Recording artist Dr. Dre wears a pair of Beats headphones as he attends the MLB 2010 season opener between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, in this file photo taken April 4, 2010. (CREDIT: REUTERS/ADAM HUNGER/FILES)
Apple Inc is close to paying a record $3.2 billion for Beats Electronics, two people with knowledge of the matter said, an expensive foray into music streaming and headphone gear that would mark a departure for the usually cash-conservative iPhone m
If you thought Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine were already loaded thanks to their ridiculously successful headphone brand, Beats Electronics, you ain’t seen nothing yet. According to a report by the Financial Times, Apple is in talks to purchase the successful audio company for a reported $3.2 billion. Even for a guy with a net worth of $550 million, that’s not chump change.
According to the report, if successful, the acquisition would be the largest in the Cupertino tech giant’s history. “People f
When it comes to the U.S. smartphone market, it's mostly a two-horse race. Cumulatively, and sell two out of every three smartphones, with smaller manufacturers such as HTC and Motorola fighting for what's left.
But that could change next year, when Asus brings its PadFone to the United States. The device, powered by Google's Android, is particularly revolutionary and has the potential to disrupt the mobile market.
Asus' PadFone combines a tablet with a smartpho
Did you know that the iPad Mini is the most popular iPad? Yep, it outsells the iPad 4 by a margin of two to one. Today, it got a big upgrade. At a special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Apple unveiled the second generation of its 7.9-inch little wonder: the new “iPad Mini with Retina display,” which we will hereafter refer to as the iPad Mini 2. The revamped tablet looks roughly identical to last year’s model, but comes with some hu
The fifth generation iPad tablet is here, unveiled during an Apple event held in San Francisco. The iPad has been in need of an overhaul, given that the iPad 4 was a very light refresh over its predecessor, the iPad 3. Simply put, Apple has delivered here. As with every Apple launch, rumors of its design and specification had been spreading for months. Now that we have some hard details, lets go through them.
Introduced by Phil Schiller, the new iPad is thinner, lighte
Apple Inc. (AAPL:US) co-founder Steve Jobs, who emphasized high-end consumer gadgets over cheaper ones, may have been right all along.
At a special media event held on its Cupertino, California campus, Apple has announced theiPhone 5S, after CEO Tim Cook called it, “The most forward thinking phone we’ve ever created.” The headline feature is the inclusion of a biometric fingerprint sensor called Touch ID, which is mounted inside the iPhone’s traditional Home button. It’s used not only as a new way to unlock the phone, but also for authenticating purchases in iTunes. It’s clever too, and Apple says it can read sub-epiderma
Reports suggest that Apple will introduce a cheaper plastic-bodied iPhone 5C on September 10. The 4-inch phone will supposedly replace the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S in the product lineup. While the company will certainly gain market share in the lower-end spectrum of the smartphone market in the U.S., it’s just a side effect. The new model is the perfect iPhone for the rest of the world. In many countries, carriers are switching to unsubsidized, SIM-only plans and the iPhone is too expensive
Apple has given us our first look at the future of iOS. The newest version, iOS 7, has been officially unveiled during the keynote presentation at this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference, whereApple CEO Tim Cook called it the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, with sales reaching 600 million compatible devices.
Cook called it the biggest change to the iOS since the iPhone was introduced, and confirmed its new design. An introduction video with Apple designer Jony Ive gave
Stop me if you have heard this before, but we have another rumor that substantiates earlier stories indicating that Apple is indeed working on a low cost iPhone. The goal of Apple in developing this new smartphone is to create a device that can compete with the cheap Android phones that are available.
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Apple and Intel are working together to create a Bluetooth-equipped smartwatch in 2013, according to one Chinese technology news source.
Apple’s fourth-generation iPad. Photo: John Bradley / Wired 
If you own a third-generation iPad, you might be feeling a little burned by Apple this week. You’re fine with the iPad Mini the company announced. You saw that one coming. The fourth-generation iPad, though? And just six months after you bought Apple’s last latest-and-greatest iPad? Not cool. Not only are you now carrying around an iPad that doesn’t have Apple’s fastest mobile processor, what used to be an innocent port for the 30-pi
Today the folks from T-Mobile have confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy Note 5.3-inch phone tablet hybrid will be gracing their networks in the coming weeks. T-Mobile actually confirmed this earlier today with a post on Twitter, but now have officially released the full statement and press release. We didn’t learn much, but you can rule out an upgraded processor.
Being so late to the game many thought T-Mobile might release the Galaxy Note with an upgraded 1.5 GHz Qualcomm S4 processor tha
In 2008, when the Eee PC was revolutionizing the computing world and driving every manufacturer to make cheaper and smaller laptops, Sony washed its hands of the whole thing. The “race to the bottom,” the company said, would profoundly impact the industry, killing profit margins and flooding the market with cheap, terrible machines. Sony was wrong, its stance lasting about a year before joining the competition with its own VAIO W.
Four years on we’re buying better laptops than ever before and,
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We’ve previously reported about the various rumors of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 floating around. Today, an exclusive tip that was given to GSM Arena has the Note 2 confirmed to have a 5.5″ Super AMOLED screen with the phones design taking a kin to the Samsung Galaxy S III. Interestingly enough, even though the screen is slightly larger than the predecessor, the width and the form factor of the Note 2 will actually be slimmer than the first one. That’s definitely good news to hear and I’m eage
Need an Android phone for not much dough? Live in a reliable T-Mobile 3G area? Then you might want to consider the “T-Mobile” Prism, Huawei’s latest de-branded device for the American carrier. The Prism is low-end in every sense of the word, but that doesn’t necessarily mean bad and the low-end is moving forward nearly as fast as flagship devices are. The biggest improvement here is the 3.5-inch 480×320 touchscreen, markedly larger and sharper than the 3.2-inch screens that typify the c
