The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.

Sprint (NYSE: S) will no longer require the companies who make phones for its network to install Carrier IQ’s software, which prompted an uproar after the software was thought to be logging keystrokes. Although the software itself appears legit, Sprint’s desire for that much information about its users raised further…

The tablet market is still in its relative infancy and has been largely dominated up to now—both in sales and basic concept—by the iPad from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). But that could be changing in the year ahead, and those making tablets are thinking about what might be the best form…

Eastman Kodak announced late Tuesday that it was suing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and HTC for allegedly infringing four of its imagining patents. The timing of the suits may be strategic as the struggling camera maker has been desperately trying to sell part of its patent portfolio to stave off a…

The first day of CES 2012 was a mobile one: dozens of new smartphones and tablets were announced as traditional PC companies and rising smartphone powers showed off some of their best ideas for the first half of 2012. The Windows Phone crowd probably stole the show with Nokia’s Lumia…

Samsung, on a high after releasing some strong mobile numbers last week, today became the latest consumer electronics brand to hang its name on to some of the more buzzy trends in TV this year: gesture-controlled television, apps, 3D and cloud-based content. In a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) at the moment is not leading the rankings of smartphone vendors when it comes to shipments, but when it comes to mindshare, especially in North America, the company continues to blow away the competition, according to a new survey. Meanwhile, a separate piece of research—which did not…

The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place a wager on Monday night’s national championship game between LSU and Alabama (I’m taking LSU +1) but to gear up for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics…

Correction: An earlier version of this article noted Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility’s revenue in “millions” not “billions”. It has now been corrected. We regret the error. Not brilliant news for Motorola Mobility and its would-be buyer, Google: the handset maker today issued preliminary Q4 results that will fall short of…

Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gearing up for a splash at CES to kick off the U.S. launch of its new line of Microsoft-powered smartphones, it has pulled a quick draw to show it is not going to neglect its lower-end devices in the process. The company has acquired…

Android is trouncing the competition when it comes to platform domination in the smartphone market—over half of all smartphones being used today—but that rising tide is not lifting all boats. Sales figures out today from the two largest Android device makers, Samsung and HTC, present two different pictures, with Samsung…

HTC says it has already figured out how to ship Android phones in the U.S. that don’t run afoul of a patent held by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the company’s CEO said Wednesday at event in Taiwan where Google’s chief Android executive also hinted that patent settlements may start to become…

In a much-anticipated decision, the International Trade Commission today sided with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and announced that it would impose a limited import ban on certain devices made by Taiwanese rival HTC. [Updated below]

It looks like Samsung Electronics, the flagship and biggest division of the Samsung Group conglomerate, is restructuring its organisation. With a view to creating “independent operations”, the company is to divide its digital media business, including mobile devices and TVs and related services, from its device solutions business, which includes…

Samsung may be still be trying to crack the tablet market, but in mobile devices it is continuing to pick up steam: it sold 300 million devices so far this year, breaking its previous record.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone devices, the cheaper Lumia 710, with the first devices going to the company’s stronghold in developing markets—Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Russia—within the next…

HTC and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) may be cautioning investors about more choppy economic times ahead, but that is not the story, it seems, for all handset makers, as forecasts go up for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) based on strong iPhone sales. However, iPad tablets are not getting the same treatment, and…

Looking at HTC over the last week or two, it’s almost hard to believe that it is the top-ranking smartphone maker that the analysts claim it is. Shares have dropped some 40 percent in the last five weeks for the Taiwan-based handset maker, with the company’s stock price currently down…

Update: After this story was posted, the ITC announced it would delay the date of the hearing by eight days, to December 14, to give it more time to complete its investigation of the four patents in question in the case. Update 2: One more delay for HTC at the…