Samsung Epic 2, SPH-D905 finally being released?
Way back in June 2011, we detailed Sprint's roadmap for the rest of that year and pretty much every device we discussed has been released: the Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch, the BlackBerry Bold 9930, and the BlackBerry Torch 9850 all ......
Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees, and other unredacted statements in a Silicon Valley scandal
Last week, we got our first glimpse at the (heavily redacted) evidence behind a Silicon Valley scandal dating back to 2005 — Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Intuit and other tech firms, it was revealed, had agreements not to po...
Siri isn’t ruining your cellphone service
The Washington Post's Peter Farhi posted an opinion piece this week entitled "How Siri is ruining your cellphone service," in which he says that Apple's voice-powered assistant — a staple of the iPhone 4S, and presumably eve...
Symantec may have identified a botnet string of Android apps
Symantec claims to have found a string of “malicious” applications in the Android app store that resemble botnets.
According to a blog post by the company, these applications are pushing out a type of malware called Android.Counterclank, which is said …
Samsung’s next-gen Galaxy Tab headed to MWC with 2GHz processor, 2560 x 1600 screen?
Now that Samsung sells slates in nearly every screen size imaginable — 4.65, 5.3, 7.0, 7.7, 8.9 and 10.1-inches across — what's the next frontier? A rumor at Android and Me (perhaps corroborating an earlier rumor at BG...
Update Your Resume and Get a (Better) Job This Weekend [Weekendhacker]
You've probably heard too many times to count that "in this economy, you should be happy to have any job at all." Perhaps that's true, but that doesn't mean you can't try to find something better if yo...
Why You Should Smile in Your Facebook Profile Photo
If you're not smiling in your Facebook photo, your life is probably going to suck in four years time.
Reseachers J. Patrick Seder and Shigehiro Oishi at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville discovered that smile intensity from a single Facebo...
Facebook May Register For IPO As Early As Wednesday [UPDATED]
Facebook may submit paperwork Wednesday to register for an initial public offering that could be the largest of all time and turn the social network into one of the world's most valuable companies.
Amazon’s Kindle Fire driving accelerated growth of Android tablet category
Good sales of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet led to significant gains for Google’s Android operating system in tablet market share during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to new data from mobile analytics firm Flurry.
Flurry, which purports to measure …

The Republican presidential candidacy is still far from decided, based on the split primaries and mixed polls so far. So here's another source for trying to figure who's really pulling ahead -- the number of new Facebook...