No, they don't plan to produce "one last run" in order to make it up in volume
TouchPads quickly sold out at $99. Source: HP
Can you spot the dissemblance in the announcement posted Monday on Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) The Next Bench blog?
Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand. We don't know exactly when these units will MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2011 11:51 AM ET
Spoondate.com takes familiar concepts from Facebook and Match and mashes them up with Yelp. Question is, can it get a bite of the big market for niche dating sites?
FORTUNE -- I'm guiding my cursor down a page of cravings: "I'm craving deep dish at Little Star Pizza." "I'm craving carrot cupcakes at American Cupcake." "I'm craving oh-so-creamy burrata at Asellina Ristorante." It's nearly noon; my stomach yelps.
This isn't a restaurant MORE
Colleen Leahey, Reporter - Aug 31, 2011 10:57 AM ET
Conventional wisdoms says the two major sites dropping out of the deal is good for Groupon and Living social. Conventional wisdom is wrong.
FORTUNE -- When Facebook announced that it was ending its experiment with daily deals after less than four months, Reuters, like many, claimed the move "may ease some competitive pressure on industry leaders Groupon and LivingSocial."
Not even close. Competitive pressures are precisely why Facebook is abandoning deals and MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Aug 31, 2011 9:43 AM ET
"The product pipeline will take years to screw up," says Bob Hoffman. "The ad pipeline can be screwed up in no time."
iPod poster. Source: Apple Inc.
Bob Hoffman is pessimistic about the future of Apple (AAPL) without Steve Jobs at the helm.
The San Francisco-based advertising executive who writes a blog called The Ad Contrarian and a slim volume of aphorisms by the same name doesn't buy the consensus that, as MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2011 6:26 AM ET
Lawmakers looking for sacrifices could wind up hurting one of the few industries that's hiring.
By Brian Dumaine, senior-editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- As Congress looks for things to cut, it's worth noting that green jobs are one of the few bright spots in otherwise dim economic news. The solar industry employed an estimated 93,000 workers in 2010, and that number is expected to reach 120,000 this year, according to the nonprofit Solar Foundation. MORE
Aug 31, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Employees who choose their own gadgets are a headache for tech support. But new software is here to help.
FORTUNE -- Life was a whole lot simpler for IT departments back when BlackBerrys ruled the workplace. Today's offices are populated with iPhones, Android-powered gadgets, and a slew of tablets -- and a growing number of companies and institutions even encourage employees to "BYOD" (bring your own device -- i.e., buy whatever MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Aug 31, 2011 5:00 AM ET
A new crop of apps from Amazon, LinkedIn and Box.net are the latest to take advantage of HTML5. They also signal this young language already has business' blessing.
FORTUNE -- Something in the last 18 months kicked the HTML5 adoption machine into overdrive. Maybe it was tech giants Apple and Microsoft joining hands and dubbing it the future of the web. Maybe it was Google's launch of the Chrome Web Store, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Aug 30, 2011 11:06 AM ET
Who knew the U.S. government kept such close tabs on Apple's dealings with China?
Counterfeit Apple products seized in Los Angeles in February. Photo: L.A. Times
On Tuesday, CNN.com reported that in 2008 Apple (AAPL), in an attempt to crack down on the proliferation of fake Chinese iPods and iPhones, recruited the team that had helped Pfizer (PFE) shut down factories turning out bogus Viagra pills.
The piece, by CNN's Mark Milian, was MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 30, 2011 8:01 AM ET
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* A beta version of iTunes Match became available last night, and while only developers can currently get at it, the limited software release sheds more light on what the service will be like once it officially rolls out this fall. For the $25 annual fee, music can MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Aug 30, 2011 4:28 AM ET
"A year from now," it predicts, "'Amazon' will be synonymous with 'Android' on tablets."
Source: Forrester
The last time I looked closely at a research report from Forrester's Sarah Rotman Epps I took her to task for predicting in June 2010 that total U.S. tablet sales from all manufacturers that year would be a modest 3.5 million -- despite the fact that Apple (AAPL) had already sold 2 million iPads worldwide in MORE
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