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Samsung Rides Android Past Nokia to Take Sales Lead

A two percent decline in mobile phone shipments during the first quarter of 2012 may have hurt some handset vendors, but it did little to slow Samsung.


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Sprint’s Hesse: We’ll Make Money on the iPhone … Eventually

“Carrying the iPhone will be quite profitable,” says Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, for the umpteenth time.
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RIM’s Freefall: Stock Drops to Eight-Year Low

Hard to believe that just five years ago, RIM had a stock market value of $80 billion.
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After it was cold-shouldered by the Supreme Court, we’ve likely heard the last from Psystar.
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MacBook Pro Makeover in the Wings

The MacBook Pro, Apple’s flagship laptop, is about to get a transformative overhaul. Sources familiar with Apple’s plans say the company intends to debut, at its upcoming Worldwide Developers conference, the first major upgrade to the line since the aluminum unibody in 2008. The new MacBook Pros will feature a significantly thinner chassis, new high-resolution “Retina-esque” displays, faster processors chosen from Intel’s third-generation Core series chips, code-named Ivy Bridge, and Nvidia GPUs. Most of these details were first reported on Monday by 9to5mac.

Apple Says Samsung’s Email Purges Destroyed Potential Patent Evidence

“Spoilation of evidence.”
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Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off”

iOS is about to get a new Apple-built mapping solution.
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MetroPCS and T-Mobile: Oh My, What an Ugly Baby

Combing two wireless weaklings just leaves you with a bigger weakling.
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Foxconn Chief Says Apple Will Share Cost of Improving Factory Conditions

Another step forward in Apple’s effort to improve working conditions at factories in which devices like the iPhone and iPad are built.
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Google Results Protected by First Amendment, Says Google-Commissioned Report

BlackBerry 7 Approved for Pentagon Use

U.S. Sales Are Bright Spot for Nokia’s Lumia

What’s Behind the Drop in Kindle Fire Shipments?

iPhone 4S: Forward Into Ubiquity!

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Facebook bought the thing that is hardest to fake. It bought sincerity.

— Paul Ford, writing about FaceTagram in New York Magazine