Devices
Investors Cheer RadioShack Split with Target Mobile
January 15, 2013 10:04 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsRadioShack and Target have chosen to part ways, dissolving Radio Shack's hand in Target's mobile phone vending operation. According to statement from RadioShack today, the company is shutting down its Target Mobile stores, which are currenrly present in 1,500 Target stores...
Facebook Announcement Stirs More Handset Speculation
January 14, 2013 11:33 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsSpeculation is running rampant around the Facebook media event scheduled for tomorrow. The hubbub around a possible big announcement has even sent the company's struggling stock up above $30 per share. Perhaps the biggest surprise possible tomorrow would...
Microsoft May Have Exited Gadget Show Prematurely
January 14, 2013 10:58 am | by Michael Liedtke, Ryan Nakashima, AP Business Writers | News | CommentsMicrosoft may have relinquished its starring role in America's gaudiest gadget show a year too early. After 13 straight years in the spotlight, Microsoft's decision to scale back its presence at this week's International CES deprived the software maker of a prime opportunity...
Samsung Sells 100 Million Galaxy S Smartphones
January 14, 2013 10:37 am | by Youkyung Lee, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsSamsung Electronics Co. said Monday that global sales of its Galaxy S smartphones surpassed 100 million units since the first model in the series was released less than three years ago. Samsung said it has sold more than 25 million Galaxy S smartphones...
Report: Apple Cuts iPhone 5 Component Orders, Shares Slide
January 14, 2013 10:17 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsShares of Apple were down 3.5 percent in early trading today after a report surfaced this weekend that the company had cut component orders for the iPhone 5 on weaker-than-expected demand for the device. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal...
Apple CEO: China Will Be Biggest Market
January 11, 2013 9:05 am | by Joe McDonald, AP Business Writer | News | CommentsApple expects China to overtake the United States as its biggest market, CEO Tim Cook told a Chinese government news agency. "China is currently our second largest market. I believe it will become our first. I believe strongly that it will," the Xinhua News Agency quoted Cook...
Nokia Stock Soars on Revised Guidance, Lumia Sales
January 10, 2013 10:19 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsShares of Nokia soared over 20 percent in premarket trading today on revised fourth quarter guidance that estimates the company's mobile devices business has exceeded expectations and achieved underlying profitability. According to a press release, Nokia's Devices...
Reports of Cheaper iPhone Surface Again
January 9, 2013 1:47 pm | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsRumors surfaced again Wednesday that Apple may be working on a cheaper iPhone. A report published by the Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with matter, suggest Apple may be looking to recapture market share with a lower-end iPhone...
Walmart and Straight Talk to Offer iPhone
January 9, 2013 10:42 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsWalmart and Straight Talk Wireless, a Tracfone brand, which is a subsidiary of America Movil, today announced that it will offer the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 starting on January 11, 2013. Straight Talk will offer Apple’s iconic devices in more than 2,000 Walmart stores...
AT&T Sold Over 10 Million Smartphones in Q4
January 8, 2013 4:23 pm | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsAT&T said Tuesday that it had sold more than 10 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2012, topping its previous record quarter of 9.4 million, set in the fourth quarter of 2011. This included best-ever quarterly sales of Android and Apple smartphones...
Samsung Sees Record-High 4Q Profit
January 8, 2013 10:06 am | by Youkyung Lee,AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsSamsung Electronics Co., the world's largest technology company by revenue, expects record earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 as shoppers continued to snap up its smartphones and tablets. The company said Tuesday its operating profit for the October-December quarter...
Apple App Store Hits 40 Billion App Downloads
January 7, 2013 10:11 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsApple today announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps from the iTunes App Store, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. According to a press release, the App Store has over 500 million active accounts, which recorded a record-breaking December with over two billion...
Don’t Let a Kids’ Tablet Take the Parent Out of the Equation
January 4, 2013 4:46 pm | by Ben Munson | Blogs | CommentsIt’s already happened so many times that the shock has completely worn off. But that doesn’t mean my jaw didn’t drop the first time I saw my daughter, who’s three now, pushing her finger against a magazine page as if it would interact with her when she did.
New Search Engine Tailors Its Results for Tablets
January 4, 2013 1:11 pm | by Associated Press | News | CommentsAre tablet users looking for an alternative to Google and other search engines designed primarily for PCs? That's the hope that led to Friday's release of Izik, which is billed as the first search engine tailored especially for iPads and increasingly popular tablet computers running on Google's Android software.
Apple and the Glue That Binds
January 3, 2013 11:38 am | by Andrew Berg | Blogs | CommentsA report surfaced today that Apple is testing iOS 7, as well as the iPhone 6. I'm amazed that this made headlines. I'm guessing investors would be jumping ship faster than they already are if Apple wasn't in the process of testing the next iterations of its products.
RIM, InterDigital Extend Patent Agreements
January 2, 2013 11:14 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsInterDigital and RIM have reached an agreement to extend thet temr of their patent licensing agreement. In addition, the companies said in a statement that they have agreed to amend the patent license to add coverage for 4G products, including LTE and LTE-Advanced products...
RIM Turns to Complex Market in Southeast Asia to Grow Subscribers
January 2, 2013 10:40 am | by David Friend, The Canadian Press | News | CommentsWhile BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion claws for a diminishing market share in North America, the smartphone maker maintains a reputation in Southeast Asia that in some places harkens back to its glory days. It's sometimes hard to remember that RIM was once the darling of the tech industry...
RIM Loses BlackBerry Subscribers for First Time
December 21, 2012 9:29 am | by Rob Gillies, Associated Press | News | CommentsResearch In Motion's stock plunged in after-hours trading Thursday after the BlackBerry maker said it plans to change the way it charges fees. RIM also announced that it lost subscribers for the first time in the latest quarter, as the global number of BlackBerry users dipped to 79 million.
Report: Windows Phones Will Own Nine Percent Market Share by 2017
December 20, 2012 10:10 am | by Ben Munson | News | CommentsA recent report from Analysys Mason predicts the numbers of Windows Phone units shipped will jump from 11 million in 2011 to 136 million in 2017, effectively giving the OS a nine percent market share. The report also predicts that Android will grow to 58 percent market share by the end of 2013...
Report: Global LTE Smartphone Shipments to Hit 275M in 2013
December 19, 2012 10:20 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsLTE has arrived. According to new research from Strategy Analytics, global LTE smartphone shipments will grow threefold to reach 275 million units in 2013. Companies leading the growth spurt will include Apple, Samsung, LG and others...
Yota Smartphone Aims to Differentiate in Useful Way
December 18, 2012 3:24 pm | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsIt's not everyday an OEM decides it's a good idea to enter the high-end smartphone market. We've already seen the likes of Dell and HP bow out, and the well-established Microsoft and Nokia are no strangers to the challenging market. So why, exactly has the relatively small...
Review: Droid DNA by HTC
December 18, 2012 10:33 am | by Ben Munson | Articles | CommentsOnce you get your hands on the new HTC Droid DNA, Verizon’s new flagship Android phone, you’ll fall in love with this sleek beast’s flat-out gorgeous five-inch, 1080p display and the breathtaking 1.5 GHz quad-core processor it has rumbling under the hood. You’ll spend more time than you thought possible polishing the screen.
Judge Denies Apple Request to Ban Samsung Phones
December 18, 2012 9:22 am | by Paul Elias, Associated Press | News | CommentsA federal judge late Monday rejected Apple Inc.'s demands that its chief rival in the more than $100 billion global smartphone market cease selling models a jury recently found illegally used Apple technology. The immediate impact of the ruling means that Samsung can continue to sell three of the older-generation smartphones still on U.S. shelves.
Mini Review: A Pure Case for Cases
December 17, 2012 4:08 pm | by Andrew Berg | Articles | CommentsIf you do decide to pick up a pricey $600+ LTE-capable iPad, you might be looking for all the protection you can get for your new gadget. In that case (pun intended), LifeProof has you covered. LifeProof is pitching some heavy duty protection from the elements with its line of iPhone and iPad cases.
Mini Review: LifeProof-ing Your New Slate
December 17, 2012 3:59 pm | by Andrew Berg | Articles | CommentsIf you do decide to pick up a pricey $600+ LTE-capable iPad, you might be looking for all the protection you can get for your new gadget. In that case (pun intended), LifeProof has you covered. LifeProof is pitching some heavy duty protection from the elements...
