iTwinge. Photo: Mobile Mechatronics
Keyboard lovers, be careful what you wish for.
Having famously eschewed the BlackBerry-style keyboard to offer users a new, if somewhat inefficient, way to enter text on a mobile device, Apple's (AAPL) crack design team can now watch its work get undone.
How? With a slide-on attachment that gives the iPhone the keyboard Steve Jobs would not. (See video below.)
iTwinge, as the device is called, draws power from MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 18, 2009 9:18 AM ET
Our correspondent goes to a geekfest and reports back on five new tools you need now.
Catch that mouse. Logitech's Performance Mouse MX is one to love. Photo: Logitech
I was in gadgetry heaven.
The Pepcom Holiday Spectacular in New York Thursday night was buzzing -- and it wasn't just the sensation of mobile devices on vibrate mode.
With 80 companies -- from Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) to Samsung -- showing off their goods for MORE
Kim Thai, contributor - Sep 18, 2009 7:24 AM ET
With Apple (AAPL) closing at $184.55 a share Thursday -- up 1.47% to hit a 15-month high -- it's probably time for the legion of analysts who follow the stock to start rethinking their published price targets.
The current high target, $264, was set on air Tuesday by Mad Money's Jim Cramer. But he's more showman than analyst -- even if he did trigger a 6.71 point (3.83%) rally the next MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 17, 2009 9:40 AM ET
Strong first quarter earnings underscore the prowess of Oracle's Ellison.
Ellison is as engaged as he needs to be. Photo: Oracle
I spent most of the summer reporting and writing a feature story about Safra Catz, the enigmatic co-president of Oracle (ORCL). I talked to oodles of people about Catz's ambitions, her value to the company, the likelihood of her becoming CEO, and her relationship with Charles Phillips, Oracle's other co-president.
All MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Sep 16, 2009 5:13 PM ET
Jim Cramer. Photo: CNBC
Apple (AAPL) shares rose 1.3% in after-hours trading Tuesday after Mad Money host -- and confessed Apple stock manipulator -- Jim Cramer raised his price target from $200 a share to $264.
Shares opened Wednesday at $178, up 1.6% from Tuesday's close, and by 12:25 p.m. were trading at $182.72 on high volume. The stock ended the day at $181.87, up $6.71 (3.83%), its strongest close since MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 16, 2009 10:20 AM ET
Interview by Scott Cendrowski
Mike Splinter, CEO of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based Applied Materials, recalls the best advice he ever got.
Mike Splinter, CEO of Applied Materials
Before I joined Applied Materials (AMAT), I worked at Intel (INTC) for two decades. I recall a session with Andy Grove. It was 1984, and Grove was talking about Intel culture to a group of new employees who were coming in at a senior level. MORE
Sep 16, 2009 9:48 AM ET
The Yahoo CEO offers candid views on life post-retirement -- and dealing with activist shareholders
Bartz has no regrets about joining Yahoo. Photo: Yahoo
At Fortune's Most Powerful Women conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz didn't talk much tech but didn't disappoint.
In characteristically blunt language that was peppered with not-quite-explicit words like "friggin' " and "damn" (she declined to talk about the way she talks, telling interviewer Andy MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Sep 15, 2009 6:22 PM ET
Steve Jobs. Photo: Apple Inc.
Last week we counted how many times Apple (AAPL) marketing chief Phil Schiller used the words "amazing" and "incredible" in his presentation at the "It's only rock and roll event." (Answer: an incredible 15 times each.)
Now someone who calls himself justanotherguy84 has taken the exercise one step further. He (or possibly she) has posted a 2-minute YouTube video of the entire Sept. 9 event MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 15, 2009 4:18 PM ET
Bruce Sewell. Photo: Intel Corp.
In a bit of high-level counsel swapping, Apple (AAPL) announced on Tuesday that it had hired Bruce Sewell to be its general counsel, one day after Intel (INTC) reported Sewell's resignation.
The hire marks the end of a game of legal musical chairs that dates back to the 2006 options backdating scandal, when Nancy Heinen, Steve Jobs' long-time consigliere, was thrown under the bus.
Sewell, who had MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 15, 2009 10:27 AM ET
Rendering: Piper Jaffray
The iPod event is behind us. Apple TV did its thing on Monday. No new MacBooks loom on the horizon. So it's time for Apple (AAPL) watchers to talk once again about the tablet computer that is said to be the focus of Steve Jobs' laser-like attention.
Stepping into the fray is Taiwan Economic News' Steve Chuang, a reporter with a pretty good track record on the supply MORE
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