Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies
This is one in a series of articles leading up to Fortune Brainstorm Tech, which started today in Aspen, Colo. The articles look back at the progress of companies that presented at Brainstorm in 2009 as well as look forward to those that will present this year.
By Benjamin Snyder, contributor
HCL Technologies, an offshore IT and software development company, handles everything from setting up MORE
Jul 22, 2010 4:10 PM ET
As Android adoption passes that of iPhone, some big developers are opting to build for Android first and iPhone later.
Android activation rates are at 160,000 per day according to Google (GOOG) at their earnings call last week. Those numbers look to skyrocket further with big launches of the Verizon Droid X and Samsung Galaxy lines (which passed a million alone, in its first three weeks).
That activation rate is already significantly MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 22, 2010 12:36 PM ET
Also 400,000 to 500,000 iPads. Added 1.6 million new wireless accounts to top 90 million
Source: Company reports
AT&T (T) announced Thursday that it had activated 3.2 million iPhones and 400,000 to 500,000 iPads in the quarter that ended in June. The company called the iPhone number a record, although it also claimed to have activated 3.2 million iPhones in Q3 2009.
During the same three-month period, Apple (AAPL) sold nearly 8.4 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 22, 2010 9:40 AM ET
A new project by YouTube asks users to submit their content to create feature film.
You may be wondering what that little red circle is doing behind the YouTube logo these days. Well, YouTube is sponsoring an experimental film concept that will put its users behind the camera for a day of documentary filmmaking. The project is called Life in a Day.
Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 22, 2010 9:23 AM ET
By David Kirkpatrick, contributor
Mark Zuckerberg says he owes nothing to Paul Ceglia, the man who recently emerged from the woodwork with the extraordinary claim that he owns 84% of Facebook.
Ceglia hired Zuckerberg -- then an 18-year-old college freshman -- in April 2003 to help him program his own Web project, a sort of reference for street intersections to be used by insurance companies and others. Ceglia claims Zuckerberg took $1,000 of MORE
Jul 21, 2010 9:04 PM ET
From tablets to conflicts, business models to investment opportunities -- what we are hoping to hear.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
Fortune's 2010 Brainstorm Tech conference kicks off tomorrow in Aspen. Here's a preview of some of the questions our moderators will be asking top tech execs.
-Twitter, Zynga and LinkedIn are courting online ad money. Group M CEO Irwin Gotleib has a ton of it - his company is a major media-buyer. Group MORE
Jul 21, 2010 3:31 PM ET
A day after reports of 'banding' had surfaced, Motorola and Verizon issued a fix for the few that were having the problems.
The Droid X, the monster Android phone that borders on tablet but appears to be selling incredibly well, has a problem, it was reported yesterday. Some users were experiencing 'banding' on their Droid X devices (see video below).
A Verizon spokesperson told me that less than one-tenth of one percent of MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 21, 2010 3:05 PM ET
Google stopped selling its Nexus One smartphone today, ending an era and leaving its Froyo OS in limbo.
Google Store: "That's all Folks!"
Google last week warned that it was getting its last shipment of Nexus One phones in and true to its word, the store has now stopped selling the Nexus One smartphone today.
The stoppage presents a particularly interesting problem for Google. They no longer sell a device that runs Android 2.2 MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 21, 2010 11:57 AM ET
In a letter to the FTC, Google challenged the findings of a study on journalism.
On its public policy blog last night, Google laid out arguments against the Staff Discussion Draft of Potential Policy Recommendations To Support The Reinvention Of Journalism which studied how journalism, particularly in the newspaper profession, had been affected by the move to electronic readership over the past decade, and into the future.
The basis of the government's argument:
Studies have MORE Seth Weintraub - Jul 21, 2010 11:06 AM ET
Palm webOS on a Palm Pre phone. Photo credit: Abul Hussain, flickr.com
HP needs to make products that consumers think are cool. Is the new partnership with Palm the answer?
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
The big buzz about Hewlett Packard's handheld strategy is that it's teamed up with Palm, presumably to join the tablet game.
HP's executive vice president of its personal systems group, Todd Bradley, will be at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference MORE
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