Samsung Galaxy S4 review
How do you upgrade the best-selling Android phone of all time? — Years ago, people either bought an iPhone or “a Droid.” Verizon's marketing power, those insane robot ads, and maybe that just-close...
Exclusive: Verizon eyes $100 billion bid for Vodafone's Wireless stake
(Reuters) - Verizon Communications has hired advisers to prepare a possible $100 billion cash and stock bid to take full control of Verizon Wireless from its partner Vodafone, two people familiar with...
Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box
Amazon (AMZN) is making e-readers, tablets and will likely soon introduce a smartphone. As it works to build all types of connected devices, that leaves a natural next step: a television set-top box....
Live from Yahoo! It's Saturday Night!
Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker, or Tina Fey as Sarah Palin? As a lifelong Saturday Night Live fan, it is nearly impossible for me to pick my favorite skit. And, as a fan, I couldn't be more excite...
Microsoft to unveil next Xbox at event on May 21st at its Redmond campus
We've just received an invite from Microsoft to an event on May 21st where it will show off the next version of its Xbox console and media box. The next version of the company's media play has been e...
Twitter Music Chief to Depart for Jelly, Biz Stone's New Startup
Kevin Thau — the man who led Twitter's Music app project from acquisition to completion — has left the building. Thau leaves Twitter to become chief operating officer of Jelly, the mystery startup cr...
Analysis: Sleeping ad giant Amazon finally stirs
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is known in the advertising industry as the “sleeping giant” because the world's largest Internet retailer harbors a trove of consumer-spending data that many marketers have...
Data Science of the Facebook World
More than a million people have now used our Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. And as part of our latest update, in addition to collecting some anonymized statistics, we launched a Data ...
MetroPCS shareholders approve merger with T-Mobile USA
(Reuters) - MetroPCS Communications Inc (PCS.N) shareholders voted Wednesday to approve a merger with No. 4 U.S. wireless service provider T-Mobile USA, after T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEG...
Amid A Challenging Mobile Transition, Zynga's Revenues Decline 18% To $264M
Zynga's revenues for the first quarter of 2013 declined 18% year-over-year to $264 million as the company is in the midst of doing a big pivot onto mobile platforms. The company swung to a profit fro...
A Flawed Bidding Process Leaves Dell at a Loss
The private equity firm Blackstone Group has exited the stage for Dell, abruptly bringing down the curtain on a budding takeover contest. It has the elements of a farce, and Dell's board has no one t...
Apple's Solid-After-All Quarter In Charts
Apple is still growing, but slower than before. And it's not as profitable as it was a year ago — a rare reversal. But it's still solid. — Apple reported March quarter earnings this afternoon. Ex...
Nokia Puts WhatsApp Hard Key On $72 Asha 210 For Asia, Africa; Qwerty S40 Handset Gets Facebook Button In Europe, Latam
Nokia has announced another handset in its Series 40-based Asha portfolio of low end mobiles which compete with the budget end of Android and cheap BlackBerrys.
Nintendo makes second consecutive annual loss as Wii U misses expectations
Nintendo made a loss in 2012 for the second consecutive year as its new Wii U console failed to spark excitement among consumers. The company's operating loss was 36.4 billion yen ($366 million) for ...
WWDC 2013 Tickets On Sale April 25 At 10AM PT, Runs June 10-14
Apple has just released the official announcement for its 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference. Every year, it releases tickets for the developer-focused event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco,...
Microsoft puts in new tile-based ad format in Outlook.com
While we are still waiting for the promised Skype integration for Outlook.com, Microsoft's advertising division has just launched a new ad format for the web email service that has a tile-like interfa...
Don't let the myths fool you: the W3C's plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users.
A handful of myths have become common defenses of the W3C's plan for “Encrypted Media Extensions” (EME), a Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) scheme for HTML5, the next version of the markup langua...
Sprint reports quarterly net loss of $643 million, sees iPhone sales drop by a third
Sprint managed to lose a million customers and over a billion dollars last quarter. This time it's not quite as bad, with a net loss of $643 million on revenue that was broadly equivalent to the same...
Akamai: Average U.S. Internet Speed Up 28% YoY, Now At 7.4 Mbps, But South Korea, Japan And Hong Kong Still Far Ahead
Akamai published its quarterly “State of the Internet” report for the last quarter of 2012 today. The report, as usual, looks at global Internet speeds …
Nuance brings Swype keyboard to Google Play for $0.99, adds Dragon mobile, dialect support, and more
Swype, the learning keyboard application is now available for Android devices. For the first time, the app can be downloaded from the Google Play store on smartphones and tablet devices enabling anyo...
AMD details $999 Radeon HD 7990 graphics card, says it handles all top games at 4K
We've seen plenty of the Radeon HD 7990 in action with Battlefield 4, but it's taken AMD a little while to furnish us with full specs and pricing. Now that all the info is here, in the run …