Philanthropists say tech companies can help with BHAGs (That's Big, Hairy Audacious Goals)
A panel of non-profit and foundation executives urged the technology community to provide educational and philanthropic institutions and others with its entrepreneurial and business-building know-how, in addition to increasing its financial contributions.
"What the tech world and entrepreneurs and VCs, they're not afraid of BHAGs -- Big Hairy Audacious Goals," says John Wood, a former Microsoft (MSFT) executive and MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Jul 23, 2010 3:49 PM ET
Prices could drop to an absurd $10-$20 when these hit scale.
Android notification icons on upper right hand side.
Today, India's human resource development minister, Kapil Sibal, unveiled a $35 tablet computer that will run Linux. Although it wasn't specified, the device he displayed had the familiar notification icons of Android, seen to the right. Android, is a Linux OS built for smartphones and now tablets by Google under an Open MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 23, 2010 3:44 PM ET
Google's president of global sales operations, Nikesh Arora says that healthy competition from Twitter and Facebook is a good thing.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
Google's president of global sales operations, Nikesh Arora at Brainstorm Tech. Photo Credit: Matt Slaby, Fortune
Search giant Google (GOOG) has started hearing footsteps as Twitter and Facebook are becoming bigger and bigger presences in search. But Google's president of global search operations, Nikesh Arora MORE
Jul 23, 2010 2:29 PM ET
More spectrum in New York and fiber efforts are underway, but 'it's a process.'
by Laura Rich, contributor
The world will have to wait for sharper barbs between Apple and AT&T (ATT) over who's to blame for dropped calls on the iPhone. In an appearance at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen on Friday, AT&T mobility and consumer markets president and CEO Ralph de la Vega was succinctly complimentary about its MORE
Jul 23, 2010 1:52 PM ET
By Patricia Sellers, editor at large
Creepy. The word was tossed around a dozen times in a morning session called "Hyper-Personalization" at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.
If you think that the Internet knows too much about you -- that you like United vs. Delta, the Yankees vs. the Mets, and that you're hunting for a new job -- just you wait. Right now, the Internet is in the primitive MORE
Jul 23, 2010 1:03 PM ET
Just how much is Oracle going to spend to consolidate the tech industry? Apparently Oracle isn't sure.
By Laura Rich, contributor
At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen on Thursday, Oracle President Charles Phillips declared that "we'll probably double what we spent on acquisitions" over the next five years compared to the last five. That would total roughly $70 billion, a dollar figure that had his interviewer, Fortune's Adam Lashinsky, MORE
Jul 23, 2010 12:46 PM ET
Apple issues $29 refunds and launches an app that gives customers a choice of 8 free cases
Apple (AAPL) on Friday made good on the promise Steve Jobs made -- with some ill humor -- a week earlier. It issued refunds to customers who had purchased its $29 Bumper and it launched a free app that gives iPhone 4 owners who have a problem with its external antenna a choice eight MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 23, 2010 12:21 PM ET
Samsung makes a fortune building the parts for the iPhone. How do they compete with the iPhone at the same time?
According to iSuppli, Samsung makes three of the most expensive and important parts of the iPhone 4, The processor, the SDRAM and Flash storage. On a 16GB iPhone that comes out to over $50. On a 32GB iPhone, that price heads towards $75, making Samsung responsible for around a third MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 23, 2010 12:19 PM ET
Jim Lanzone, Clicker (Photo: Matt Slaby, Fortune)
So it's two days before the season debut of Mad Men and you're craving your Don Draper fix. Did you know AMC just made last year's season finale available for free on the web? You would if you were connected to Jim Lanzone on Clicker. The former Ask.com CEO debuted his online TV guide's newest set of features for the first time publicly MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jul 23, 2010 11:52 AM ET
Revenue is down, the music business is a mess and the scalpers just won't let up
by Laura Rich, contributor
Irving Azoff has his back up against a wall. The Live Nation (LYV) CEO faces declining ticket sales at the concerts his company produces and his company's 2009 revenue was down well below expectations at $365 million from $450 million the year before.
What's more, he doesn't trust the numbers about concert tours MORE
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