Motorola has put an end to its long fight over “Xoom” branding, according to a new report. Motorola has inked a deal with payment company Xoom Corp. that will see the handset and tablet maker put an end to its use of the “Xoom” name, American Lawyer reported on Tuesday, citing people who had knowledge …

There’s a new crowdfunding champion in town. The Ubuntu Edge, a smartphone from Canonical that’s designed to take on Apple’s iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S4, hit a record for crowdfunding, reaching $10.4 million on Friday. The investment, which has been made up by thousands of Indiegogo users, has beaten out the former crowdfunding champion the Pebble smartwatch, which …

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has little to lose if his company is eventually bought out. BlackBerry recently released a proxy filing dating back to May in which the company outlined its handling of CEO Thorsten Heins in the event it’s acquired and he’s removed from his post. According to the filing, which was obtained by Bloomberg, Heins would make $55.6 …

Verizon might not be entering the Canadian market as soon as expected. The company has decided to put off acquiring Canada-based wireless carriers Wind and Mobilicity, The Globe and Mail is reporting, citing people who claim to have knowledge of its plans. Verizon, which was reportedly looking to acquire the companies this year, has decided to wait to see how …

Sony’s long-rumored flagship smartphone, codenamed “Honami,” could be capable of shooting 4K video, according to a recently leaked presentation slide. A user on China-based social-networking site Weibo on Thursday published a photo claiming to show a presentation detailing Sony’s upcoming handset. The slide shows a Sony handset and says that it’ll be capable of recording 4K videos. Rumors have been …

Google has updated Google+ for Android, the company announced on Wednesday. The new Google+ Android app comes with five new features, according to Google software developer Virgil Dobjanschi. Chief among the changes is Google’s announcement that it has nixed Messenger support in the app in favor of Hangouts. The developer said that because Hangouts now works across platforms, including Android, …

After several weeks worth of rumors and image leaks, Samsung has unveiled its Hennessy flip phone. Samsung in China on Wednesday announced the Hennessy SCH W789. For now, it appears that the handset will only be available in the Chinese market. As expected, the handset has a flip-phone design and comes with two 3.3-inch touchscreen displays — one on the …

Samsung is China’s largest smartphone seller for the sixth consecutive quarter, new data shows. During the second quarter, Samsung sold 15.3 million smartphones in China, leading all other handset makers, according to Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, which obtained the data from research firm Strategy Analytics. At that level, Samsung was able to nab 19.4 percent of the burgeoning Chinese market. …

Amazon is now making it easier for developers to push notifications to mobile devices. The company on Tuesday announced a new platform called Amazon Simple Notification Service with Mobile Push. The application programming interface allows developers to send push notifications to iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices. According to Amazon, its service helps to solve an issue developers run into …

A new video has popped up on the Web showing what appears to be a new BlackBerry handset. Vietnam-based site S Forum posted a video and images last Thursday of what the site says is the BlackBerry Z30. The device comes with a large, 5-inch AMOLED display, according to the site, as well as a dual-core processor, an 8-megapixel camera, …