The iPad is coming to China

Apple is stepping up its product releases in the world's largest mobile market

China's Caixin Media group reported Monday that China Unicom (CHU) has won the right to sell the iPad -- both the Wi-Fi and the 3G versions -- in China. No date for the product's release was given.

The report follows news that China Unicom will be selling the iPhone 4 in early September, less than three months after that MORE

The premature clean-tech IPO boom

Early-stage green technology companies are taking a page from the biotech playbook: IPO with little or no revenues. So far, it's not working.

A number of tiny, ambitious companies in a promising industry with a very small market are lining up to tap the public markets. It may sound like the biotech IPO boom of the 1990s, but this time it's firms in the clean tech industry filing S-1s faster than MORE

Samsung Epic 4G review: Blackberry upgrader's dream

The hardware is the best I've used.  The software needs some upgrading.

Samsung Epic 4G with Droid 2 behind it

If you are excited about Sprint's (S) new 4G landscape slider phone, the Samsung Epic, you aren't likely  a touch screen typing convert yet.  That's OK.  I am a convert to touch screen typing and I'd have no problem recommending the Epic 4G to anyone...with a few caveats.

If you are considering moving over MORE

How corporate America went open-source

According to recent surveys, more large companies are committing to open-source software. How the platform went from closet to corporate.

By Kit R. Roane, contributor

There was a time when open-source software was the domain of computer geeks and do-it-yourselfers with more time than money. But, as Oracle's legal salvo against Google highlighted last week, those days are long gone.

Oracle (ORCL), through its purchase of Sun Microsystems, has become one of the MORE

Analysts like PayPal integration into Android Marketplace-

The move would be good for growth, but would be a major blow to Google's own Checkout service.

Android PayPal app

Late Friday, Bloomberg reported that PayPal and Google are in discussions to include PayPal as a payment option for Android applications. Google Android app purchases are currently done through Google Checkout, Google's own Paypal competitor that hasn't really taken off with consumers.

As an added benefit, developers would also be able MORE

BlackBerry under siege

Research in Motion's biggest assets face enemy fire: one by foreign governments demanding more control, the other by cutting-edge tech.

Saudi Arabia and the app economy -- the two don't usually have much in common. But recently they've taken to delivering a joint beating to RIM. And it's been painful to watch, especially when you consider RIM's (RIMM) history as a tech leader. More than a decade ago, the company MORE

Nikesh Arora talks about the future of Google

A half hour with Google's President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development.

You don't have to travel very far down the Google Executives page to find Nikesh Arora, he's just below the founders and CEO Eric Schmidt.  That tells you how important his views are to Google (GOOG).  Last week while visiting India, he gave a three part interview in which he portrayed the company as sticking to its roots as MORE

Melting iPod snarls Tokyo rush hour

Japanese commuter train halted by the smell of an overheated iPod nano

Image: Apple Inc.

The iPod nano may be one of the world's most popular music players, but it's been a headache for Apple (AAPL) in the Japanese market.

The devices have been known to overheat, burst and, in some cases, burn their owners.

Only last Thursday did Japan's trade ministry pronounce itself satisfied with Apple's efforts to comply with a government MORE

Apple's iAd: The good and the bad

Two views of Cupertino's aggressive foray into the world of smartphone advertising

Source: Nissan

It's been four months since Steve Jobs unveiled iAd, Apple's (AAPL) bold bid to create a market for mobile ads that don't, in his words, "suck."

How's it going? That depends which report your read.

Silicon Valley's secret rock star

For more than two decades James Williamson worked at high-level jobs at places like Sony. Then his old boss Iggy Pop called again.

By Mina Kimes, writer

"I said to myself, what would Bob Dylan do?" recalls James Williamson, former Sony exec and member of the Stooges.

Offices are full of people with past lives -- and for more than two decades James Williamson kept his a secret. Before retiring last year, Williamson was the vice MORE