Samsung led the market for 4K televsision last quarter, according to DisplaySearch. Ty Pendlebury/CBS Interactive Shipments of 4K televisions jumped more than 500 percent last quarter as overall global TV shipments rebounded, according to a new report from DisplaySearch. More than 3 million 4K televisions, also called Ultra HD televisions, shipped to retail outlets during …

CNET/Marguerite Reardon Personal information of an unknown number of AT&T Mobility customers was compromised by employees of a third-party vendor seeking to unlock phones, AT&T has confirmed. Accounts were accessed without authorization between April 9 and April 21 by employees of one of AT&T’s service providers and would have provided access to Social Security numbers and dates of birth, AT&T …

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer at the time of his arrest. Washington County Sheriff’s Office A federal appeals court on Friday vacated the conviction against hacker and Internet troll Andrew Auernheimer. Auernheimer, a security researcher who goes by the nickname “Weev,” was found guilty of hacking in 2012 for accessing a non-password protected portion of AT&T’s Web site to obtain the email …

As BlackBerry attempts to remake itself to stay alive, there continues to be a steady trickle of bad news for the struggling handset maker. The latest problem will be noticed by those looking to get their 140-character fix: BlackBerry has pulled the latest update to the Twitter app for BlackBerry 10. “Twitter version 10.2.2 has been removed from BlackBerry World …

Hewlett-Packard has been talking about getting back into the smartphone game for over a year. Now, a new report on Monday suggests “phablets” could be the company’s way back into the mobile market. HP reportedly plans to introduce several 6- and 7-inch phablets, sources tell The Information (subscription required). The devices are said to be aimed at emerging markets and …

Perhaps not surprisingly, BlackBerry has decided to forgo its big conference next year. The struggling handset maker will not host a BlackBerry Live conference in 2014, the company announced in a blog post Friday. Instead, it will hold smaller events throughout next year that will focus on the “specific business, developer, and partner audiences.” Related stories Best Password Manager to …

Panasonic’s 20-inch 4K tablet, which shown off at CES in January, could be landing the US at the beginning of next year. Panasonic’s Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 will go on sale in the US in January for a whopping $6,000, according to Engadget. The Japanese company had already announced that the ultra HD slate would be available in Europe in November. …

Not content to just battle it out with T-Mobile for LTE coverage, Sprint on Thursday announced it is still going after the home phone business. The Sprint Phone Connect System 1, which is available starting Friday, uses the company’s cellular network rather than traditional landlines to provide phone service to homes and small businesses. The new system bundles Sprint’s system …

Verizon Wireless officially got into the tablet game on Tuesday with the unveiling of the Ellipsis 7. The new tablet features a 7-inch HD in-plane switching (IPS) display, a 3.2-megapixel rear camera, 1GB of RAM, and a 1.2GHz quad-core processor. It also comes with 8GB of internal storage and an SD card slot. Verizon Wireless said the tablet will feature …

HTC plans to aggressively push out Android 4.4 KitKat to the HTC One, the company said Thursday. In an interview with Engadget, HTC America President Jason Mackenzie said the latest version of Android will be available to all HTC One phones in North America, including all carrier variants, in 90 days or less. An HTC spokesperson confirmed this to our …