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iPhone sales continue to sharply decline, according to Apple’s earnings statement for its fiscal second quarter, though its stock and services business are up today. Apple reported its second quarter financial results, posting quarterly revenue of $58 billion down 5 percent from the same quarter a year ago earnings per share of $2.46. The company […]
Facebook’s F8 developer conference kicked off today. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is that “the future is private.” After a year plagued by controversy over whether Facebook is invading its users’ privacy and encouraging social division, it’s pushing hard on helping people connect with close family and friends. Facebook announced updates to Instagram, Facebook Messenger, […]
Samsung has unveiled “The Sero,” a 43-inch quantum-dot QLED TV with an attention-grabbing gimmick. It can be flipped around 90 degrees, letting you watch Instagram, Snap and other smartphone videos in their native vertical configurations. Samsung said it wanted to diversify its lineup and came up with the idea by studying the tastes of mobile-loving […]
The Energizer name figured prominently at Mobile World Congress this year, courtesy of a prototype Android smartphone that was about an inch thick, consisting mostly of a giant battery. The prototype Power Max P18K Pop gained a huge amount of attention. The successor to the Power Max P16K Pro, it upped the battery from an […]
Samsung is confident of a turnaround in the second half of 2019 after, as expected, it posted a 60 per cent drop in operating profit for the first quarter. Samsung Electronics warned investors it was going to make a lot less money this quarter, and sure enough, the company just reported first-quarter earnings that show […]
Last April, T-Mobile and Sprint announced their plans to merge, yet one year later neither the US Federal Communications Commission nor the Justice Department have approved the deal. T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp on Monday extended the deadline for completing their proposed $26 billion deal to July 29 as the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust […]
Back in November last year, months after US government agencies and contractors had been banned from using certain tech from Huawei and other Chinese companies, the US reportedly advised allied countries not to use Huawei’s 5G equipment. Any that disagreed could see their intelligence sharing with the US limited. A US official has said the […]
More than 100 million users worldwide now pay for Spotify Premium, the company has announced. Spotify reached the milestone by growing paid subscribers by 32-percent year-on-year. Including free subscribers, Spotify now has a total of 217 million monthly active users worldwide. That includes two million Indian users who joined after the company launched its service […]
Samsung stumbled out of the gate in a major way with its first foldable smartphone. The Galaxy Fold was supposed to arrive on April 26 but days before the big launch, Samsung announced the device had been delayed indefinitely in response to an alarming number of defective review units. This has left the door wide […]
Apple has been accused of moving against apps that are designed to limit iPhone usage after introducing its own Screen Time tool, which app makers say is less strict than their own products. On Thursday, two of the most popular parental-control apps, Kidslox and Qustodio, filed a complaint with the European Union’s competition office claiming […]
Comcast has long said that a minority of its customers approach the limits of their 1TB data caps in their home internet plans, but that number is growing. In the last couple of years, Comcast has rolled out data caps to customers first limiting users to 300GB per month back in 2015, and raising that […]
Rumor has it that owner DJI is killing it off for good. It’s a little more than a rumor, because DJI’s own Director of Public Safety Integration Romeo Durscher said as much on a podcast last month: “Yes, the Phantom line with the exception of the Phantom 4 Pro RTK has come to an end,” […]
After several positive early impression, things started to go wrong for Samsung when tech journos’ review units began breaking. The company said it was canceling the release meant to take place today and recalling all the review models. The whole situation keeps refusing to normalize, and instead gets weirder nearly every day. The latest is […]
Sony recently revealed that its next-generation PlayStation, we’ll call it the PS5, won’t be ready for 2019. One thing Cerny didn’t mention was the console’s potential launch date, but during the Japanese company’s quarterly financial results, Sony said the PS5 wouldn’t be released within the next 12 months. That leaves a potential PlayStation 5 launch […]
Nintendo has denied reports that it is planning to release a new Switch console at the annual exhibition of the computer games industry, Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), which is scheduled for June 11. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa told reporters in Osaka that as a general rule of thumb, they’re always working on new hardware and […]