Nokia may be most vulnerable as Chinese cellphone owners upgrade to smartphones
Source: Alphawise/Morgan Stanley
There's good news for Apple (AAPL) in the results of an Alphawise/Morgan Stanley survey released Tuesday.
The survey, conducted among a sample of 2,029 Chinese mobile phone users in February and March, found demand for smartphones to be surprisingly strong. 88% of respondents said they expected the next phone they bought would be a smartphone. And 30% MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 29, 2011 2:22 PM ET
Despite losing ground to Apple and Android devices, calls for RIM's demise are premature. But the company has to make some changes to move ahead.
RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis at the PlayBook unveiling
FORTUNE -- It's become pretty easy to take pot shots at RIM, the makers of the once iconic and still formidable BlackBerry. While consumer-oriented companies like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) experience high double-digit growth with smart phone MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 29, 2011 1:04 PM ET
The Instant search technology makes searching for products quicker and easier.
If you are a business that offers products on the web, you want your customers to find what they are looking for quickly. Google (GOOG) is obviously an expert at such things and has today released an update to its co-opted search engine for retail websites, Google Commerce Search 3.0:
The features are already active on some of Google's partner sites, MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 29, 2011 12:27 PM ET
Double the nearest competitor.
Google's (GOOG) Android continues to see high smartphone market share projections from analysts. Today's comes from IDC who has Android pegged at 39.5% for 2011 while its nearest competitor, the recently cancelled Symbian, drops to just 20.9%. Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry both come in at around 15% with Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile/7 and others grabbing the remaining 9% of the market.
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Seth Weintraub - Mar 29, 2011 11:28 AM ET
The persistence of record-setting queues has Wall Street scratching its collective head
Apple's Fifth Avenue store on launch day. Photo: Computerworld
The morning phone call to Apple's Fifth Avenue Store followed a familiar script:
Do you have iPad 2s today? Yes, we got a shipment. Is there a line? Yes, it goes around the block. Do you have enough units for everybody? No, we don't.
That crowds of buyers are still gathering outside MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 29, 2011 10:11 AM ET
Told Apple had not violated 5 of its patents, Nokia filed a complaint about 7 more
The Nokia vs. Apple battlelines as of 3/27. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge.
The strange, prolonged patent dispute between Apple (AAPL) and Nokia (NOK) took another bizarre twist Tuesday.
Four days after an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission in Washington made an initial determination that Apple was not -- as Nokia claimed MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 29, 2011 8:28 AM ET
Ten hours after registration opened for WWDC 2011, all 5,000 seats were taken
Source: Apple Inc.
Media from around the world descend on Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco every June for a chance to see a Steve Jobs keynote and to find out what shiny new objects he has up his sleeve.
This year, however, according to several reporters with excellent sources within the company, there may be no shiny MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 29, 2011 7:18 AM ET
No one questions CEO Steve Ballmer's drive or intentions - but is his devotion to the company and its Windows business hurting its ability to innovate?
By Gary Rivlin, contributor
It seemed a little like love when a blogger named The Paperboy got his hands on a secret device being developed inside Microsoft under the code name Courier. With its icon-rich user interface and multitouch, stylus-friendly screens, Courier represented "an astonishing take MORE
Mar 29, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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Lady Gaga donated $1.5 million to Zynga's fundraising initiative with Save the Children to support relief efforts in Japan. (The donation comes not long after Zynga raised more than $2.5 million, as well.) "I'm inspired that my little monsters banded together to help those affected MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 29, 2011 5:00 AM ET
The site will allow web and Android users to stream up to 2GB of music to any device.
Amazon (AMZN) just beat Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) to the Music Cloud with the announcement of their Cloud Player.
Both Apple and Google have been rumored for years to be working on Cloud Music services. Both companies have picked up start ups - Google picked up Simplify Media while Apple nabbed Lala.
For some MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.82% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.60% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.24 | -0.23 | -5.26% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.57 | -0.80 | -3.58% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.58 | -0.25 | -1.26% |
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