According to NPD, a quarter of all smarphones are now four inches and above.
T-Mobile Comet, left, Sprint EVO, Right
A report today from NPD shows that the face of the smartphone industry is changing, for the bigger. "The explosion in Web and video content available for smartphones has caused consumers to rethink their phones' sizes," said Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD. "Larger displays offer a richer MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 21, 2011 2:07 PM ET
Google's record on Chrome browser security is impressive, and that is important.
Google (GOOG) today fixed the recent Adobe (ADBE) Flash Zero-day exploit in which a devious hacker could embed a malicious Flash file in an Excel document and if opened could compromise Windows-based computers. Microsoft says that Office 2010 users aren't vulnerable. Apple's (AAPL) Macintosh users are not vulnerable to this particular attack either, though others could be developed using this MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 21, 2011 12:59 PM ETThe two companies have inspired two huge networks of imitators. So why is the one you'd least expect now intent on rubbing out the competition?
By Chadwick Matlin, contributor
FORTUNE -- Another week, another Groupon clone. And this time, it's Facebook. Last week, the company confirmed to Bloomberg that it was going to start competing for coupon revenue in earnest. Mark Zuckerberg and company began putting ads for a "Facebook Deals" feature MORE
Mar 21, 2011 12:50 PM ET
The acquisition deal announced on Sunday unleashed a flood of analyst's notes
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With the fate of so many players at stake -- not just AT&T (T) and Deutsche Telekom (DT), but also Verizon (VZ), Sprint (S), Apple (AAPL), Research in Motion (RIMM), Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Nokia (NOK), Motorola (MOT) and the other makers of Google (GOOG) Android phones, not to mention all the companies that build cell towers -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 21, 2011 11:18 AM ET
T-Mobile and AT&T say they won't have to raise rates to make more money after the merger, but it's hard to see how they could resist.
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At a recent investor conference, T-Mobile's top executives made a point of belittling data plans for smartphone users offered by rivals AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). T-Mobile's entry-level data plan costs $10, they pointed out, while AT&T demands 50% more MORE
Scott Woolley - Mar 21, 2011 8:26 AM ET
Reports of overheating under heavy loads are piling up in Apple's discussion forums
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"The fans revved and suddenly I could use nothing but the cursor. Had to hold down the power switch to kill all and then re-power & startup. I wasn't doing anything unusual, but I had 7 apps open and was amid an auto-backup to TimeMachine."
So begins the first message in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 21, 2011 8:18 AM ET
While it isn't quite the AT&T-T-Mobile blockbuster, the move has broad implications on the mobile communications industry.
Google (GOOG) and Sprint (S) just announced that the two companies would soon be integrating their voice services. The deal is two fold:
First, Sprint customers will be able to use their existing Sprint mobile number as their Google Voice number and have it ring multiple other phones simultaneously. So now, calls to your Sprint MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 21, 2011 7:55 AM ET
A profile in the Daily Mail blames it on an assignment to design a toilet
Ive at Walton High School, Stafford. Via the Daily Mail
Lots of new details about the man it calls "the most successful designer on the planet" in Rob Waugh's long biographical profile of Jonathan ("Jony") Ive in Sunday's Daily Mail, starting with the toilet design that drove him out of England:
"The manner of his departure for MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 21, 2011 6:51 AM ETLéo Apotheker's vision for Hewlett Packard is a familiar shade of Big Blue.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
Behold the new HP. After a series of scandals, a change in CEOs and a rebuilding of its board, the tech giant revealed the new HP to the world: It's still very much a company that wants to be another company -- IBM.
Watching CEO Léo Apotheker and other HP (HPQ) executives present MORE
Mar 21, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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"We learned that you can't rely on anyone else to control and maintain your own brand."
-- Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on its controversial Super Bowl ad. (Ad Age)
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AT&T plans to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion, a deal that would make the former the MORE
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