U.S. mobile carriers, for better or worse, have as much say on your Android experience as the hardware manufacturer.
I rated Android handset manufacturers earlier this morning.
There are four major carriers and a few minor carriers in the U.S. and all of them offer at least a few Android handsets. But it's what they do with their handsets that differentiate them. Each carrier has their own pricing and coverage differences as well. I'm not MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 22, 2010 6:47 PM ET
Google has a clearinghouse for Google information called Google new.
Google has blogs. They have Twitter accounts and RSS feeds. They have events and speaking engagements. How do you keep up with everything Google? Wouldn't it be nice to have a one-stop shop for all of the new stuff emanating from Mountain View?
A few Googlers in their 20% time created Google new to help:
A few of us had a 20% project idea: create a single MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 22, 2010 3:14 PM ET
I'm rating manufacturers on how well they provide a ' quality Android experience' to U.S. customers.
T-Mobile G2 - What a Froyo phone should look like
When buying an Android device, you want to know if your phone is going to be updated promptly to the latest operating system.
You want to make sure that carriers aren't going to add any applications or processes that impede the Android experience. Manufacturers' Android MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 22, 2010 12:52 PM ET
Apple has stepped up production of its tablet computer, but not to the point of overstock
Image: Swipe Auctions
If the advertisement at right, which popped up in my inbox Tuesday as an e-mail from "Overstock Auction," looks too good to be true, that's because it is.
MacBooks aren't selling for $49.68 and iPads can't be had for $31.47. Few companies keep as tight a rein on retail prices as Apple (AAPL), MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 22, 2010 9:35 AM ET
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Photo: Columbia Pictures
Early reviews of The Social Network, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 22, 2010 7:00 AM ET
One of the biggest voices of the Microsoft Windows world likes just about everything about his new Droid X and his wife's Droid.
Thurrott's Twitter picture
Paul Thurrott took some time out of writing his book, "Windows 7 Phone Secrets," to comment on what he thought Android brought to the table. His experience is telling because he's one of a handful of people outside of Redmond who have been using the MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 21, 2010 2:45 PM ET
I get the comparison - 'a short-term solution, but a long-term headache' - but Scandinavian euphemisms don't translate easily to English.
Image via Gizmodo (interesting font color choice)
That's right. When you are an outgoing EVP you can say what you really feel and don't have to run your statements through an army of global, culturally-aware PR people.
Nokia's (NOK) soon to be ex-EVP Anssi Vanjoki told the Financial Times that it wouldn't be MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 21, 2010 1:07 PM ET
Cupertino is raking in the cash as its competitors struggle to post any profit at all
Click to enlarge. Source: Canaccord Genuity and IDC
Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage of Apple (AAPL) Tuesday with a "buy" rating and a price target of $356 per share.
In the long, laudatory accompanying note by T. Michael Walkley, their new Apple specialist, the two paragraphs that jumped out at us were the ones that talked about MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 21, 2010 12:10 PM ET
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Oracle (ORCL) co-president Mark Hurd unveiled the latest in its line of high-performance data processing systems, the Exadata Database Machine X2-8, MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 21, 2010 8:06 AM ET
Generic PC users are happier than they were, but still not as happy as Apple's customers
Source: CNNMoney
The chart above, posted by my colleague David Goldman at CNNMoney early Tuesday, says it all.
The release of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7 helped undo some of the damage done by Vista, as measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index's 16th annual survey of computer users. But Apple (AAPL) remains in the lead MORE
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.86% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.26 | -0.48 | -3.75% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.22 | -0.25 | -5.59% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.62 | -0.75 | -3.33% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.59 | -0.24 | -1.21% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
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| Dow | 12,663.49 | -71.14 | -0.56% |
| Nasdaq | 2,812.82 | 7.54 | 0.27% |
| S&P 500 | 1,315.83 | -2.60 | -0.20% |
| Treasuries | 1.91 | -0.02 | -1.09% |
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