In a new survey of prospective U.S. buyers, RIM and Microsoft drift, Nokia disappears
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The launch of the Verizon (VZ) iPhone has not visibly slowed the triumphant march of Google's (GOOG) Android operating system through the mobile heartland of America, according to a Nielsen Wire report released Tuesday.
In monthly surveys conducted from January to March 2011 -- on either side of the Feb. 10 Verizon launch -- 31% MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 26, 2011 11:42 AM ET
Cooler heads have started to respond to the smartphone data flap, but it may be too late
Screengrab from iPhone Tracker
"If there is anything less appropriate than a technologically ignorant media covering the subtleties of the manufactured LocationGate phony-scandal," writes Roughly Drafted's Daniel Eran Dilger, in a post perhaps too subtle for his usual AppleInsider audience, "it's the investigative policing by US and EU politicians who have suspended their efforts MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 26, 2011 8:11 AM ET
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Facebook's new "Send" button in action. Photo: TechCrunch/Facebook
Starting today, Facebook is testing its Groupon-like online discount effort, Deals, in five cities -- Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco -- and says Deals will show up via email and news feed updates. The social network also MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 26, 2011 6:30 AM ET
Rather than try to out-innovate Apple, he says, it should sue its Android competitors
Source: Global Equities Research
There's some pretty blunt language in the latest note to clients from Global Equities' Trip Chowdry, who may have been spending too much time talking to retailers and developers.
He estimates that Motorola Mobility (MMI) has sold somewhere between 25,000 and 120,000 Xoom tablets -- hardly a propitious start for a company he perceives MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 25, 2011 2:09 PM ET
Five months into his tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Leo Apotheker already faces a host of challenges. His board has mostly turned over. The company's financial results have flagged, along with its share price. Meanwhile, Apotheker has begun to articulate a new strategy for HP around cloud computing, even as it pursues a controversial strategy of designing its own operating system for mobile devices, a move certain to anger MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Apr 25, 2011 12:34 PM ET
One analyst, anticipating a 100+ point run-up over the next 3-5 months, believes it does
Photo: Apple Inc.
"The purchase of consumer electronic devices is not always a completely rational decision, and people buy Apple products for many different reasons, including status, aesthetics, functionality, quality and the "cool factor."
So wrote Ticonderoga's Brian White in a note to clients Monday, taking his cue from an AppleInsider report that Apple (AAPL) began shipping MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 25, 2011 11:46 AM ET
In each corner of the startup world there's a Venmo for every Paypal -- a little engine that could, and wants to, badly.
FORTUNE -- Hours before I met Andrew Kortina, I had already given him my credit card number. I don't do this with just any stranger. But Kortina and his cofounder Iqram Magdon-Ismail have built a service called Venmo, which promises to make mobile payments so easy, people will MORE
Chadwick Matlin - Apr 25, 2011 11:15 AM ET
Some of the worst were much-improved this quarter. Others have a lot to answer for.
Although they were once again bested by the amateurs in last week's Apple (AAPL) earnings smackdown -- as they have been every quarter since we've been keeping track -- it was not all bad news for the Wall Street analysts who are paid to predict the company's quarterly results.
As the spreadsheet at right shows, most of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 25, 2011 7:29 AM ET
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Dell CEO Michael Dell sat down with The Wall Street Journal to reflect upon the path his company has taken since he co-founded it in his dorm room some 26 years ago. Among the areas discussed: how the tablet's meteoric success surprised him, why Android MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 25, 2011 6:30 AM ET
A Hunch survey -- and a clever infographic -- offer an antidote to reductive name-calling
Click to see the full infographic. Source: Hunch.
In the polarizing discourse of the Internet, people who prefer Microsoft (MSFT) Windows PCs over Apple (AAPL) Macs and vice versa slip easily into a kind of high-tech intolerance, trading insults like schoolchildren and dividing the world into mactards and wintards.
That's what's so refreshing about the infographic released MORE
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