Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in ‘solid’ Q4 2012; results ‘exceeded expectations’
Straight out of left field, Nokia has today announced that its fourth quarter of 2012 was surprisingly solid, making its stock price spike. — Revealing its preliminary financial results for Q4 2012 ...
Nokia: Yes, we decrypt your HTTPS data, but don't worry about it
Nokia has confirmed reports that its Xpress Browser decrypts data that flows through HTTPS connections - that includes the connections set up for banking sessions, encrypted email and more.
Amazon's “AutoRip”
Amazon is today introducing a new service called Amazon AutoRip, which automatically gives customers free MP3 versions of any CDs they've purchased from Amazon since the launch of its Music Store back...
Holiday PC sales dip for first time in five years
(Reuters) - Holiday-season sales of personal computers fell for the first time in more than five years, according to tech industry tracker IDC, as Microsoft Corp's new Windows 8 operating system faile...
Google's Schmidt Says He Pressed North Korea on Web Barriers
BEIJING—Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said he told North Korean officials that they must drop barriers to global Internet access if they hope to develop their economy. — “As the world ...
Obama signs bill to let Facebook users share Netflix videos
President Obama signed a bill on Thursday to allow users of Facebook and other social media sites to opt in to automatically share which videos they have watched on sites like Netflix. — Facebook us...
4K at CES 2013: the dream gets real
Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, LG, and now Vizio too — the 4K bandwagon is fully loaded and ready to get rolling — Almost exactly a year ago, upon these parched steppes of Nevada we know as Las Vegas, Vi...
Beats' Jimmy Iovine on Steve Jobs, Spotify and Why He Can Make Subscriptions Work
Beats Electronics has done a very good job at making expensive headphones a mass-market item. And that's what makes them a good candidate to crack open the music subscription business, says CEO Jimmy...
Google begins allowing all developers to respond to user comments and reviews on Google Play
Google has continued to encourage communication between developers and users on Google Play after it begin to allow all developers to respond to comments and reviews about their apps in its download s...
Samsung won't launch Windows RT tablets in the US, blames confusion and weak demand
Samsung's line of Windows RT Ativ tablets was announced just this past fall, but it doesn't look like the company will be bringing it to the US any time soon. Speaking to CNET, Samsung executive Mike...
How does BuzzFeed intend to crack a $1B valuation? By embracing journalism's past
It was just over a year ago that BuzzFeed hired editor-in-chief Ben Smith away from Politico to help build the cat-happy publication into a major media company. In the intervening months …
In the future of television, the set-top box is king
The television industry is changing so rapidly on all fronts—hardware, software, and the content we call “TV”—that consumers are rightfully cautious about investing in any new technology that might be...
Apple's Tim Cook meets with China Mobile chairman in Beijing
Apple Inc's Chief Executive Tim Cook met with China Mobile's Chairman Xi Guohua on Thursday to discuss “matters of cooperation,” a China Mobile spokesman said, raising hopes that a deal between the tw...
Is San Francisco The Brooklyn To Silicon Valley's Unbuilt Manhattan?
Like many people who moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, I did it because San Francisco was cheap. It didn't have the lowest rents—in the California of three recessions ago, a Silver Lake bung...
Wikipedia's travel site's official launch coming soon; what to expect and not expect
Wikipedia's next big push is a travel wiki, and the official launch of Wikivoyage is coming soon, according to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. — Wales was on Colbert Show last night talking …
Lenovo confirms Windows Phone 8 handset plans
Summary: JD Howard, vice president of Lenovo's Mobile Internet and Digital Home unit, confirms it is planning for a Windows Phone 8 device and, if approved, there's a “good chance” of a 2013 release. ...
In Ergen's Clearwire Gambit, Spectrum Is the Prize
Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish Network Corp., is in a familiar position: He can win even by losing. — Mr. Ergen's attempt to snatch wireless provider Clearwire Corp. out of the hands of its current...
Record Retail Sales on Smartphones, Tablets Take Greater Ecommerce Share
Tablet buyers grow sales at fastest pace — Mobile devices have become a key component of the digital shopping landscape, with both smartphones and tablets contributing higher levels of ecommerce sal...
Photos of Tweet Locations Bring 140 Characters to Life
In their project Geolocation, Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman scan the public Twitter feed for tweets that are geotagged and then travel to those locations to take pictures where the original tweet w...
Foxconn Confirms Bribery Investigation After Chinese Authorities Detain Employee
Foxconn, the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant that works with companies like Apple, Samsung and Sony, has confirmed that it is being investigated on charges of bribery by Chinese authoriti...