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Some of this year's Brainstorm Tech speakers, including Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Google's Marissa Mayer, and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek. (Photo: Fortune Brainstorm Tech)
* Fortune's annual Brainstorm Tech conference kicks off later this afternoon with the day's speakers including Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jul 19, 2011 3:30 AM ET
If the iPhone 5 is a hit, Apple could be poised for "extraordinary growth," says ChangeWave
Click to enlarge. Source: ChangeWave research
Despite the continued dominance of Android in the marketplace, there are several nuggets of good news for Apple (AAPL) in the results of a ChangeWave survey of mostly (86%) American early adopter types released Monday.
The iPhone continues to get the highest satisfaction marks (70% "very satisfied") compared with Google's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 18, 2011 11:55 AM ET
What do TV viewers want in the Internet era? Now that mobile devices offer couch potato a second, interactive screen, Miso is finding new answers to that question.
This story is one in a series leading up to the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, which will be held from July 19-21 in Aspen, Colorado. Fortune Brainstorm Tech will round up many of the best and brightest thinkers in technology. Our coverage in this series MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jul 18, 2011 9:57 AM ET
Want to buy a high-definition cell phone? You can now get one in 22 countries, including Uganda — but not the U.S.
FORTUNE -- Thirty years of experience have taught people to expect conversations over mobile phones to be low-fidelity affairs. But around the world people are quickly learning it doesn't have to be that way.
Today, the technology exists to make mobile phone calls sound not just good, but flat-out great. This MORE
Scott Woolley - Jul 18, 2011 8:51 AM ET
Editor of the reincarnated publication retracts -- by strike-through -- its first opinion piece
BYTE's re-launch was celebrated in Times Square
It was not an auspicious beginning for the reincarnation of BYTE, the bible of the "small computing and software" business for much of the 1970s and '80s before it was bought and unceremoniously killed by CMP Media in 1998.
Four days after BYTE was relaunched last week as an online publication, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 18, 2011 7:57 AM ET
It's something the amateur analysts seem to understand and the pros still don't get
Source: Posts at Eventide
A day before Apple (AAPL) is scheduled to report its 3rd quarter earnings, Robert Paul Leitao thinks he has put his finger on what's wrong with the Street's view of the company.
Leitao, who rides herd over 30 amateur analysts at The Mac Observer's Apple Finance Board, has been tracking the gap between Apple's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 18, 2011 7:54 AM ET
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"I'm just hoping this doesn't end like 2000 again. The desire to make a buck does help fuel innovation, but it can also wipe out people's nesteggs if they get too greedy." -- MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson (Google+)
* Still wondering why Netflix hiked up their lowest rental plans by MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jul 18, 2011 3:30 AM ET
Hint: See the head shot, center row left, in the current "Apple Leadership" page
Source: Apple press info
Jean-Louis Gassée, who worked for Apple from 1981 to 1990 and once held Steve Jobs' job as head of Mac development, was planning to use the Apple Store's 10th anniversary last May as the theme for one of his always insightful Monday Note columns. But when the day came and went without an MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 17, 2011 7:04 PM ET
A week after shipping times were cut to 3-5 business days, they shrank again to 1-3
Source: Apple.com
Apple's (AAPL) has been having trouble keeping up with demand for the iPad 2 from the day the product launched in early March.
Shipping times were stuck at 1-2 weeks from mid-April to July 8, when they were cut to 3-5 days.
Reader Howard Kaplan noticed Saturday morning that they have since fallen to 1-3 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 16, 2011 11:45 AM ET
Steve Jobs claimed that Google "stole" this Apple innovation. Last week, the ITC agreed.
When an iPhone receives a message that contains a phone number or an address -- e-mail, Web or street -- those bits of data are automatically highlighted, underlined and turned into clickable links.
Click on the phone number, and the iPhone asks if you want to dial it. Click on the Web address, and it opens in Safari. MORE
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