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Best Buy tells the Nexus S retail story: 8AM online sales, two per customer maximum

Want a Nexus S this Thursday? Yeah, well, welcome to the club, pal -- you're not alone, so you're going to want to be armed with the right information to figure out your plan of attack. Best Buy has a    

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Toshiba building new factory to churn out iPhone LCDs, says Nikkei

Word on the street -- and by that we mean a Nikkei Business Daily report -- is that Toshiba's dropping a cool 100 billion yen (around1.2 billion in US currencies) for a new factory in the Ishikawa prefectu    

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Microsoft to demo new slate PCs, Windows 8 tablet functionality at CES?

The CES 2010 Ballmernote has become something of a black mark for Microsoft -- the company's delivered almost nothing in the year after Steve demoed the HP Slate and talked about future Windows 7 Slate PCs    

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All Things D posts full Mike Lazaridis video from D: Dive Into Mobile

By now you've no doubt heard about Mike Lazaridis' recent appearance at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, where the RIM co-CEO arrived with his own personal reality distortion field and made stateme    

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eLocity A7 tablet finally shipping, $399 still buys you Froyo and Tegra 2

Looking for a bargain bin tablet without the bargain bin stigma? We told you around three months ago to look Stream TV's way, but it seems that the same message could be applied today. For whatever reason,    

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New Kindle sells 'millions,' bests all 2009 Kindle sales

Amazon has left us with no choice: making sales conclusions based on a single additional letter. The company, notoriously vague on Kindle sales, has announced that "in just the first 73 days of this holida    

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The Future Super Smartphone

Mobile Guru submits: Interesting enough, when I thought about writing this article, it originally was going to discuss the mobile banking market and the concept of paying for everything with your mobile phone.    

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Microsoft pushes up the schedule, plans app payouts to developers in January

Developers still won't be getting paid right away, but Microsoft's improved the Marketplace payout situation a little bit for developers who've been technically earning money with paid Windows Ph    

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Novatel sues ZTE and Franklin over MiFi-related patents

Smartphones aren't the only mobile devices caught up in patent warfare, it seems: Novatel's just sued ZTE and Franklin over five patents related to the "key architecture and functionality" o    

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Motorola's new logo: it's red

Been wondering about what impact Motorola's January split into two distinct entities will have on your humble consumption of consumer electronics? Well, after attending Moto's big Christmas do in Lond    

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