The look of Walter Isaacson's bio will be as spare and restrained as any Apple product
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"The cover," writes Isaacson in private e-mail, "is the Albert Watson portrait taken for Fortune in 2009. The back is a Norman Seeff portrait of him in the lotus position holding the original Macintosh, which ran in Rolling Stone in January 1984. The title font is Helvetica. It MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 16, 2011 7:39 AM ET
The $12.5 billion acquisition is guaranteed to send shockwaves through the mobile sector. Truth is, both companies need each other badly.
FORTUNE -- Google's agreement to pay a princely $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility is guaranteed to send shockwaves through the mobile industry. Questions are swirling already about other Android partners' hurt feelings and how two disparate cultures will ever come together, not to mention the Mountain View, California giant's MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Aug 15, 2011 1:44 PM ET
Earlier this year, Motorola Mobility's chairman and CEO made comments which strongly prefigure today's announcement. He also talked about his relationship with Google chief Larry Page.
FORTUNE -- For years, investors said Motorola lacked focus and needed to split up. In January, the company took their advice, creating Motorola Solutions, a maker of public safety equipment and barcode scanners, and Motorola Mobility to produce smartphones, tablets and set-top boxes.
But when Fortune MORE
Fortune Editors - Aug 15, 2011 11:23 AM ET
With one $12.5B deal it gets two weapons: a manufacturing arm and a rich IP portfolio
Google's (GOOG) announcement Monday that it has agreed to buy Motorola's recently spun off mobile devices business -- listed on NASDAQ as Motorola Mobility (MMI) -- for $12.5 billion could mean one of two things.
Either Google really wants to get into the Android manufacturing business -- putting it into direct competition primarily with Apple (AAPL), MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 15, 2011 9:14 AM ET
Visualize four years of mobile phone warfare through Asymco's snake-like bubble charts
iPhone rising. Source: Asymco.com
Horace Dediu, who has been pushing the envelope of data visualization for more than two years, has outdone himself with the interactive chart he posted on his Asymco.com blog Sunday afternoon.
Most conventional graphs display data over just two axes, X and Y. If you want to see how the data in those dimensions change over time, you end up MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 15, 2011 7:10 AM ET
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"I still don't know if we have something. ... Whether we have something that will last for a really long time or is just a cool toy for people to play with now, we'll see. I think it's actually useful and not necessarily just a fad."" -- Mark MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Aug 15, 2011 3:30 AM ET
Why can't HP, Dell, Sony or Samsung compete with the iPad and MacBook Air?
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The old conventional wisdom was that any advantage Apple (AAPL) gained in the marketplace was necessarily short-lived. Competitors licensing widely available operating systems -- from Microsoft (MSFT) or Google (GOOG) -- would soon undercut Apple's premium pricing and steal its market share. Case in point: The army of Android phones that now commands roughly 50% MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 14, 2011 9:59 AM ET
Cupertino posts the company's full proposal, including 82 drawings and renderings
Detail of one quadrant of Starship Apple. Click to enlarge. Source: cupertino.org
Want to know more about Steve Jobs' plans for Apple's (AAPL) futuristic new headquarters, the one he told the star-struck Cupertino city council last June looked "a little like a spaceship had landed"? Look no further than the city's home page, where the council has posted Apple's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 13, 2011 7:13 AM ET
50 stories about a rumor, followed by 20 stories about a report that the rumor is untrue
Techmeme: 70 stories about a nonevent
Late Thursday night, the Apple (AAPL) rumor site called, appropriately enough, MacRumors, picked up a Japanese report that the company had scheduled a special event on Wednesday Sept. 7. Could this be the launch of the long-awaited iPhone 5?
By Friday morning, MacRumors' report was the lead item on MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 12, 2011 6:45 PM ET
Spokesman Tom Selleck makes a total of 12 predictions in these freakishly prophetic 1993 AT&T ads. Every single one of them came true.
FORTUNE -- These freakishly prophetic AT&T (T) TV spots from 1993 have been online for a few years. But All Things Digital noticed them today, and I'm sure many of us hadn't seen them since they first ran, if ever. Spokesman Tom Selleck makes a total of 12 predictions, MORE
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