Imagining life at Bizarro Google.
Schmidt says consumers would revolt if Google started acting evil. Photo: Google
On Wednesday morning Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin met with a group of reporters and talked about a number of issues, from the outages its Gmail service has experienced to its efforts to digitize books to the company's culture.
Schmidt repeatedly deflected questions about the competition, saying Google prefers to focus MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Oct 7, 2009 3:54 PM ET
Forget the dollar and the yen. People value their cold, hard content.
By Pete Steege, product marketing manager, Seagate Technology
Steege looks at information as legal tender. Photo: Seagate
Earlier this year there was a bit of buzz that the US dollar was at risk of being dethroned as the world's default currency. I'm not a financial expert, so I can't weigh in with any authority on the US dollar's continued hegemony MORE
Oct 7, 2009 10:00 AM ET
Skype on the iPhone. Photo: iTunes
AT&T's (T) surprise decision Tuesday to reverse course and permit low-cost Internet calls over its cellular network is good news for iPhone owners, but it leaves Apple (AAPL) with some explaining to do.
Apple was quick to welcome AT&T's change of heart. "We are very happy that AT&T is now supporting VoIP [Voice over Internet Protocol] applications," said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. She promised that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 7, 2009 8:22 AM ET
Photo books are replacing 4x6 prints as the most important products in the printing business. Photo: Shutterfly.
Photo site offers lens into the post-print world.
At lunch on a recent afternoon in Silicon Valley, Shutterfly CEO Jeffrey Housenbold is remarkably upbeat, considering the miserable year the overall photo business is having.
Almost any way you slice it, people are making fewer glossy prints in a rough economy. The numbers are off for at-home MORE
Jon Fortt - Oct 7, 2009 7:07 AM ET
Photo: Apple Inc.
Apple (AAPL) tends to score well in Piper Jaffray's "Taking Stock With Teens" reports, but the results of PFC's 18th semi-annual survey, released Tuesday, suggest that American teenagers are growing even more loyal to the Apple brand.
iPhones, iPods and iTunes emerged as clear winners in the Minneapolis-based brokerage house's study of the music and cellphone buying preferences of some 600 middle-class and upper middle-class teens.
"It's really a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 6, 2009 5:18 PM ET
Get ready for a new kind of hands-on computing: Thoroughly touchable apps
Microsoft (MSFT) launches its newest operating system, Windows 7, on Oct. 22, and one of the most-talked about aspects of the release will be its ability to support multi-touch applications.
Users of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone may shrug. After all, they already use their index fingers to effortlessly flick through their contacts, and they can "pinch" and expand photos with MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Oct 6, 2009 12:15 PM ET
The Verizon (VZ) and Google (GOOG) joint webcast Tuesday announcing the two companies' plans to challenge Apple's (AAPL) iPhone was long on enthusiasm but short on detail.
"This partnership is a big big deal for us," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who shared the virtual stage with Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon Wireless, to formally announce a partnership 18 months in the making
According to a press release issued earlier Tuesday morning, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 6, 2009 10:42 AM ET
A Bell Canada (BCE) press statement Tuesday made official what the Canadian press has been reporting since Monday: that the company, in partnership with Telus Corp. (TU), will start carrying Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in November.
The deal puts an end to the exclusivity that Rogers Communications (RCI) has enjoyed -- to the dismay of many Canadian iPhone owners -- for more than a year.
It's news that is likely to be closely MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 6, 2009 8:24 AM ET
Tech journalism loses Corcoran and Anders
It's a sign of the times that two of the tech world's finest, most seasoned, intelligent and nicest journalists no longer are plying their trade for the mainstream media. That they're also married means an entire household's prodigious output isn't finding its way anymore into the pages of two important business publications.
Elizabeth Corcoran and George Anders, she formerly of Fortune competitor Forbes and he MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Oct 6, 2009 7:06 AM ET
Video: RockBandit
UPDATE: Since this was posted, AT&T has sued Verizon in a U.S. District Court, claiming false advertising and petitioning for restraining orders that would keep this ad off the air. See here.
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Borrowing a line from Apple's (AAPL) "There's an app for that" TV ad campaign, Verizon (VZ) launched a high-profile attack on rival AT&T (T) last night in the middle of Monday Night Football's Viking-Packer MORE
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