Linkpost | 10.29.2013
• Apple’s Profit Falls Despite Higher Sales of iPhones and Apple sold 33.8m iPhones and 14.1m iPads in Q4 2013, up 25.7% and up 0.7% year-over-year respectively – Sales are up but profits are slimmer...
View ArticleLinkpost | 11.4.2013 [Updated]
Updated 7:50 a.m. • BlackBerry-Fairfax deal dies; Thorsten Heins out – BlackBerry abandons its bid to sell the company and will replace its CEO. Instead, the company wants to raise $1 billion in new...
View ArticleLinkpost | 11.5.2013
• Google Launches Helpouts, Paid Video Chats With Experts To Address Whatever Is Bothering You Right Now – Pay a small fee, and you can spend a little time with someone who may be able to answer a...
View ArticleLinkpost | 11.21.2013
• The Nokia Lumia 2520: My week with the ‘other’ Windows ARM tablet – Mary Jo Foley reviews Nokia’s first Windows tablet. The optional keyboard wasn’t ready, and she found the 2520 lacking without it....
View ArticleLinkpost | 11.27.2013
• America falls a dismal 31st on ranking of consumer download speeds (report) – We’re behind Moldova and Uruguay on the list, released by SpeedTest.net. • Was it smart to ditch unlimited data?...
View ArticleMeet Vertu, maker of the world’s most expensive cellphones
What’s the most you would be willing to pay for a quality, well-designed mobile phone? $200? $500? Maybe a little more? The world’s most expensive cellphone goes for about $15,000 – and it’s not even a...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.10.2013
• Open source will let your fridge send messages to your TV and phone – The AllSeen Alliance has been created to enable objects connected in “the Internet of things” to talk to each other. • Security...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.11.2013
• NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking – Google uses cookies to track its users’ activities on the Net. The NSA figured out it can piggyback on those cookies to help identify...
View ArticleMicrosoft completes the Nokia acquisition–and now is selling Android phones
Early this morning, the company closed on its approximately $7.5 billion acquisition of Nokia's hardware operations. Although Nokia is not the monster it once was – particularly in the smartphone arena...
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