The latest software update is a big step forward, but we're not home yet
iOS 4.2 took about 45 minutes to install, but it moved the iPad at least five months forward, giving it some key features that iPhone 4 owners have enjoyed since June.
The biggest one, for me, was the ability to organize apps into folders -- putting maps with maps, games with games and so forth. From chaos to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 22, 2010 6:20 PM ET
MySpace was once the big kid on the social networking block, but Facebook beat it in part by improving on its social advertising strategy, or lack thereof.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
So much of the discussion around Facebook centers on the way it's shaping our social interactions with others that it's easy to overlook how profoundly the company is rewriting the rules of online advertising. When Facebook's revenue is mentioned, it's MORE
Nov 22, 2010 3:39 PM ET
Announces the arrival of the iPad's new operating system without delivering the downloads
[UPDATE: The announcement that iOS 4.2 "is available" was issued at 8:30 a.m. EST, news that was dutifully reported as fact by several media outlets, including the New York Times. According to MacWorld, Apple told them the update would arrive at 1 p.m. EST. We got it at 1:14.
The big surprise in Monday's press release, copied in full MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 22, 2010 1:12 PM ET
The iPad has the affection of consumers, but most IT departments aren't rushing to integrate the new Apple tablet -- or any other, for that matter.
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Apple's (AAPL) iPad may be at the top of your holiday wish list, but don't go asking your IT department for one.
Why? Tablets are small and lightweight, and they have the computing power to accommodate enterprise-class applications. But they're also expensive, and MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Nov 22, 2010 12:34 PM ET
Welcome to Google's Cloud Connect, Microsoft Office users.
With its purchase of DocVerse in March, Google (GOOG) obviously had the intentions of integrating Microsoft Office Applications into its Google Apps Cloud. Today, Docverse has turned into Google Cloud Connect.
With the plug-in, Office users can now simultaneously edit and store their documents in the Apps Cloud space that Google provides to businesses and schools.
Microsoft (MSFT) has similar functionality with its Live Office 2010 applications, MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 22, 2010 12:33 PM ET
The author responds to our Scott Woolley's review of his new book, "The Master Switch."
By Tim Wu, contributor
"Time has upset many fighting faiths" – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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My book, "The Master Switch" asks a simple, age-old question: Is history destined to repeat itself? Is the great revolutionary medium of our times, the Internet, destined to follow the path of its ancestors, radio and the telephone, MORE
Nov 22, 2010 11:58 AM ET
According to a Korean Newspaper, the Galaxy Tab is off to a strong worldwide start.
Perhaps, contrary to what Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs says, the seven inch tablet isn't dead on arrival.
The Korean Herald reports that the Samsung Galaxy Tab has sold over 600,000 units in the month since its launch. The Tab launched first on T-Mobile in the U.S. twelve days ago on November 10th.
That likely makes it the fastest selling MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 22, 2010 11:45 AM ET
Apple's tablets will reportedly sell in the U.K. for more than 60% off. Could it happen here?
Americans dreaming of an iPad Chrismas will be watching closely to see if AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) follow the lead of Orange and T-Mobile (DT), two carriers authorized to sell 3G iPads in the United Kingdom.
On Monday, Everything Everywhere, a joint venture of the two firms, announced that it will be selling -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 22, 2010 9:20 AM ET
To me, this is one piece of shovelware that makes a lot of sense
Unlike, some old-line media giants, CBS's (CBS) 60 Minutes isn't looking to Apple's (AAPL) iPad to save its skin.
The longest continuously running prime-time show in any format, 60 Minutes is still the most successful broadcast in U.S. television history. It was a top-10 rated show for 23 seasons in a row -- from 1977 to 2000. For MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 22, 2010 8:16 AM ET
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News Corp head Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs are reportedly knee-deep in the Daily, a digital newspaper that combines "tabloid sensibility" with "broadsheet intelligence" and will appear exclusively on tablets like the iPad MORE
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| 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% |
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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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