Remember the JibJab guys? To refresh your memory (I needed to look them up myself), they’re the brothers who shot on to the public stage in 2004 when their video, “This Land is Your Land,” starring George W. Bush and John Kerry, skyrocketed in popularity. While JibJab, founded by brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, were …

T-Mobile USA has agreed to sell the rights to its network of cellular towers to Crown Castle for $2.4 billion as it looks to focus on its core operations. T-Mobile has been shopping its 7,200 cell towers around for several years, seeing it as an easy way to bring in some badly needed cash that can be funneled into its …

When Research In Motion finally comes out with its first BlackBerry 10 phones, it will face the herculean task of convincing people they’re actually worth a try. Over the last few years, RIM has burned away a lot of goodwill, along with BlackBerry’s standing as a pre-eminent smartphone brand, thanks to a near-comical succession of clunky product launches, delays, executive …

Research In Motion may not be showing off its BlackBerry 10 phones anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean photos of the devices won’t leak out on their own. Several renderings have popped up for the two phones, which include one full touch-screen device, and one with a Qwerty keyboard. CNET has seen the devices, and they match up with images …

AT&T has unveiled its latest lineup of Samsung devices, including two smartphones, a tablet, and a tweener smartphone/tablet hybrid. The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 2 were already unveiled at earlier Samsung events. In addition, AT&T will sell the lower-end Samsung Galaxy Express, which AT&T said will target first-time smartphone users, and the rugged Samsung Galaxy …

Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has no shortage of confidence, boasting to investors that he believes BlackBerry 10 will take market share away from his rivals. The new platform will also attract consumers new to smartphones to, Heins said during the company’s quarterly conference call. RIM’s BlackBerry 10 smartphones will target mid-tier consumers and higher when they first launch, …

BlackBerry fans hoping to get a peek at the next-generation phones will have to wait until early next year. Research In Motion won’t be showing off its two BlackBerry 10 phones this year, Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben told CNET in an interview. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use for 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to …

Huawei has ambitions to build its own mobile operating system as a fail-safe in case Google’s Android or Microsoft’s Windows Phone platforms someday are no longer available to the Chinese telecommunications giant. Huawei told Reuters that it is devoting resources to its own platform, which would lessen its dependence on other companies and provide it with an alternate plan if …

Research In Motion and its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system will get another chance to prove their worth at the company’s annual developer conference, kicking off Tuesday in San Jose, Calif. In a move that will surely disappoint analysts, shareholders, and the RIM faithful, we don’t expect the company to show off any new devices at BlackBerry Jam Americas (known …

Generally, I’m not a fan of apps shooting push notifications out to my phone. No, “Words with Friends,” I don’t care that I’m about to forfeit my game. There’s a reason I stopped playing it. I don’t need an alert any time I get a new friend on Facebook. But apparently, notifications do make a difference when it comes to …