Slow browsing, few apps, and an embarrassing service outage. Can BlackBerry recover from its biggest crisis yet?
FORTUNE -- Addictions are tough to break, yet Research in Motion seems to be doing whatever it can to help users cast aside their CrackBerrys once and for all. Consider just a few of the reasons the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is ailing: an international outage in mid-October; the Playbook tablet, a MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Nov 10, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Young viewers are abandoning pay TV in favor of the Internet. And satellite providers are more vulnerable than their cable competitors -- for now.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
FORTUNE -- Young people are increasingly opting not to pay for television. And Dish Network's Chairman, Charles Ergen, is one of the few pay-TV executives willing to publicly confront the problem. The question is whether he can do much about it given the pressures MORE
Nov 9, 2011 1:44 PM ET
The question isn't whether Siri is a search engine that can replace Google's search box. It's a different kind of search -- one that could be the future.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- It sounded pretty good until Eric Schmidt said it: Siri, the so-called personal assistant app on Apple's iPhone 4S, is the new face of search. Siri is threatening to sideline the tried-and-true search box that Google turned into MORE
Nov 9, 2011 11:27 AM ET
Rumors of a slowdown in iPhone 4S sales called "off base." iPad may be a different story
[UPDATE: As several readers pointed out, Apple's share price was also hit Wednesday, along with the rest of the market, by the news out of Europe, and by the end of the day had suffered less than the NASDAQ, which fell 3.88% to Apple's 2.7%. Thursday, however, was a different story. By early afternoon, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 9, 2011 10:56 AM ET
Pent-up demand for the new Kindle is even stronger than for the iPad 2
Click to enlarge. Source: RBC Capital
In a note to clients issued Thursday, RBC's Mike Abramsky shares the results of a ChangeWave survey of 2,600 early adopter types. Two key findings:
5% of those surveyed said they had pre-ordered or were very likely to buy Amazon's (AMZN) new Kindle Fire, exceeding the 4% who said they were very MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 9, 2011 8:38 AM ET
Apple's late CEO would be the first dead man -- or woman -- to win the honor
Click to enlarge. Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty
Steve Jobs' name came up Tuesday -- it has many times since 1982 -- in a panel discussion organized by Time Magazine to help promote the 2011 Person of the Year.
Jobs was nominated by NBC's Brian Williams (see video here) and the proposal was seconded -- sort of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 9, 2011 8:10 AM ET
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*Adobe (ADBE) is restructuring and laying off 750 employees in North America and Europe. Also, sources tell ZDNet that the company is stopping development on Flash Player for mobile browsers and focusing its efforts instead on mobile apps, desktop content, and HTML5. That last bit about HTML5 may cause some Apple MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 9, 2011 4:50 AM ET
Jumps to 4th place in the latest Greenpeace survey of electronics manufacturers
Click to enlarge. Source: Greenpeace
Apple (AAPL) has come a long way in the eyes of the environmental activitsts at Greenpeace since they painted Steve Jobs as a hypocrite for promising "a greener Apple" in May 2007 and delivering an iPhone the next month laced with bromine, chlorine and phthlates.
In its annual Guide to Greener Electronics that year, Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 9, 2011 3:00 AM ET
Hundreds of journalists, advertisers and technologists gathered at The TimesCenter in New York for the Mashable Media Summit last week. Here's what they had to say.
By Caitlin Keating, reporter
FORTUNE -- On a chilly morning last week, hundreds of journalists, advertisers and technologists gathered at The TimesCenter in New York for the Mashable Media Summit. Not surprisingly, tablets, laptops and smartphones were sprawled across laps, as Mashable's Founder and CEO, Pete MORE
Nov 8, 2011 5:08 PM ET
The music and lifestyle network has long banked on awards to bring in audience and big advertising. Now, it's cooking up something very different.
By Richard Nieva, reporter
The Flaming Lips
FORTUNE -- As award show tributes go, it seems only fitting to honor Steve Jobs in one that would be watched on an iPad rather than a television. That is what the Flaming Lips did last week during a memorial for 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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| Dow | 12,666.14 | -68.49 | -0.54% |
| Nasdaq | 2,813.49 | 8.21 | 0.29% |
| S&P 500 | 1,315.99 | -2.44 | -0.19% |
| Treasuries | 1.91 | -0.02 | -1.19% |
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