After offering Google Voice, the carrier now will let you make Market purchases against your monthly bill.
Joining AT&T (T) and T-Mobile (ahem), Sprint (S) will now allow Android users to buy Android Market items and have them charged to their monthly Sprint bill. This theoretically simplifies purchasing and removes the barrier to entry for paid Apps for some Android users. Google remarked:
We believe that Direct Carrier Billing is a key MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 13, 2011 4:00 PM ET
That nearest competitor is now AOL, which is one-third its size.
comScore numbers, click to enlarge
The latest comScore Internet video numbers published today show Google (GOOG) and its YouTube subsidiary out in front in visitors sessions and minutes per viewer.
Google Sites had the highest number of viewing sessions as it neared the 2 billion mark, and highest time spent per viewer at 276 minutes, or 4.6 hours.
Back of napkin math MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 13, 2011 1:26 PM ET
An analyst offers four reasons she doesn't believe the launch has been postponed until fall
Source: Nowhere Else
"We believe nothing hurts sales more than stale product."
So writes Cross Research's Shannon Cross in a note to clients Tuesday. The stale product, in her view, is the iPhone 4, and she is unconvinced by the arguments put forward by those who expect its replacement to arrive in the fall:
Argument 1. Apple needs MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 13, 2011 11:20 AM ET
After the U.S (with Verizon) and South Korea, Apple is likely to target China, India and Japan
Click to enlarge. Source: J.P. Morgan
The iPhone built around the CDMA protocol that Apple (AAPL) launched in February went first to Verizon (VZ).
That made sense, since Verizon Wireless, with 94 million customers, represents the world largest market for CDMA mobile phones.
But as J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz points out in a note to clients MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 13, 2011 9:48 AM ET
Apple's deteriorating relationship with Google is a running theme in Steven Levy's new book
Levy's book party in Manhattan. Photo: PED
One of the first details to leak out of In the Plex -- the new page-turner about Google released Tuesday -- was that when Larry Page and Sergey Brin were pressed to hire a CEO, Steve Jobs was their first choice.
But Steven Levy -- who had previously chronicled the creation MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 13, 2011 6:40 AM ET
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It's official: The Flip digital cam is dead. (Long live, Flip.) Cisco, which bought the startup behind the product line for $590 million back in 2009, will close down the business and lay off all 550 staffers as part of a restructuring of its consumer electronics division. The MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 13, 2011 5:00 AM ET
With 2013 looming as a tipping point for ebooks, the struggling giant should regroup behind its Nook ebook business, fast.
In the late 1990s, the book industry was upended by the rise of the superstore. With big footprints in exurban shopping centers, Barnes & Noble (BKS) and Borders (BGP) superstores offered what many shopping-mall-sized and downtown mom and pop stores couldn't: aisles upon aisles of hardbacks, paperbacks and MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 13, 2011 5:00 AM ET
And 43% spend more time on their tablet computer than on their laptop or desktop PC
Source: AdMob
This chart is from a survey of more than 1,400 tablet computer users conducted by AdMob, the online advertising company that Google (GOOG) snatched away from Apple (AAPL) in 2009. I missed the report when it was released last week. The extent to which tablets have cut into PC use is surprising.
"I think MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 12, 2011 6:39 PM ET
Analysts are publishing their forecasts for Google's Q1 2011 earnings.
Thursday's earnings call will be the first under new CEO Larry Page and analysts are expecting to get some guidance on the direction of the company. Overall the outlook is positive with expectations of Google (GOOG) beating guidance and the Street.
Interestingly, there isn't much talk about the ITA purchase, which has now gotten Federal approval.
Here we go...
Seth Weintraub - Apr 12, 2011 2:16 PM ET
Rumors have it coming any time between late June and early 2012. Does it matter? Um, yes.
Source: Nowhere Else
In early spring the folks who obsess about Apple (AAPL) are usually busy speculating about what features to expect in the next iteration of the iPhone -- a game neatly summarized in an infographic produced by the French site Nowhere Else, from which the image at right was taken.
But this year, MORE
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