RIM beats street by losing less than expected in Q3 with EPS of -$0.22, revenue of $2.7B
Today Research In Motion reported third quarter revenue of $2.7 billion and earnings per share of -$0.22. While the company lost money per share, its loss was lower than expected.
Updated Terms of Service Based on Your Feedback
Earlier this week, we introduced a set of updates to our privacy policy and terms of service to help our users better understand our service. In the days since, it became clear that we failed to fulf...
Samsung Faces EU Antitrust Complaint Over Apple Patent Clash
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) faces a European Union antitrust complaint over its use of standard- essential patents in legal disputes with Apple Inc. (AAPL), the European Union competition commiss...
Apple kills a Kickstarter project: Portable power project POP refunding $139,170 to backers
Edison Junior, the technology and design lab behind the POP portable power station, is returning the full $139,170 in funding it received from Kickstarter backers to develop the device.
Facebook Tries Letting You Pay To Guarantee Message Delivery, Changes Messaging Privacy Settings
Sometimes you need to message a non-friend, and today Facebook starts testing if it can make a little money and cut spam by asking you to pay to ensure the recipient sees that message.
HTC Said to Plan Windows Tablets to Challenge Apple-Led Market
HTC Corp. (2498) plans to make tablets based on the Windows operating system, giving Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) another ally in its challenge to Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) in the $63.2 billi...
BlackBerry Z10: first BlackBerry 10 handset pictured in black, white
As the January 30th launch draws closer, more details are coming to light regarding the upcoming BlackBerry 10-powered handsets Research in Motion plans to announce. Both a Torch-like full-touch devi...
Verizon responds to AT&T, adds 29 LTE markets
Verizon customers in Selma, Al. and Port Angeles, Wa. are among the cities getting access to the company's 4G LTE network. — Verizon has added 29 new LTE markets to its service. — The company anno...
Home-Automation Startup R2 Studios in Acquisition Talks
A secretive startup founded by the man who popularized the Slingbox has been in talks with companies considering buying it, people close to the company say, with Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Apple...
Adobe Acquires Social Portfolio Platform Behance To Power Its Creative Cloud Community Features
Adobe just announced that it has acquired Behance, a New York-based online platform where creative professionals can showcase their portfolios and where businesses can find talent.
Google's Head of Shopping Says Company Has No Plans to Become a Retailer
If you've visited Google Shopping recently, you might confuse the search giant for a retailer. — Google Google's VP of Shopping Sameer Samat — At the top of the Shopping page, a photo shows a snow...
Google Play is growing faster, but Apple's App Store brings in way more money: Distimo
App analytics firm Distimo has published a new report looking at how Google Play and Apple's App Store have fared in 2012. It finds that while the former is growing rapidly, the latter still beats it...
Path boosts social discovery for its 5 million users with the addition of Search and Nearby features
Path is releasing an update to its iOS and Android applications. Starting today, users are going to notice Path Search, a new feature that the company says will help make it easier …
The Hacker Way: Facebook reveals its top hacks of 2012
The culture at Facebook has always been known to be about The Hacker Way. Through this philosophy, the company has periodically held and participated in numerous hackathons on its campus. Today, it ...
Apple begins appeal in renewed bid to ban Samsung phones
Apple today took a step in trying to appeal a decision by a District Court judge not to ban a number of Samsung phones in the U.S. — Apple on Thursday told a San Jose judge it would appeal her decis...
When I first heard the name “Safari”
Ten years ago this month, my secret Web browser team at Apple became the “Safari” team — less than 30 days before we debuted the product on January 7, 2003. — To this day, I don't know who suggested...
Samsung preps 5.5-inch flexible phone screen for CES demo
In January, Samsung's mobile display spin-off will bring us a step closer to bendable smartphones. Now that's twisted. — You won't have to bend over backward to see Samsung's latest effort in flexi...
Kleiner Partners' View Of the Future of Tech
Venture capitalists John Doerr and Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have had a front-row seat at Silicon Valley's recent Web froth and its fallout. — Their venture firm in the past de...
Deutsche Telekom CEO Obermann to step down, CFO to take over
The head of Deutsche Telekom, Rene Obermann, is to step down in a year's time. He apparently requested that the board set a termination date for his contract of 31 December 2013, and his successor ha...
T-Mobile opens up pre-paid 4G access to its members in 14 markets via Solavei, on a band perfect for the iPhone
The low-cost contract-free service provider Solavei has announced that its users can now access up to 4G coverage on unlocked GSM iPhones in 37 new markets with the 1900MHz band.
A Million Users Desert BlackBerry, and Revenue Falls 48%
OTTAWA — Research in Motion said on Thursday that it lost a million BlackBerry owners worldwide during the company's last financial quarter, the first such decline in the device's history. — It repo...
Snapguide Comes To The iPad Because The Future Of The How-To Is On The Tablet
I wouldn't have an iPad if I didn't have to do two things: Do interviews and cook. The first I have to do for work but the second I do for fun. Which is why I think that Snapguide's bold and stylis...
IFTTT gets $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer to connect all of our Internet silos
Today, IFTTT is announcing a Series A round of $7M that is led by Andreessen Horowitz, with NEA and Lerer Ventures participating. The round will help IFTTT to expand its staff, and work towards build...
Red Hat's Q3 earnings: beats estimates, acquires ManageIQ
Summary: Open source software maker Red Hat beats estimates for its third quarter earnings with 30 cents a share on revenue of $343.6 million. It will also acquire cloud management provider ManageIQ ...
Siri's reliance on Google cut in half with iOS 6
Tests with Apple's voice-driven personal assistant, Siri, have found that the service turns to Google for an answer in iOS 6 half as much as it did in iOS 5. — When investment firm Piper Jaffray ini...
Netflix-Facebook Sharing Bill Clears Senate, Waiting for Obama's Okay
Want to tell your Facebook pals what you're watching on Netflix? Netflix wants to help you do that. — And it's now very close to doing that for American users: The U.S. Senate has passed a bill tha...
Chitika: iOS 6 Spike Likely Due To iPhone In China, Not Google Maps, As U.S. Growth Remains Flat
While a study this week from MoPub suggested that iOS 6 adoption indeed did see a spike coinciding with the introduction of Google Maps, Chitika has a new, longer-term look at adoption in the U.S …
As IPO Gets Closer, Twitter Tries Growing Up Fast
Preparing for an eventual IPO isn't easy, taking years of planning, of careful strategy decisions, of picking your people perfectly. Even then, things can still go wrong. Just ask Facebook. — Whil...
Flipboard lands on Android tablets, now supports Nexus 10
It's no secret that we're big fans of Flipboard here at Engadget, but there's one thing we've been longing for: a tablet-optimized Android version. Until now, running the app on the Nexus 10 (by side...
Rockmelt social browser comes to iPhone, Android version still in development
When we heard Rockmelt was going to announce some news about its social browser becoming available to lots more people, we assumed that meant the Android version was finally ready. Not quite: turns o...
Facebook starts rolling out new privacy settings, making it easier to control what data is public
Facebook announced plans to make its privacy control settings easier to find this month, and now a series of new menus and notifications has begun to roll out to users of the social network, initially...
Samsung Electronics completes talks for $3.9 billion U.S. chip expansion
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's No.1 memory-chip maker, said on Thursday it has completed talks with the state government of Texas where it plans to invest $3.9 billion to expand...
A 2011 law made it easier to challenge Apple's patents
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act opened the door to more post-grant reviews — FORTUNE — On Wednesday, Samsung informed a federal court — and the Wall Street Journal dutifully reported — that the ...
‘Cut the Rope’ Creator to Debut First New Game Franchise Since Its Big Hit
Two screen shots from “Pudding Monsters,” the first new franchise for ZeptoLab since striking gold with “Cut the Rope.” — More than two years after ZeptoLab released the mega-hit mobile game “Cut th...
Microsoft drops importing/exporting support for .xls and .doc in Outlook 2013
In a new Outlook blog post, Microsoft mentions a few features and components that are being dropped from Outlook 2013. Of the features, Microsoft mentions that Outlook 2013 will no longer support imp...
Boeing uses potatoes to simulate humans in test of Wi-Fi signals
Boeing has tested onboard internet signals with potatoes instead of passengers. (Associated Press / December 19, 2012) — Boeing, the Seattle-based company that has built some of the world's most so...
Forrester: 84% Of U.S. Adults Now Use The Web Daily, 50% Own Smartphones, Tablet Ownership Doubled To 19% In 2012
Forrester Research just published its annual “State of Consumers and Technology” report. As usual, it's chock-full of interesting statistics about how U.S. consumers use the Internet …
Amazon Orders Sitcom Pilots From Daily Show, Onion, Doonesbury Writers
Like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu, Amazon is taking a stab at making its own Web video, starting with sitcoms and kids' shows. Here's the first foray from Jeff Bezos and company — an order for a half-d...
Twitter.com login flaw, now corrected, caused passwords to be sent in plain text in some cases
A flaw in the design of Twitter.com's security allowed for user passwords to be sent in plain text when entered on the detail page of a Tweet. That flaw has been addressed by the Twitter security tea...
Oracle buys cloud-based marketing automation software firm Eloqua for $871m
Computer technology giant Oracle today announced that it has agreed to acquire Eloqua, a publicly-listed company that provides cloud-based marketing automation and revenue performance management softw...
4 Out of 10 Americans Have Connected Internet to TV
Still waiting for the Internet and TV to converge? It may have already happened. — Four out of 10 Americans have connected their TV to the Internet, according to a new Forrester study. If you're j...
Rabbit pulls reimagined video chat out of its hat
Video chat has become very useful in the age of the Internet, but it is still pretty clunky. With that in mind, the team at Rabbit took a step back to figure out how to reimagine video chat with your...
Court Sentences Web Designer For Creating Infringing Torrent Site
After its launch in 2008, the StudentBay e-learning torrent site quickly became associated with The Pirate Bay due to its familiar logo, Swedish roots and other alleged links to the site. — StudentB...
Study: More Than 1,000 Seed-Funded Startups Are Destined To Be ‘Orphaned’ At The Series A Stage
There is a lot of buzz about an ongoing “Series A crunch” for tech startups, but it's ideal to have real data to accompany all the anecdotal stories. So we were glad to see that today …