HP releases its eStation printer, a product that may have been too far in development to cancel when they bought the Palm OS.
This strange new HP (HPQ) Photosmart eStation Printer is a bunch of things in one. It is an 7-inch Android tablet with lots of different wireless imaging functions. The ta let docks in and controls a printer/scanner/copier which is wirelessly attached to the tablet and the Internet. Interestingly, MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 20, 2010 4:48 PM ET
Down slightly at the close from its new all-time intraday high of $283.78
After a record close on Thursday, Apple (AAPL) shot up another $7.86 (2.85%) Monday to finish at $283.23 -- a new record.
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Apple closes at a record high $276.57
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 20, 2010 3:42 PM ET
Deal with Rovi could bolster its set-top box or serve as a precursor to an all-in-one TV.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Rovi Corp. (ROVI) announced Monday that it had signed a multiyear deal giving Apple (AAPL) access to undisclosed portions of its TV-related intellectual properties.
Rovi, formerly known as Macrovision, purchased TV Guide for its VCR Plus and electronic program guide in 2008 and sold the money-losing MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 20, 2010 1:25 PM ET
By Ben Horowitz, contributor
Cloud computing company Opsware was nobody's darling. Then founders Andreessen and Horowitz put the company through three rounds of layoffs. The unlikely result was a big buyout -- here's how it happened.
"I'm tryin' to right my wrongs / But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song" -Kanye West
Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), I had a conversation with the legendary venture MORE
Sep 20, 2010 1:19 PM ET
Earlier today, IBM (IBM) announced it would purchase Netezza (NZ), a publicly-held Massachusetts-based data analytics company, for $1.7 billion.
For IBM, Netezza is the most recent of 23 acquisitions by the company over the last four years, amounting to $12 billion. (Last week, the company bought OpenPages, another company in Massachusetts that creates risk and compliance software for businesses.) Analytics technology enables companies to observe and analyze past business performance so they MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 20, 2010 11:38 AM ET
Its acquisition of a tiny Swedish company is typical for Apple.
Source: Polar Rose
The $45.8 billion in cash and marketable securities that Apple (AAPL) reported in June is not burning a hole in its corporate pocket. On Monday, our colleague Seth Weintraub spotted a Norwegian media report that Apple had gobbled up a small Swedish company called Polar Rose.
Polar Rose has some nifty face recognition algorithms -- demonstrated below the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 20, 2010 10:58 AM ET
The new ad touts the device's portability and power but its pocket-ability is questionable.
You'll need some pretty big pockets and the ability to stand up for long periods of time to pocket the Samsung Galaxy Tab. But that doesn't mean that Samsung won't tout the device's ability to go where no iPad will go.
Samsung CSO Omar Khan demonstrated it handily going into his "off the rack" suit jacket pocket easily MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 20, 2010 9:49 AM ET
'Two-factor authentication' may satisfy the security concerns of many CIOs but it adds a burden to users.
Google's Enterprise blog announced that some customers would soon have the ability to add two-factor authentication to their Apps accounts. This service is now available for government and premier customers and will roll out to all Apps users and Gmail users in the coming months.
It is an opt-in service. Users identify their home computers MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 20, 2010 9:13 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 weekend's most newsworthy bits below.
Given Intel's (INTC) mergers and acquisitions track record -- it spent $11 billion-plus for some 40 companies between 1999 and 2003 only to MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 20, 2010 8:09 AM ET
Cites better availability of iPad screens and continued strong demand
Kaufman Bros. Shaw Wu raised his Apple (AAPL) price target Monday from $350 to $374. In a note to clients he ticks off his reasons:
Strong demand for iPads and improved availability. "This alone is enough to drive significant upside to consensus estimates," he writes.
Slight cannibalization of low-end MacBooks in what is otherwise a strong Mac quarter helped by continued MacBook Pro 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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