Fortune's curated selection of newsworthy tech stories from the weekend. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you every day.
* As an active Facebook user, you may have noticed News Feed updates describing which news stories your friends recently read via apps like The Washington Post's Social Reader or songs they listened to from say, Spotify. But is this form of "automatic sharing" simply the next logical step, or is MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 21, 2011 3:30 AM ET
The Galaxy Nexus "Calling all pretty faces" is an homage to Apple in more ways than one
Android marketing has come a long way from the 2009 TV ad for Motorola's Droid that asked:
"Should a phone be pretty?"
Judging from the spot that debuted Thursday for the Galaxy Nexus -- the new Android smartphone manufactured by Samsung for Google -- Google's (GOOG) answer in 2011 is an emphatic "yes!"
The ad -- like MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 20, 2011 7:05 AM ET
Source: Asymco
Asymco's Horace Dediu has published a series of charts that show as clear a picture as you are likely to see of the state of the global mobile phone market today. The one shown here -- of smartphone shipments in Q3 2011-- comes with several caveats.
The dip in Apple's (AAPL) iOS shipments reflects the fact that the transition from the iPhone 4 to the 4S was telegraphed to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 19, 2011 10:25 AM ET
He had the audience in stitches at a 1998 convention of higher education IT directors
Steve Jobs' thoughts about television evolved in the years since this fuzzy YouTube video was shot at CAUSE 1998, the annual convention of the College and University Systems Exchange. But even then -- one year after his return to Apple (AAPL) -- he was clearly wrestling with the problem of trying to merge TVs and PCs.
The four-minute segment is part MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 18, 2011 11:15 AM ET
The new board member was granted restricted shares worth $55,000 and change
Iger. Photo: Josh Hallett via Creative Commons
According to a Form 4 filed with the SEC on Thursday, Disney (DIS) CEO Robert Iger received as part of his new position on Apple's board of directors 142 restricted shares that vest next February.
At Apple's (AAPL) closing price of $388.83 Tuesday, the day the shares were issued, the grant was worth
MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 18, 2011 8:19 AM ET
Likely to leave the field to Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble, according to DigiTimes
Source: Company reports
Taipei-based DigiTimes, which has been churning out rumors from Asian electronics parts suppliers as fast as its correspondents can type, reported Thursday that unnamed "sources from upstream supply chain" believe that PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard (HPC), Dell (DELL), Acer and Asustek will "gradually phase out" of the tablet market.
According to DigiTimes:
With Amazon offering its MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 18, 2011 6:25 AM ET
Fortune's curated selection of newsworthy tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you every day.
Will Amazon release a smartphone? Photo: Bloomberg
* Hot on the heels of the Kindle Fire's launch comes speculation from Citigroup researchers that Amazon (AMZN) will launch a smartphone during the fourth quarter of next year. "Based on our supply chain check, we believe FIH is now jointly developing MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 18, 2011 3:30 AM ET
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on a proposed bill to combat online piracy. Five proponents were invited to testify, compared to just one opponent.
FORTUNE -- The use of the Internet to sell illicit goods -- from fake Cialis pills to pirated episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" -- is a real problem. But the way Congress is going about addressing that problem is so hamhanded that you can't blame MORE
Nov 17, 2011 2:30 PM ET
Speech recognition has been clunky and perennially around-the-corner for years. Now, Siri is poised to vault the technology into mainstream use -- with a wide variety of applications.
By Sierra Jiminez, contributor
FORTUNE -- Speech recognition is nothing new.Consumer electronics, cars and automated call centers have been "listening" to commands for years. Google has been transcribing voicemail messages since 2009, and Microsoft baked similar technology into Windows Vista three years before that. MORE
Nov 17, 2011 2:17 PM ET
A three-way merger between them seems out there, not to mention extremely complicated. But, the idea has some merit -- not the least of which is saving Yahoo from private equity.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE – The carefree days of Yahoo -- when the web pioneer's name was more of an exuberant cry rather than a sarcastic remark -- are behind it. For several years, the company has struggled to right MORE
Nov 17, 2011 1:15 PM ETEvery morning, discover the companies, deals and trends in tech that are moving markets and making headlines. SUBSCRIBE
Receive Fortune's newsletter on all the deals that matter, from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road. SUBSCRIBE
Covering the digital giants of Silicon Valley and beyond, an in-depth look at enterprise companies, and the startups disrupting them. Written by Michal Lev-Ram and emailed twice weekly. SUBSCRIBE
Anne Fisher answers career-related questions and offers helpful advice for business professionals. SUBSCRIBE
| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
.
