Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile Agree to Massive Spectrum Deal By Brad Chacos T-Mobile, it seems, isn't afraid to do a little wheeling and dealing to improve its lot. The company's proposed merger with AT&T might have crumbled under the weight of intense legal scrutiny, but...
Verizon's HTC Windows Phone 8X Ships Nov. 13 with Wireless Charging By Brad Chacos After years of ho-hum Windows Phone 8 support, Verizon Wireless is jumping on board the Microsoft bandwagon with a bang on November 13th, when the company will start to ship not one, but two high-prof...
Surging iPad Helps Apple Snag No. 1 PC Spot from HP By Brad Chacos Apple's share of the smartphone market may have slipped last quarter, but where the iPhone slacked, the iPad picked up, propelling the company past HP an into the pole position as the number one PC ma...
Ballmer Calls Android 'Wild' and iOS 'Highly Controlled' By Brad Chacos Nobody's ever accused Steve Ballmer of mincing words, and the Microsoft CEO was in fine form during an interview with LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman in Santa Clara last night. Once conversation turned toward...
IDC: PCs Suffer Holiday Sales Decline for First Time in Five Years By Brad Chacos The hits just keep on coming for traditional PCs. The latest blow comes from the IDC research group, which claims that fourth quarter PC sales were down 6.4 percent compared to the same quarter last y...
New $250 Chromebook Brings ARM's Biggest Processor to the Cloud By Brad Chacos Lo and behold, Google and Samsung might just have finally designed a Chromebook with genuine mass appeal. The newly announced Samsung Chromebook features no moving parts, Google's cloud-connected Chro...
Motorola Droid RAZR M 4G LTE Outed, Could Be Announced Sept. 5 By Brad Chacos The Motorola Droid RAZR HD might not be the only belle at the big ball Verizon and Motorola have planned for September 5th. It may not even be the only RAZR! Engadget's moles have dug up pictures an...
7 Ways to Get Started with Microsoft SkyDrive By Brad Chacos With SkyDrive and a Windows Phone, you’ll never have to worry about forgetting soda and candy at the grocery store again. In a cheeky television commercial, a pair of kids update their father’s On...
RCA Mobile TV Tablet Combines Android with Free Live TV By Brad Chacos Unless you're willing to pay a hefty subscription fee each month, there aren't many options for watching live TV on the go. RCA is hoping to change that with the aptly named RCA Mobile TV Tablet, a $...
Rumor: Nokia to Unveil 'Phi' and 'Arrow' Windows Phone 8 Phones Sept. 5 By Brad Chacos Two weeks before a packed September 5th, tidbits about Nokia and Microsoft's joint event are starting to leak out. According to the Verge's sources, Nokia is planning to unveil a pair of new Lumia-bra...
AT&T Snags Nokia Lumia 920 Exclusive, Also Offering Lumia 820 By Brad Chacos In a move that should surprise no one, AT&T announced this morning that it will be the exclusive U.S. carrier for Nokia's flagship Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset, continuing its lock-down of th...
Amazon Flip Flops: Kindle Fire HD Owners Can Zap Ads for $15 By Brad Chacos People who pre-ordered the Kindle Fire HD the second Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ended his inspiring announcement speech last Thursday received a couple of potentially nasty shocks in the days that followed...
Alleged HTC One X+ Specs Tweeted by XDA Developer By Brad Chacos Any time rumored device specs pop up on Twitter, you'd be wise to take the information with a handful of salt. But when that Tweet comes from a respected XDA forum member with a history of stumbling i...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Said to Challenge iPhone 5 with 5-inch Screen By Brad Chacos Samsung feels its feature set already outshines Apple's, but the next generation model of the Samsung's flagship Galaxy S handset is already allegedly on the drawing board and looks to one (inch) up t...
Report: T-Mobile Planning to Sell Against iPhone 5 on Sept. 21 By Brad Chacos If you've found yourself thinking the iPhone 5 would be a good match with T-Mobile's new Unlimited Nationwide 4G Plans, you're probably right! A new report says you're probably also going to be disapp...
Google Discontinues Free Tier of Google Apps By Brad Chacos If you've been on the fence about switching your small business over to the free "small team" version of Google Apps, Google just made the decision for you. Before, groups under 10 people in size coul...
Windows 8 Pricing: What You Need to Know By Brad Chacos Pricing information for the various flavors of Windows 8 is slowly starting to become available as its October 26th launch date inches closer and closer. The complete cost picture still isn't quite cl...
HP Loses Ground to Lenovo in PC Sales, Apple's Numbers Foggy By Brad Chacos Just as you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, you shouldn't judge an analyst report by its headline, or you could miss out on some juicy tidbits inside. Case in point: both IDC and Gartner released...
LinkedIn Predicts the Death of the Office PC, Envisions a Mobile Future By Brad Chacos What do Rolodexes and raptors have in common? Not much yet, but according to LinkedIn, the iconic contact manager could be on the brink of Dodo-esque extinction -- and it's joined by the desktop PC an...
Intel Toys with Android Jelly Bean OS on Medfield-Powered Smartphones By Brad Chacos Porting Android updates over to Intel-powered smartphones takes a bit more work than slapping the operating system on an ARM CPU, but Intel's desire to make major inroads in the mobile market seems to...
Patent Rejections and iPhone Clones: Apple's No Good, Very Bad Day By Brad Chacos The news of impending antitrust charges might have put a damper on Samsung's Thursday, but it follows a Wednesday that was just as bad for Apple. To start the day off, Apple learned that another compa...
ICS, World Phone Capabilities Come to Verizon's Droid Razr and Razr Maxx By Brad Chacos Quick, pack your bags -- it's time for a vacation! While Verizon's 4G LTE phones have, up until this point, been confined to CDMA-based networks in foreign lands, this morning the company announced th...
QWERTY Lives! Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G Slider Headed to T-Mobile By Brad Chacos Samsung's latest entry in the Galaxy line is designed to take a trip to the business world, powered by a bevy of BYOD-friendly features that could make it an appealing choice when the device touches d...
Facebook for iOS Gets Instagrammy By Brad Chacos Mere days after rumors of Twitter's desire to add photo filters to its camera function first surfaced, Facebook has beaten its rival to the punch, merging the myriad image filters found in its stand-a...
ASUS Unleashes a Flood of Windows 8 Hybrids at CES By Brad Chacos Not content to let its rivals steal the spotlight at CES, ASUS has unveiled a flood of touchscreen-enabled Windows 8 devices to counteract the torrent of announcements made by Lenovo on Sunday. Virtua...