Google is continuing to lay off staff at Motorola, which it bought last year. According to an email to employees — seen by the Wall Street Journal — a further 1,200 of them will get the chop. That’s about 10 per cent of Motorola’s workforce. The cuts are in addition to 4,000 layoffs that started …
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The HTC One is due to launch on these shores next week, but it could be in short supply, due to a lack of parts. Which would be a bit of a bummer for HTC, considering the handset is the company’s next flagship, and its main hope of reviving its fortunes. There’s also a certain other handset launching the day …
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Freshly leaked details for an upcoming HTC Myst seem to confirm rumors of a new “Facebook phone.” Related stories Facebook’s $90 Million Data-Tracking Settlement: There Are Only Days Left to File a Claim Before the Deadline Tech Companies Ramp Up Efforts to Combat Online Extremism Championing Impactful, Awarding-Winning Journalism in a Changing World Specifications obtained by Unwired View line up …
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BlackBerry will put its flagship BlackBerry Z10 smartphone on sale on March 22 through AT&T, according to Bloomberg. That will be the first day that the Z10 hits the U.S. market, Bloomberg reported, citing two unnamed sources. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use for 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean It Without Causing Damage Spending …
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The needle is skipping for Apple’s planned music streaming service, as the iPhone and iPad giant struggles to reach a deal with record labels. The purported streaming rival to Spotify and popular US service Pandora, inevitably nicknamed iRadio, was thought to have been planned for early this year. But the New York Post reports that negotiations with record labels over licensing …
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Apple Maps is getting better, even beating Google Maps in an informal race between Silicon Valley reporters — but any improvements are yet to reach the rest of the world. Like a kind of geektastic Cannonball Run, tech expert John C. Dvorak raced Leo LaPorte, Lisa Kentzell, and Glenn Rubenstein from The Week in Tech to Apple’s California headquarters, each …
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It’s an awesome time to own an iDevice. You can get unlimited movie and TV streaming from Netflix, unlimited music from the likes of Rdio and Spotify, and even unlimited magazines from Next Issue (for iPads, anyway). Great news for comic-book fans: Now you can get unlimited comics as well. Marvel Unlimited, previously a Web-only service, just debuted for iOS. …
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The iPhone and iPad continue to outshine Android devices among businesses both large and small, says a report from cloud storage company Egnyte. Among the 100,000 Egnyte customers tracked for the new report, iOS has carved out an increasingly higher share while Android’s slice has dipped of late. Egnyte sells online storage, file sharing, and other cloud-based services to businesses …
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The next time you’re looking for your misplaced Android smartphone, check the freezer. It’s possible, however unlikely, that someone is trying to hack into your data using a new FROST attack method. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany have learned that it is possible to access personal information on Android 4.0 smartphones using a chilling technique. Called FROST, or forensic …
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Start stretching out those palms, people — fresh rumours suggest Samsung is cooking up its biggest smart phone yet, to debut in the second half of 2013. The mobile, which if real would surely be the third Galaxy Note smart phone, is reckoned to sport a 5.9-inch OLED display, the Korea Times reports, citing a company official speaking “on condition …
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