Mason Cohn, Producer - Dec 31, 2009 2:20 PM ET
Steve Jobs and Apple appeared in an extraordinary number of 2009's "Best of" lists
Our favorite: "There's an app for that," the Yale Book of Quotations' No. 3 quote of the 2009, right before Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie" and after Captain Sully Sullenberger's "We're going to be in the Hudson."
Some other citations...
Steve Jobs: CEO of the Decade. Fortune magazine. Steve Jobs: Best Performing CEO in the World. Harvard Business Review. Steve Jobs: Person MORE Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 31, 2009 7:18 AM ET
Kaufman's chief Apple analyst sees strength in all three major product lines
In a note to clients posted Wednesday morning, Kaufman Bros.' Shaw Wu gave three reasons for raising his Apple (AAPL) price target to $253 from $235.
Record-setting iPhone shipments. Wu's 9.5 million estimate is 700,000 higher that the Street's consensus of 8.8 million and only 600,000 below Research in Motion's (RIMM) best-ever BlackBerry quarter.
"Strong momentum" in the Mac product line driven MORE
Pundits count the ways Apple's unannounced tablet computer will take off or bomb
Source: Time Inc.
Five seems to be the magic number this week.
Apple (AAPL) still hasn't confirmed that it's developing the tablet-size device observers are now calling the iSlate, but that hasn't stopped pundits from weighing in on its chances for success. The latest entries: a matched set of lists that come to opposing conclusions.
The first was posted on MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 30, 2009 9:00 AM ET
Too busy (or lame) to channel your inner DJ? Tech support is here to help.
Picking and ordering music has always been an integral part of any good New Year's party. While it has certainly gotten technically easier to put one song in front of the other – going from mix-tape, to burned CD and now simply a playlist - it still requires that ineffable DJ thing, to make it all MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Dec 29, 2009 10:42 AM ET
The smart grid's greatest asset -- real time information -- remains largely unused By Bob Lento, president of information management, Convergys "You could save $5 if do your laundry at night." That's the way utility companies hope to entice millions of Americans to use smart meters, which will help people and energy companies reduce peak hour energy demand and the burden it has on their pocketbooks.
To me it feels like déjà vu. MORE
Dec 29, 2009 10:00 AM ET
The developer of the iPhone's No. 1 flatulence app says Apple's policies stink
Joel Comm
UPDATE: Apple on Monday quietly approved Joel Comm's Ka-Ching Button app, one month after he posted his video appeal.
"We added a simple options button that lets people select what currency to display on their button," Comm writes. "I guess that was enough to put it over the edge."
You can download The Ka-Ching Button here. For Comm's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 29, 2009 7:00 AM ET
After a slow start -- and a flood of gray market devices -- official sales gather momentum
iPhonAsia's Dan Butterfield, citing Chinese press accounts, reported early Tuesday that sales Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in China have passed the 300,000 mark.
It took China Unicom (CHU), Apple's official Chinese carrier, 40 days to sell its first 100,000 iPhones and less than 20 to reach 300,000.
"The Unicom iPhone Express has steadily picked up speed and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 29, 2009 5:49 AM ET
A rash of online fraud in New York may have done what Operation Chokehold couldn't
Source: AT&T Wireless
Why did AT&T Wireless (T) halt online sales of Apple (AAPL) iPhones in New York City the weekend after Christmas? None of the answers AT&T has given so far make much sense.
The new policy was first reported to The Consumerist's Laura Northrup by a reader in Brooklyn. In a blog entry posted Sunday MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 28, 2009 8:38 AM ET
The Chinese company dominates online searches in its home market, but Google's ambitions go well beyond Googling.
At first glance one might readily declare "game over" in the China online search war. Beijing-based Baidu (BIDU) dominates: According to Jennifer Li, Baidu's chief financial officer, Baidu's market share for search in China was about 77% in the third quarter, up from 75.6% in the second quarter.
Google (GOOG), she says, lost share in MORE
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