Galaxy phones power Samsung to record $8.3 billion profit
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world leader in mobiles and memory chips, said it likely earned a quarterly profit of $8.3 billion, as it sold close to 500 handsets a minute and as demand picked ...
App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012
Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps*, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. The App Store has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking Decembe...
Why We're Not At The Biggest Tech Show In The World
Because it's not the most important event in technology anymore. The two trends that killed CES. For a long time, the Consumer Electronics Show, which began in 1967, was the Super Bowl of new techno...
Vizio gets back in the phone game with 5-inch 1080p and 4.7-inch 720p handsets... for China
Two of the hottest phones at CES, but you can't have one — Two years ago, Vizio came to CES and announced the Vizio Phone, a skinned Android phone that quietly died at the hands of American carrier ...
There Are 181,000 Social Media ‘Gurus,’ ‘Ninjas,’ ‘Masters,’ and ‘Mavens’ on Twitter
A Growth Industry: That's Up From Just 16,000 In 2009 — As a public service, I like to periodically check in on the number of self-proclaimed social media “gurus,” “ninjas,” “masters” and “mavens” o...
NVIDIA unveils Project Shield, a Tegra 4-powered Android gaming handheld
A video shown on-stage during NVIDIA's press conference just unveiled “Project Shield,” a gaming controller / portable console running the just announced Tegra 4. The controller looks an awful lot li...
Verizon, Sprint to offer new Windows Phone 8 models
There were two big Windows Phone-related announcements today at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. — First, Samsung said that the ATIV Odyssey will go on sale at Verizon Wireless in th...
My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D'Angelo
To say that I have had a contentious relationship with former Facebook chief technology officer Adam D'Angelo's three-year-old startup Quora would be an understatement. I've had my reasons for disagr...
Microsoft's Ballmer Makes Cameo at Qualcomm Opening Keynote
A symbolic changing of the guard at the Consumer Electronics Show featured a surprise appearance by the old guard-Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, who helped Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs kick off his first-ever...
Apple Can't Afford Buyer's Remorse With Next Retail Hire
John Browett, the Dixons exec tapped to oversee Apple's retail operations last January, was Tim Cook's first big hire after taking up the CEO reins at the company. Nine months later, he would be amon...
Cisco introduces ‘videoscape unity’ to manage the future of video everywhere
Cisco is the world's networking giant, and today it showed what it is doing to make sure that it can provide the plumbing for the explosion of video on live TV, paid services, and the wide-open Intern...
Hitting a high Note: ‘phablets’, chips to drive Samsung fourth quarter profit
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world leader in mobiles and memory chips, likely earned a quarterly profit of $8.1 billion, as it sold close to 500 handsets every minute and as demand picked up f...
Google executive chairman arrives in North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Google's chairman wants a first-hand look at North Korea's economy and social media during his private visit Monday to the communist nation, his delegation said, despite ...
Year-end Wii U sales steady, says Nintendo chief
(Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd's year-end sales of its Wii U games console were steady, though not as strong as when its Wii predecessor was first launched, the Japanese game maker's top executive told R...
Roku Now Has 700 Channels, Including Time Warner Cable; Also Has 14 TV Manufacturers Compatible With Its Streaming Stick
Roku is announcing at CES today a significant milestone both in the amount of content and the number of devices that are compatible with its USB-sized streaming stick.
Netflix Inks Exclusive U.S. Online Rights
The latest skirmish in the ongoing battle between pay-TV and over-the-top providers to woo customers by building the most alluring content ecosystems has been won …
Alcatel intros the One Touch Idol Ultra, the 'world's slimmest phone' at 6.45mm (hands-on video)
Yes, there's a bit of a contest going on among smartphone manufacturers to determine which one has the thinnest device. As proof that Alcatel can play that game, too, the company has just jumped …
David Kelley talks about Steve Jobs and ‘design thinking’ in ‘60 Minutes’ interview
IDEO founder David Kelley sat down with 60 Minutes this week to discuss the philosophy behind “design thinking” — an innovative approach that melds product design with human behavior.
Apple secures majority of US smartphone market, Samsung dominates Europe
Summary: According to new research, the iPad and iPhone maker has managed to secure over 50 percent of the American smartphone market, whereas Samsung is still top dog in Europe. — Charlie Osborne
AT&T Screen Pack could be U-verse's $5 Netflix competitor
AT&T announced Screen Pack today, a $5 per month add-on for subscribers of its U-verse TV service that offers access to a streaming library of movies “all without having to rent DVDs.” If that sounds...
Following AMD & Asus, BlueStacks Strikes Distribution Deal With Lenovo To Bring 750K Android Apps To Its PCs
The good news keeps rolling in for BlueStacks, the startup best known for making technology that enables one and all to download and use Android applications on their desktop PCs — and more recently, ...
Shutterfly Acquires ThisLife's Photo Organization And Sharing Platform
Confirming TechCrunch's earlier report, photo and personal publishing company Shutterfly is announcing this morning that it is acquiring the cloud-based photo and video organization platform ThisLife.
HTC Posts Lowest Net Income in Eight Years After Revenue Drops
HTC Corp. (2498), Asia's second-largest smartphone maker, posted its lowest profit in eight years as a lack of new models prompted a loss of market share. — Fourth-quarter net income was NT$1 billio...
Dropbox's new Modern UI Windows 8 app finally arrives in the Windows Store
It's been a month since we revealed that Dropbox had pushed its Windows 8 app for submission to Microsoft, and now the app is fully certified and has landed in the Windows Store for Windows 8 and Wind...
Acer Iconia B1: How Much Tablet Does $130 Buy You?
LAS VEGAS — “This is a product for new users.” That's how Acer President Jim Wong described the company's new $130 Acer Iconia B1 tablet, which will be sold in some areas of the world for as low as $...
Yahoo Mail users hit by widespread hacking, XSS exploit seemingly to blame
Late last night reports started coming in suggesting that Yahoo Mail users have had their accounts hacked. While “hacked” is a very broad term nowadays, it does appear that Yahoo email accounts are b...
Disruptive Web Security Startup Shape Security Nabs $20M From Venrock, Google Ventures, Kleiner, Eric Schmidt
Shape Security, a company that wants to disrupt web security technology, has raised $20 million in Series B financing round led by Venrock, with participation …
Massive Open Online Courses Prove Popular, if Not Lucrative Yet
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In August, four months after Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng started the online education company Coursera, its free college courses had drawn in a million users, a faster launchin...
Intel, Plastic Logic and Queen's U build the PaperTab: a flexible e-paper tablet (video)
Plastic Logic may have bowed out of building its own e-readers, but that's not stopping the company from making its presence felt at CES. It's teaming up with Intel and Queen's University on the Pape...