Will your cellphone soon become a proxy for your credit card? Zong and others are betting on it.
If there's one thing online merchants want, it's to make it quicker and easier for you to buy what they're selling. This is the case whether you're buying a novel from Amazon or an iPod nano. But it's especially true for micropayment impulse buys like a new handbag for your avatar or virtual MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Nov 5, 2009 8:01 AM ET
Cisco's growing again, and CEO John Chambers has called the beginning of a tech recovery. But don't assume this is the proverbial rising tide that's going to lift all boats.
First the good news: Cisco (CSCO) turned in a bang-up quarter. For the three months that ended on October 29, the seller of networking gear managed $9 billion in sales and 35 cents per share in profit, both of which outpaced MORE
Jon Fortt - Nov 5, 2009 7:00 AM ET
Meet the creative director who named a generation of Apple products
Photo: Apple
The TBWA\Chiat\Day creative team was horrified in 1998 when Steve Jobs pulled back a cloth and revealed the bulbous teardrop that came to be known as the Bondi-Blue iMac.
But then Jobs wasn't so crazy at first about the name they proposed for it.
No one had ever seen anything like the new computer, veteran creative director Ken Segall tells MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 4, 2009 1:47 PM ET
Games dominate with nearly 17% of titles. Entertainment, books and travel are close behind.
Click to enlarge. Source: 148Apps.biz
Less than 16 months after it opened for business, the App Store now offers more than 100,000 applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, according to an Apple (AAPL) press release issued early Wednesday.
Two independent sites, AppShopper.com and 148Apps.biz, which track listings in the U.S. App Store, count 97,026 and 96,161, respectively. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 4, 2009 11:09 AM ET
Touchscreen phones are on fire, comScore reports, and Apple is leading the pack. For now.
Three months ending Aug. 2009. Source: comScore MobiLens
There's a thundering herd of imitators behind it, but Apple's (AAPL) iPhone still dominates that fastest-growing segment of the U.S. smartphone market, according to a comScore report issued Tuesday.
Touchscreen mobile phone adoption in the U.S. grew at a breakneck 159% rate last year, comScore reports, easily outpacing MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 4, 2009 8:42 AM ET
Rajeev Goel, CEO of upstart PubMatic, thinks his company can help print publishers recapture advertising revenue from their glory days.
Print media is dead! Yawn.
Goel says he can boost media companies' online ad revenue. Photo: PubMatic
You'd think media analysts and bloggers would find another catchphrase. This executioner's call is as tired as Jon and Kate's tabloid tussles.
So when Rajeev Goel, co-founder and CEO of PubMatic, told me that not only would MORE
Kim Thai, contributor - Nov 4, 2009 6:00 AM ET
Analysts adjust their Chinese iPhone estimates following sales that one describes as "soft"
iPhone buyers in Guangzhou. Photo: iPhonAsia
Following press reports that China Unicom (CHU) only managed to sign up 5,000 new iPhone subscribers after four days of sales, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster and Barclays Capital's Ben Reitzes each issued notes to clients Tuesday that tried to put a positive spin on the news.
"The China launch is a disappointment," Munster MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 3, 2009 3:43 PM ET
Can an online connection replace the personal touch?
By Zvi Guterman, CEO, IT Structures
The economy may be improving, but corporations are still acting like we're in the midst of a downturn, especially when it comes to their information technology decisions. Companies are slashing IT budgets, delaying purchasing decisions, and executives are taking a more hands-on approach to evaluating new software offerings.
Technology vendors have reacted to this new world by doing MORE
Nov 3, 2009 10:00 AM ET
In June, Apple's smartphone was the editors' choice at CNET UK. How times have changed.
Source: CNET UK
"The iPhone may be the greatest handheld surfing device ever to rock the mobile Web, and a fabulous media player to boot," writes CNET UK's Flora Graham in a mock award citation posted Tuesday. "It may be the highest-rated mobile phone on CNET UK, rocking the pockets of half of our crack editorial MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 3, 2009 8:19 AM ET
Just three days were enough to push computer sales for the week up 40%
Click to enlarge. Source: Morgan Stanley, NPD
The sharp spike in the chart at right is the Windows 7 effect PC makers have been waiting for.
In a note to clients issued Monday afternoon, Morgan Stanley's Kathryn Huberty reports that NPD data for the week ending Oct. 24 -- which included three days of Windows 7 sales -- MORE
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