The updates are interesting but aren't likely enough to mainstream the product...yet.
Google (GOOG) this morning announced an update to their GoogleTV software running on Logitech (LOGI) Revue and Sony (SNE) Internet TVs and BluRays. The updates are significant, but don't address all of the major issues that consumers are having with the product.
Netflix(NFLX) is now a full client, allowing users to decide what programs to watch rather than only watching what MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 15, 2010 12:02 PM ET
It's mostly about timing. Apple is a story for the decades. Facebook is a story for this year.
Photo: Martin Schoeller for Time
In Time's online poll, Wikileaks' Julian Assange was the people's choice -- and would have been ours as well. Steve Jobs was No. 7. Mark Zuckerberg was No. 10.
But the editors chose Zuckerberg. Why? Here's managing editor Rick Stengel's explanation:
For connecting more than half a billion MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 15, 2010 10:33 AM ET
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
"Chrome OS will be killed next year (or "merged" with Android). ... Chrome OS has no purpose that isn't better served by Android (perhaps with a few mods to support a non-touch display)." -- Gmail creator Paul Buchheit (Boy Genius Report and TechCrunch)
Photo: Bloomberg
Unfortunately, Yahoo finally made good on all those layoff rumors by cutting roughly MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 15, 2010 7:59 AM ET
Piper Jaffray's senior Apple analyst offers two scenarios for next year's U.S. iPhone sales
Click to enlarge. Source: Piper Jaffray
Joining the growing list of analysts who have "baked in" the launch of a Verizon (VZ) iPhone in the first quarter of 2011, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster offered two sets of estimates Wednesday:
A "conservative" scenario in which Verizon sells 9 million iPhones in 2011 at the expense of AT&T (T), which MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 15, 2010 6:31 AM ET
With the big box consumer gadget chain's revenues down, it seems shoppers are heading to specialty stores or online to get their goods.
Though holiday shopping has been surprisingly healthy so far, particularly online, Best Buy is feeling the pain associated with fickle consumer trends. For its third quarter ending November 27, Best Buy (BBY) reported revenues of $11.89 billion, less than the $12 billion the company pulled in the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 14, 2010 5:35 PM ET
Nokia, Motorola and RIM unlikely to let Nortel's intellectual property go without a fight
In a note to clients issued Tuesday, J.P. Morgan's data networking team smelled danger in Monday's report that Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) have bid on part of the patent portfolio being auctioned off in the wake of Nortel Networks' January 2009 bankruptcy.
There are more than 4,000 patents at stake, organized into six "buckets" by related technologies, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 14, 2010 1:48 PM ET
Kevin Johnson joined networking gear maker Juniper (JNPR) two years ago as CEO. A former senior executive at Microsoft (MSFT) who worked at IBM (IBM) before that, Johnson is Juniper's first outsider to run the company. I spoke with him recently about Juniper's disproportionate bet on research and development, how Juniper competes against Cisco (CSCO) and whether or not he still uses Microsoft products. An edited transcript follows.
Fortune: If MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Dec 14, 2010 12:54 PM ET
Wedbush Morgan analyst Lou Kerner raised his rating on Google to Outperform from Neutral
Google's (GOOG) efforts in Mobile and OS/Browser markets will start to pay off, according to Wedbush Morgan analyst Lou Kerner.
In a research note today, Kerner wrote:
We are raising our rating and price target on Google based on our belief that mobile and social secular trends are accelerating the growth of time spent online and the growth of global MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 14, 2010 12:35 PM ET
What the rumors about Apple's next tablet are saying, and what we think it has to have to stay competitive with Android and Microsoft Slate.
Ask people what they think of the iPad, and answers will vary. The word "magical" may be thrown around by some starry-eyed owners. "I don't get it," others will say with a shrug, while still others -- call them cynics, disbelievers, or just plain pragmatists -- MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 14, 2010 11:28 AM ET
The key, according to Goldman Sach's new Apple analyst, is how it leverages its platform
Click to enlarge. Source: Goldman Sachs
"Apple's hardware products often capture the hearts of consumer with their innovative and elegant designs, and this has been the case throughout the company's 34-year history. Nevertheless, we believe Apple's tremendous success in its most recent decade has been primarily driven by the evolution of its content and software platform, MORE
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