The iPhone's had a "free ride" on its patents since 2007, claims a Nokia lawsuit
Who can blame Nokia (NOK) if its nose is out of joint. The Finnish telecommunications giant is used to dominating the global cellphone market, and it still commands a 36.8% share, according to Gartner.
But that's down from 39.5% a year ago. Worse still, Nokia has been getting its clock cleaned by Apple (AAPL) and Research in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 22, 2009 12:55 PM ET
It has 55 million users and no business model. But that's a touchy subject.
Ask Evan Williams whether Twitter ought to be trying harder to identify ways to make money, and the founder of the short-burst messaging network just laughs.
"It's funny," he says, in a mid-October interview in the young company's warehouse-like offices in a gritty part of San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. "People think we're back here in the MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Oct 22, 2009 11:12 AM ET
Sales are up. Churn is down. Wireless data revenue is pouring in.
In the flat but better-than-expected third quarter earnings report AT&T (T) issued Thursday, most of the good news came from its wireless division via the iPhone.
True its margins got squeezed -- as they do every quarter -- by heavy iPhone discounts and the bounty the carrier pays Apple (AAPL) for each device it sells. And its reputation continues MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 22, 2009 11:06 AM ET
Legal departments turn to technology to handle an onslaught of regulatory requests
By Aaref Hilaly , president and CEO, Clearwell Systems
Hilaly: Lawyers need tech to meet fresh regulatory demands Photo: Clearwell Systems
Have some sympathy for your corporate legal department – it's facing the perfect storm.
Like everyone else this year, the legal department is required to cut its budget, in some cases by 20% or more. But unlike other departments, legal MORE
Oct 22, 2009 11:00 AM ET
Remember how cloud computing was supposed to kill client/server? Turns out it's more of a wedding than a funeral.
First, some background: The hype surrounding cloud computing in recent years has been nothing short of wild. If you believed the popular wisdom, the traditional computing model was toast. Businesses were going to stop loading specialized programs onto workers' PCs and buying expensive software and servers for data centers.
Instead, we'd have the MORE
Jon Fortt - Oct 22, 2009 7:00 AM ET
To battle back against Facebook, MySpace tunes into more online music
MySpace, the once and would-be king of social media, is increasingly turning
Van Natta's MySpace is doubling down on music. Photo: MySpace
toward music to combat a dominant Facebook, and keep its 125 million users coming back.
On Wednesday in San Francisco at the Web 2.0 Summit, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta announced the launch of two new music products for the MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Oct 22, 2009 7:00 AM ET
Guess which countries are watching today's launch most closely?
Source: Google Insights
Here's a curious geographical phenomenon that emerged from a Google Insights search at 5 a.m. EDT Thursday morning -- the day Microsoft (MSFT) was scheduled to launch the successor to Windows XP and Vista.
In the bar graph that displayed which regions were conducting the most searches per capita on the term "Windows 7," the top 10 were as follows:
Cuba
Russian MORE
By Peter Gumbel
Microsoft's titanic struggle with Europe's trust busters appears to be finally drawing to a close -- thanks in part to Windows 7, the new operating system the U.S. software giant is releasing worldwide this week.
The two sides have been at loggerheads for a decade over the European Union's allegations that Microsoft has abused its dominant market position to push its own products such as Windows Media Player and MORE
Oct 21, 2009 11:05 AM ET
Wall Street, caught flat footed by Apple's latest earnings, issues a slew of new price targets
Having scrambled to catch up to Apple's (AAPL) rising share price in advance of the company's quarterly earnings report, analysts fell over themselves the next day issuing price targets to reflect the buying orgy that took the stock over $202 a share in after-hours trading Monday.
According to the running list maintained at AAPLinvestors.net, 23 analysts MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 21, 2009 9:47 AM ET
The state of the state? "A train wreck," says one official.
If the world's eighth-largest economy were a member of the proper religious order, it'd be time to call in a priest to administer last rites.
Name almost any serious malady and the state of California has it: the nation's highest marginal tax rate coupled with an abysmal public education system; the most home foreclosures; a free-falling commercial real estate sector; lame-duck MORE
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