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Amazon’s Misfire Phone: How Jeff Bezos failed
There’s no question that the Fire Phone is a strong product offering…
Amazon’s Fire Phone might be the biggest privacy invasion ever
Amazon Fire Phone is probably the biggest single invasion of user privacy ever…
Analyst: No impact to Apple iPhone from Amazon ‘Fire Phone’
With a long history in computing, we believe Apple is unique…
Google, Microsoft look to catch up to Apple by incorporating ‘kill switches’ in next mobile OS versions
Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will incorporate a ‘kill switch’ into the next versions…
Amazon launches shopping machine masquerading as a phone
Amazon’s Misfirephone…
Amazon Fire Phone’s Firefly feature: Apple’s iPhone already has it
When Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos announced the new Fire Phone, he ‘forgot’ to mention…
Amazon shows ‘Fire Phone’ with 4.7-inch ‘3-D’ display to court mobile shoppers
More than seven years after Apple introduced the iPhone…
Analyst: Amazon smartphone no threat to Apple’s iPhone, but Android phone makers beware
A day before Amazon’s expected announcement of a new 3-D smartphone…
Swatch CEO: ‘We’re going to wait’ on smartwatches
Swatch Group AG (UHR) Chief Executive Officer Nick Hayek…
Beleaguered BlackBerry hopes to launch phablet
John Chen, CEO of Canadian handset manufacturer Beleaguered BlackBerry Limited.
One thing everyone missed at WWDC
While Apple was busy last week wooing developers and consumers alike…
Study: Cellphone exposure may harm male fertility
Men who carry a cellphone in their pants pocket may harm their sperm…
Wanted: a watchdog for the mobile medical app explosion
Seventy-five percent of smartphone apps that claim to assess malignancy are wrongly diagnosing..
Study: Blue light emitted by iPhones and iPads can make you fat
Blue-enriched light exposure was associated with an increase in hunger…
Apple allows virtual currencies in apps, opening door to Bitcoin
Apple Inc. changed its policy to let software developers include virtual-currency transactions…
Apple made one massive, potentially disastrous mistake in iOS 8
WWDC 2014 was a resounding success, but…
Could your iPhone cost you your job?
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Large screen smartphones: How Samsung blew it
Large-screen smartphones have become an important segment in the smartphone category…
Mary Meeker’s charts show growth potential for tablets, Apple’s fight with declining smartphone prices, and more
The rapid growth of tablets and how the category is growing much faster than…
IDC predicts Apple iPhone market share to drop to 13.7% in 2018
According to a recently published mobile phone forecast from IDC…
How Apple annihilates Android and crushes the stock market in 2015
Apple has finally regained its rightful place as the market’s go-to stock…
Microsoft CEO Nadella to unveil latest stab at tablets with updates to moribund Surface product
Nadella risks hitting a rough patch next week when he unveils the latest models of the tepidly received Surface tablet.
Apple iPhone continues to lead U.S. and Canadian smartphone usage share
Chitika Insights examined hundreds of millions of smartphone-based…
Apple iPhone increases lead in Japan
Apple Inc boosted its share of the Japan mobile-phone market to more than…
Morgan Stanley: Apple may gain U.S. market share with larger-screen iPhone
The April survey indicated that Apple could gain 11 points of share with a larger-screen iPhone…
Apple iPhones could become most popular e-reader
Up to 50% of iPhone users read e-books on tiny screens, according to new research…
Apple hires Nokia PureView camera expert
Now that Nokia is out of the smartphone game…
With 15.5% of smartphone market share in Q1, Apple took 65% of all handset profits
According to IDC, Apple’s share of worldwide smartphone shipments was…
California Senate passes mandatory smartphone ‘kill switch’ bill
California’s Senate passed a bill requiring smartphone makers such as Apple…
Will Apple sue Amazon for copying the iPhone?
Amazon’s smartphone looks a lot like an Apple iPhone…
iPhone 6 rivals have wasted their chance to cut Apple off at the knees
The elephant in the room is Apple…
iPhone 6: How Apple kills off Samsung to dominate Android
For Samsung, the strategy has been to give customers two, and at times, three products…
Will Apple’s ‘kill switch’ tamp down iPhone thefts?
The Activation Lock Apple added to iOS 7’s ‘Find My Phone’ feature functions as a kill switch…
Can U.S. police search your iPhone without a warrant?
Can the arresting officer, without a warrant, riffle through the contents of your Apple iPhone?
Why everyone was wrong: Apple’s iPhone 5c ate up Android while Google’s Moto X flopped
When Apple released its middle-tier iPhone 5c…
Apple iPhone tops J.D. Power 2014 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Satisfaction Study
More than one-fifth (21%) of smartphone owners cite “price” as the main reason they chose…
Customers are stepping up for AT&T’s no-contract plan
AT&T said 40 percent of its smartphone gross customer additions and upgrades…
Google working on ‘Project Ara’ modular smartphone
A modular smartphone dubbed Project Ara can be customized by swapping out individual pieces…
NYT: Samsung cannot compete, Apple’s iPhone 5s is by far the world’s best smartphone
Samsung’s flagship phone sure isn’t the best phone on the market, that title belongs to Apple’s iPhone 5s…
Samsung, Globalfoundries team up in challenge to TSMC
Samsung Electronics Co. and Globalfoundries Inc. are teaming up…
More evidence that T-Mobile is putting a scare in the wireless industry
It used to be that Verizon and AT&T could happily divvy up new subscribers…
