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It’s not really a secret that Sony’s been scraping by financially recently, despite the impressive success of the PlayStation 4 in the U.S. and Europe. The hardware manufacturer had good news for investors this week, though, as it posted improved sales between April and June as compared to last year
We may soon see a bidding war for T-Mobile. French telecom company Iliad has put in a $15 billion, all-cash bid for the company that would give it a controlling stake of 56.6 percent. The news throws a huge wrench into the months-long narrative that Sprint is preparing to buy its smaller competitor.
Virgin Mobile’s new build-your-own smartphone plans may be seen as convenient by many consumers, but they also represent the most glaring net neutrality foul we’ve seen come from a US carrier. The Sprint-owned company likely suspects that most people won’t care about the latter poi
You may remember LG showed off a 105-inch curved TV at CES back in January. Well, today it became an actual product you can buy if you have $117,000 lying around. Most TVs on the market today, regardless of screen size, use a 1080p resolution for crisp HD viewing. There’s a growing number of 4K [&he
Lenovo offers two kinds of products under the Yoga brand. There are Yoga-branded Android tablets that have built-in kickstands and then there are full-fledged Windows notebooks that can also be used as tablets because the screen can be pushed back a full 360 degrees. If an FCC listing is to be belie
There are lots of things that review sites should rank hotels on, but don’t. Is it known for bed bugs? Is the “heated pool” only heated during summer when the sun is out? How many ghosts live there? How fast is the WiFi? This site won’t help you with all of those, but it will […]
Even as cable giant Comcast tries to get bigger by absorbing Time Warner Cable, its own revenue grew in the last quarter to $16.8 billion, up 3.5 percent from last year, and net income hit $1.99 billion. The most important number for a subscription business though is how many customers it has, and t
Did you ever go on a big family road trip where there were two or more cars in the caravan, and you brought along walkie-talkies so you could communicate on the drive? Now, of course, nearly everyone has cell phones to accomplish the same thing more easily, but there’s a problem: When you don’t have
Almost anyone that has tried to cancel cable service, wireless service, or a gym membership knows how difficult it can be to do over the phone, but a recent call to Comcast by one customer might take the cake for the worst of them all. Ryan Block, formerly of Engadget and now at AOL, called [&hellip
Samsung announced today that it has suspended business with Dongguan Shinyang Electronics Co. Ltd. after an investigation into child labor practices. Samsung launched an investigation after a July 10 accusation by watchdog group China Labor Watch that it found evidence of child labor at the factory
The big news last week was Amazon Web Service’s entry into several new areas, log monitoring and admin with Logs for CloudWatch; collaboration and file sharing with Zocalo; and mobile application development with Cognito, Mobile Analytics and a new Mobile SDK. First, the new logging tool, which I gl
The US Department of Justice announced late Friday that a Chinese businessman has been charged with hacking into the computer systems of Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other aerospace companies. The alleged hacker, Su Bin, is accused of helping unidentified co-conspirators to identify what to steal fro
A new proposal introduced in the US Senate called the “E-Label Act” would allow electronics manufacturers the option of using “digital” stamps of regulatory approval on devices rather than the physical emblems now required to show that the device has passed required safety an
SoundCloud, the Berlin-based audio streaming site, is getting worried about copyright violations on its site. SoundCloud is like YouTube for audio; it allows anybody to upload any kind of audio. This naturally opens the door to people uploading copyrighted audio. Just as YouTube has had to do, Sound
Amazon has just launched Zocalo, their brand new document sharing and collaboration tool which will specifically target the services offered by Box and Dropbox, going to show how Amazon is not content at being where they are at the moment, as they attempt to carve additional inroads into the world o
In what looks like Count Dooku’s personal spaceship in Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones, the small spacecraft that you see above also comes with a very of solar-powered sail that it can call its own. This small aircraft was specially designed to harness the power of the sun so that it will be [&he
Surveys do provide a general idea on the behavior and thought process of the masses, although it is not exactly downright accurate at times, but is still a good way to get a “feeling” about a particular situation. When it comes to job satisfaction, you might want to increase yours by being addicted
AT&T is hopping on the bring-your-own-device bandwagon. The Dallas-based wireless carrier unveiled Toggle, a mobile-device management solution AT&T executives hope will change the way people work. At least when it comes to their choice of devices they bring to the office. On Toggle, employee