Sub-$100 Android phone hits U.S. shores

The T-Mobile Comet is now $120 with a $25 credit for calls, with nothing more to do, ever.  Here they come!

T-Mobile's Comet, a re-branded Huawei Ideos handset, is now the low cost king of smartphones.  Amazingly, it is running Google's (GOOG) Android 2.2 Froyo *sneers at Galaxy S line* and has a lot of the features that higher-end smartphone buyers are looking for.  For instance, it has 3.2-megapixel camera with camcorder, MORE

Apple loses buzz, Microsoft gains

The net loss in "media value" last quarter, according to a new report, was nearly $460 million

Click to enlarge. Source: General Sentiment

Here's an interesting exercise. Take the total number of news stories, social media mentions and tweets about Apple (AAPL) over the course of, say, three months. Rate each hit for its impact and value -- positive, neutral or negative. Calculate what it would cost to generate that kind MORE

Google Cloud Print arriving shortly to an inbox near you

Print from any web-enabled device including your smartphone.

As promised, Google (GOOG) is starting to roll out its Cloud Print services to its Gmail clients who want to print an email, document or PDF file to their printers through the internet.  The process is pretty straight forward on the client side, (which incidentally includes any device that can read Gmail).  It gets much more complicated on the printer side.

First, you'll need to have MORE

The iPad newsstand that works

Zinio's digital revenues have grown 350% since last April. Will Apple put a stop to that?

When we wrote a few weeks ago about the signal failure of Apple's iPad to halt the magazine industry's downward spiral (See Why digital newsstands stink), we had forgotten about Zinio.

Zinio, which has been giving publishers a venue to sell their wares online for nearly a decade, is the exception to all the rules of MORE

What LivingSocial's biggest deal means for Amazon

The implications of the Amazon flash sale go beyond 24 hours.

Photo: LivingSocial

Last week, LivingSocial offered a flash sale that lit up the web. For 24 hours, it sold $20 Amazon gift cards for half that price, and customers eagerly chomped at the deal. In the end, 1,378,938 million cards -- the equivalent of 7,600 an hour or 80 per second -- were sold in the U.S., and MORE

Today in Tech: Facebook raises $1.5 billion, Android flagship tablet gets date

A curated selection of the weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

"It's a complete work of fiction. There are no Victoria's Secret models in Silicon Valley ... I kind of wish my life were that cool." -- Former Facebook president Sean Parker on Justin Timberlake's portrayal of him in The Social Network (Reuters)

The Xoom flagship Android tablet gets a date and some prices

Leaked images reveal details about the Google tablet's launch.

Xoom via Motorola

Whether or not Motorola's (MOT) Xoom is the official Google (GOOG) Tablet in the way the Nexus One and Nexus S are official Google phones is uncertain. However, when Google has shown of Android on a tablet, they've shown off the Xoom, both at Dive into Mobile and CES.

It is pretty clear Xoom is Google's go-to Android 3.0 tablet, MORE

Did the China decision mark the beginning of the end for Eric Schmidt?

It seems that the move may not have only ended Google's presence in China, but also Schmidt's tenure.

In a piece in the New Yorker, Googled Author Ken Auletta argues that the decision to pull Google (GOOG)  out of China was the turning point  for outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt in his decision to step down from the company's Chief Executive role.

According to close advisors, the Google C.E.O. was upset a year ago when MORE

A fantastic use for Apple's cash

Tim Cook thinks he knows how to put $59.7 billion to good use

Source: Asymco.com

One of the things that's keeping Apple's (AAPL) market cap from overtaking Exxon Mobil's (XOM) -- besides Steve Jobs' health problems and the world's unquenchable thirst for petroleum products -- is the fear that the company will do something stupid with the nearly $60 billion in cash and marketable securities that seems to be burning a MORE

The world's fastest Internet access—who's got it?

New research ranks the countries with the fastest Internet connections, and all 50 U.S. states too.

The speed at which people around the world connect to the Internet is climbing at a 14% annual clip and now averages nearly 2 megabits per second, according Akamai's "State of the Internet" report that is due out tomorrow.

There remain huge variations around that average speed. South Koreans hook into the Internet at 14 MORE