Apple's U.S. smartphone installed base has surpassed Microsoft's for the first time
Click to enlarge. Source: comScore
Given that the iPhone has been outselling Windows Mobile devices in the U.S. for nearly two years, it comes as something of a surprise that Apple (AAPL) has only now caught up to Microsoft (MSFT) in terms of active smartphone users.
But that's what the latest data from comScore show. The bar graph at right, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 17, 2009 4:47 PM ETMason Cohn, Producer - Dec 17, 2009 3:14 PM ET
Ben Baer, Senior Producer - Dec 17, 2009 12:22 PM ET
Lots of companies are focused on sustainability, but who will lead them?
By Neil Sims and Adrian Choo, Boyden
Sims and Choo (left) say it takes a special leader to manage cleantech companies. Photos: Boyden.
Going green has gone commercial. Environmental sustainability is no longer the exclusive purview of non-governmental organizations and policy wonks. Today a raft of young 'cleantech' companies is emerging to bring a wide range of green concepts to MORE
Dec 17, 2009 10:00 AM ET
A smartphone protest begun as blogger's joke catches fire in the high schools of America
Image: Facebook
The most interesting thing about Operation Chokehold -- a grassroots denial of service attack against AT&T's (T) data network scheduled for Friday at 12 noon PST (3 p.m. EST) -- may be who has signed on to take part.
You can see their shining faces on Facebook's official Operation Chokehold page, which by Friday morning MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 17, 2009 8:34 AM ET
With ownership of the SMB market, is Citrix Online a threat to Cisco?
Caine's Citrix owns unified communications - for now. Photo: Citrix.
Hoopla around Google Wave service, launched publicly in September, has brought resurgence to the idea of unified communications -- a single platform that integrates voice, email, fax (really!), chat, and web conferencing. Long a dream of the telecommunications industry, unified communications is gaining some buzz among corporate tech MORE
Kim Thai, contributor - Dec 17, 2009 7:22 AM ET
Twitter was great for communicating with the West, but other online tools aid increasingly sophisticated activists
By Jia Lynn Yang, writer
During protests in Iran this summer over the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, social networking tool Twitter's raison d'être overnight went from frivolous to vital: The world outside Iran followed every spurt of information that trickled out on mobile phones outfitted with the Twitter application.
Since then, activists have only grown more MORE
Dec 16, 2009 12:04 PM ET
That's her "bull" case. In her "bear" scenario, Apple falls to $150 per share in 2010.
Click to enlarge. Source: Morgan Stanley
Katy Huberty's three scenarios for Apple (AAPL) -- bear, base and bull -- is the lead item in Morgan Stanley's "Key Surprises for 2010," a 15-company forecast issued to clients Wednesday.
Huberty is leaning heavily toward the bull, offering three paths by which Apple hits somewhere between $325 and $435 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 16, 2009 10:26 AM ET
As airwaves become crowded with apps and chatter, government needs to preserve lanes for public safety and emergencies.
By Bob Hunsberger, CEO, NetMotion Wireless
Hunsberger distinguishes niceties and necessities. Photo: NetMotion Wireless.
I have been active in the wireless industry since the mid 1980s and privileged to witness one of the most transformative periods in the history of modern communications. Wireless technology has advanced in countless ways in recent decades, MORE
Dec 16, 2009 10:00 AM ET
Apple's CEO didn't stand a chance against Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke
Jobs' first Time cover. Image: Time Inc.
He may have made the editors' supposed short list, alongside President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, General Stanley McChrystal, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, a gang of Somali pirates and a mob of Iranian protesters.
The readers may have given him 86,729 votes, behind only MORE
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