Google reportedly working on wireless home entertainment system to be sold under its own brand

Details are still light enough at the moment, but The Wall Street Journal reported today that Google could be about to make a big push in the hardware business. Citing people informed about company plans, the Wall Street Journal says that Google is building a home entertainment system to stream music wirelessly throughout the house [...]

HTC admits its bulky, quick-dying LTE phones kinda suck

After a long winning streak shot up, rising to the HTC stars seems stalled. Q4 is not some kind of business and chief financial officer Winston Yung think he knows why. While we now call HTC Yung admitted that “dropped the ball” in the selection of LTE devices. He acknowledged that the only major phone [...]

Redbox snatches up NCR’s entertainment division, swallows Blockbuster Express business

If you think that Coinstar is making the announcement shook the industry today, you’re wrong. After taking the wraps off its joint venture of Verizon, the company has now announced to take the entertainment division of NCR for $ 100 million. Includes a DVD kiosks, contracts for retail and inventory records for the original engine. [...]

NEC will cut 10,000 jobs after forecasting $1.3 billion annual loss, mostly in mobile phone biz

Following the publication of revised financial forecast for fiscal year 2011 provides an annual loss of $ 1.3 billion, the third in four years, NEC said it will cut about 10,000 jobs. Bloomberg reports Businessweek President Nobuhiro Endo announced cuts, showing most of the cuts coming from the company’s mobile handset business, with 7,000 of [...]

Motorola announces Q4 2011 earnings: $3.4 billion revenue, $80 million net loss

Motorola provides an estimate of reduced revenue expectations for Q4 2011 earlier this month, and now the final figure, reporting net income of $ 3.4 million and GAAP net loss of $ 80 million. Turn in the opposite direction from the $ 80 million in net income during the same quarter last year, although the [...]

Samsung 2011 Q4 earnings official: $42 billion in sales, $4.7 billion operating profit

You can not make as much money as competition in Cupertino, but that does not mean that Samsung will not rake in cash at an incredible rate. It made a profit estimate a few weeks ago, but now it is official that the company posted a ₩ 5300000000000 ($ 4.7 billion) operating profit in Q4 [...]

Dell Latitude E6420 adds Verizon LTE option, high price to match high speeds

Which Sandy Bridge-equipped, “business rugged” Latitude E6420 in which Dell debuted earlier this coming year just got additional appealing to data fiends always busy. That particular model is now able to be loaded with some sort of Verizon LTE card that will, as Big Red would like to brag, is around ten times faster it [...]

Canon restores camera production in Japan, hints at mirrorless model in 2012

There is no question that Canon in addition to Nikon still dominate the actual interchangeable lens camera (ILC) industry, but with Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, it’s true Pentax all launching sleek and stylish, inexpensive, mirrorless models lately, the legacy manufacturers have some catching around do. In an job interview confirming the restoration regarding pre-quake production levels [...]

Netflix for Android gets first HD streaming certification, Texas Instruments accepts your applause

Arizona Instruments just called Initial!…on Netflix, that will be. The Watch Instantly instance for Android has the HD streaming future approaching soon to OMAP 4-equipped devices as a consequence of the SoC’s inbuilt stability measures. The announcement marks once any Netflix partner features received ‘Netflix Silicon Reference point Implementation certification, ‘ any clumsily-titled, yet essential [...]

Switched On: webOS wherever

This week’s release from the HP TouchPad, the first device rather than a handset to attribute webOS, aptly demonstrates the offer and perils of HP’s adopted main system. The 4: 3 tablet provides that large canvas that webOS seemed born to pay. However, like the Xoom along with PlayBook before it, the TouchPad is suffering [...]