Many would say Google Buzz was an experiment that lasted just a bit too long, and Google today announced it will finally pull the plug on one of its first forays into social networking. For all of its initial buzz (too easy), Buzz never caught on with the masses. Along the way it created a [...]

Things really don’t get much more exciting for Android than they will next week. With the holiday season around the corner, manufacturers are poised to come out firing with their best offerings of the year. Things kick off in a big way next week with the announcement of the Motorola Droid RAZR and the much [...]

On the same day an Australian court enforced a preliminary ban of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1,  Samsung and Apple met before US District Judge Lucy Koh to battle over a similar lawsuit. While a large part of the case is focused on accusations of Samsung blatantly copying Apple’s product designs, Judge Koh has expressed concern [...]

The SCH-I515 — aka the Samsung Galaxy Nexus — has appeared among the listings in Best Buy’s Cellebrite system. As you can see in the above image, the phone is listed under the Nexus Prime name, continuing to add confusion as to what the final product will be called. Good thing we only have less [...]

While Google Voice users can send and receive calls, access visual voicemail with transcriptions, and fire off text messages, MMS messages have remain out of the realm of possibilities. That may be changing, as Google appears to be working in support for picture messaging. Users are reporting to have been notified of incoming MMS messages [...]

It has been reported that Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the “C” programming language and one of the men largely responsible for Unix, has passed away. While Dennis Ritchie probably doesn’t have the name power of Steve Jobs, his contributions to the computing world are just as important. For starters, C, and its object-oriented offspring [...]

Motorola has just announced the Motorola XOOM Family Edition. This isn’t really much more than the original XOOM, internally – it still has a 10.1 inch display, a dual-core processor, 16GB of internal storage, a 5 megapixel 720p HD camera and more. The “family” part alludes to kid-friendly apps and games as well as security [...]

BGR claims to have “confirmed” specs of the Motorola Droid RAZR, which has also been known as the Motorola DROID HD and the Motorola Spyder. We’ve got a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 4.3 inch qHD display, 1GB of RAM and 4G LTE. It’s not that we didn’t expect these specs from the get-go – these [...]

Earlier in the week we were treated to shots made with the Nexus Prime, though Google promptly had those pulled. Now, another shot has surfaced on Picasa. Someone was seen posing with the brand new Ice Cream Sandwich statue and his photo was taken with the very phone we expect to see revealed October 19th [...]

Motorola’s just issued the news that they will be holding a shareholders’ meeting to discuss and vote on the acquisition of them by Google, proposed back in the middle of August. October 11th was the cutoff date for stockholders who’ll get notice of the meeting and privileges in to vote on the matter. And it [...]

Samsung’s own attempt at BBM – ChatOn – is now available for free in the Android market. It’s giving you the whole shebang: videos, photos, group messaging and a lot more. Nothing revolutionary at this point, though it all does look very. ChatOn is currently available for Android devices and bada 2.0 phones, while your [...]

Senators Amy Kobuchar and Al Franken from Minnesota and Senator Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut have proposed a bill to congress that would affect how carriers advertise their 4G service at least starting at the point of sale and extending to public material regarding their claims. The bill would force carriers to be clear about what minimum and [...]

Sony Ericsson have posted their financial results for Q3 2011 and, at first glance, things don’t look entirely too pretty. Sony Ericsson generated €1.59 billion in revenue over the quarter. This is a drop from €1.6 billion in the same quarter last year, but not a big enough drop to raise serious concerns. In fact, this is [...]

Despite the growth of Android and iOS, corporate types continue to clutch their BlackBerry’s on Wall Street and elsewhere, largely pointing to security as the main reason they won’t give up on RIM. But how long until that becomes a distant memory? Maybe not long if the National Security Agency, US Army, and other American [...]

I don’t know where or how rumors began swirling in regards to the possibility of the Samsung Nexus Prime (Samsung Galaxy Nexus) not arriving on Verizon’s network but it’s safe to say this new leak squashes those rumors. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has popped up in Verizon’s device management which simultaneously confirms not only that [...]

The HTC Rezound name has been softly tossed around for the last couple months, but with all this talk about the Samsung Nexus Prime and the Motorola Droid RAZR, not too many people are paying attention. But they should: the device specs are pretty sweet and the latest leak points to the Rezound name sticking. [...]

Google launched their “Google Music” cloud service over 5 months ago and although its been been great for consumers — label executives weren’t exactly too fond of the idea. Google Music, in it’s current form, is definitely great for your current music library but if there’s one area where it’s sorely lacking it’s being able [...]

The guys inside building 44 chose today to make a Twitter account, finally. After only having a presence on their official blog and on YouTube, they’re finally in on the 140 character party. What can we expect from the account? Cant say for sure, but you know we’ll be following it. You should, too – [...]

The still photo that Google posted earlier wasn’t enough? How about an unboxing of the Ice Cream Sandwich statue right off of the back of the truck? Can you smell that in the air? It’s that “new Android OS” smell. We’re right around the corner.

On Google’s Q3 earnings call, Larry Page said a few words about Ice Cream Sandwich ahead of their October 19th/18th unveiling. He mentioned that he was super excited for the release, that it was incredible and that we won’t believe what they’ve managed to do in this release. We’ve seen a bit of what he’s [...]