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Downgrading to an iPhone 8 after an iPhone X: The Home button just feels clunky

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 4:29 pmTuesday, May 28, 20195 Comments

There is one iPhone X feature I miss massively…

Consumer Reports: iPhone Xs/Max have better battery life, improved cameras, and speedier performance

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 2:44 pmWednesday, October 3, 20181 Comment

Sometimes it’s the little things that matter most, even when you’re talking about the biggest smartphone on the market…

Inside Consumer Reports: Controversies surrounding the MacBook Pro and HomePod

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 2:42 pmWednesday, May 23, 201813 Comments

Having viewed their testing process and met with their team…

Consumer Reports does it to Apple yet again

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 1:57 pmTuesday, February 13, 201819 Comments

Consumer Reports magazine appears to have a blind spot towards Samsung…

Consumer Reports now recommends the new MacBook Pro

Friday, January 13, 2017 12:57 pmFriday, January 13, 201721 Comments

Consumer Reports has now finished retesting the battery life on Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops…

Consumer Reports’ deck-stacking, or incompetence, exposed

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 11:11 amWednesday, January 11, 201726 Comments

It all started when Consumer Reports reported wildly divergent battery life results, ranging from 3.75 hours up to 19 hours…

Consumer Reports’ weird MacBook Pro battery test results due to use of obscure Safari developer setting

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 3:02 pmTuesday, January 10, 201719 Comments

Apple has just issued a software fix through its Beta Software Program to address an issue that arose…

Consumer Reports stands by its weird MacBook Pro battery test results

Thursday, December 29, 2016 1:49 pmThursday, December 29, 201625 Comments

The high-end numbers seemed hard to believe, hitting almost double the battery-life claimed by Apple…

Beleaguered Blackberry to spend the next 12-18 months making a phone with a mechanical keyboard

Friday, March 28, 2014 11:02 amFriday, March 28, 201426 Comments

Chief Executive John Chen said in an interview that the company’s engineers have designed…

Beleaguered RadioShack to close up to 1,100 U.S. stores

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 5:02 pm39 Comments

Radio Shack, the beleaguered consumer electronics retailer announced Tuesday…

Beleaguered BlackBerry posts massive $4.4 billion quarterly loss, inks deal with Foxconn to build phones nobody wants

Friday, December 20, 2013 9:21 amFriday, December 20, 201314 Comments

BlackBerry, the troubled Canadian smartphone company…

Apple recruits employees from beleaguered BlackBerry

Thursday, October 10, 2013 3:01 pmThursday, October 10, 201314 Comments

Apple Inc. has all but destroyed BlackBerry Ltd.’s business model…

DCW Blackberry begins axing 4,500 employees

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 12:28 pmWednesday, October 9, 201312 Comments

BlackBerry wasted little time in embarking on the layoffs…

Beleaguered BlackBerry hit with shareholder class action lawsuit for misrepresenting state of company

Saturday, October 5, 2013 3:01 pmSaturday, October 5, 201329 Comments

A shareholder of BlackBerry Ltd sued the company and its executives on Friday…

How BlackBerry blew it: The inside story

Monday, September 30, 2013 6:00 pmMonday, September 30, 201331 Comments

Late last year, Research In Motion Ltd. chief executive officer Thorsten Heins…

Beleaguered BlackBerry to ax workforce by up to 40%

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:30 pmWednesday, September 18, 201326 Comments

Beleaguered BlackBerry Ltd. is axing its workforce…

Beleaguered BlackBerry: Sometimes the best a company can hope for is death

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:28 pmTuesday, August 20, 201331 Comments

The idea of a natural life cycle for a business…

Barnes & Noble founder bails on bailout plan

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 11:01 amTuesday, August 20, 201317 Comments

Total revenue was down 8.5 percent…

iPhone roadkill: Beleaguered BlackBerry is dead company walking

Friday, August 16, 2013 4:02 pmFriday, August 16, 201316 Comments

Beleaguered BlackBerry is seen as ripe for a sale after misjudging the smartphone revolution launched by Apple…

Why potential buyers won’t line up for beleaguered BlackBerry

Monday, August 12, 2013 6:46 pm21 Comments

It doesn’t look like suitors will be coming out of the woodwork…

Beleaguered RIM shares plummet 20% on news of new fee structure for services

Friday, December 21, 2012 2:31 pm11 Comments

Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd dropped 20 percent on Friday…

Beleaguered RIM posts loss of $114 million; sales tumble 47%; 1 million subscribers lost last quarter

Thursday, December 20, 2012 5:01 pmThursday, December 20, 201226 Comments

Research In Motion reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday…

Analyst: Beleaguered RIM’s BlackBerry 10 phones will be ‘DOA’

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 5:33 pm14 Comments

We believe BB10 is likely to be DOA…

Woolworths dumps beleaguered RIM’s Blackberry for Apple iPhone 5

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:28 amWednesday, October 17, 201219 Comments

Australia’s largest supermarket chain, Woolworths, is dumping its fleet of BlackBerrys…

Those still using BlackBerry phones ‘ashamed’

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:36 pm29 Comments

I want to take a bat to it…

Consumer Reports evaluates iTunes Store movie streaming, confusion ensues

Monday, August 13, 2012 11:28 am20 Comments

Consumer Reports has evaluated yet another Apple product…

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