Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has accused Samsung of “slavishly copying” its hardware designs; but whether or not that is true, one area where Samsung is taking a note from Apple is in how it debuts its big products. The company today announced that it would not be launching its next big…

Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) will be pinning its comeback hopes on the first generation of BlackBerry phones to run its BlackBerry 10 operating system, and it seems to have settled on a design. Leaked media images to a friendly outlet suggest that RIM wants to borrow cues from the…

RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) is taking a beating at the moment from handset makers like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung, which have eaten into a smartphone market share that it took years for the BlackBerry maker to build on both sides of the Atlantic. RIM, however, claims that it is still…

With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A report out today from Strategy Analytics said that for Q4 it was Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the company that effectively created the market for tablets two years ago…

Considering the staggering results reported by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night, this should come as little surprise: the company’s iPhone is back on top as the bestselling smartphone in the U.S. Android has managed to hold on to its position in the UK but there, too, Apple massively increased its…

One day before Nokia is due to announce its next set of quarterly results, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has made three announcements: a milestone reached with Series 40 feature phone purchases, and a buyer for its manufacturing plant in Romania, and a re-casting of its quarterly results for the three quarters…

Square, the high-profile mobile payments company started by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, has yet to launch outside the U.S. But in the meantime, another, similar-looking competitor has sprung up in the UK: mPowa.

Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and has launched…

Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) has finally decided to get serious about its predicament: co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are stepping aside after a disastrous year in which the company squandered its once-dominant position in the smartphone market.  

Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) continued to struggle during its third fiscal quarter after taking a huge charge earlier in the quarter related to the poor performance of its Playbook tablet. Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are still at the helm of the struggling company, but promised yet again…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q310	Net Inc. vs Q310
Research in Motion	Release		6%	70%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sales than the rest of the digital music industry put together, they are far from being out of the picture. Today saw 7digital, the UK-based download service…

As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just the last two days, no less than four major mobile players have been linked with new initiatives around NFC technology, the wave-and-pay system that its supporters hope…

The Kindle Fire tablet may not be all reviewers’ cup of tea, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) seems to have gotten one thing just right: it’s picked up serious mindshare with developers.

According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expected to rise to 1.6 billion by 2014. Today, announcements from streamed entertainment provider Aspiro and the music download service 7digital point—respectively announcing a new white-label distribution deal and…

More turmoil this week from BlackBerry maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) that could not be mitigated by the news of the launch of a new distribution deal (the “4G” Torch 9810 on T-Mobile USA) or a new service (BBM Music now live). On the back of falling market share in some…

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this may be stretching the expression a bit too far. Cut the Birds, a game released five days ago in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store, has copied the birds from Rovio’s Angry Birds and the gameplay from Halfbrick’s Fruit…

We have seen time and again how the growing number of Android-based handsets from a plethora of OEMs—and the popularity of some specific models, such as the Galaxy line from Samsung—is translating into a boom for the Android platform. But that growth is even more striking when you compare it…

During the three-day outage last week that affected data services for millions of BlackBerry users, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) executives were focused first on getting services up and running before talking about compensation. Today the company finally came out with its first (and so far, only public) apology in kind: a…

This morning RIM’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis took to the Internet two more times, once via YouTube and once, with co-CEO Jim Balsillie, in a webcast press conference, to relay an apology from RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) to all of its customers over the outage that started on Monday and extended to…