Thanks to a new satellite blasting into space this week, broadband access in rural America and southern Canada is about to get a lot better.
FORTUNE -- Slow and expensive options for connecting to the Internet may seem like an inevitable downside to country living, but rural Americans are in for a pleasant surprise. Cheap bits, delivered by satellite, are about to flood rural North America.
A new satellite, now sitting atop MORE
Scott Woolley - Oct 17, 2011 5:00 AM ET
FORTUNE -- Next time you whip out your iPhone on the sidewalk or the subway, you might first want to glance over your shoulder. Smartphones have become a favorite target of thieves who do what the police call a snatch and grab. One favorite M.O.: The perp grabs a phone and jumps off the train just as the doors are closing. So far this year, over 40% of thefts in MORE
Oct 17, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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"I am not sure i agree that iPads are making music more accessible than ever. Before man kind had bongos and flutes and guitars and such, pretty accessible stuff." -- Bjork (Midem Blog)
Source: Bobby Bank/WireImage
* Steve Jobs was honored at a private memorial at Stanford University's Memorial Church last night. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 17, 2011 3:30 AM ET
On this one, most analysts agree: Summer '11 was even bigger than Christmas '10
The Mac was one of the few products that failed to live up to expectations in the June quarter (Apple's fiscal Q3). Analysts were looking for sales of 4.2 million. What Apple (AAPL) delivered was 3.95 million.
That's not likely to happen again on Tuesday, when Apple reports its earnings for fiscal Q4.
Everybody seems to agree that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 16, 2011 10:23 AM ET
The Street's consensus: 11.4 million. The indies are 15% more bullish
Data: Analysts' reports. Chart: PED
In preparation for our Apple (AAPL) earnings smackdown for the last fiscal quarter of 2011, which ended in September, we've gathered estimates from the small army of analysts -- institutional and independent -- who track the stock.
Last Tuesday we previewed their revenue and earnings estimates. The next day it was their iPhone unit sales numbers. Today we look at their MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 16, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Memorable quotations from the new iPhone's intelligent assistant
Source: S..t that Siri says
I was worried before the launch of the iPhone 4S -- with its built-in "intelligent assistant" named Siri -- that Apple (AAPL) might be in for another round of "Egg freckles" moments.
Siri has certainly had her share of those in the Elmer-DeWitt household. But what early iPhone 4S adopters seem more taken with are the canned phrases with which MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 15, 2011 2:15 PM ET
Apple, as hedge fund managers are well aware, is one stock that always bounces back
It's hard not to be cynical about Wall Street when you see a chart like the one at right, which traces Apple's (AAPL) share price over the past four weeks.
It not terribly surprising that the stock has shot up nearly 20% in the past two weeks to close at an all-time high Friday of $422. The iPhone 4S MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 15, 2011 7:35 AM ET
Analysts have published estimates ranging from 2 to 4 million. What's your guess?
iPhone 4S queue in Covent Garden, London. Photo: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg
UPDATE: We have a winner. Apple announced Monday that the correct answer was "over four million," the guess of nearly 23% of our readers.
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When the iPhone 4 went on sale 16 months ago, Apple (AAPL) sold 1.7 million in the first weekend, counting pre-orders.
The analysts MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 15, 2011 5:55 AM ET
The all business class carrier business has felled too many airlines to count over the years. Now, things aren't looking great for the last player standing, OpenSkies.
By Grant Martin, contributor
FORTUNE -- The promise of OpenSkies may be fading. The all business class carrier recently announced it would be halting service on one of its only two available routes -- Washington Dulles to Paris Orly -- later this month. The move MORE
Oct 14, 2011 3:01 PM ET
Sony bought the rights to the authorized biography of Steve Jobs coming out soon. Who could play the technology genius? We found one willing actor.
By David A. Kaplan, contributor
Wyle as Jobs, Version 1.0
FORTUNE -- Within days of Steve Jobs's death came news that Sony had bought the rights to the authorized biography of Steve Jobs that will be published Oct. 24. The timing may have seemed a bit tasteless, MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.89% |
| 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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