Apple holds only a 9 percent share of the global mobile phone market but it grabbed 75 percent of the industry’s overall profits last quarter, according to data from Asymco.

Fourth-quarter profits slipped for the Taiwanese phone maker, and revenue for the first quarter of 2012 is well below analyst forecasts.

Take a tour of the past, present, and future of electric vehicles to see the multiple waves of electric cars in years past and a hint at future directions.

The near-term picture on EVs is fuzzy at best, but electrification is the future of the auto industry with hybrids leading the way.

NQ Mobile may be the best mobile security software you’ve never heard of. New Co-CEO Omar Khan has been tapped to make sure that changes.

It looks likely Nikon will announce a more expensive D800E SLR tomorrow, too, that abandons the convenient but blurriness-inducing antialiasing filter.

Eli Manning connected with Mario Manningham for the big game’s biggest play, but did tech advertisers manage to connect with consumers? CNET’s writers take a look at this and other Super Bowl issues.

One of the salient themes in Super Bowl ads was bringing manufacturing back to America. A lesson for Apple?

What better way to recover from the halftime show? More ads that continued to offer little in the way of originality of either strategy or execution. On the other hand, we had Clint Eastwood advertising Chrysler and Detroit.

Samsung’s Super Bowl ad–for the Galaxy Note–claims that this is the product that can finally stop Apple fanboys from having to stand in line, waiting for Apple’s latest.

The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the 2011 winners of a contest to create the best visualizations in the fields of science and engineering.

The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the winners of last year’s contest for the best visualizations in science and engineering.

The death of Micron Technology’s CEO during a solo flight in a hard-to-handle aircraft symbolizes the risky memory chip market that is the company’s bread and butter.

In a news conference, the New England quarterback mentions that while rehabbing last year in Costa Rica, he watched the big game on an illegal site. Is this the final validation for piracy?

Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.

As the Giants battle the Patriots on Sunday, viewers have dozens of ways to keep up with the game–by live streaming, watching on cell phones, or subscribing to apps and social-media feeds.

Tweeting harder to resist than sex, coffee, and alcohol, say researchers from the University of Chicago. Now, let’s just see you try to resist tweeting this story.

In Taiwan, a man dies while gaming In an Internet cafe. Reports suggest no one notices for nine hours. But, regardless of how long he was actually dead, how could it be that no gamer notices until a waitress finally thinks to check?

A research note from Citigroup says Apple CEO Tim Cook is not leaning toward a future MacBook Air with iPad-like features. So, now what?

The Facebook chief may be on the hook for $2 billion in taxes with his company going public. But he’s not necessarily all that upset about it, because Facebook in turn gets a tax deduction.

Apple hired a new head of retail, had a few bouts in foreign courts, and potentially had the secret behind its next tiny iPod leaked out. More on those stories and more in this week’s Apple Talk Weekly.

Here are a few of CNET Reviews’ favorite items from the past week, including the LG Spectrum, the 2012 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Autobahn, and the PowerMat Dual 1850 Rechargeable Backup Battery.

day on the job At one of the biggest sports sites in the country, preparing to make its Super Bowl coverage as strong as possible is probably the most important job of the entire year. CNET was on hand to see the plan take shape.

The correlations between classic arcade games like Centipede and popular mobile games like Angry Birds are undeniable: they’re simple, fun, and addictive. Seamus Blackley has hired a slew of old-school game developers to try to cash in on that fact with his company Innovative Leisure.

Changes are a-foot again for Firefox. The beta channel can now sync add-ons, the Aurora channel completes a smoother update process, and work on the faster native UI for Android continues.

CNET tracks all the iPhone 5 rumors–from the likely to the crazy–that we’ve heard so far in 2011 and 2012.

CNN reports that U.S. civilian and military officials are testing the use of secure Android smartphones that could be capable of transmitting confidential documents.

Apple has quietly removed a number of iOS games that could readily be mistaken for their popular counterparts and that had climbed up the charts as a result.

By building a wind turbine to power a hydrogen production and fueling station, a little hamlet in Long Island is positioning itself a bellwether for carbon-neutral transportation.

Mozilla’s gestating a new project that takes its cues from the mobile world: site-specific push notifications. Could this be a next-generation RSS?

Motorola Mobility wins a permanent ban against Apple’s push e-mail service, part of its iCloud offering. Apple has also begun removing older iPhones and iPad from its German online store.

“Charlie Magnetico” is the second lost Henson film to be posted online in as many weeks. Crave hears from the AT&T archivist who unearthed these little jewels.

Apple could announce its next-gen phone at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to the latest scuttlebut from Daiwa Securities.

A glitch is causing iTunes Match to scrub explicit lyrics from some rap songs. Apple is working to fix the issue.

The founder of the cyberlocker service will remain in jail at least until his extradition hearing is held on Feb. 22.

Hackers down government and entertainment Web sites after piracy arrest of people including Kim DotCom connected with the hosting site.

It may not be the most popular smartphone operating system, but some wireless subscribers on Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel want more choices.

Advanced Micro Devices has a Windows 8 tablet strategy predicated on new power-efficient chips.

Hoping to help fans navigate Indianapolis during Super Bowl Week, the NFL releases the Super Bowl XLVI Guide app for iOS and Android yesterday.

New variants resurrect the malware four months after Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab took down the original, which was capable of sending nearly 4 billion spam e-mails each day.

Sales of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt electric cars start slow in 2012, with Volt sales apparently impacted by closed safety investigation.

A bug on certain HTC smartphones that may expose Wi-Fi passwords is being addressed by the company through both regular updates and a manual patch.

Sony’s troubling fiscal third-quarter performance comes just a day after the company announced it is replacing its CEO Howard Stringer with Kazuo Hirai on April 1.

Cocoon extends its protective casing for you and your Internet habits to Internet Explorer users in a new beta. Along with IP address masking and anonymous browsing, you get secure Wi-Fi, e-mail on-the-fly, and antivirus scanning.

The company has hooked up with Ericsson to enable support for both voice and data on LTE “4G” networks.

There’s not much left for Facebook to conquer from the perspective of user engagement. But as a business, Facebook still has bright days ahead.

roundup Silicon Valley and Wall Street had been watching since forever, it seems, for Facebook to go public. Now the IPO filing is finally upon us, and we’re learning a lot about the social network.

The social network sees big opportunity in getting its service on millions of mobile devices, but it also sees big risks.

The compact camera has a mirrorless design that can use Pentax’s K mount SLR lenses, according to retailer B&H. It also has a relatively large sensor.

Post-IPO, Mark Zuckerberg’s control over Facebook and its board of directors will border on the absolute. It’s good indeed to be the king.

The robotics research team at UPenn teaches a swarm of small quadcopter robots to do agile flight and fly in formation, a step toward programming small, inexpensive robots en masse.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Larry Page will have their duels throughout the years. Those duels are likely to pick up once Facebook raises truckloads of cash.

It’s gradually been losing ground, but Microsoft’s ten-year-old operating system is still the most popular version of Windows with a 47 percent share of the market.

The Internet company had better net income and revenue than analysts expected. Ad revenue is up, but revenue overall declined.

The company says in a statement that it plans to show off the new device in a separate event during the first half of 2012.

Kazuo Hirai, who led Sony’s PlayStation gaming business and more recently took over a growing electronics group, is now chief executive.

roundup Silicon Valley and Wall Street have been watching since forever, it seems, for Facebook to go public. Signs are now that an IPO filing really could be imminent.

Personal computers still dominate global browsing patterns, but smartphones and tablets are growing fast, and Microsoft is rarely seen there.

Tech giant has contacted a major supplier about its display capabilities, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says in a note to investors.

Rovio CEO Mikael Hed says that treating Angry Birds pirates as “fans” might be good for business.

Likes and Jildy are two useful products for people overwhelmed by or disappointed with Facebook’s own mobile apps.

As IE6 continues its descent into its grave, there’s one constituent group that fears the future: large corporations with their proprietary IE6 apps. Browsium’s Ion might be the IE6 sniper they’ve been looking for.

Apple’s brought back a much-requested feature to its Final Cut Pro X pro video editing software as part of a new update that comes with a handful of other tweaks.

The company says the Dixons CEO will be taking over as retail chief in April.

The organization says that it will investigate whether Samsung licensed “essential patents” in fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms.

BrowserNation is now a part of its erstwhile competitor, a move that increases Brand Thunder’s reach to new brands such as EMI and new markets such as Latin America.

How did the feds acquire all those MegaUpload conversations? There are hints that the FBI managed to place government-issued spyware on the defendants’ computers.

Hackers down government and entertainment Web sites after piracy arrest of people including Kim DotCom connected with the hosting site.

The luxury consumer-electronics maker will soon release the Beolit 12 speaker for iPhones, the first product from its B&O Play sub-brand.

AT&T’s new 3GB data offer, coupled with its policy to throttle heavy data users on its unlimited data plan, may be a subtle hint to those using too much data to migrate to a tiered offer.

Mike Lazaridis, who recently stopped down as co-CEO of RIM, on new chief Thorsten Heins: “I absolutely know he will take this company to new heights.”

Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordon Rohan says Amazon might have sold 6 million Kindle Fire tablets last quarter.

By using smartphone apps and QR codes, the startup hopes to get around the barriers that most companies face with doing in-store mobile payments.

He alleges that the two women have rather prominently defamed him. Now we will see whether hell hath no fury like a TV lawyer scorned.

With MegaUpload’s assets frozen–and no way for it to pay the storage firms it used–and with the feds unable to further access servers now that search warrants have been executed, data could begin getting wiped, says the Associated Press.

Hackers down government and entertainment Web sites after piracy arrest of people including Kim DotCom connected with the hosting site.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal, and others are working together on a standard that can be used across the Internet for blocking phishing e-mails.

commentary The justices have ruled that GPS tracking requires a warrant. Now Congress needs to act to balance privacy and public safety regarding location data.

Most of the cuts, which may begin March 31, will be from NEC’s mobile phone business and will include both full- and part-time positions. Apple’s device has made hash of predictions that it wouldn’t take off in Japan.

A feature about Barnes & Noble in The New York Times mentions the pending arrival of a fifth Nook device this spring.

Startup Promethean Power is developing a “thermal battery” that gets around unreliable power service in India at a clean-tech incubator in a converted warehouse in South Boston.

Startup Promethean Power had to ditch its dream of solar-powered milk chillers in rural India, but hit upon a novel energy storage system that’s cheaper and overcomes the unreliable grid.

At issue is whether some of the titans of tech conspired not to hire each other’s employees. Attorney Joe Saveri argues the alleged conspiracy kept workers salaries artificially low by stifling competition.

Hackers did not take down Facebook today, as they had earlier claimed they would. Meanwhile, the pace of tweets appears to have slowed amid an ongoing Twitter boycott. And Twitter’s lawyer responds.

An interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates in The Telegraph is just the latest to show he and the late Steve Jobs had a strong relationship at the time of the Apple leader’s death.

BMW has revealed that it, too, has entered the self-driving car arena, inserting self-driving technology in a 5 Series car.

Programmers using Google’s mobile operating system must reckon with upfront work for the wide range of Android screens, but the benefit is flexibility.

Google’s latest charming doodle commemorates an event of which few might be aware: a 15-inch diameter snowflake that attacked Montana.

High-resolution formats define the upper limit of quality, but if the recording’s mix was overcompressed and processed, a lossless file won’t sound great.

Here are a few of CNET Reviews’ favorite items from the past week, including the HP Envy 15, Nikon Coolpix S8200, and the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx.

We talk record breaking earnings, and reports of trouble in Apple’s supply chain that made that possible in this week’s edition of Apple Talk Weekly.

Photoshop CS6 will get a dark gray interface by default and, of course it inherits Lightroom 4′s new raw-image editing controls.

When Twitter announced it would withhold tweets country-by-country based on local restrictions, it said it was being more transparent. But some users disagree.

Hackers are attacking sites and looking to expose information on European officials in response to the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA critics say it’s even worse than the Stop Online Piracy Act floated in the U.S.

St. Petersburg, Russia-based Andrey N. Sabelnikov says he is “absolutely not guilty” of participating in the creation of the huge spam network that Microsoft shut down last September.

Windows 8 on ARM is coming along nicely, thank you, according to a couple of sources with whom CNET spoke.

The bean counters at Sony need to make up their minds on how they are pricing PS Vita games.

Instead of complaining about the FCC’s decision to squash the T-Mobile merger and blaming the agency for raising prices, AT&T needs to shut up and move on.

If Google+ and Google search aren’t two different things, there’s no conflict in emphasizing Google+ in search results. Right?