"Important details still being ironed out," writes analyst. Could T-Mobile and Sprint be next?
Apple (AAPL) needs another carrier to maintain the iPhone's current rate of growth in the U.S., says Kaufman Bros.'s Shaw Wu in a note to clients Monday, but it doesn't necessarily have to be Verizon (VZ).
According to Wu, Apple's share of AT&T's (T) 90-million subscriber base is approaching saturation. Verizon, with 93 million subscribers, would be the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 23, 2010 9:05 AM ET
Apple scored its biggest gains in government, big business and the European home market
Click to enlarge. Source: Needham, IDC
Given the Mac's tiny share of the worldwide PC market -- roughly 3.5% as of June -- Apple (AAPL) has a lot of room to grow. And grow it did in the second quarter, as a note to clients issued Monday by Needham's Charlie Wolf makes clear.
Using IDC's numbers for calendar MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 23, 2010 7:38 AM ET
Will Apple TV's successor, rumored for Sept. release, really destroy cable and satellite?
Rose. Photo: Brian Solis via Flickr
Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg, made two bold predictions Saturday about the rumored update to what Steve Jobs calls his "hobby" -- an Apple-branded gateway to the vast wasteland of American television. The product Engadget has been calling iTV, according to Rose, 1) is coming in September and 2) will "change everything."
Never MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 22, 2010 7:01 AM ET
A blogger caught one of Google's impressive new features being tested.
Google (GOOG) is known to test some of its new features amongst a random subset of users. One such user doing a web search noticed his results page was appearing as he typed and would change as additional letters were added or subtracted.
I imagine this will only work with high-speed, low-latency Internet connections as there is a lot of back MORE
Seth Weintraub - Aug 21, 2010 9:54 PM ET
The pact has effectively meant disabled Skype for Verizon users and locked out Android users on other carriers.
Verizon and Skype announce pact in Feb. via intomobile.com
In February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Verizon and Skype announced a partnership that would put Skype on most of Verizon's Smartphones including BlackBerry and Android devices.
But this isn't Skype like you'll find on an iPhone, Symbian phone or computer. Verizon's brand MORE
Seth Weintraub - Aug 21, 2010 1:08 PM ET
The move would immediately help its product search business.
Like.com announced on its site today that it had agreed to be picked up by Google. The shopping site allows users to search for jewelry, handbags, shoes, and watches. It makes money on affiliate links which are estimated to be as high at 10%.
As Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post mentioned last month, Google (GOOG) has yet to realize the potential of its market-leading Product Search MORE
Seth Weintraub - Aug 20, 2010 8:36 PM ET
What happens when you team up with Verizon to thwart Net Neutrality?
You get cast as making a deal with the devil in Taiwan.
Notable inclusions in the Google (GOOG) video:
Jeff Jarvis's term "Schminternet", the special Google Internet. Google Drones Google Streetview outrage Heaping helpings of "Don't be Evil"All that and more, in the video below. (I still like the Onion's parodies better).
Seth Weintraub - Aug 20, 2010 12:33 PM ET
A round-up of the week's Apple news
Photo: Jonathan Haeber. Click for more.
Jackling Mansion coming down: Preservationists who had fought for six years to prevent Steve Jobs from razing a 14-bedroom Spanish colonial mansion he bought in 1984 but never really liked have finally thrown in the towel. Under a plan approved by the city council of Woodside, Calif., last summer, a wealthy Silicon Valley investor -- Gordon MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 20, 2010 7:37 AM ET
When will Facebook go public? How will it monetize its users? We don't know yet, but here's one educated guess about how much the social networking giant will be worth.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
by Andy M. Zaky, contributor
Like many privately held companies, Facebook is very tight-lipped about its financial performance. It told us it became cash flow positive for the first time in September 2009, and earlier this summer MORE
Aug 20, 2010 3:00 AM ET
Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights to the Ken Auletta book Googled: The End of the World As We Know it.
Facebook's movie, the Social Network, now has some company in the 'founding a billion dollar Internet startup' genre. Googled: The End of the World As We Know It is being made into a movie according to Deadline New York.
"It's about these two young guys MORE
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