Opening two new stores and launching the iPhone 4 on Saturday
"We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn't care about China," Lenovo CEO Liu Chuanzhi told the Financial Times in July. "If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble."
Comments like that may help explain why Apple (AAPL) has been making extra sure the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 20, 2010 7:12 AM ET
Which styles will fly off the shelves this season? Customers who play a new online fashion game are helping big retailers find out.
First Insight CEO Petro believes online games can boost retail sales.
With consumers still skittish, retailers need every edge they can get. Yes, when it comes to market research, walking the floor and setting up focus groups work -- to an extent. But Greg Petro, 46, a former MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 20, 2010 3:00 AM ET
Tech titans are battling to pay big bucks for once bland computing firms. Two questions: Are they worth it? And who's next?
When tech titans HP (HPQ) and Dell (DELL) became entangled in a furious back-and-forth bidding war over 3PAR (PAR), they unwittingly introduced much of the public to a decidedly-unsexy area of tech that is becoming indispensable in our increasingly smartphone'd, tabletized, app-driven world : cloud computing.
In fact, HP's $2.4 billion acquisition MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 20, 2010 3:00 AM ET
In Torino, the city that hosted the 2006 Olympic Winter Games
Video: Fabio Zambelli
Doors opened Saturday morning in this northern Italian city of 1 million. settleB.IT's Fabio Zambelli put together a speeded-up video of the gathering crowd. You can see it here and below the fold.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 19, 2010 2:11 PM ET
Facebook is building a phone according to some reports this weekend but that phone is likely to have a familiar base.
The news was first reported last night by TechCrunch that Facebook was working on its own phone. That thought seems a bit silly on many levels, especially since Facebook is currently a software service and they'd have to build or acquire many software and hardware layers to build a successful Phone MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 19, 2010 12:37 PM ET
With partners, developers, competitors and maybe some regulatory agencies
"Mending Fence" by Cynara Shelton
One of Apple's (AAPL) weaknesses as a company -- as even Steve Jobs will admit -- is that it isn't a particularly good neighbor. Like its co-founder and CEO, it can be secretive, prickly and quick to take offense. Witness, for example, the 121 pending lawsuits that list Apple as a plaintiff or defendant.
So it's unusual and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 19, 2010 8:27 AM ET
Adobe says that their Flash Mobile app is not only faster than HTML5 but it also uses less power.
Adobe Blogger John Nack posts a video today comparing Flash 10.1 and HTML5 on the eight month old Nexus One and then compares it with the just-released iPod touch which runs the same processor as the iPhone 4. The original tests can be seen here (and I've run them and got similar MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 18, 2010 4:22 PM ET
That's the question a self-described "total Apple fanboy" put to Steve Jobs
[UPDATE: The "fanboy" has now confessed that he faked his exchange with Jobs, reportedly after his father read this post. See here.]
Ah, the white iPhone 4.
Announced on June 7. Missing at the June 24 launch. Promised by the end of July by Steve Jobs himself at his July 16 "Antennagate" press conference. Pushed back to "later this year" in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 18, 2010 10:12 AM ET
Samsung announced that they're selling 2 million Galaxy S Android phones on all four major networks. They're going with the same strategy on Tabs.
It is hard to argue with Samsung's strategy of making their phones available across all carriers. They announced that they are about to cross the 2 million Galaxy S phone mark in just over two months of sales in the U.S. They expect to have sold five MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 17, 2010 5:14 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 morning's most newsworthy bits below.
Former HP (HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd made his first public comments as Oracle (ORCL) co-president to discuss the company's huge growth opportunities. Oracle's first-quarter revenue rose 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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