iOS edged back up against Android in November, gaining 8% in Millennial's ad network
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There's a small but measurable iPhone 4S effect in November's Millennial Media's Media Mix, which reports the presence of various devices in the mobile advertising network it runs.
Apple (AAPL) was the No. 1 manufacturer in Millennial's advertising platform, up 8% since October to gain a 26% share in the list of the top 15 manufacturers.
Meanwhile, in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 20, 2011 6:03 AM ET
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* It's official: AT&T (T) will not acquire T-Mobile. The country's largest wireless carrier nixed the deal after the FCC and Department of Justice's attempts to block it. "The AT&T and T-Mobile USA combination would have offered an interim solution to this spectrum shortage," AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in a MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 20, 2011 4:00 AM ET
Not the knockout blow Steve Jobs sought; Google has until April to find a workaround
Apple (AAPL) has won a partial victory in an intellectual property case that Steve Jobs had famously vowed to fight to his "last dying breath."
The U.S. International Trade commission ruled Monday that the software in some of HTC's Android smartphones violated one provision of an Apple patent and that those phones would no longer be allowed into the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 19, 2011 5:46 PM ET
Consumer electronics makers are cranking out new devices at an increasingly rapid clip, leading to software-like product lifecycles. That may end up hurting them in the long run.
FORTUNE -- Hardware just isn't what it used to be.
Recently, Underwriters Laboratories, a product testing and certification company, issued a study that found that 48% of consumers think tech manufacturers are shipping new products faster than they need them, the end result being a MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 19, 2011 11:37 AM ET
Nuclear physicist Edward Flynn was moved by his wife's cancer to find a better procedure. He's not the only one angling for a piece of a growing $6 billion market.
By Sierra Jiminez, contributor
GE's mammography device.
FORTUNE -- When his first wife went into a coma following cardiac arrest in 1978, nuclear physicist Dr. Edward Flynn vowed to build a machine that could save lives. Flynn's wife died 18 months later, MORE
Dec 19, 2011 11:13 AM ET
A spot check of retail sales a week before Christmas raises an interesting question
Kindle Fire
In a note to clients issued Monday, Hudson Square Research's Daniel Ernst reported on the results of a pre-holiday scouting trip he took to retail stores in New York and Connecticut over the weekend -- only a handful of shopping days before Christmas -- where he found "floor traffic up materially, but lines at checkout MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 19, 2011 10:25 AM ET
All this talk about an Apple-branded TV set may be missing the point
The once and future Apple TV? Photo: Apple Inc.
Reading between the lines of the Wall Street Journal's story Monday about Apple's "assault" on the TV business, you can almost hear the desperation of the media executives who asked Apple (AAPL) to brief them on exactly what the wizards of Cupertino are up to.
These media executive -- which MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 19, 2011 8:23 AM ET
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* According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple (AAPL) is plunging ahead with plans for a TV that may incorporate voice and gesture-based technology, a form of AirPlay that would let iPhones and iPads act as remote controls, DVR storage, and iCloud. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Why Amazon (AMZN) is willing to MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 19, 2011 3:30 AM ET
The great financier, big-hearted philanthropist and enthusiastic banjo player died at age 77.
Warren Hellman, 1934-2011
FORTUNE -- I saw the great financier, big-hearted philanthropist and enthusiastic banjo player Warren Hellman twice this year. My two sightings, neither of which had anything to do with his career as the co-founder of the leading San Francisco private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman, say a lot about this towering yet kindly man.
My first glimpse MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Dec 19, 2011 1:00 AM ET
"What can I say," he told the BBC in 1996. "I hired the wrong guy."
These oft-quoted remarks about John Sculley come from a BBC interview conducted 11 years after the man Jobs hired to run Apple (AAPL) outmaneuvered him in a boardroom coup.
This 20-second clip resurfaced in "Steve Jobs: The Billionaire Hippy," a BBC special that aired last week. Until it gets pulled from YouTube, the hour-long documentary can be MORE
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