Struggling financier Phil Falcone hopes to build a new $8 billion "4G" network that could speed up wireless service for everyone. Thanks to the big gift of airwaves the FCC just handed him, he might just pull it off.
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Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) value their airwave licenses at a stunning $122 billion, so its no wonder they pitched a fit last year when financier Phil Falcone MORE
Scott Woolley - Jan 27, 2011 1:40 PM ET
On the anniversary of the iconic tablet's unveiling, the ranks of its imitators is swelling
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It's been one year to the day since Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, and to mark the occasion we're reposting, below the fold, the most compete list we've seen of the tablet computers unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas three weeks ago.
It comes courtesy of CES director of research MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 27, 2011 11:03 AM ET
Revenues soared 95.2% last quarter. In 2009, they fell sharply. Charlie Wolf explains.
Click to enlarge. Source: Needham Research
No Wall Street analyst follows Apple's (AAPL) retail operations more closely than Needham's Charlie Wolf, who has been using quarterly in-store sales as a metric for how well the Apple Stores are doing in general.
But you can sense his frustration in a note to clients issued earlier this week in which he MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 27, 2011 9:57 AM ET
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Meet the Sony PSP2, codenamed NGP. Sony's next-generation handheld gaming device will focus on the following areas: Revolutionary User Interface, Social Connectivity, Location-based Entertainment, Converging Real and Virtual (augmented) Reality. Features include a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, 5-inch touchscreen OLED display with 960 x 544 resolution, dual analog sticks, 3G, WiFi, GPS, a rear-mounted touchpad, the same accelerometer MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jan 27, 2011 8:36 AM ET
How hard is it to do what Steve Jobs' company does year after year?
Snell at Macworld. Photo: PED
Jason Snell, the editorial director of Macworld the magazine, asked an interesting question on Day 1 of Macworld the tradeshow, which runs through Saturday in San Francisco.
Why, he asked, aren't there more companies like Apple (AAPL)?
What he meant by that was companies that build products as simple and elegant as, say, the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 27, 2011 7:50 AM ET
For most companies, running a business from an iPad isn't yet possible, but the tablet is still taking an unprecedented and rapid hold on enterprise IT.
Despite what Apple COO Tim Cook says, I don't know anyone who runs their entire business on an iPad. Still, there's no denying that the touchscreen tablet has made leaps and bounds in the enterprise space since it launched last April.
According to MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 27, 2011 3:00 AM ET
The man who wrote MacPaint thinks it could be a milestone in computer development
Source: IBM
Bill Atkinson was part of Steve Jobs' hand-picked team at Apple (AAPL) that developed the original Macintosh -- the one that popularized the mouse, windows and drop-down menus -- so he knows something about what computer engineers call human interface design.
And he ended a 20-minute presentation on the subject at Macworld 2011, which runs through MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 26, 2011 4:56 PM ET
Twitter and Facebook have seen outages occur as protestors, following the recent Tunisian example, demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak's reign.
A photo of the protests posted on the Facebook group page, "We are all Khaled Said."
In the history of political upheavals, communication is in many ways the most powerful tool available to both entrenched power and upstart. However control over those communications tends to lie firmly in the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jan 26, 2011 3:23 PM ET
Why does the public, the punditry and the press have such an big appetite for information about Steve Jobs's health?
By David A. Kaplan, contributor
Steve Jobs
Of the many things Apple does brilliantly, information dissemination isn't among them. The company's reputation for secrecy is richly deserved: its employees are terrified of misspeaking, or speaking at all, to the media; its legal apparatchik attack trivial rumors as if they're trade libel; MORE
Jan 26, 2011 2:32 PM ET
Remarks made in Davos suggest that Apple is building a model for China Mobile
Will the iPhone 5 be the one that finally cracks open the No. 1 carrier in the world's biggest cell phone market?
That's the thrust of a report out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that cites remarks made by China Mobile (CHL) chairman Wang Jianzhou.
"We hope that when they develop the next-generation models, since Apple MORE
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