Showing that yet again I have no clue as to what will be a successful consumer product, tablet devices appear to be somehow making their way into the hands of the buying public at an alarming rate.

Owners of the Motorola Xoom tablet on Verizon Wireless (VZ) will now have to wait until September to upgrade their devices to LTE. When or if the long-delayed upgrade comes, it will be nearly seven months after the device first launched with the carrier. And customers will still have to take the archaic step of [...]

Nokia has been having a hard time of it recently. The firm’s floundering smartphone products have been almost completely eclipsed by efforts from Apple and Google, and now the once-king of the handset finds itself shedding marketshare at an alarming rate.

When you were a child how did you imagine supermarkets would be in the future? Maybe you thought it would no longer even be necessary to go into a physical store. Or that, if we had to go, the experience inside would be completely different and hi-techy. However, years have passed and we still go [...]

Hi, everyone! I’ve just started as editor-in-chief for Latin America region and this is my first post on Unplugged. I’m Brazilian and I live in São Paulo, a crazy big city with a population of 11 million people (the state, which has the same name, counts 41.4 million). I’m very excited to be part of [...]

It looks as if those reports announcing the end of the iPad era may have been a little premature after all. A study released yesterday by research firm comScore shows that Apple’s best-selling iPad accounts for no less than 97.3% of tablet browsing in the US.

All of the news and speculation that surrounds Nokia Corp. (NOK) brings to mind shades of Motorola Inc. (MOT) a few years back. Motorola was once queen of the ball with a solid name brand and No. 1 leadership position in the United States, only to drop from the top because the company relied too [...]

Nokia Corp., who all-but invented the mobile phone market back in the halcyon days of the early-90s, look set to be dropping not one but two places down to a distant third in terms of smartphone manufacturing volume by the end of this year, if a new report from research firm Nomura is to be believed.

The Federal Communications Commission’s request last week to have AT&T and Deutsche Telekom provide more information regarding claims in AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA is yet another interesting turn in this saga that seems to be adding turns at an alarming rate.

Taipei, Taiwan – Rumor on the showfloor has it that while Nvidia’s Tegra 2 virtually cleared up in terms of design wins, Tegra 3 might not have the same luck.