Google buys, and kills, iPhone app

With purchase of reMail, it removes one of the device's best third-party mail programs

"reMail 2.0 Nails Full-Text Search For the iPhone," read the headline of TechCrunch's review last August.

"Fast and smart," wrote ReadWriteWeb, a "game changer."

"[The iPhone's] level search is certainly a good start," said CNET News, "but it doesn't compare to newly-released app ReMail, which can index an entire e-mail account and do full text search within all your MORE

The new, green land rush

Raser Technologies converts low-temperature water into power. Can this clean energy pioneer strike it rich?

By Carolyn Whelan, contributor

Off a lonely dirt road 30 miles west of Beaver, Utah, (pop: 6,162) on a brisk spring morning last year, wide grins crossed the faces of a handful of men in hardhats. They'd just hit pay dirt, only these modern day miners weren't prospecting for gold or oil. Their spoils? Tepid MORE

Reporter roughed up by Apple supplier

Kicked and dragged for taking photos of a Foxconn plant from a public road in China

Foxconn's Guanlan factory. Credit: REUTERS/James Pomfret

Reuters' report Wednesday about the lengths to which Apple (AAPL) and its suppliers will go to guard Steve Jobs' secrets has everything: metal detectors, fingerprint scanners, product head-fakes, lawsuits, multimillion-dollar fines, a suicide, and employees afraid to breathe a word about what they do, even to their wives.

But the MORE

Mobile's next frontier: Measurement, on the move

Flurry (think Omniture for wireless) helps developers make sense of how we use mobile applications

Weeks before Steve Jobs announced the iPad, a group of data wonks in San Francisco knew it was coming. The app analytics firm Flurry began to pick up suspicious activity in the vicinity of Cupertino's 1 Infinity Loop, home to Apple's (AAPL) corporate headquarters. About 50 devices were ravenously downloading applications that held a small snippet MORE

Can the ski suit make the man (and woman)?

The Fastest race suit at the Olympics?/Courtesy Spyder

For years, elite alpine ski racers have been dressing like golf balls. Not in the sense that they are spherical, but in the sense that their racing suits have been covered in the same kinds of dimples that cover the surface of a golf ball. Get four or five feet away from a downhill racer (when they are standing still) and you MORE

Trouble in Apple's iBookstore

Negotiations with publishers reach an impasse over who controls subscriber lists

Jobs demos iBookstore. Photo: Michael Copeland

A report in Monday's Financial Times confirms early accounts of a sticking point that emerged during Steve Jobs' off-the-record meetings with the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Time Inc. the week after the iPad was unveiled.

According to the FT, Apple's (AAPL) reluctance to share subscription information is "pretty damn close" to a MORE

Techmate: Google Buzz is not buzz-worthy

In the latest episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael discuss why Google Buzz (GOOG) is generating buzz for all the wrong reasons.

The man who won Steve Jobs' trust

Who is Walter Isaacson, and why did Jobs choose him to tell the story of his life?

Isaacson at the iPad unveiling. Photo: Michael Copeland

Apple's iPad event last month was packed cheek to jowl with the famous and well-connected, from John Doerr to Al Gore.  But I was still surprised see my old Time magazine editor in the middle of the action. What in the world was Walter Isaacson doing MORE

Techmate: Everyone vs. Apple

In a special Presidents' Day episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael discuss Intel (INTC) and Nokia's (NOK) strange alliance to develop mobile software and compete with Apple (AAPL)  plus the on-going mess at MySpace (NWS)
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Apple is Barron's 'most respected'

Displaces J&J in the annual list of companies "most admired by major investors"

"If an Apple shareholder fell asleep in the summer of 2008 and didn't waken until Christmas 2009," writes Vito J. Racanelli, introducing The World's Most Respected Companies in this week's issue of Barron's Magazine, "he'd hardly notice anything had been amiss, based on the stock price."

Indeed stock performance seemed to be the primary criterion of the 70 investors MORE