm of putting fingerprint…
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Nokia Accounts For 88% Of All Windows Phone Handsets In Use
New research confirms what we've known for a while now: Nokia is really the only company putting effort into developing and marketing Windows Phone devices.…
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Nokia Would Like To Remind You That Motorola's Sanjay Jha Received $47M Following Google's Buyout
Nokia's vice president of Media Relations has reached out to BGR and pointed out that "our non-Finnish speaking audience would appreciate balanced coverage." Nokia would like…
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The iPhone 5s And Apple's Attention To Detail
Apple launched its new flagship smartphone this past Friday and three short days later, it was safe to call it a smash hit. Apple didn't…
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Finnish Media: Nokia Pleads With Elop To Accept Smaller Bonus - Elop Claims He Needs Full $25M For His Divorce
According to the early Wednesday morning edition of Finland's biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Nokia has pleaded with former CEO Stephen Elop to accept a smaller bonus in order…
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LG Hopes To Sell 10 Million G2 Smartphones Globally
The LG G2 has been on sale for over a week now in the U.S. In BGR's review, we noted that despite a gorgeous display…
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Samsung's Galaxy S5 Said To Feature Metal Case As Apple Turns To Plastic For iPhone 5c
Sometimes the tech industry is just too poetic. Samsung is once again rumored to be prepping a huge change for its flagship Galaxy S5 that…
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Elop's Contract Reportedly Gave Him A Big Incentive To Tank Nokia's Stock, Sell Company
Wild-eyed believers in the Grand Elop Conspiracy might feel a little less crazy this morning. Frequent BGR contributor Tero Kuittinen, writing over at Forbes, points us…
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