Now playing: Watch this: Unboxing Google’s Nexus 4 smartphone 3:47 Google late Tuesday reduced the price of its Nexus 4 models by one-third to $199, down $100 from $299. The price reduction comes ahead of what promises to be a busy September with Samsung and Apple both readying for product debuts. Anticipation has been building …

There she was, greeting the Las Vegas audience at the CTIA Wireless show on Wednesday with that trademark million-dollar smile. Meet Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer, and product pitchwoman extraordinaire, and now co-founder and creative director for Viva Movil, a self-styled “premium retailer” for Verizon Wireless products and services targeting Latino consumers. “As an entrepreneur, empowering the Latino community is at …

There they go again. Seems being the CEO at a technology company invariably involves hitting the stump and doing what George H.W. Bush (father, not the son) once famously called “the vision thing.” So it was that earlier today Blackberry CEO Thorstein Heins made headlines when he predicted that the clock is ticking on tablet computers. “In five years I …

With its newest smartphone set to go on sale tomorrow, BlackBerry received some good news today when the Pentagon said it intends to continue supporting the company’s smartphones. Related stories BlackBerry Z10, fully reviewed BlackBerry plans Z10 launch event Road Testing the BlackBerry Z10 Defense Dept. reportedly in deal for more than 600K iOS devices “The department is aware of …

Andy Rubin, who heads up Google’s enormously successful Android business, can read a company’s business strategy as well as anyone out there. So it’s hardly a thunderbolt when we hear that Rubin frets about the day when Samung becomes so dominant that it becomes a threat. In a Wall Street Journal post coinciding with the Mobile World Congress show in …

BARCELONA, Spain–Given what else it has had to deal with recently, Spain probably wouldn’t be all that shocked if a UFO did indeed land atop Gaudi’s famous Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain. But rest assured, would-be tourists, that was just a teaser in a brief video Asus released over the Internet in the run-up to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. …

Shares of BlackBerry dropped 4.6 percent today after Home Depot confirmed a report by AppleInsider that the company is handing out iPhones to about 10,000 employees who were using the BlackBerry. A spokesman for the home improvement retailer did not offer more detail about when the replacement process began, other than to acknowledge that Home Depot was “replacing the current …

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and his opposite number at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, were all smiles at today’s debut of new Lumia smartphones. But Wall Street’s first impression was less upbeat. Investors pushed down Nokia shares more than 13 percent amid questions about the company’s ability to ship the new smartphones in volume duing the all-important fourth quarter. Sarah Tew Ambiguous …

Google may have had its issues with China over the question of Internet censorship, but there’s been no spillover in how the locals treat the company’s mobile operating system. A new report by Canalys finds that during the second quarter, Android was the operating system on 81 percent of smartphone shipments in China — which accounted for some 27 percent …

CNET No one reason can fully explain why certain tech companies rock while others seem congenitally unable to add two plus two. Especially when you’re talking about the soap opera atmosphere around Research In Motion, where the news goes from bad to worse. On the back of new downgrades following the release of the company’s fiscal first quarter earnings, RIM …