Not surprisingly here at CNET we get a ton of press releases e-mailed to us announcing new products. Most are fairly bland, but Creative’s media pitch for its upcoming Sound BlasterAxx line of speakers is one of the more amped-up ones I’ve received lately, reading like an ad for a new energy drink. In fact, …

Toward the end of market trading yesterday, Research In Motion temporarily froze its shares to deliver the inevitable news: the BlackBerry maker is in deep financial trouble and is no longer generating profit. This means RIM is no longer a functioning business. It’s a dead weight around Canada’s neck. The terrifying thing is that RIM saw this coming and did …

Apple commander Tim Cook has dropped a few compelling hints about the company’s plans regarding TV, saying telly is an “area of intense interest for us”, and also tipping possible progress for Siri and Facebook integration. Speaking at the Wall Street Journal‘s All Things Digital conference, Cook said Apple has already sold 2.7 million Apple TV set-top boxes this year, …

Though plasma is still a firm favorite with reviewers and videophiles, it’s overwhelmingly LCD televisions that most people actually buy. And if you want to know what the best LCD TV released in 2012 will be, then we may already have an answer for you: the Sony HX850. Until the arrival of the excellent HX850, Sony looked to be in …

Simple.TV’s innovative take on the over-the-air DVR made a splash at CES 2012, winning CNET’s Best of CES award in the home theater category. Now the company has turned to Kickstarter, looking to raise $125,000 before the product launches this summer. While Simple.TV’s concept of streaming and recording over-the-air TV hasn’t changed (read my initial CES story for more information), …

Leaked snaps purporting to show the rump of the next iPhone have cropped up online, hinting Apple’s new blower will have a taller frame and a bigger screen. 9to5Mac was sent an image reckoned to show the iPhone 5’s back plating by gadget repair site iFixyouri, which the phone-fixing site claims is a new part in its catalogue. Later 9to5Mac acquired …

Sprint Nextel set a firm date on when it will kill off the Nextel part of its business. The carrier said today that it would completely shut off its Nextel network, which uses a technology called iDEN best known for its walkie-talkie capability, on June 30, 2013. The company will begin alerting customers on Sunday. The date marks the end …

Trygger I had the opportunity to check out the Trygger iPhone Camera Case for iPhone 4/4S firsthand a couple weeks ago in Portland, Ore. Its co-creator, Joel Kamerman, and I sat down to test the prototype and I was immediately blown away. As a fashion photographer in my spare time, the benefit of having the Trygger case secured to my …

Otterbox has a teaser video out for a new iPhone 4/4S case that it says is the toughest case the company’s ever made. Set to ship June 24, the Armor Series case is dust proof, drop proof, waterproof, and apparently crush proof. No word on how much it will cost, but I’d been hoping Otterbox would have something new that …

Have you pre-ordered the new Galaxy S3 in the silky-looking pebble blue colour? Bad news, chum — it looks like the UK is going to be extremely short on supplies of this particular model when the phone goes on sale this week. I spoke to a trusted telecoms industry insider who confirmed to me that the blue model is suffering …

Nokia and Microsoft have run into problems with the new Nokia Lumia 610. While trying to avoid the fragmentation issues faced by Android, Windows Phone has properly shot itself in the foot — with a catapult and an Angry Bird. The budget Lumia 610 is the first phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone software to arrive with just 256MB of …

T-Mobile is slated to shine this summer with one of the hottest Android smartphones of the year, according to new details from TmoNews. The blog has obtained an alleged release calendar for a number of upcoming handsets, including the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III. Should the information hold true, the first day of summer, June 20, will be hot for …

The blue version of the Galaxy S3 will be delayed by at least two weeks, Samsung has confirmed, following reports of manufacturing problems that resulted in Samsung throwing out over 600,000 blue cases. “Samsung’s Galaxy S3 Pebble Blue version comes with a newly invented blue colour and special hyperglaze material,” the company said in a hard to understand statement. “In …

Problem: You just snapped dozens of wedding/vacation/rave photos on your iPhone, and now you want to share them with friends and family members. But iOS limits you to five photos per e-mail. Now what? Fire up Kicksend. This free app lets you send big batches of photos, plus documents or video, to an individual or group. Update: Talk about timing …

Research in Motion may need to write off more than $1 billion in inventory, Bloomberg reports, in another sign that the company continues to lose ground to Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating system. That staggering inventory value is up from up from $618 million a year earlier, illustrating the difficulties that the company has had in selling its products. …