Apple's gadgets win adulation, but research shows the sector needs a jolt if it wants to grow
By Wouter Koetzier, global managing director-Accenture's Innovation Performance Group, and Adi Alon, North American managing director-Accenture's Innovation Performance Group
Large consumer technology companies are underperforming in the global innovation battle.
The culprit: Widespread flaws in how they manage and invest in innovation.
If tech companies want to grow, they need to invest in breakthrough, high-impact innovations MORE
Dec 7, 2009 10:00 AM ET
Is Apple's iPhone-without-a-phone the McDonald's Happy Meal of mobile communications?
Click to enlarge. Source: Flurry Analytics
Peter Farago of the mobile analytics firm Flurry uses data from its November report to make the case that Apple (AAPL) is quietly -- and successfully -- using the iPod touch to lock in a loyal base of under-age users who will eventually become the next generation of iPhone buyers.
"While it is clear that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 7, 2009 7:45 AM ET
The rapper-turned-entrepreneur sees cash money in the commodity's boom.
MC Hammer has had many professional careers: he's been a preacher, a rapper, and a tech entrepreneur.
Now the pioneer of the parachute pants has an equity stake in Cash4Gold, a Pompano Beach-Fla., refinery. Customers who send in their gold—grandma's necklace, dad's watch—will receive an estimate of its worth. If they're happy with the estimate, they get a check.
With the price of gold MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Dec 7, 2009 6:00 AM ET
Apple's controversial software emporium gets a sympathetic hearing at the New York Times
Photo illustration: The New York Times
Apple (AAPL) only opens its doors to reporters when it needs something from them -- like glowing reviews for a glitzy new gadget.
What it needs right now, apparently, is a friendly account of what's going on at the iPhone App Store, a runaway hit galloping so fast that even Apple -- a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 6, 2009 7:00 AM ET
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Jon Fortt - Dec 4, 2009 12:31 PM ET
Motorola targets young men with its most testosterone-heavy TV commercial yet
Screen shot from Droid ad. Image: Motorola
Someone had fun writing this ad copy:
Droid. Should a phone be pretty? Should it be a tiara-wearing digitally clueless beauty pageant queen? Or should it be fast? Racehorse duct-taped to a Scud missile fast. We say the latter. So we built the phone that does. Does rip through the Web like a circular MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 4, 2009 8:32 AM ET
The chip giant settled with AMD. But another rival is making noise about anticompetitive behavior.
Nvidia's Huang is gunning for Intel. Photo: Nvidia
You'd think Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang would be happy.
After bumping along as low as $7 a share at the beginning of the year his stock is up near $14. Several months ago Apple (AAPL) began using his graphics chipset – a group of circuits designed to work together MORE
Jon Fortt - Dec 4, 2009 6:22 AM ET
CEO Benioff goes from "cloud" to crowd.
Benioff chats about Chatter. Photo: Salesforce.com
Marc Benioff, the man who invented cloud computing at least as much as Al Gore invented the Internet, is pushing a new idea. It's called Chatter, a mashup of Facebook and Twitter for the workplace that his company, Salesforce.com (CRM), plans to begin selling next year.
Salesforce.com's main product is something most worker bees will never see. It's an MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Dec 3, 2009 8:02 AM ET
A research firm looks into the near future and sees ... an Apple "iPad" next year
Apple (AAPL) figures prominently in IDC's top 10 predictions for the coming year, released Thursday and available here (registration required). The relevant bullet points:
The "iPad" will finally arrive. Last year, we predicted that we would not see the then-rumored Apple tablet in 2009. This year, however, we predict that Apple will finally introduce this new MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 3, 2009 6:23 AM ET
Apple fell 2.6% on Dec. 1 in an ugly close that left investors deeply suspicious
Apple had already dropped sharply twice on Tuesday -- once at 10 a.m. and again at 3:25 p.m. -- when, 12 minutes before the close, the volume of trading suddenly spiked and the stock went into freefall.
More than 3.5 million shares changed hands in a fury of last-minute trading, and when the dust cleared, Apple had MORE
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