In the wake of poor first quarter numbers and the recent news of a class action suit against Nokia for falsely raising investor expectations for its Windows Phone line, Amazon is dropping the Nokia Lumia 900 flagship smartphone’s price from $99 to $49. The phone is still $99 with a two-year contact with Kick…

Whether or not Apple is actually developing a smaller version of its iPad tablet, popularly dubbed the “iPad Mini,” consumers clearly want one. A survey from Pricegrabber found that more than half (52 percent) of respondents would consider purchasing an iPad Mini for approximately $250 to $300. Sixty-four percent of Twenty percent said…

I’ve not been through Samsung’s presentation of the Galaxy S III at Earls Court with a forensic filter, but one thing that struck me was the abrogation of Google from their presentation. By concentrating hard I picked up mentions of Android, but on the software front the dominance belonged to…

Windows 8The first wave of laptops with Intel’s latest third-generation Core processors started shipping this week with Windows 7, but PC makers are quiet about what it would take to upgrade the PCs to run Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8. The Windows 8 OS is due to come out later this year, though Dell…

CHINA Mobile said yesterday that it is investigating a popular free mobile phone application that allows users to access the company’s paid WiFi at public venues for free. The app, developed by a Shanghai-based computer firm, boasts on its official website that users can utilize the free software on their…

LONDON/HELSINKI (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics unveiled a new top-of-the-range Galaxy smartphone in London on Thursday, updating the most direct rival to Apple’s iPhone with a larger touch screen and more powerful processor. The South Korean technology group, which overtook Finnish company Nokia as the world’s biggest cellphone maker earlier…

The Terra campaign is the result of its work with DDB Mexico, an ad agency. Image: YouTube The hippie blogosphere has been exploding with news about Terre, the Mexican Internet portal that doles out free WiFi based on the weight of the dog turds you deposit into its receptacles. If…

Demi Moore has scored one for the single women: She’s landed one that’s fun, playful and available. In this case, it’s her new Twitter name. “So hard finding a name that was fun somewhat playful and available. So for now it will be @justdemi,” she wrote Thursday night in announcing…

Oracle v. Google: Tour The Evidence(click image for larger view and for slideshow) After deliberating for more than three days, the jury tasked with determining whether Google’s Android operating system infringes Oracle’s intellectual property rights in Java remained undecided about the copyright claim as noon, Pacific Time, approached on Friday….

NICK’S FURY: Samuel L. Jackson Nick Fury in “Marvel’s the Avengers” has taken aim in a Twitter flame war with New York Times critic A.O. Scott, who called the film disspiriting and demanding of our obedience. (Zade Rosenthal – AP) . TODAY, AFTER a months-long ad blitzkrieg, “The Avengers” has…