Samsung’s curved smartphone has generated a lot of buzz but not a lot of reasons to buy it — other than the novelty effect. The South Korean electronics giant late Tuesday unveiled the Galaxy Round, a smartphone similar to the Galaxy Note 3 but with a lengthwise dip in the middle. That dip forms a …

Samsung’s recent acquisition shopping list zeroes in on several software names, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. According to the paper, some of those possible targets have included Unity Technologies, a San Francisco-based gaming platform developer; Green Throttle Games, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that makes game controllers and software that connects mobile devices to televisions; Israeli …

The latest news about Samsung’s expected smartphone with a flexible display just leaked via @evleaks on Twitter. The account, which has leaked images of devices in the past, posted an image that’s believed to be the Samsung Galaxy Round. The device resembles the Galaxy S4, but it has slight dip in the middle that causes the phone to curve along …

It soon may be tough to find one of Microsoft’s Surface tablets, the company said. The Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 “are close to selling out,” Microsoft’s developers account tweeted earlier Friday. At this time, it’s unclear how many tablets Microsoft made and what “close to selling out” actually means. A Microsoft spokesman declined to provide information about how …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung HomeSync is an Android media hub 1:26 Samsung HomeSync media center, which lets people store, sync, and stream content from their mobile devices to their TVs while at home or on the go, will start selling in the US for $299 on Sunday. The device runs Android and works only with Samsung mobile devices equipped …

NEW YORK — Microsoft’s Windows RT operating system just lost another proponent. Neil Hand, head of tablets at Dell, on Wednesday said his company won’t be releasing a new Windows RT device to follow up its XPS 10 device from a year ago. “We are not planning to refesh our current line of RT products,” Hand said at a Dell …

Dell is putting the focus back on hardware. For the bulk of 2013, any headlines you’ve read about Dell have more than likely reported on the company’s rocky transition from public to private via a $25 billion buyout from Silver Lake Partners. But with today’s announcement of a long list of new Windows 8.1 laptops, tablets, convertible devices — and …

JK Shin, the co-CEO of Samsung, just had to have the Galaxy Gear in lime green. Samsung executives had spent the last few weeks before the public unveiling of Gear finalizing various colors for the smartwatch band. At first, Samsung planned only to make Gear in black and white, to ease the production process. But some key execs were convinced that …

Just when it seemed like things couldn’t get more grim for BlackBerry, rival Samsung has made another grab for the company’s core group of business users. The Korean electronics giant on Wednesday unveiled its latest push in the mobile enterprise market — the “Samsung Solutions Exchange,” a sort of app store for business programs. The company isn’t simply rounding up …

Microsoft’s Surface tablets have an image problem. The company on Monday unveiled its newest tablets that feature jacked-up components and nifty new dual-position kickstands. The Surface 2, which runs Windows RT, now will come with Outlook, while the Surface Pro 2, which runs Windows 8.1, will continue to operate like a full PC. Microsoftfixed nearly every hardware issuethat buyers criticized …