Once you get past the elaborate poop joke, South Park's Apple send-up is spot on
Source: South Park Studios
Comedy Central didn't do its South Park franchise any favors with the clip it chose to promote the 15th season premier: The keynote where Steve Jobs unveils the HumancentiPad. Jobs send-ups are comedic cliches and the centiPad -- a scatalogical spoof on a Dutch horror film few Americans have seen -- is MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 30, 2011 6:17 AM ET
Meanwhile, Nokia, Samsung and LG all lost market share, according to IDC
Source: IDC
Apple's 5% slice of the mobile phone pie chart at right, drawn from IDC numbers released Friday, may not look like much, but consider this:
IDC is counting shipments all over the world, not just the U.S.
IDC is talking about all mobiles, from cheap feature phones to high-end smartphones.
Apple's (AAPL) share grew more than twice as fast as MORE
Samsung's countersuits were "swift and strong" says an expert
Click to enlarge. Source: FOSS Patents
On Thursday, Samsung filed its fourth response to Apple's charge of "slavish" imitation: A suit in a California federal court alleging infringement by Apple (AAPL) of 10 Samsung communications patents.
"Samsung has mounted a swift and strong response to Apple's initiative," writes Foss Patent's Florian Mueller. "The speed with which Samsung responded to Apple's lawsuit in four MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 29, 2011 10:19 AM ET
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Microsoft's fiscal third quarter figures are out: profits jumped 31% and sales inched up to $16.4 billion, but several analysts noted that revenue from the division that includes the Windows operating system actually fell 4% to almost $4.5 billion, likely due in part to the overall decline in MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 29, 2011 6:30 AM ET
These days it's hard to find a spot on the globe without mobile-phone coverage. Even the most remote and inaccessible locations, like Mount Everest (as of October 2010), offer access. So as trekkers head to base camp or the spring climbing season, they, too, will be able to text, call home, or check voicemail at will. --Tara Moore
TeliaSonera 3G cell tower at Gorakshep, the original Everest base camp, October MORE
Apr 29, 2011 5:00 AM ET
With America asleep and saturation coverage available on old-fashioned TV, online viewership for the wedding was meager.
So much for today's royal wedding straining the Internet to the breaking point. Even at the ceremony's height, Internet users around the world only downloaded 5.4 million pages per minute. That makes it only the sixth most popular online news event in history -- right behind the U.S. match with Algeria in the World MORE
Scott Woolley - Apr 28, 2011 9:47 PM ET
For the first time in decades, Apple's net income has overtaken Microsoft's
Data: Company reports. Chart: Apple 2.0
One by one, the bragging rights are going Steve Jobs' way.
In May 2010, Apple's (AAPL) market cap passed Microsoft's (MSFT).
In October, Apple overtook Microsoft in total revenue.
On Thursday, when Microsoft reported its earnings for the March quarter, Steve Ballmer lost what edge he still had. Microsoft's net income for calendar Q1 2011 was MORE
The startup aims to take reams of computer generated data and make it digestible to humans. That could make it CEO Godfrey Sullivan's second multi-billion dollar company.
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FORTUNE -- Companies like SAP (SAP), Oracle (ORCL) and IBM (IBM) sell fancy business software that analyzes data created by humans. But what about the terabytes upon terabytes of data that are created by machines? That's where Splunk comes in. You MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Apr 28, 2011 1:54 PM ET
The first video shows a queue three city blocks long for Japan's post-tsunami launch
Source: stevenagata via YouTube
Earthquakes, a tsunami and a few nuclear meltdowns don't seem to have cooled the ardor of Japanese Apple (AAPL) enthusiasts for the iPad 2, which launched Thursday after a five week postponement.
The first customers took their place on line at 8 p.m. Wednesday and withstood a night of heavy rain, according to the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 28, 2011 11:00 AM ET
Counting the iPad, its PC sales grew 187.9% year over year, according to Canalys
Click to enlarge. Source: Canalys
"Canalys today announced that the PC market grew 7% in Q1 2011, as the pad market, led by Apple's iPad, continued to bolster growth."
That's how Canalys, the first research firm to count tablets as PCs, began its report on how the market shaped up in the first calendar quarter of 2011.
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