
Fed up with BitTorrent-related lawsuits, Verizon takes the fight to the copyright cops
Telecom companies apparently do have limits on how far they’re willing to go to appease copyright holders. TorrentFreak reports that Verizon (VZ) is ...

$19 unlimited smartphone service goes live as Republic Wireless starts shipping phones
As small mobile virtual network operators continue to look for ways to steal subscribers from major nationwide wireless carriers, low-cost unlimited ...

FCC gives Dish’s proposed LTE network a thumbs up
The Federal Communications Commission this week took a big step toward expanding competition in the wireless market by granting Dish Network (DISH) ...

New Flickr iPhone app to compete with Instagram and Twitter with 16 filters
Hot on the heels of its email redesign, Yahoo (YHOO) announced on Wednesday that it has completely redesigned the Flickr iPhone app. The new app ...

Google Maps finally comes to iOS. Again. [updated]
Apple has had quite a bumpy car ride so far with it’s mapping product. That all ends in just a couple hours, however, because late Wednesday evening ...

2012′s top Google searches: ‘Whitney Houston,’ ‘Gangnam Style’ and ‘Hurricane Sandy’
The death of a pop music icon, the rise of a South Korean rapper and a deadly hurricane were what Google (GOOG) users were most interested in learning ...

New app brings Google Now functionality to the iPhone
2012 was a huge year for the smartphone industry and while a number of exciting new devices and services were introduced over the past 12 months, ...

Apple’s plan to improve its Maps application may include buying TomTom
What better way to quickly improve Apple (AAPL) Maps than by buying a company that’s already built a popular mobile navigation platform? Bloomberg ...

Google says it won’t build apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone until people start using them
In what can be considered a major dig at Microsoft (MSFT), Clay Bavor, product management director at Google (GOOG) Apps told V3 that the company is ...

Facebook could ruin Instagram’s appeal by placing ads next to photos one day
The beauty of Instagram is its simplicity and lack of advertisements. But if comments made by Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s (FB) vice president of ...

2013 dubbed ‘the year of mobile malware’ for Android users
The old phrase often credited to the late P.T. Barnum, “there’s a sucker born every minute,” can definitely be used to describe some aspects of the ...
Samsung’s marketing team has killed it this year, even making NFC seem hip
Samsung (005930) spends a ridiculous amount on marketing every year, but you can’t deny that they’ve gotten some truly high-quality ads in return.
Samsung again touts its phones’ ability to share sex videos, this time between Santa and Mrs. Claus [video]
Samsung (005930) seems really determined to corner the market on people who like to share sex videos with their spouses. In a new ad released on ...

Google is ‘trying to decide where to expand next’ with Google Fiber
Google (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt at The New York Times’ Dealbook conference on Wednesday was asked about the future of the company’s Google Fiber ...

Analyst claims iPad mini cannibalizing iPad 4 sales, raises iPhone 5 sales forecast
Apple (AAPL) is finally catching up to the overwhelming demand for its latest iPhone 5 according to analyst Shaw Wu from Sterne Agee. Wu says ...

Nokia Lumia sales reportedly nowhere near as strong as rumors suggest
At a time when Nokia (NOK) needs a solid quarter to prove to investors that it can stage a comeback, a new analysis suggests Lumia sales in the fourth ...

Facebook to introduce better privacy controls, force everyone to be included in searches
Facebook (FB) is planning another round of privacy changes with a focus on making it easier to control what’s shared and what’s not, according to The ...

Samsung pounces on Apple Maps app after it strands Australian tourists
There was simply no way that Samsung (005930) could resist pouncing on Apple’s (AAPL) latest Maps disaster that left several Australians stranded in ...

Google Nexus 7 shipments expected to top 1 million this month
Despite Apple’s (AAPL) attempts to single out the Nexus 7 as an inferior tablet to its iPad mini, Google’s (GOOG) 7-inch slate continues to sell very ...

Where is Apple’s ‘next big thing’?
Bad news for Apple (AAPL): The company needs to launch the “next big thing” in order to reverse investors’ soured sentiment according to Barclays ...

Google chairman says the war with Apple is already over and Android won
Google (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt believes the war between Android and Apple’s (AAPL) iOS is just about over and his side has won. In an interview ...

RIM’s new BlackBerry 10 smartphone leaked in video walk-through [video]
The leaks for Research In Motion’s (RIMM) first BlackBerry 10 smartphone keep on coming. On Monday morning, Tinhte.vn released several high-quality ...

Redbox Instant to launch this month with 5,500 streamable movies for $8 per month
Movie rental kiosk operator Redbox, in partnership with Verizon, will go toe-to-toe with Netflix (NFLX) by the end of the year, according to the ...

Setback for U.S. lawyers: Cell phones still aren’t causing cancer
A brand new study published in the prestigious Epidemiology journal shows that mobile phone usage still cannot be linked to gliomas, a broad range of ...

RIM’s first BlackBerry 10 phone revealed in high-quality photos
Just two days after Research In Motion (RIMM) posted a teaser image of its first BlackBerry 10 smartphone, high-quality photos of the device have been ...