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Best Buy's silver lining: Its mobile business

The big-box retailer's saving grace has been its still humming mobile-devices business. But is it enough to save the company?    

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Windows predicted to grab just 4 percent of tablet market in 2012

Gartner's latest tablet prediction data is out for the year. In spite of Windows 8's imminent arrival, Microsoft and its OEM partners don't fare well. Originally posted at News - Microsoft    

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AT&T not spending $150M to push Lumia 900, source says

The carrier is spending significantly less to promote the Lumia 900.    

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Sony revises projections, sees $6.4 billion net loss for 2011

While we wait to hear Kaz Hirai's new plan for Sony, the news is getting worse before it gets better. The company just announced new projections that are more than double the net loss it predicted in Febru    

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Foxconn making smartphones for Xiaomi

Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) has begun ODM production of second-generation smartphones for China-based vendor Xiaomi, according to China-based website iMobile. FIH has become the vendor's second OD    

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Mainstream ultrabooks to have difficulty achieving US$699 price target

As Intel is aggressively promoting second-generation ultrabooks featuring its 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, sources from notebook vendors pointed out that market watchers' expected price target of US$699 for    

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what we know about Iphone 5 so far

Even though the iPhone 4S has been out for only about five months, many people are already looking ahead toward the next version. This might (or might not) be a radical change from the current one.There has bee    

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More than half of US smartphone subscribers now have Android phones

Google is gobbling up a growing share of the smartphone operating system market, according to the latest report from ComScore. The market research firm says that for the three months ending in February, Google&    

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Intel to push StoryBook tablet PC for emerging markets

Intel is set to push a tablet PC product codenamed StoryBook to target emerging markets and will adopt the same sales model as its Classmate PC, according to sources from PC players. The StoryBook tablet PC wil    

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Fujitsu buys out Toshiba's stake in mobile joint venture, division now called Fujitsu Mobile Communications

April 2, 2012: a great day to officially wash your hands of an unprofitable business. On the heels of Philips stuffing its TV biz into a joint venture, Fujitsu announced it has bought out Toshiba's stake i    

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