Analysts and fanboys alike were expecting an iPhone 5 with a big, beautiful screen and all-new hardware. This is what they got instead.
FORTUNE -- Let's get this out-of-the-way first: If you were expecting a mind-blowing revamp with the iPhone 4S, you may be disappointed. Everything about its industrial design will be familiar -- it sports the same gorilla glass front and back, the same 3.5-inch-sized Retina display and a similar-looking MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 18, 2011 12:47 PM ETCan so-called Super Wi-Fi bring high speeds and low costs to rural Americans? xG Technologies thinks so.
NB: This is the second story in a two part series about rural broadband access in America. To read the first part, please click here.
FORTUNE -- Engineers have long dreamed of using cheap wireless networks to do an end-run around the companies that now provide Internet access and cell phone service. Those dreams have MORE
Oct 18, 2011 10:59 AM ET
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UberMedia's new social platform, Chime.in. (Photo: Chime.in)
* UberMedia, maker of of the Twitter app UberSocial, announced Chime.in, a new social platform centered on relevance and monetization for publishers. "Existing systems don't really have a good way of pulling good content and putting it up top," CEO Bill Gross told Fortune MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 18, 2011 9:04 AM ET
Setting the stage for a monstrous Christmas selling season
AAPL's 3-month roller coaster ride
It's been a busy fortnight for Apple (AAPL), between the Let's Talk iPhone special event, the death of Steve Jobs, the launch of the iPhone 4S and Sunday's star-studded memorial service. Next week we'll get the worldwide laydown of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, the only biography written with Jobs' cooperation, launching another round of media overkill (starting with next Sunday's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 18, 2011 8:35 AM ET
FORTUNE -- If you think today's 3-D technology in movies and TV shows is cool, wait until you see your first hologram table. Funded by DARPA, the Defense Department's research arm, for battle planning, the Urban Photonic Sandtable Display produces a 360°, 3-D image (no glasses needed). Zebra Imaging, the company that is developing the technology, says it'll take at least another three years before this table is set for MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 18, 2011 5:00 AM ET
In business circles, "creativity" has become a buzzword to describe a desired trait among employees. But to innovate, conviction is more important.
By Doreen Lorenzo, president, frog
FORTUNE -- In business circles, "creativity" has become a buzzword to describe a desired trait among employees. It's widely believed that having creative thinkers on staff will boost overall team levels of innovation. Yes, creativity can lead to a surplus of original ideas. But when MORE
Oct 17, 2011 2:22 PM ET
Companies have flocked to a new product development theory that liberally borrows elements from popular video games. Now, a cottage industry is teaching businesses from high fashion to personal finance how to make it work for them.
By Alex Konrad, reporter
FORTUNE -- "It's very much like the Wild West," Brayden Olson, founder of Novel Inc., says emphatically. "There's gold out there, gold for anyone, but a lot of companies are not MORE
Oct 17, 2011 1:03 PM ET
Apple's latest gadget sets a new launch weekend record
L.A.'s Century City Apple Store on Saturday afternoon. Photo: Howard Kaplan
Apple (AAPL) announced Monday that it sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S units between 8 a.m. Friday and 12 midnight Sunday.
That's 135% better than the launch of the iPhone 4 in June 2010, and better than any analyst had predicted. The average estimate among the few who had ventured a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 17, 2011 10:18 AM ET
We're averaging the Q4 estimates of the six analysts with the best track records
Data: Company reports, PED. Chart: Adam Bushman
The chart at right, which compares Apple's (AAPL) reported earnings for the past six quarters with estimates made in advance of those reports, shows that some analysts are better at predicting the company's results than others.
Specifically, a group of independent analysts we've been calling -- for lack of a better MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 17, 2011 7:11 AM ET
The mourners included actors, singers, politicians and dozens of tech luminaries
Stanford Memorial Church. Photo: Jill Clardy via Flikr
Given the solemnity of the event and the intrusive curiosity of the media (a local news helicopter circled overhead), Apple (AAPL) was understandable tight-lipped about who was among the hundreds who attended the private memorial for Steve Jobs, held Sunday at Stanford Memorial Church.
But some of the names have been published. In MORE
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| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.61% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.20 | -0.27 | -6.04% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.65 | -0.72 | -3.22% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.58 | -0.25 | -1.26% |
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