By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Tuesday bowed to investors' demands to share more of its $145 billion cash pile, while posting its first quarterly profit decline in more than a decade. The new expanded capital plan inclu... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers have picked up the baton from the White House in the effort to make it legal for cellphone users to switch their devices to any mobile carrier. At issue is whether cellphone buyers, who often get new devices at a heav... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Cellphone users should be allowed to switch their devices to any mobile carrier, the White House said on Monday in response to an online petition against the recent banning of the practice. More than 100,000 people signed the petition pro... [Full Article]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Quentin Tarantino unlocked the secrets of his upcoming action flick "Django Unchained" at Comic-Con on Saturday with explosive clips of the slave revenge movie, which takes place in the pre-Civil War U.S. So... [Full Article]
In keeping with its tradition of locking devices, Motorola revealed on Tuesday that its newly announced smartphone, the ATRIX HD, will include a locked bootloader. 'Motorola ATRIX HD at AT&T will have a locked bootloader to meet requirements,' th... [Full Article]
An intense and controversial restoration of the last great work by Leonardo da Vinci goes before the public Thursday at the Louvre Museum, revealing "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" in the full panoply of hues and detail painted by th... [Full Article]
MANNHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - A German court suspended a trial in which Apple alleged that Samsung Electronics copied the slide-to-unlock technology of its iPhone and iPad devices pending the outcome of a separate suit. The regional court in Mannheim... [Full Article]
After Motorola won an injunction against Apple in German court - leading to the temporary removal of iPads and iPhones from the German online Apple Store earlier this month - Cupertino has volleyed its own legal cannonball, winning a patent dispute ... [Full Article]
One certainly can't claim Motorola isn't at least trying to help customers who want a Droid Razr with an unlocked bootloader. Late last year the company announced that the Razr would come unlocked, but it would be down to networks to decide whether ... [Full Article]
Last summer, phone maker HTC raised eyebrows by announcing it would enable users to unlock the bootloaders on some of its most popular phones, enabling technically-inclined customers to root the devices and install custom operating systems or, really... [Full Article]