Goodbye Sony Ericsson, hello Sony smartphones. By purchasing the other half of its cell phone business from Ericsson, Sony hopes it can become a mobile powerhouse on its own.
Sony will pay 1.05 billion euros for Ericsson’s stake of the business, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary. Once the acquisition goes through, Sony will phase …
Earlier this month, T-Mobile and Walmart announced a $30 per month, no-contract smartphone plan with unlimited data and text messaging. Now, they’re ready to talk about the actual phones.
The first handset will be Samsung’s Exhibit II 4G, and it’ll be available at Walmart starting October 27 for $200 without a contract, or $80 with a …
Forget Street View. Now when I’m bored I can pretend I’m working in the Conde Nast cafeteria. Or at the Googleplex.
Last May, Google announced that they would start taking interior views of stores. But why? It turns out that some of these images are now making their way online as part of a new feature showcased on Google Maps. …
Can’t wait to get your hands on Motorola’s new Droid RAZR, the phone that’s so cool it doesn’t need lowercase letters or the proper amount of vowels? Then head over to Verizon’s website, as pre-ordering for the phone kicked off at 8am sharp today.
The Droid RAZR will sell for $299—if you happen to sign up for a two-year contract …
If Netflix does, in fact, continue its slow implosion and disappear into the coldness of internet irrelevance, one question seems to be left unsaid: Who will take over where it left off? Who profits from Netflix’s demise the most?
According to Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne, cable and satellite companies should be …
It’s true—Dropbox and HTC are teaming up to give users 5GB of free space. Starting now, anyone running Sense 3.5 will get an additional 3GB of space in their Dropbox account, on top of the free 2GB that everyone gets when signing up.
Of course, the number of people who are actually using Sense 3.5 is limited; it currently only runs on …
Eight months ago, Nokia bet its future on Microsoft, abandoning other smartphone efforts so it could create Windows Phones instead. Now, we’re seeing the first fruits of that strategy shift in Nokia’s Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.
The Lumia 800 is the star of this show, with a gently curved polycarbonate frame, a 1.4 GHz processor and an …
After watching Netflix stock take another tumble yesterday, falling a further 35% as analysts suggested selling and abandoning the company for dead, I found myself wondering, are things really that bad for Netflix? So, I looked back at the company’s recent past on the NASDAQ index, and found… Yeah, they’re kind of horrific. Want to see …
The Apple patent war is going to get a little nastier. We’ve all heard about the patent wars between Apple and Samsung, but Apple now owns the “slide to unlock” patent, available on smartphones almost everywhere.
In particular, Android devices—phones and tablets alike—are running the risk of being sued by Apple for patent …
Apparently, not only is Big Brother watching you, he also really would rather that you weren’t watching him online, thank you very much. According to Google’s most recent transparency report, the first half of 2011 saw a 70% rise in requests from U.S. government and law enforcement to remove videos from YouTube, as well as a 29% rise in …
Whispers of an Apple-branded television set have been popping up since the beginning of human history (yes, that long), with even the late Steve Jobs tipping his hand to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, informing him that he’d “finally cracked” the secret to an Apple television set:
“I’d like to create an integrated television set
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Amazon stunned the business world this afternoon with the announcement that third quarter profit had fallen 73% despite net sales rising 44% during the same period. The discrepancy was explained as an increase in spending on new products such as the Kindle Fire, due to be launched next month.
Profits for the quarter were announced at …
