America's Newfound Messaging Obsession Rocks The Mobile App Market
What makes Onavo's AppRank chart so interesting is the sharp contrast it reveals compared to download charts. AppRank tells us what portion of iPhone owners…
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Google Expects Fiber To Be Profitable, Hints At New Markets
Google Fiber is seen by many as a regional experiment that will push current Internet service providers to offer faster speeds at more affordable speeds.…
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WhatsApp Now Making More Money From Google Play Than iOS In Some Key Markets
The new Distimo report on mobile app spending patterns offers some interesting regional tidbits. Globally, Google Play continues steadily chipping away at the huge lead Apple…
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This Is What's Behind The App Store's Stalled Download Volumes
The new Fiksu report on Apple's App Store has a fascinating nugget about its daily download volume, which in April ticked up to 5.61 million app…
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Google's Moto X May Need A Massive Battery To Stay Alive
Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed the existence of the company's upcoming X Phone at the D11 conference on Thursday. Along with being the first smartphone…
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Cisco CEO Predicts That Mobile Data Prices Will 'Come Down Rapidly'
It's not often that we hear speculation about wireless carriers actually charging customers less for wireless data services, but Cisco CEO John Chambers seems to…
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Samsung Will Reportedly Debut Galaxy S4 Zoom And Active On June 20th
A flood of rumors and leaks have suggested that Samsung is preparing to release two new smartphones in the coming weeks. According to a report…
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You Might Need A Special License To 'Drive' A Self-Driving Car
The United States government on Thursday issued a rather odd recommendation for consumers who are interested in sitting behind the wheel of a driverless vehicle.…
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HTC Reportedly Taking The Fight To Samsung With Its Own 5.9-Inch Phablet
Now that HTC has perhaps regained some confidence with the launch of its critically acclaimed HTC One smartphone, the company is reportedly moving more aggressively…
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Google's Creepiest Idea Yet: Password Pills
If you think Google Glass is creepy, just wait until you hear about the company's plans to develop "password pills." AllThingsD reports that Regina Dugan, the…
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Sales Seen Reaching 80 Million Units
Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone quickly became the fastest-selling Android phone in history when Samsung announced that channel sales had reached 10 million units in…
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Here's How Microsoft Hopes To Reignite Interest In Windows
As we learned on Wednesday, Microsoft will indeed be bringing back the Start button for Windows 8.1. But Engadget, which has posted a lengthy preview…
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Vine Is Taking Over America
Just a few months ago, Vine was mostly dismissed as a painful hipster affectation. A service that revolves around taking 6-second video clips and sharing…
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Google Says All Access Subscription Music Service Coming Soon To iOS
Among the announcements Android and Chrome boss Sundar Pichai had in store for D11, he announced that Google's new All Access streaming music service will…
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Apple Looks To Make The iPhone More Flexible
Flexible displays are set to become the next big thing in the mobile industry. Big name companies such as LG and Samsung are exploring the…
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Affordable Self-Driving Cars Could Be Available Within The Next Three Years
Driverless cars have the potential to drastically reduce accident rates and saves hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide each year. Google has been hard at work…
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Despite Her Love Of Simplicity, Yahoo's Mayer Seen Making Company 'More Bloated'
When Marissa Mayer took over as CEO of Yahoo last year there was some hope that she would bring more focus to a company that…
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Microsoft's Xbox One Controller Will Last Longer Than The Console Itself
The controller for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One console can be mashed and smashed by gamers for the next decade. Microsoft accessories and hardware manager Bob…
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Google Wants To Starve Pirates Of Revenue Instead Of Outright Blocking Them
Google is getting sick and tired of the entertainment industry stamping its feet and demanding that it do more to block pirates from its search…
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Microsoft Doubles Surface Pro Storage To 256GB Following User Backlash
Microsoft has been accused of being misleading regarding the way it has advertised the internal storage in its Surface tablets. The 64GB Surface Pro model ships with only…
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Strange Phenomena Surround Nokia's Budget Windows Phone
The Lumia 520 is Nokia's most important smartphone in 2013 — it's the budget Windows Phone that is supposed to recapture low-end smartphone share in…
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Google Seriously Considered Researching Teleportation
Google's secretive Google X laboratory is where some of the company's brightest minds go to work so-called "moonshot" projects such as Google Glass and self-driving…
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How To Fix One Of The Galaxy S4's Most Infuriating Problems
There's a lot to like about Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone; it's the fastest-selling Android phone ever for plenty of great reasons. As awesome as…
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Sprint-SoftBank Merger Receives Security Clearance
Sprint on Wednesday confirmed that it has received the go-ahead from the U.S. government to merge with Japanese carrier SoftBank. The Committee on Foreign Investment…
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Kim Dotcom Has Hollywood Studios Begging Google To Censor New Mega Service
Kim Dotcom's new Mega file hosting service has gotten the attention of Hollywood. Warner Bros. and NBC Universal have asked Google to remove Mega from…
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Apple Said To Be Under Pressure To Release $200 iPad Mini
While much of the concern about Apple's margins has come from speculation about the company's plans to release a cheaper version of the iPhone, the…
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Angry Birds Soda Gives Vendor An 85% Sales Boost
A leading Nordic beverage company, Olvi, just reported an 85% increase in soft drink sales and its impressive growth is attributed almost entirely to the new range…
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Sony Tries To Assuage Fears Over PlayStation 4 Used Game Policy - Still Offers No Details
Sony and Microsoft have left a lot of question marks surrounding the used game policies for their PlayStation 4 and Xbox One video game consoles.…
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Just How Flawed Are Wall Street's BlackBerry Store Checks?
Obviously, estimating smartphone sales volumes is fiendishly difficult. BlackBerry beat the Wall Street consensus on BlackBerry 10 device shipments by 100% in the February quarter.…
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Yahoo Reportedly Bidding At Least $600 Million For Hulu
So how much will it take for Yahoo to buy itself a stake in Hulu? According to a new report from AllThingsD, at least $600…
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Schmidt: If Governments Want Google To Pay More Taxes, They Should Change Tax Laws
Google chairman Eric Schmidt and Apple CEO Tim Cook may be rivals but they both agree that government officials need to look at themselves in…
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Xbox One Rumored To Include Remote Play; Siri-Like Features Coming To Kinect
A new report suggests that the next-generation Xbox One video game console will introduce a new way to play games with friends. According to Polygon,…
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WSJ: Google Developing Wireless Networks To Boost Internet Access In Africa, Asia
It is no secret that Google would like to be a wireless carrier. The company has long been rumored to be eyeing various partnerships to…
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How To Permanently Delete Snapchat Photos
Snapchat has taken the mobile world by storm. The application allows users to send pictures and videos to friends that will self-destruct after a maximum…
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Galaxy S4 Camera Found To Outperform iPhone 5, Lumia 920
A French firm that specializes in camera optics and image sensor analysis has found the camera on Samsung's latest flagship smartphone outperforms the iPhone 5 and…
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Why Is AT&T Milking Subscribers For An Extra $500 Million? 'Because They Can'
AT&T said earlier this week that it will add a new administrative fee to each of its wireless subscribers' monthly bills. The fee is only…
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How Cable Companies Offset Cord Cutters By Squeezing More Money From Internet Customers
Yes, the major cable companies are losing paid television subscribers and yes, they have stunningly low customer satisfaction ratings. But as The Atlantic's Derek Thompson…
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Skype Faces Trouble On Both Desktop And iPhone
It's no surprise that AIM and Yahoo Messenger are collapsing, with unique visitor counts declining by about 30-40% year on year, according to comScore. But…
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It's Official: Samsung's Galaxy S4 Is The Fastest-Selling Android Phone Ever
We all expected Samsung to reach its goal of selling 10 million Galaxy S4 smartphones into distribution channels within the phone's first month of availability.…
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Vermont Puts Foot Down On Patent Troll That Targeted Charities
Earlier this year we learned about a patent holding firm that came up with a novel way of making money by threatening to sue small…
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A World Without Wires: LTE Will Cover The Majority Of The World By 2018
As people continue to look for ways to "cut the cord" and move away from traditional cable services, right now they largely have no choice…
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Teens Turn To Tumblr To Escape Parents On Facebook
When you're a tween or teen who just has to repost that great porn GIF you just found, Facebook really isn't the place to do…
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SoftBank Grants Sprint Permission To Consider Dish Buyout
Japanese carrier SoftBank has granted Sprint a waiver allowing it to consider Dish's $25.5 billion bid for the company. The waiver gives Sprint permission to…
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NVIDIA Updates Tegra 4i Processor, Adds LTE-Advanced Support
In effort to curb ongoing market loss to Qualcomm and Samsung, NVIDIA has continued to aggressively upgrade its quad-core Tegra 4 mobile processor. The company…
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One Bad Sign For Yahoo's Tumblr Buy: Its History Of $1 Billion Duds
Yahoo turned some heads this week when it announced that it was paying $1.1 billion to buy blogging platform Tumblr, but this isn't the first…
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American ISPs Are Now Hated Even More Than Airlines
Major Internet service providers in the United States have long taken a beating in customer satisfaction surveys, but the latest survey from the American Customer…
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Samsung Takes On Google And Apple With Highest-Resolution Notebook Display In The World
Samsung on Monday announced a new super-high resolution display for laptop computers. The company revealed a 13.3-inch QHD display with a resolution of 3200 x…
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Dell's Experimental 'Computer-On-A-Stick' Shipping To Developers In July
One of the most intriguing concepts for the future of the PC industry we've heard lately has been Dell's Project Ophelia, a USB thumb drive-sized…
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Apple Reportedly Testing 1.5-Inch OLED 'iWatch' Displays
With Apple's "iWatch" likely to release this year, it's not surprising that we're starting to hear rumors about components being cobbled together just before the…
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Angry Tumblr Users Flee To WordPress As Yahoo Announces $1.1 Billion Acquisition
After a number of newspapers and blogs wrote about Yahoo's now-confirmed $1.1 billion acquisition of popular blogging platform Tumblr, users were angry. The world has no…
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Google Pushes New Video Standard That Could Cut Bandwidth Use In Half
One of the constant complaints we hear from wireless and even some wireline ISPs is that the surge in online video demand has put a…
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Amazon Tablets Soar In Mobile Content Consumption
Millenial Media, a leading mobile advertising platform, is out with another Mobile Mix report. It shows Amazon's tablets gaining share in the mobile content market at…
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The Boy Genius Report: Escort's Passport 9500ci Radar And Laser Defense System
It's funny to think how absolutely last-century speeding tickets are. I mean, a person actually has to take a radar gun, or laser gun, aim…
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Samsung Galaxy S4 'Google Edition' With Stock Android To Be Unveiled At Google I/O
Google's action-packed Google I/O keynote now may include one less surprise. As details of Google's big announcements continue to leak, Geek reports that one device…
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The Boy Genius Report: iPad Mini, iMac And The Microsoft Surface
It's time to bring the name back. Boy Genius Report officially changed its name to BGR back in 2010, but I am going to be…
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The Boy Genius Report: Microsoft Is Blowing It And RIM Could Too
Who would have thought a couple of years ago that Research In Motion (RIMM) would be on the ropes and Microsoft (MSFT) could be getting…
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The Boy Genius Report: The Wii U Is Nintendo's Last Console
I remember it still — people flipped out about the Nintendo (NTDOY) Wii. Yes, its name was mocked for a while, but there was genuine…
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The Boy Genius Report: Sonos' PLAYBAR Takes Over The Living Room
I've been using Sonos' brand new PLAYBAR for over a week, but it was apparent that the product is a hit even after just a…
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The Boy Genius Report: Apple's Billion Dollar Mobile Payment Magic Trick
Apple (AAPL) shares have fallen more than 35% since hitting a record high last September. The tech press has declared that Apple is doomed. On…
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The Boy Genius Report: What Is BlackBerry Thinking?
At the company's BlackBerry Live conference on Tuesday, BlackBerry announced what could be interpreted as zero positive news for the company. First, there's the BlackBerry…
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iPhone 5S Fingerprint Sensor Seemingly Confirmed
Apple is getting closer to launching the next version of the iPhone later this year. If the Cupertino, Calif.-based company wants to keep up with…
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Google+ Seemingly Still A Ghost Town; Brands Continue To Prefer Facebook, Twitter
Google announced last fall that its social networking site was home to 400 million members with more than 100 million active monthly users. Despite these…
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NVIDIA Shield Available In June For $349, Preorders Begin Today
NVIDIA on Tuesday announced the upcoming availability of its Shield gaming console. The Android-powered handheld will be one of the first devices to be equipped…
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BlackBerry World Now Home To 120,000 Apps
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins announced on Tuesday at the BlackBerry Live event in Orlando, Florida that the company's BlackBerry World storefront is now home to…
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Samsung, Apple And Others Escape As Slumping Feature Phone Sales Haunt Nokia
The PC market isn't the only tech sector in trouble. According to Gartner's new numbers, Asia-Pacific is the only region in the world where mobile phone…
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BlackBerry And The Fateful Q5 Pricing Question
When BlackBerry really began its tailspin in the summer of 2011, the reason was clear. Handsets in the new Bold lineup were too expensive for emerging…
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BlackBerry Announces BBM For iPhone, Android Due This Summer
We've known BlackBerry has been planning to offer BBM on rival platforms for quite some time. Now that services like WhatsApp, iMessage and Kik are…
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Nokia Unveils Lumia 925 With Aluminum Body, PureView Camera; Headed To T-Mobile
Nokia on Tuesday unveiled its new Lumia 925 smartphone during a press conference in London. The struggling vendor's new Windows Phone beats the same drum…
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Battle Over Dell Acquisition Stalls As Committee Seeks Additional Information From Icahn
A special committee that is evaluating the offer from investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management to acquire Dell is seeking additional information about the bid,…
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Google Now Letting All Android Developers Answer Critics On Google Play
Earlier this year, Google began a trial program to allow select Android developers the opportunity to respond to their critics on the Play Store. The…
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No Home For Facebook At AT&T: HTC First To Be Discontinued
The HTC First, or "Facebook phone" as many prefer to call it, is officially a flop. It certainly wasn't a good sign when AT&T dropped…
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Another Reason For Facebook Home's Rough Start: The Team Behind It Didn't Fully Understand Android
Facebook Home gave the world its first glimpse at the future of Facebook's mobile strategy, and it shows a huge amount of promise. The flood…
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Facebook Owns Up To Home Flaws, Vows To Push Out Quick Fixes
It's difficult to tell whether Facebook Home has been successful or not since it has been downloaded more than 1 million times so far but…
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Carl Icahn Enters The Ring With New Dell Bid
Two of Dell's largest shareholders have made a new takeover bid for the struggling computer company that will challenge a previous offer from Silverlake and…
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For Smartphone Buyers, Bigger Is Increasingly Better
The days when smartphone buyers valued devices that fit neatly into their hands appear to be over — nowadays it's all about the big, beautiful…
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Living With Windows Phone: Microsoft's Lack Of Key Apps Is Still A Big Drag
Microsoft believes it can be a viable competitor with Android and Apple, and is making a strong push with its Windows Phone operating system. The…
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Activision CEO: Next-Gen Xbox, PlayStation 4 Sales Might Sputter Just Like Wii U
Nintendo is off to a rough start with its new Wii U video game console and Activision CEO Bobby Kotick thinks Microsoft's "Xbox Infinity" and Sony's…
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Samsung Will Reportedly Launch An Android Notebook In The Coming Months
Earlier reports have indicated that Google and its partners are preparing to launch Android-powered notebooks that could debut later this year. Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities…
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Sen. McCain Pushes New Legislation To Dismantle Cable Bundles
How much do consumers dislike cable providers' bundling practices? So much that even Time Warner Cable's CEO has started to publicly fret about a backlash.…
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How Facebook Could Save Nokia's Skin In Emerging Markets
With Nokia's share of handset sales in emerging markets under assault, the company may have an unlikely white knight come to its rescue: Facebook. No,…
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The Bitter Irony Of Nokia's Camera Fixation
Nokia's Lumia 928 will launch soon and once again, Nokia is betting the farm on camera quality to sell its flagship phone. The chances that consumers…
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BlueStacks Brings Mobile Gaming To The Big Screen With GamePop Console; Free With $6.99 Subscription
BlueStacks is known best for its App Player software, which allows users to run Android apps and games on Windows and Mac PCs. The company…
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Bing's Brand Problem: People Prefer Google Regardless Of Search Results
Here's some disconcerting news for Microsoft: It may not matter how good Bing really is because most consumers will always assume it's not as good…
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Despite Data Caps, More Consumers Are Adding Tablets To Mobile Data Plans
Do capped data plans make LTE connectivity a waste for tablets? Perhaps, but don't tell that to the millions of people who are adding their…
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Another Blow For Nintendo: Next-Gen EA Games Will Skip The Wii U
Things keep getting darker for video game giant Nintendo. The news that the company's previous-generation Wii console outsold the new Wii U during the first…
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Messaging Apps' Bold New Plan: Cut Deals To Be Preloaded Onto Phones
A few weeks ago, Nokia launched a WhatsApp phone that featured a special button that gives direct access to the messaging app. Now Path has…
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Facebook May Have Found Its 'First' Flop
HTC's "First" smartphone received mixed reviews from critics when it was released last month. The handset received praise for its affordable price — $99 with…
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Would A Switch To Android Rescue Nokia? Sadly, Probably Not
With Nokia continuing to languish, investors have understandably become frustrated with CEO Stephen Elop. As we saw earlier this week, investors implored Elop to reconsider…
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SoftBank CEO Makes A New Case In Battle For Sprint
The battle continues between two chief executives and their ambitions to acquire the third-largest wireless carrier in the United States. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and…
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Nokia Investors Spout Off At Elop, Say He's Put Company On 'The Road To Hell'
It's safe to say that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop did not enjoy his chat with investors on Tuesday. Reuters reports that shareholders at Nokia's annual…
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Google Glass Is No iPad
The consumer electronics industry has gotten pretty boring lately. That's not to say the new products that have debuted recently are boring, but we're definitely…
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It's Now Or Never — Will Verizon Finally Back Nokia?
BlackBerry's market share at Verizon has crashed below 0.5% even as the Windows Phone share ticked up above 5% during the first quarter of 2013.…
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Anonymous Threatens To Take The U.S. 'Off The Cyber Map'
Anonymous was praised for its recent cyberattacks on North Korea, however the hacking collective has shown that it is a friend to no one. The…
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Barclays: Apple 'Is About To Change The Narrative' With New Products
The past few months have been tumultuous for Apple, which has seen its shares sink in value and has provided little buzz for new products…
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The Genius Of Samsung Ads: Even The Most Gimmicky Features Look Like Must-Haves
One of the big criticisms leveled at Samsung after its admittedly ridiculous Galaxy S4 launch in March was that its new device didn't contain anything…
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People Can't Stop Playing Online Games, Mobile Devices Are To Blame
A new report has found that the number of gamers playing games online has continued to increase over the past year. According to NPD Group,…
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Netflix Content Chief Says Piracy Drops Whenever Netflix Launches In New Markets
Netflix's chief content officer has a novel way to combat online piracy: give people easy and affordable ways to access content. In an interview with…
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Google Denies Battery-Draining Location Bug In Google Now For iOS
Google Now was probably the best thing to happen to mobile devices in 2012. Google's brilliant virtual assistant uses location, search history and other data…
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Dish Chairman Hits Back At SoftBank, Says Sprint Will Need 'Employees Who Speak English'
Just one day after SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son attacked the Dish Network over its plan to buy U.S. wireless carrier Sprint, Dish chairman Charlie Ergen hit back…
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Keep Dreaming, Cord Cutters: Time Warner Chief Says No Streaming-Only Option For HBO GO
HBO's chief executive Richard Plepler made waves earlier this year when he indicated that the company may expand its HBO GO offering to non-cable subscribers.…
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iOS 7 Is Coming With A Major Redesign - And It Will Launch On Time
Apple's iOS 7 operating system update is expected to be shown off for the first time during the keynote at WWDC 2013, but a recent…
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Facebook: Always About Mobile
Facebook is now firmly entrenched as a mobile company, with 30% of total advertising revenue coming from mobile. Mobile is the key front for Facebook now…
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Nokia's Lumia Faces A Brutal May Challenge From Low-End Android Vendors
A month ago, Nokia was surfing a wave of enthusiasm in Asia. The cheap Windows Lumia 620 and Lumia 520 models both debuted in the…
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Samsung Now Gunning For Apple's Share Of The Tablet Market As Well
Samsung's rapid rise in the smartphone market has certainly put more pressure on Apple than it's faced in quite some time, and now it looks…
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Microsoft Could Generate $8.8 Billion Annually From Android Royalties By 2017
Google unlawfully used technology from Oracle, Microsoft and others when creating its Android and Chrome operating systems, leaving its vendor partners exposed. Rather than engaging…
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Siri Creator Says Texting-While-Driving Study Was Flawed, Siri Is Safe
A recent study suggesting that Siri and other voice-to-text services are just as dangerous to use while driving as traditional text messing is seriously flawed,…
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Google Glass Is The Future - And The Future Has Awful Battery Life
The concept of wearable tech is really buzzing right now as pundits tout smart eyewear, watches and other connected devices as the future of tech.…
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Android Is Now Dominated By Messaging Apps
Perhaps the most fascinating trend in App Annie's new March statistics is the transformation of the Google Play Android app store into a messaging app distributor.…
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