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Along with the arrival of the highly anticipated Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Nexus 5 smartphone Thursday came news of the equally anticipated Android 4.4 KitKat operating system. While KitKat (the OS, not the candy bar after which it was named) is loaded onto the Nexus 5, it is not yet available for...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and manufacturing partner Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX) are shipping 100,000 Moto X units every week. Moto X, the flagship device from Google subsidiary Motorola, is the most customizable smartphone on the market. Customers can choose from a wide variety of color combinations...

The decline of the PC business could be problematic for firms like Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), which have relied on the industry for billions in annual revenue. Famous for creating and marketing the Pentium, Celeron, Core 2, Core i3, i5 and i7 series of processors, Intel has been a PC staple for many...

BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) might be up for sale. The company is reportedly looking for a large, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)-type company to take the helm through a massive buyout. If all goes as planned, the deal would be similar to the one Motorola scored when Google acquired its electronics...

Over the last two years, Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) has popularized the large smartphone concept with the Galaxy Note series. Now the South Korean tech giant is attempting to popularize another (somewhat familiar) idea: the flip phone. Instead of building a razor-thin device like Motorola's (NASDAQ: GOOG...

They say that money can't buy happiness. That may be true, but Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) hopes that it can buy the smartphone market that is currently dominated by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung (OTC: SSNLF). While Google has profited nicely from the growth of Android, the company makes most of its...

Love them or hate them, tablet computers are here to stay. With over 100 million units sold in under three years, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad has become a cultural icon and its domestic competition has established itself as well: Words like "Kindle Fire" and "Nook" have entered the American...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) received a tremendous amount of press after announcing that it intends to build a Mac product line in the United States. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant will spend $100 million to bring Mac-making to Texas. Some components will come from Illinois and Florida, and...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has had its fair share of negative headlines since the stock has taken an epic drop but the latest comScore numbers paint a more positive picture. On Thursday, comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) released new usage data for December 2012 through February of 2013. According to the...

Historically, iPhone satisfaction has been among the highest in the smartphone industry. Consumers cannot get enough of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) leading product, regardless of the features. Last summer, demand for the iPhone 5 (which had not been unveiled at the time) was at an all time high. The...

Brian Wallace, the VP of Strategic Marketing at Samsung's smartphone unit in America, is leaving the South Korean manufacturer for a gig with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). The executive, who received credit for the company's popular anti-iPhone campaign, will join Google's Motorola unit. According to...

Roughly 16 years after the format was introduced, smartphones are now being used by more than one billion individuals worldwide. First popularized by Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), which created the BlackBerry line of devices, smartphones attracted worldwide attention after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is only days away from releasing Windows Phone 8, the mobile counterpart to its long-awaited PC and tablet operating system. Advertisements are beginning to leak online, but the general public has yet to be exposed to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Despite this, it seems as...

Trading up Thursday morning on news that it is heading into the smartphone business, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) joins the likes of Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) who have also been rumored to be launching cellular devices over the next few years. Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul...

After a lengthy effort to bring its chipsets to mobile devices, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has inked a deal with Motorola to supply its technology to the RAZR i. Scheduled to be released next month in select European and Latin American markets including the U.K., France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and...