A cellphone eavesdropping scandal casts a shadow on Apple's competitors
Caught red-handed: Carrier IQ logging Eckhart's keystrokes
Have you heard that every text message, every e-mail, every phone number, every keystroke made on a Google (GOOG) Android phone may be secretly recorded, logged and sent to your cellular provider by a tracking service called Carrier IQ?
No? That's a surprise, because it's a scandal that's been brewing for several weeks -- ever MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 30, 2011 5:42 PM ET
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will soon support iPhones and Android devices. Yes, that's right. The company is about to run the risk of cannibalizing its own handsets.
FORTUNE -- How's this for a sign of the times: BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will soon support iPhones and Android devices. Yes, that's right. On Tuesday RIM announced it is launching a mobile device management tool that will allow IT departments to MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Nov 30, 2011 12:58 PM ET
A price target of $85 suggested by a writer "a few fries short of a Happy Meal"
When you have -- as Seeking Alpha does -- 4,000 unpaid contributors putting up an average of 250 articles a day, you are bound to post a few clunkers.
But the financial blog that made Time's "50 Best Web Sites" list, Forbes's "Best of the Web" and Kiplinger's "2007 Best" hit a new low Tuesday MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 30, 2011 11:15 AM ET
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* Facebook, which is inching closer to an IPO, reached a settlement with the FTC after the federal government accused the social networking champ of engaging in "unfair and deceptive" practices regarding privacy, including the act of making user information public without warning or consent. Facebook will now MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 30, 2011 10:30 AM ET
It had to. It took Google years to catchup to AOL's MapQuest. And its latest version puts Google one crucial step ahead of rivals.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
FORTUNE -- By including indoor spaces to the Android version of its Maps service, Google is positioning itself to take advantage of two concurrent trends: the spread of mobile communications and the increasing privatization of public space. After all, it can be just as MORE
Nov 30, 2011 6:47 AM ET
Google engineers are stars in Silicon Valley. But while some sales and marketing expats have burned bright others have, well, burned out.
By Anne VanderMey, reporter
FORTUNE -- When he worked at Google, Patrick Keane got a lot of calls from recruiters. For a while, as director of sales strategy and field marketing, Keane would get a new offer every week practically begging him to sign on as the CEO of a MORE
Nov 30, 2011 5:00 AM ET
83% of the apps downloaded in the past month were for a Google or Apple phone
Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen
The U.S. smartphone market is starting to look like a two-horse race, judging from data scheduled to be released Wednesday by a Nielsen general manager at AppNation III in San Francisco. Among the new findings:
44% of all U.S. mobile subscribers now own a smartphone
56% of the mobile phones purchased in MORE
It may be easy to read too much into declines at Groupon, Pandora and LinkedIn. But Yelp is facing strong headwinds that could spell trouble.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- Unlike Yelp the company, "yelp" the word dates back to the 1500's, when its original meaning was "boasting". Over the years, it came to mean something quite different: "A short, sharp cry, especially of pain or alarm" as the Concise OED MORE
Nov 29, 2011 10:36 AM ET
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* The Wall Street Journal reports that social networking giant Facebook is getting closer to an initial public offering. The paper says the company is targeting a time frame between April and June of 2012. It is also allegedly exploring raising some $10 billion. That would assign Facebook MORE
Fortune Editors - Nov 29, 2011 8:07 AM ET
Apple is selling iPhones as fast as it can make them, but that may not be fast enough
Chinese queue up for iPhone 4S. Photo: iWorld
A pair of analyst reports Tuesday warn that Apple (AAPL) may be having trouble feeding the demand for iPhones in advance of the holiday selling season.
In a note entitled "Limited near-term upside for iPhone," Rodman & Renshaw's Ashok Kumar alerted clients that low yields on an MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.30 | -0.00 | -0.02% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.62% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.29 | -0.18 | -4.03% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.71 | -0.66 | -2.95% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.60 | -0.23 | -1.16% |
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| Dow | 12,681.23 | -53.40 | -0.42% |
| Nasdaq | 2,817.47 | 12.19 | 0.43% |
| S&P 500 | 1,318.27 | -0.16 | -0.01% |
| Treasuries | 1.90 | -0.03 | -1.71% |
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