The iPod touch (30%) and iPhone (27%) came in second and third in the 2011 wish list
Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen
Apple's (AAPL) iPad topped a new Nielsen survey of the most desired electronics products among young Americans this holiday season.
Among kids 6-12, Apple scored a hat trick, with the iPad (44%) first, the iPod touch (30%) second and the iPhone (27%) third.
In a similar survey last year, the iPad came MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 17, 2011 1:12 PM ET
Reports of trojans, spyware and other malicious programs are up 472% since July
Source: Juniper Networks
Several warnings have been issued over the past year about the growing problem of malware on Google (GOOG) Android smartphones (see here, here and here), but none as dire or as sharply worded as the report issued Wednesday by Juniper Network's Global Threat Center.
Not only did Juniper's annual threat report see a 400% increase in Android malware between MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 17, 2011 11:16 AM ET
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* As reported, Google (GOOG) launched its new online music store. Currently Google Music includes deals with three of the major music companies, lets users also upload and store up to 20,000 songs for free, as well as share music via the company's Google+ social network. (Computerworld)
* Nokia MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 17, 2011 11:08 AM ET
Apple seems to be controlling inventory, not reacting to a slow-down in sales
Apple's (AAPL) stock price fell sharply last week after some confused reports out of China and Taiwan regarding the company's communications with its supply chain. The first report was that Apple had cut back orders 10% to 15% on parts for the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S because, according to Taipei-based DigiTimes, "sales of the iPhone 4S MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 17, 2011 10:30 AM ET
In a rapidly growing market, Apple's share jumped in a year from 31% to 45%
Q: Do you currently have one of the following smartphones?
Apple (AAPL) made significant inroads in the enterprise over the past year according a survey of 2,300 mobile workers in 1,100 enterprises conducted in September and October by iPass, a California-based provider of Wi-Fi networks.
Among the findings released Wednesday:
95% of mobile workers surveyed now have smartphones, up MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 16, 2011 7:10 PM ETYes, the gorgeous Italian frescoes of the Renaissance can teach social marketers a thing or two -- like how to keep testing new technologies and make ideas available to large audiences.
By Russ Fradin, CEO, Dynamic Signal
FORTUNE -- I'm fascinated by the story of Francesco Gonzaga, the Marquis of Mantua at the end of the 15th century. For many years, Gonzaga had been viewed as a young, untested leader. Then, he MORE
Nov 16, 2011 11:23 AM ET
Will Art Levinson change the power balance at Apple? A closer look at the new chairman
Levinson: "We need to make the transition to being a big company and dealing with the hubris issue."
One of the first things Steve Jobs did when he returned Apple (AAPL) in 1997 was dismiss the company's board and appoint directors more to his liking, including Genentech CEO Arthur D. Levinson.
"Jobs did not cede any MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 16, 2011 11:01 AM ET
They sound more like soft drinks than cutting-edge tech, but Slice and Lemon aim to heal the headaches created by receipts.
By Alex Konrad, reporter
FORTUNE -- The modern receipt is a sorry thing. Talismans of buyers' remorse, impulse decision-making and reimbursement migraine, receipts are bothersome to file and even worse to lose. Two Palo Alto startups want to fix that. Slice and Lemon may sound more like soft drinks than cutting-edge MORE
Nov 16, 2011 10:40 AM ET
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"Little startups are ridiculously overfunded... The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups." -- Entrepreneur Sean Parker (TechCrunch)
* According to John Stanton, chairman of the venture capital firm Trilogy MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 16, 2011 6:02 AM ET
Google, Citi, and others are reaping nice returns by funding solar rooftop power projects. Will it last?
By Brian Dumaine, senior-editor-at-large
SolarCity installers lay solar panels on a house in Texas.
FORTUNE -- When Bruce Buller looked into installing solar panels on the roof of his ranch house in Diamond Bar, Calif., he suffered severe sticker shock. "We had been thinking about solar for years," says Buller, "but we found the cost -- about 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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