25 Worst Gadget Flops of All Time
Why I don?t want iOS, Android or any other OS to ?win? One of the most annoying traits of many technology fans is their conviction that their favorite technology platform should by all rights crush rival operating systems and become the dominant OS in the smartphone or tablet market. In their narrow-minded little worlds, all rival technologies should go the way of webOS so that everyone can bask in mig...... Android 4.3 leaks, shows only minor changes to Jelly Bean Google was rumored to debut a new version of Android earlier this month at its I/O Developers Conference. The event has come and gone, however, without a single mention of the operating system. Recent reports suggest that an update will be available in the coming months with support for a more power efficient Bluetooth standard, but little is known...... Nokia looks to ban HTC One sales with new patent suit Nokia on Thursday filed a second patent infringement complaint against HTC with the International Trade Commission. The company has alleged that HTC?s products, including its flagship HTC One smartphone, infringe upon its protected technologies. In a statement to ZDNet, Nokia accused HTC of not taking action to prevent infringement and said the com...... HTC One with stock Android will reportedly be announced within two weeks Recent rumors suggested that HTC will follow Samsung and release a ?Google Edition? of its flagship smartphone. According to a report from Russel Holly of Geek.com, the same person who scooped the Galaxy S4 Google Edition, an HTC One running stock Android will be announced ?within the next two weeks? for a summer launch. The news is perhaps the mos...... Amazon brings the Kindle Fire HD to more than 170 countries, expands Appstore to nearly 200 count... Amazon on Thursday announced expanded availability of its Kindle Fire HD tablet lineup. Both the 7-inch and 8.9-inch models are now available for preorder in more than 170 countries worldwide. The Kindle Fire HD is equipped with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution display and a 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP4460 processor, while the 8.9-inch model features a 1920 x...... ITC says Microsoft did not violate Google patent
BlackBerry, Nokia, Apple could be hurt by flood of ?good enough? Android phones While strong early sales for the Galaxy S4 and the HTC One have been making news lately, the real story for Android may be how well it does with lower-cost handsets in emerging markets. Barron?s points us to a new note from Nomura Equity Research analyst Stuart Jeffrey, who thinks that many consumers in emerging markets will start upgrading to smar...... HTC One is no flop: Shipments of HTC?s potential savior approach 5 million Many industry watchers believed the delayed launch of HTC?s flagship HTC One smartphone would be its undoing. The notion wasn?t exactly a stretch with Samsung?s Galaxy S4 looming on the horizon, but comments made to The Wall Street Journal by an unnamed HTC executive suggest shipments of HTC?s new flagship phone have been impressive thus far. Accor...... You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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There are gadgets that change everything (the iPhone, the first Intel Centrino laptops, Bose's noise-canceling headphones), and then there are devices that are so spectacularly bad that they should be immortalized in their own way. The last few decades have seen all kinds of flops, from a not-so-world-changing scooter to Nokia's attempt t......
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility. If the ITC had found that Microsoft infringed, it could have barred the Xbox from being importe......
