Google tries to clean up Android, telling carriers and manufacturers that they can't get too crazy with their modifications. So it gets whacked by pundits. Damned if you do...?
It's hard for Andy Rubin and his Android creation to catch a fair break. Partnering with just about every carrier and smartphone manufacturer, Android has come from nowhere to be the dominant OS in the smartphone industry in under three years. MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 31, 2011 4:25 PM ET
The newly released HTC Thunderbolt is keeping pace with the Verizon iPhone, at least according to Verizon store reps.
4Gs.
Some people have just got to have them. Most people agree that the ThunderBolt isn't the best Android device on the market today, but its ability to get speeds of over 20Mb/second, faster than many wired ISPs, have people snapping them up.
Barron's quotes BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk who ran checks on 150 different MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 31, 2011 4:03 PM ET
Hewlett Packard can never write the Mark Hurd scandal out of its history. But have wholesale executive changes at least helped new management turn the page?
Leo Apotheker and Ray Lane
FORTUNE -- It's been a rough several months for Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) board. First they had to deal with a scandal that led to the sudden departure of their Chairman and CEO. Then they had to begin a search for new MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Mar 31, 2011 2:16 PM ET
Paying whatever it takes to ramp up to a reported ship rate of 4 million iPads per month
Natori City in northeastern Japan. Photo: REUTERS/KYODO
Here's what Apple COO Tim Cook might call another "fantastic use" for the company's nearly $60 billion cash reserves.
According to a report Thursday in DigiTimes, the Taipei-based daily that is a rich source of electronics supply-chain rumors, Apple (AAPL) has agreed to absorb all the additional MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2011 10:53 AM ETSteve Ballmer's slavish devotion to Windows and Office has made them cash cows, but some say revenues have come at the expense of innovation.
By Gary Rivlin, contributor
The traffic jams begin at 5pm on the dot at Microsoft's Redmond campus.
FORTUNE -- What's the matter with Microsoft? After spending weeks tracking down and talking with a long list of former Microsoft (MSFT) employees, many of them veterans with fifteen or more MORE
Mar 31, 2011 10:47 AM ET
The shoe, as the say, is now officially on the other foot.
In a move which has shown how much the competitive landscape has moved in the past decade, Microsoft (MSFT) filed a formal complaint with the E.U. Commission over what it sees as anti-competitive tactics used by Google (GOOG).
Microsoft is still reeling from its own anti-trust settlement in the E.U. just two years ago. The decade long fight ended with Microsoft MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 31, 2011 9:01 AM ET
Has the iPhone replaced the iPod as the headliner for the company's fall product preview?
Steve Jobs at the Sept. 2010 special event. Image: Apple Inc.
Many Apple (AAPL) watchers are finding it hard to believe that summer might come and go without a new iPhone, as some are reporting.
But to Marco Arment, the rumors make a lot of sense.
In a Thursday blog post entitled "Apple's boring hardware updates," the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2011 7:12 AM ET
Apple shares briefly fall to $0.00 on Google Finance
Click to enlarge. Source: Google Finance
Under the heading "OK, I almost just had a heart attack," one of the investors who follow Apple (AAPL) on Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board posted the screenshot at right, in which Google's (GOOG) stock-tracking service reports Apple's shares plummeting $350.96 (100%) in after-hours trading Tuesday.
The stock bounced back in the next clock tick, but the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2011 6:18 AM ET
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Google released its "+1" social feature, which basically adds its own version of Facebook's "Like" button to web search results and will eventually apply to ads, too. So when users search results with the feature enabled -- right now, you have to opt in, but eventually it'll MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 31, 2011 6:00 AM ET
Is the "Facebook for the office" company joining the rest of the Valley in cranking up the IPO machine?
Jive CEO Tony Zingale. Image by Alex Dunne via Flickr
FORTUNE -- Nothing says, "we plan to go public" more than when a startup bulks up its board with executives from brand-name companies. Software company Jive has just done that, with the addition of former McAfee (MFE) Chairman Chuck Robel, McAffee President MORE
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