The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.
Cross your fingers, cross your legs. Cross your arms and bow your head. The seemingly never-ending rumor mill spinning around the idea of a Facebook phone may finally come to a stop at a just-announced event next week.
Two days ahead of the Galaxy SIV big reveal, Samsung has posted this first official image of the new phone to Twitter, confirming two facts: It says Samsung and it has a screen.
Now that Samsung has its own hype cycle, it seems only fair to keep track of what the tech rumormongers are saying about the upcoming Galaxy S IV.
Calling all lazy nerds getting snowed in by "Nemo." Helping researchers collect snowstorm data has become so insanely easy, anyone with a smartphone and 30 seconds can be a citizen scientist during the blizzard.
Everyone and their pockets hates the size. Everyone including the American Dialect Society hates the name. But so-called "phablets" are on the rise, because, well, everyone still wants a big-screen cellphone.
Without court orders of any sort, the NYPD has access to "a trove of telephone logs" — and in a somewhat frightening twist, it takes more paperwork to get a thief's cell records than it takes to get the victim's. Here's how it works.
Sometimes you just don't have time for a sit-down dinner at a restaurant and you have to resort to cancelling on the person you were going to meet with a text message. This very practice, as the New York Times explains, is destroying our ability to politely cancel plans.
Your smartphone can do a lot of amazing things. It can call people. It can connect to the Internet. It can enable you to play fun games. It can also attract an ungodly amount of life-threatening germs.
After the iPhone and Android become the pocket computers of the masses, BlackBerries aren't cool any more, and The New York Times is on it.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Smartphones are magical little computer boxes, capable of things both high tech and useful and yet the number one most popular thing people do with their amazing smartphones' technology is... Check the weather.
Of course you know autocorrect. You've probably found yourself a target of its accidentally rude, crude expressions at least once, possibly with unfortunate ends, sometimes with amusing ones.
Following Verizon's lead, AT&T has announced the data-centric plans it had threatened and they don't sound like money savers compared to the old solo subscriptions.
These days our "phones" aren't really phones in the dictionary sense ("an instrument for reproducing sounds at a distance") any more. And soon enough, if the CEO of AT&T is correct, they won't even involve namesake capability anymore.
If we've learned one thing from our Media Diets, it's that the first thing many people reach for in the morning is their smartphone. In fact, many of them sleep with them in their beds at night. In fact, many of them sleep with them in their beds at night.
Today in studies that claim the Internet is ruining our lives, the BBC informs us that auto-correct and spellcheckers have turned us into a bunch of illiterate idiots.
As Android widens its lead in the smartphone and tablet marketplace, Apple is starting to look a little frightened.
Today Research in Motion, makers of the Blackberry, held one of those standard tech press conferences that are supposed to get the bloggers all jazzed about their latest offering, inspiring them to write what basically turns into free PR. But no one got excited this time.
It stinks to have your phone stolen and the government knows it. Now, a number of police departments and the Federal Communications Commission are teaming up to create a new federal database of cellphone information for theft prevention.
Reviewers are impressed by Microsoft's latest phone, the Nokia Lumia 900, but many still doubt that what some have called "a gorgeous device" and "a phone that every single person should consider owning" can overtake the iPhone or Android.
Smartphones generally get all the tech press attention, but this week dumbphones and their loyal owners have popped up in two trend stories.
When naming one's child there are two ways to go: The risky character-building route, or the safe, but possibly lame, classic name path. The same goes for phones.
When it comes to screens, the American way seems to be the more the better. One at a time doesn't cut it -- there's something about the glow of different sorts of screens that gets us going. But what is it?
BuzzFeed's newest vertical, a tech news section called FWD, looks great with its nice grey logo and BuzzFeed-y layout. But we're not sure the coverage so far goes beyond gimmick.
The data dependent army of tweeters are fuming over AT&T's announcing that it will cap its unlimited data plans.
The Pentagon's top researchers are getting nervous about the smartphones and tablets civilians are carrying around in their pockets, backpacks and cars, calling the devices dangerous for national security.
Looking at the future of the iPhone, two articles, one from the Wall Street Journal's Anton Troianovski the other from The New York Times' Kevin J. O'Brien, out of the Barcelona's Mobile World Congress reach some differing conclusions
On the gut level, reactions to Google's recently leaked top secret augmented reality eyeglasses can be split into two broad camps: the WTF!?! crew (concerned with privacy) and the WHOA!!! crew (excited about the future).
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that didn't make sense.
It's unclear exactly how or why one of America's largest oil energy companies ever decided to require its employees to use Canadian smartphones, but starting this year, Halliburton is going to switch from BlackBerry to iPhone.
Now that iMessage has been out for a couple of months, stats are revealing just how much the new service reduces the amount that people send traditional text messages.
As news emerged that the Obamas will honor Steve Jobs by inviting his wife Laurene Powell Jobs to sit with the First Lady during the State of the Union address, The Guardian's Charles Authur rolled out a simple timeline tracking the history of the smartphone.
Just like every precious finite resource in this world, data usage is relegated to the top one percent, with elite smartphone users consuming half of all the data.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation put out an open call for developers to help them figure out how the controversial, smartphone-spying Carrier IQ software actually works.
As Nokia moves to sell its luxury subsidiary, Vertu, it's time to shed a tear for the dying, gawking-worthy fad -- popular among rappers and Russian oil tycoons alike -- that we call the bling phone.
The two cell phone companies caught with their hands in the cookie jar for taking users' thought-to-be private data sent talking points to their service reps saying how exactly they should explain to customers that it's OK for them to secretly collect data.
As attacks on mobile devices skyrocket, the prospect of falling victim to a hacker seems like it's no longer a question of "if" but rather "when."
The tech blogs are abuzz with news that Samsung is now selling more smartphones than Apple, in a big win for the Korean company's press team.
Alongside the new Galaxy Nexus phone, Google unveiled its latest: Ice Cream Sandwich. No, it's not a delectable summer treat, it's a jazzed up name for Google's latest Android update.
Some people need to have two screens in front of them at all times
The company says you'll get your lost emails eventually and you didn't get hacked
There are now 1.05 wireless devices per person
The Army is going with an Android-powered device
Research In Motion announced a new line of their low-end models
Everything is going wrong for the Canadian mobile company lately
Two Amazon executives want to fix the shattered screen problem
For different regions of the country, all smartphones are not created equal
Mom and dad are learning to use their iPhones as babysitters
Most Android users say they'll switch to another phone
Wrapping up battlefield testing, the Army has some familiar issues with iPhones and Androids
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