Online shipping delays shrank Thursday to 3 to 4 weeks from 4 to 5
Thursday 3:00 p.m. EST snapshot. Source: Apple.com
Here's a surprise, given the U.S. stockouts, the disappointed customers and the queues already forming overseas in advance of the launch scheduled for Friday in 25 more countries:
The iPad 2 ship times on Apple's (AAPL) U.S. online store improved this afternoon, shrinking to 3-4 weeks from 4-5 weeks just this MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 24, 2011 3:11 PM ET
Customers began lining up in Australia two days before the scheduled launch
Waiting for the iPad 2 in Sydney. Photo: BeauGiles via Flickr
Alex Lee, 28, and Marius Eilertsen, 27, armed with folding chairs and blankets, took their places -- Nos. 1 and 2 -- in front of Apple's (AAPL) Sydney, Australia, retail store Wednesday at noon local time, 53 hours before the iPad 2 was scheduled to go on sale. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 24, 2011 10:30 AM ET
'Un-commercial' efforts for earthquake victims and non profits are paying off in brand value.
When people ask what financial benefit Google (GOOG) derives from its efforts to help people get online in North Africa during a revolution or to find loved ones who've been affected by earthquakes, you don't need to look much further than today's BrandFinance top 500 list.
The search giant tops the list, displacing last year's leader, Walmart (WMT).
'Don't MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 24, 2011 10:08 AM ET
A curated selection of the day's newsworthy tech stories from all around the Web. Read on, and join the conversation with a comment below.
The new social smartphone app, Color.
This week, the startup everyone's buzzing about is Color, a free mobile app aimed at creating a social experience that maximizes the smart phone's unique technology. Users share and store photos and videos in visual diaries -- besides being able to view MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 24, 2011 9:48 AM ET
The search giant is showing eBook publishers how it is done.
Google (GOOG), along with blog posts and emails, sends printed newsletters out to its UK advertising partners frequently. This week however, it sent out a short book about data, called Think Quarterly, to a small number of partners.
The companion website or eBook is just lovely and shows Google has some long form chops:
At Google, we often think that speed is the forgotten 'killer application' MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 24, 2011 9:35 AM ET
Steve Jobs may have found a way to get TV makers to put Apple's technology in their sets
Screen grab: Apple Inc.
Apple (AAPL) is talking to television makers about building a new generation of HDTV sets with Apple TV technology built in.
That's the thrust of the report Bloomberg posted Wednesday that cites "two people familiar with the project" and quotes a Pioneer vice president on the record as saying "Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 24, 2011 8:08 AM ET
What likely lies behind Bill Nguyen's whimsical new iPhone app
FORTUNE -- Repeat entrepreneur Bill Nguyen launches his latest company Wednesday. The name, Color, is as cute a confection as his last startup, Lala. Whereas Lala cleverly connoted that the company was a music service – Apple (AAPL) bought it in 2009 and promptly shut it down -- Color only hints at what the company does.
This could be because Color is MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Mar 23, 2011 8:00 PM ETChef Ferran Adrià loves the Internet but is too busy to tweet.
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Spanish chef Ferran Adrià, the foodie favorite who raised the profile of molecular gastronomy at his El Bulli restaurant in Catalonia, stopped by Fortune Wednesday afternoon to discuss his new role as brand ambassador for telecommunications giant Telefónica SA. (TEF)
At first blush the Adrià-Telefónica alliance may seem incongruous--like a delicate fish paired with a hearty Zinfandel--but MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Mar 23, 2011 3:36 PM ETA stunning decision in a Microsoft patent infringement case may have made patent royalties more fair, but also made them much more unpredictable.
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By Russell L. Parr and George Hovanec , guest contributors
A January decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had a sweeping effect: it dropped the value of US patents. Just how much the value has been reduced, overall, is not yet known. MORE
Mar 23, 2011 2:40 PM ET
By busting up the Open Handset Alliance with its Appstore, Amazon will make cheaper Android tablets more desirable and perhaps cut Google out of the loop.
Today's Amazon/Woot! is a $285 10-inch Android tablet by display-maker Viewsonic. While $285 for a 10-inch tablet from a name brand seems surprisingly inexpensive, it is a sign of things to come.
If you think it is hard to build a $200 tablet, take a look MORE
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