The original enterprise tech company has been using social tools for years, says its new CIO.
IBM CIO Jeanette Horan
FORTUNE --Business software makers -- from SAP (SAP) to Microsoft (MSFT) -- are in a race to make their products more "social." IBM (IBM) is no exception. The New York-based company says its social media roots date back to the 1970s, when its mainframe programmers started discussion forums (on System/370 consoles). MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - May 31, 2011 2:55 PM ET
They are the reason Apple's shares leaped out of the box at the opening bell Tuesday.
Jobs at Macworld 2007
The key words in the press release Apple (AAPL) issued Tuesday morning were not OS X Lion, iOS 5, or iCloud -- the three components of what the company is billing as the "next generation software."
As important as the operating systems and services to be unveiled next week at Apple's annual MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 31, 2011 10:49 AM ET
Tells Ad Age that the rush to put magazines on tablets is "sheer insanity and insecurity and fear"
Images: Apple Inc., Gawker
Jann Wenner, who has done his share of celebrity interviews for Rolling Stone (Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Barack Obama, etc.), knows how to give a good one, and his Q&A in the current issue of Ad Age is a doozy.
As it happens, he spends much of it talking Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 31, 2011 7:22 AM ET
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* Twitter reportedly plans to launch a photo-sharing service at All Things D's D9 conference this Wednesday. If it takes off, the service would mark a major step forward for the social network as users currently have to store their photos on third-party sites like Twitpic and Flickr. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 31, 2011 6:30 AM ET
Google's OS is still more popular than Apple's, but no more than it was in March
Top: Feb. to Apr. Bottom: Mar. Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen
Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Research in Motion (RIMM) have reached something like a three-way stalemate in the battle for dominance of the U.S. smartphone market, according to Nielsen survey results scheduled for release Tuesday.
Smartphones are increasingly popular -- they now represent 37% of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 30, 2011 2:00 PM ET
In a legal tit for tat, Samsung's patent attorneys demand copies of the iPhone 5 and iPad 3
Photo: fudocom.com
What Apple watcher hasn't wished he could do what Samsung's lawyers did Friday night in a California federal court: File expedited discovery papers demanding "samples of Apple's next-generation iPhone and iPad."
It was the latest move in nasty patent fight that Apple (AAPL) started last month when it accused Samsung of "slavishly MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 29, 2011 10:39 AM ET
Google new NFC-enabled services, Wallet and Offers, are ambitious, but getting all of the pieces to work together will be difficult.
FORTUNE -- At yesterday's Google Wallet/Offers launch event in New York, Google (GOOG) laid out a very compelling case for using NFC-enabled Android phones to make payments at physical merchants. The company trotted out launch partners including the Container Store, Subway, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) and Walgreens (WAG). On the backend, Google MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 27, 2011 4:16 PM ET
At the annual BookExpo America this week, booksellers voiced mixed feelings about the news that Amazon's Kindle book sales have surpassed print, and some said they simply don't believe it at all.
By Daniel Roberts, reporter
FORTUNE -- New York's Javits Center was a crowded, noisy hothouse of handshaking and book signing this week at BookExpo America. Every publisher and imprint was there with marketing reps, editors, and authors on hand. The MORE
May 27, 2011 11:32 AM ET
Nvidia aims for 40 million 3D PCs by 2015, but will non-gamers don glasses to watch movie trailers and viral videos?
Image by Mestra Ashara via Flickr
FORTUNE -- There have been attempts to force 3D onto the Web since the Web was born. Remember Virtual Reality Modeling Language? VRML -- a standard for creating 3D graphics, mainly with gaming and "Web experiences" in mind -- was the laughingstock of certain MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - May 27, 2011 11:30 AM ET
Who's behind the weekly Max Pain phenomenon that has become the tail that wags the dog?
Click to enlarge. Data: tickerspy.com. Charts: PED
In our ongoing quest to understand what part the trade in weekly Apple (AAPL) options plays in keeping the company's stock price from reflecting its performance (see here, here and here), we had a chat the other day with Mark Sebastian, a former market maker at the Chicago MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.82% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.60% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.24 | -0.23 | -5.26% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.57 | -0.80 | -3.58% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.58 | -0.25 | -1.26% |
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| Dow | 12,666.89 | -67.74 | -0.53% |
| Nasdaq | 2,813.64 | 8.36 | 0.30% |
| S&P 500 | 1,315.93 | -2.50 | -0.19% |
| Treasuries | 1.92 | -0.01 | -0.73% |
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