It’s good to be the Android king: Samsung today announced its record fourth quarter earnings, in which it saw operating profits of 5.3 trillion won (around $4.7 billion) on revenues of 47.3 trillion won (around $42 billion). That’s a decent jump over last year, when it reported earnings of 3 trillion won (about $2.6 billion) [...]

Fights are going on between Apple and Samsung for the title of the largest smartphone’s maker, the iPhone maker has apparently reclaimed the title of the world’s largest smartphone vendor for the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s according to research firm Strategy Analytics, which points out that Apple shipped 37 million iPhones during the quarter [...]

As the debate about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) rages on from Silicon Valley to Washington DC, a number of the technology industry’s most influential leaders have come out against the proposed legislation, which would give the government and private corporations unprecedented powers to remove websites from the internet for any alleged copyright infringement.Here [...]

Google is pushing the boundaries of what people expect from the company, for better or worse. Just  after launching a new personalized search that has drawn criticism from both competitors and users, the company announced that they are revising its privacy policies has touched off another wave of discontent about the implications for users. So [...]

Apple’s iPhone 4S is incredibly popular with consumers, so much so that it’s eating heavily into Android’s market share among those who’ve purchased smartphones within the past three months. Apple’s market share among recent smartphone buyers in the U.S. rose from 25.1 percent in October to 44.5 percent in December, while Android’s fell from 61.6 [...]

During the holiday season Amazon used its massive sales channel to push the Kindle Fire hard. It moves millions of units, and according to studies from IHS iSupply, was losing about $2 per unit. That’s a big difference from Apple, which makes a healthy profit on sales of its iPad tablet.But according to a new [...]

Microsoft is keeping mum about plans to integrate Skype into its Windows Phone.There has been speculation that Skype would soon be a feature on Windows Phone since Microsoft announced plans to acquire Skype last year. The company had initially promised the introduction of Skype-equipped Windows phones by the end of last year, and last week [...]

Yestersay I captured video of a Fujitsu handset running on the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. From the looks of it, this phone’s performance will rival that of the Asus Transformer Prime tablet. Fujitsu doesn’t target the U.S. market. However, Sascha’s video gives us an idea of what to expect from the Mobile World Congress show [...]

Google introduced a new Android Design site which aims at helping developers learn the principles and best practices for building awesome apps.It is the first style guide ever introduced for Android, will feature a load of documents for educating developers on styles, patterns and building blocks that go into world-class apps.It was launched after the [...]

Intel unveiled its grand plan to make Ultrabooks- the next big thing in computing this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This year alone there will be more than 75 Ultrabook models on the market, and Intel has said that it’s gearing up its biggest marketing push since the Centrino lineup for [...]