Their battles on air and in court somehow managed to lift both their reputations
Click to enlarge. Source: You Gov's BrandIndex
In politics, mudslinging tends to sully both the slinger and slimed. But according to a YouGov BrandIndex survey released Monday, the ad wars this fall between Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) had the opposite effect.
As you may recall, Verizon went after AT&T and Apple's (AAPL) iPhone with a series of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 14, 2009 10:28 AM ET
Check out some of our favorite picks that will let you keep track of your spending and eating — and help you make a drink or two.
Monitor holiday consumption with the Calorie Tracker app. Image: Livestrong.com.
The holiday season can be stressful: the shopping, the spending, even the parties can be incredibly stressful.
Luckily, all you Apple (AAPL) iPhone users have more than 100,000 apps to help your holiday season go MORE
Kim Thai, contributor - Dec 14, 2009 6:00 AM ET
The long-rumored gPhone has surfaced, but no one can agree on what it means
The purported Google phone. Photo: Cory O'Brien
Google (GOOG) announced on its mobile blog Saturday what dozens of staffers had already leaked: the company has given employees around the world free handsets running its Android mobile operating system. The idea, according to the official report, is to have Google's own people test various advanced features and offer MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 13, 2009 7:55 AM ET
Two giant smartphone manufacturers mix it up in a Delaware federal court
Fifty days after Nokia (NOK) sued Apple (AAPL) for allegedly stealing its intellectual property, Apple has returned the favor.
Nokia's suit, filed in October, claimed Apple was infringing on 10 patents Nokia holds on the integration of GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN — technologies at the heart of Apple's iPhone.
In a press release issued Friday morning, Apple claimed in turn MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 11, 2009 10:48 AM ET
Is the NBCU-Comcast deal really about a new business model for cable?
By Tom MacIsaac, CEO, ExtendMedia
MacIsaac predicts Comcast will use NBC to go over the top. Photo: ExtendMedia.
That cracking sound you hear is the walls of the clubby world of cable beginning to crumble. Everything in the media world -- especially the world of media distribution --has changed as a result of Comcast (CMCSA) taking control of GE's MORE
Dec 11, 2009 9:00 AM ET
Curious about iTunes LPs? For the price of some dreadful music, you can get one free.
Image: Apple Inc.
It's hard to imagine Steve Jobs choosing the tracks that appear on the "Holiday Sampler" Apple (AAPL) released this week, just in time for Christmas.
Barry Manilow singing "Jingle Bells"? "The Twelve Days of Christmas" done as an instrumental by the Mexicani Marimba Band?
This is the kind of music that makes you want MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 11, 2009 7:33 AM ET
The newest trend in e-commerce: Social media meets local networking.
Social commerce site Groupon offers daily deals to nearly two million subscribers in 27 U.S. cities.
When David Morton, owner of the Pompei chain in Chicago, signed up with an Internet startup to offer a coupon online, he expected to sell a few thousand at most. Instead, during the 24 hours the coupon was posted on November 22, more than 9,000 MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Dec 11, 2009 6:59 AM ET
Today's interoperability technologies help spawn 'frictionless innovation.'
By Jeffrey E. Ganek, chairman and CEO, Neustar
Ganek: Standards let companies focus on innovation. Photo: Neustar.
I am sure we have all heard it said (and said ourselves): "Just give me a level playing field!" The speaker might be talking about government regulation, contract negotiations, marketing spend or even customer expectations, but in all situations "taking the pitch out of the pitch" MORE
Dec 10, 2009 9:00 AM ET
The chairman of China Unicom finally has some sales figures to report
iPhone buyers in Guangzhou. Photo: iPhonAsia
The numbers coming out of China since Apple (AAPL) launched the iPhone in the world's largest cell phone market have been dismal.
China Unicom (CHU) said it signed up 5,000 iPhone subscribers in the first weekend -- a number widely reported as total sales. This was followed by reports that only five iPhones had MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 10, 2009 5:31 AM ET
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