As Amazon looks to expand video business, customers still use Kindle Fire as a book first Amazon is producing its own TV shows, developing its own videogames, and on Wednesday, we’ll get an update on its video… Read More
HTC will find out if making the best Android phone is enough HTC finally unveiled its new flagship device — the HTC One M8 — today during an hour-long press conference in… Read More
HTC’s new flagship device leaked in hands-on video (again) Tomorrow HTC is unveiling its latest flagship phone, which hopefully will help it regain some ground against Apple and Samsung… Read More
Holiday sales boost iPhone’s market share in the U.S., as BlackBerry circles the drain While Apple famously says that it doesn’t care about the market share of its products, the company’s mobile market share… Read More
Apple wins $930M in patent dispute with Samsung, but judge won’t block sales Federal Judge Lucy Koh has awarded almost $930 million in damages to Apple, after deciding that a number of Samsung’s… Read More
Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 flagship phone has fingerprint reader, heart rate monitor Samsung today unveiled the Galaxy S5, its newest flagship smartphone that comes with features like a heart rate monitor and… Read More
Glympse adds Foursquare-like location sharing to Samsung messaging app Seattle-based Glympse has partnered with ChatON to enable its users to share their location with a friend through the Samsung-owned… Read More
Samsung pulls further ahead of Apple as smartphone shipments top 1 billion worldwide Smartphone makers sold 1 billion handsets worldwide last year, according to a report by IDC this morning. And nobody has more… Read More
Study shows Microsoft outpacing Apple in battle for tech consumer mindshare A new study from Forrester may surprise you: Microsoft — not Apple — is doing a better job of building… Read More
Debacle from director Michael Bay highlights Samsung celebrity appearances at CES LAS VEGAS — Samsung just packed a whole lot of content into its hour-long press event this afternoon at CES… Read More
Amazon unveils partners for 4K streaming video CES is always home to a slew of new television-related tech buzz, and this year is no different. Amazon announced… Read More
Marketing fail: Samsung’s new Galaxy Gear smartwatch ad is downright awful Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch hasn’t exactly been a hit. So now, the company wants to make guys believe that the device… Read More
ComScore: iOS, Android and Windows Phone gain share as Blackberry continues to slip The latest numbers released by comScore show that the smartphone market seems to be in a state of figuring out… Read More
Smartwatch Diary: The good, bad and ugly of wearing a Samsung Galaxy Gear for the past week It’s been fun wearing Samsung’s new Galaxy Gear smartwatch for the past week. Nearly everyone who sees it has some… Read More
Samsung tops J.D. Power tablet survey, passing Amazon and Apple It’s a sad day for the marketing department in Cupertino. While Apple has frequently cited the iPad’s position at the… Read More
Samsung’s new second-screen TV tech aims to compete with Apple TV, Chromecast SAN FRANCISCO – There’s a new player in the second-screen market: Samsung. At today’s Samsung Developers Conference in San Francisco,… Read More
Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch will now work with reasonably-sized phones Samsung’s new smartwatch hasn’t exactly garnered rave reviews, and one of the criticisms of the device is that the only… Read More
Samsung’s secret: How the Galaxy Note conquered the ‘phablet’ market When Samsung launched the Galaxy Note, the smartphone-tablet hybrid — a.k.a. “phablet” — didn’t make sense to a lot of… Read More
Record profit for Samsung, first quarterly loss for HTC The difference between two of the most well-known smartphone makers could hardly be more stark these days. Samsung issued earnings… Read More
Demolition derby: iPhone 5S, 5C lose to Moto X in durability tests Durability is a huge issue when buying a smartphone. You don’t want to have to replace your phone, often at… Read More
Gartner: Smartphone sales beat feature phones, rising tide lifts Samsung, Microsoft For the first time in the history of cell phones, smartphone sales have exceeded those of feature phones, according to… Read More
ITC rules against Samsung in patent case, imposes import ban The ongoing legal war between Apple and Samsung continued today, with the International Trade Commission ruling that some Samsung products… Read More
Apple faces major day in court on patents and e-books It’s a big day for Apple in court today, as the Cupertino-based company remains entangled in a massive web of… Read More
Obama veto in Apple’s Samsung dispute throws a new twist into patent cases What will the White House do? That’s the question that many big companies will be asking themselves after the Obama… Read More
Nokia CEO says he picked Windows Phone over fear of Samsung dominating Android Last week, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop defended his company’s decision two years ago to try to create a “third ecosystem” by throwing its… Read More
Skin sensors and smartphones: Samsung exec sees big potential for wearables SAN FRANCISCO — When Samsung’s Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn took the stage at the MobileBeat conference this morning, he… Read More
Updated: 777 crash at SFO, 2 reported dead, 181 taken to hospital, 1 still unaccounted for At around 11:30 this morning, Asiana Airlines flight 214 crashed prior to landing at San Francisco International Airport. The flight… Read More
HTC revenue, profits down for another quarter It’s looking to be another bad news quarter for Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC. The company is reporting that its unaudited… Read More
New data: Samsung gaining ground on Apple in smartphone market share As the smartphone wars rage on, the industry’s two major hardware players continue to gain market share in the U.S.,… Read More
Windows Phone 8 finally coming to Sprint with new HTC, Samsung models The long wait is finally over for Sprint customers wanting to use Windows 8. The carrier announced today that it will offer… Read More
