Source: iSuppli Corp.
Thanks in large part to Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and the growing ranks of iPhone imitators, worldwide sales of NAND-type flash memory are expected to rise nearly six-fold from 2008 to 2013, according to a report by iSuppli Corp. issued Wednesday.
Global revenue from sales of NAND flash for mobile phones could hit $932.5 million in 2013, according to iSuppli, up from $166.5 million in 2008 -- a compound MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 5, 2009 4:53 PM ET
When the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal was announced, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was recovering from knee-replacement surgery, an operation of which she watched every gory minute. Learn what Bartz had to say about the experience in Pattie Sellers' Postcards column.
Jennifer Lai - Aug 5, 2009 2:35 PM ET
By keeping tight-fisted control over its products, Apple has produced stellar results – but now it may be going too far.
During a trip to Silicon Valley on August 3, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (center) explained to Fortune why he cares that Apple rejected the official Google Voice app. Photo: Jon Fortt.
Apple's control issues have been a key ingredient in its success. CEO Steve Jobs is fond of pointing out MORE
Jon Fortt - Aug 5, 2009 9:00 AM ET
Apple passed an important milestone last quarter that nobody on Wall Street seems to have noticed: the iPod, once Apple's (AAPL) No. 1 source of revenue, fell into third place after the Mac (No. 1) and the iPhone (No. 2).
Think of Apple's business model -- as Steve Jobs often does -- as a three-legged stool: Mac, iPod, iPhone. As recently as 2006, the iPod leg accounted for 55.5% of Apple's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 5, 2009 6:27 AM ET
Sony Reader
In what is fast shaping up to be a war in the e-reader marketplace, Sony (SNE) has launched the latest salvo, a sub-$300 touch-screen "Reader Touch Edition" and the $199 "Reader Pocket Edition," which features a 5-inch display. The company is also lowering prices of ebooks. New releases and best-sellers will all be $9.99, matching Amazon's (AMZN) price point for the first time.
In addition to lowering prices, adding MORE
Jeffrey M. O'Brien - Aug 4, 2009 7:37 PM ET
Healthcare professionals would seem a natural market for smartphones, especially if the Obama administration makes good its campaign promise to computerize U.S. health care records.
But which smartphone will doctors and nurses be using?
Software Advice, an Austin-based resource for software buyers, tried to answer that question last week. In what it admits was not a "super-scientific" survey, it e-mailed a questionnaire to 700 healthcare professionals and processed 71 replies. The results, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 4, 2009 7:08 PM ET
Let's face it, landlines are out.
The sale of home phones is expected to fall again this year and next — just like it has for the past four years. In 2005, more than 55,000 home phone units were sold, totaling about $1.14 billion. Compare that to next year's projected sales of a measly $369 million, according to the Consumer Electronic Association.
Consumers have been dropping their landline for years now — MORE
Aug 4, 2009 6:00 PM ET
Tim Cook. Photo: Apple Inc.
Now that Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's (AAPL) board of directors -- something that actually happened last Friday, according to Apple's form 8-K filing with the SEC -- who will replace him?
Names of potential nominees have already started to pour in. Tim Cook -- who ran Apple during both of Steve Jobs' medical leaves -- would be our first choice, and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 4, 2009 12:19 PM ET
Chinese iPhone? Photo: Sina.com
Either there's a last-minute hitch that requires high-level intervention, or preparations to sell iPhones in China have entered their final stages.
"Senior officials from Apple Inc are to visit China this week, and they haven't arrived in Beijing yet," an unnamed "informed source" told the website Sina.com Monday night.
"Their visit aims to visit (sic) senior officials of China Unicom and discuss with them how iPhone should enter MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 4, 2009 10:58 AM ET
Box.net CEO Aaron Levie. Photo: Box.net.
Cost-conscious businesses are looking online for IT
By Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder, Box.net
Something is clearly happening in the cloud. Two major juggernauts – the government and Microsoft – have both recently made cloud-related announcements. The government (hardly ever considered an early adopter) is planning to launch a cloud computing 'Storefront' to ease the federal deployment of these online services, with the ultimate goal MORE
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