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Amazon shops Kindle Fire home screen to advertisers

# 2012-05-18 15:15:53, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Amazon is reportedly meeting with advertisers to pitch the idea of welcome screen ads on its popular Kindle Fire tablet. The retail giant is asking $600,000 for prime placement on the slate, according to a report from AdAge. Amazon currently offers its entire range of Kindle eReaders with advertisem...

Nokia sells New York headquarters

# 2012-05-18 13:30:07, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Nokia has sold its New York headquarters, located north of Manhattan in the industrial town of White Plains. Purchased six years ago for $30 million, the struggling Finnish vendor sold the building to biotechnology firm Histogenetics for $12 million. ”It’s a great deal for 12 million bucks,”...

Amazon’s 10-inch Kindle Fire tablet due in Q3, report claims

# 2012-05-18 11:45:19, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Amazon’s second Kindle Fire tablet, an updated model with a 10-inch display, will launch in the third quarter this year according to a recent report. Backing away from its earlier reports placing the 10-inch Kindle Fire’s launch date in the second quarter, Digitimes on Friday cited market rumors...

Microsoft offers free Xbox 360 to PC buyers

# 2012-05-18 10:10:28, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Microsoft is looking to bolster sales of Windows-powered computers this summer by offering students a free Xbox 360 video game console with a qualifying PC purchase. Beginning on May 18th in Canada and on May 20th in the United States, students who purchase a PC for at least $599 CAD in Canada or $...

Facebook hit with $15 billion privacy suit on IPO day

# 2012-05-18 08:45:04, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Facebook is officially a public company as of Friday morning shortly after 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, and what better way to celebrate the milestone than with a fresh privacy lawsuit? Led by Stewarts Law and Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Gorny, a class action lawsuit has been filed in San Jose, C...

Microsoft Kinect transformed into surgical assistant

# 2012-05-18 07:20:45, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Microsoft’s Kinect motion and voice-based controller accessory was launched with gaming in mind, but researchers have taken the technology in a number of different directions. German researchers transformed the Kinect into an interactive augmented reality X-ray machine, and Microsoft Research is n...

Being open could close the door on Android

# 2012-05-18 05:45:58, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
While I may recommend the iPhone to the majority of people who ask, Android is still my mobile operating system of choice. Google has created a truly amazing and innovative platform, and because it is open-source anyone can tweak it and customize it. Even devices that weren’t meant for Android, su...

Windows Phone overtakes iPhone in world’s largest smartphone market

# 2012-05-18 04:30:26, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Analysts repeatedly harp on how important China is for Apple’s iPhone. The Cupertino, California-based consumer electronics giant’s iPhone 4S launched in China earlier this year but despite reports of continuing negotiations, China Mobile — the world’s largest telecom carrier — still does ...

Apple’s next iPhone may feature one of Steve Jobs’s last designs

# 2012-05-18 03:15:32, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Apple’s sixth-generation iPhone may be one of the last products unveiled by the Cupertino, California-based technology giant that was designed by Steve Jobs. The company’s late co-founder and chief executive worked very closely on the retooled iPhone before his untimely passing last October, Blo...

Galaxy S III preorders approach 10 million

# 2012-05-18 02:00:47, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Samsung said earlier this year that is hoped to sell 10 million units of its smartphone-tablet hybrid, the Galaxy Note, in 2012. End-user sales reached 5 million units in March, putting Samsung well on its way to achieving the lofty goal. If 10 million is a magic number for Samsung, the company is u...

HTC to beat Apple patent predicament with custom Android builds

# 2012-05-17 17:35:06, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
HTC is in a tough spot as two of its new flagship smartphones — smartphones it desperately needs to make available in the United States as it attempts to mount a comeback — are currently held up in Customs due to a patent spat with Apple. The Taiwan-based vendor issued a statement earlier this...

Nearly half of Facebook users will never click ads

# 2012-05-17 15:50:54, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
The effectiveness of Facebook’s advertising was called into question earlier this week when General Motors confirmed that it would be pulling the $10 million the company spends annually on Facebook ads because they are not delivering results. Now, just one day before Facebook’s initial public of...

Mandatory ‘big brother’ black boxes leave drivers with privacy concerns

# 2012-05-17 14:05:15, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
The United States Senate has already passed a bill that would require data-recording “black boxes” to be equipped on every vehicle for the 2015 model year, and the House is also expected to approve the bill. The primary function of the black boxes, which are known as Electronic Data Recorders (E...

Windows Phone shows signs of life

# 2012-05-17 12:20:56, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Microsoft’s mobile platform has not been the blockbuster success the Redmond, Washington-based technology giant was hoping for thus far. Google’s Android OS and Apple’s iPhone are still dominating the smartphone space by a huge margin in the United States and abroad, while Microsoft’s share ...

Facebook prices IPO at $38, valuation set at $104 billion

# 2012-05-17 10:45:40, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Facebook on Thursday set the share price for its initial public offering at $38. Shares of Facebook will begin trading on the NASDAQ exchange after the opening bell on Friday, and the social networking giant could raise as much as $16 billion. The offering will be the largest ever Internet IPO, best...

HP may cut 25,000 jobs

# 2012-05-17 10:00:59, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Hewlett-Packard is reportedly mulling a massive workforce reduction that will see as many as 25,000 jobs cut from the company. Bloomberg cites unnamed sources in reporting on the potential layoffs, which would amount to 8% of HP’s global workforce. Between 10,000 and 15,000 of the cuts could come from HP’s enterprise services group, ...

AT&T, Verizon look to further squeeze subscribers as earnings soar

# 2012-05-17 08:35:07, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
AT&T noted record smartphone sales when it posted a monster holiday quarter to close out 2011, and the carrier came back in the first quarter this year with another record-setting report that beat Wall Street’s profit expectations. Verizon Wireless reported record revenue growth in the fourth qua...

‘iPad mini’ reportedly nears production

# 2012-05-17 07:00:17, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Apple’s display suppliers are reportedly preparing to undergo a certification examination as rumors surrounding a smaller version of Apple’s wildly popular iPad tablet continue to swirl. Taiwan-based news organization The Liberty Times on Thursday reported that display panel suppliers LG Display...

Apple, on Siri complaints: Buy a different phone

# 2012-05-17 04:10:03, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Some believe Siri is a driving force behind Apple’s record-breaking iPhone 4S sales, but not everyone is impressed with the Cupertino, California-based company’s virtual assistant. Apple’s TV ads depict Siri as an impressive, fast-acting feature that intelligently offers help or information in...

A match made in heaven: BlackBerry PlayBook and… Windows Phone? [video]

# 2012-05-17 03:05:37, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
What do you get when you cross a struggling vendor’s debut tablet with a mobile operating system that has spent the past 18 months running into the brick wall that is Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s iOS? One Dutch developer seemingly needed to find out, so he ported Microsoft’s...

Microsoft leading Apple and Google in TV race

# 2012-05-17 01:40:24, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
According to a new report from Forrester Research, Microsoft is leading both Apple and Google in the TV and home entertainment sector, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. While Apple and Google may control mobile, Microsoft’s Xbox entertainment system tops both Apple TV and Google TV accord...

LG announces Optimus UI for Ice Cream Sandwich devices

# 2012-05-16 17:25:09, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
LG on Wednesday announced a new user-interface skin for its Android-powered devices running Ice Cream Sandwich. The South Korean company’s Optimus UI 3.0 is said to be designed with convenience and speed in mind, and is being labeled as both unobtrusive and simple. “With smartphone hardware bec...

Google Music deauthorization limit poses a problem for rooters

# 2012-05-16 16:00:50, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Similar to Apple’s iTunes program, Google Music only allows a certain number of devices to be connected to the service at one time. Google allows users to upload up to 20,000 song for free, which can then be accessed by up to 10 “authorized” devices. Once the limit is reached, a user can “de...

Global mobile phone sales now in decline

# 2012-05-16 14:25:06, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Despite some vendors seeing record smartphone sales, worldwide sales of mobile phones declined 2% year-over-year to 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, according to research firm Gartner. The decline represents the first of its kind since the second quarter of 2009. “Global sales o...

Android and iOS drive mobile app explosion [infographic]

# 2012-05-16 13:00:07, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
One year ago, less than 40% of mobile subscribers in the United States had a smartphone. That number has increased dramatically, however; according to Nielsen, one in two mobile subscribers now owns a smartphone. Driven mostly by the rise of Android and iOS, which account for more than 80% of the U....

Sprint won’t turn a profit on the iPhone until 2015

# 2012-05-16 11:45:12, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Sprint’s costly $15.5 billion gamble on Apple’s iPhone won’t pay off until 2015, according to CEO Dan Hesse. At that time, however, the iPhone will be “quite profitable,” and the company is “very happy” with the deal despite conflicting reports, AllThingsD said. Hesse sees the iPhone ...

‘iPad mini’ coming this fall, report claims

# 2012-05-16 10:30:05, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Analysts for Barclays said in a note to investors that a new 7-inch iPad will be released this fall, Business Insider reported on Wednesday. “Following up on comments made last week, recent research still leads us to believe that Apple may be planning to add another form factor to its iPad line i...

How much are you worth to Facebook?

# 2012-05-16 09:15:49, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Facebook is just days away from one of the largest initial public offerings of all time. The social networking site is looking to raise more than $16 billion dollars at a valuation in the $100 billion price range. Facebook is worth a lot of money, and a company called Abine has created a program t...

Verizon to kill grandfathered unlimited data plans with 4G upgrades

# 2012-05-16 08:00:41, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Verizon Wireless plans to eliminate its $30 per month unlimited data plan that it provides to customers who subscribed to the plan prior to the company’s transition to tiered data plans last July, Fierce Wireless reported on Wednesday. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said at the 40th J.P. Morgan Technolog...

HTC EVO 4G LTE review

# 2012-05-16 06:45:45, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Successfully launching an iconic smartphone is a daunting task, and following up a blockbuster flagship phone launch is even more difficult. Apple and Samsung might make it look easy, but companies like Motorola, Nokia and RIM have shown us that the success of one phone is anything but a guarantee that sequels will be met with the same fa...