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Today in Tech: How Verizon is tracking your mobile behavior
Also: Microsoft's Surface gets priced; Apple to unveil the iPad mini Oct. 23?
Apple event set for Oct. 23. Investors await the iPad mini [FORTUNE]
If the price were right, a smaller tablet that could run 700,000 iOS apps -- 250,000 of them customized for the iPad -- would be, in the words of Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu, the "competition's worst nightmare."
UberTAXI in NYC shutting down for now [UBER BLOG]
Unfortunately, as many MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 17, 2012 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, BlackBerry, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, Research in Motion, Verizon -
Today in Tech: Facebook finds new mobile revenue stream with Gifts
Also: Tim Cook apologizes to for Apple's buggy Maps app; Groupon reshuffles execs.
Tim Cook apologizes for Apple's new Maps app [FORTUNE]
"At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 28, 2012 2:05 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Why BlackBerry has a 'clear shot' at being number three
Meet the newest (high-definition) Nooks; Cisco's CEO lists possible successors.
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: 'we have a clear shot at being number three' [THE VERGE]
"We have a clear shot at being the number three platform on the market. We're not just another open platform on the market, we are BlackBerry."
"It has all the table stakes we need to have for consumer [success]," Heins said. He pointed out that the unique features of MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 26, 2012 6:30 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Would you watch this Silicon Valley reality show?
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has fighting words for Apple; RIM plans to sell its jet to save cash.
A reality series intrudes on Silicon Valley, and finds it cringing [THE NEW YORK TIMES]
The series, which is now being filmed and is scheduled to be broadcast this winter, shows hard-partying youngsters vying to start companies in a frenzy reminiscent of the dot-com peak of 2000. It is a world where everyone seems to MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 10, 2012 4:51 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Why we switched from BlackBerry to iPhone (finally)
YOU GUESSED IT: We switched to iPhone yesterday [POLITICO PLAYBOOK]
BlackBerry was amazing over several jobs and three presidents. We have had one for so long that we remember the days when people would say: "Your calculator is ringing." ... But BlackBerry stopped serving us: The last several models we tried would freeze all the time, held only a couple of photos, and were set for some foreign alphabet, producing odd automatic MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 8, 2012 10:34 AM ETPosted in: BlackBerry, Facebook, iPhone, Mark Hurd, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, Silicon Valley, Twitter -
Now 38% of iPhone sales are to refugees from Android or RIM
That's up from 29% in February, and more than the 34% that were iPhone upgrades
FORTUNE -- Here's more evidence that Google's (GOOG) Android is peaking and (as if we needed it) that Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry is headed south. In a survey released to clients Thursday, the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners found that more iPhones were purchased in April by U.S. customers leaving Apple's (AAPL) competitors than by owners MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 7, 2012 10:51 AM ETPosted in: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, Google, iPhone, Tablets -
Today in Tech: Tim Cook says Apple will "double-down" on product secrecy
Tim Cook remembers Steve Jobs and looks to the future; have Mark Zuckerberg's worst fears become reality?
Apple CEO Tim Cook in the hot seat at D [ALL THINGS D]
Cook said that Jobs told him not to ask what Steve would have done. "He looked at me with those intense eyes that only he had and said, 'Just do what's right.' I'm doing that. Does that mean some things would be different? Of MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 30, 2012 11:52 AM ETPosted in: Apple, BlackBerry, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Research in Motion, RIM, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook -
The Zooey Deschanel effect
The iPhone's "buzz" got a bump after Apple started using celebrities in its Siri ads
FORTUNE -- Some purists used the fact that Apple (AAPL) had replaced the always appealing but generally anonymous faces in its TV ads with a couple of Hollywood celebrities -- Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson -- as evidence that the company had gone to hell without Steve Jobs at the helm. (See Siri takes a star turn.)
But MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 16, 2012 7:56 AM ETPosted in: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, BrandIndex, Buzz, Google, iPhone, Motorola, Nokia, Samuel L. Jackson, Siri, Steve Jobs, YouGov, Zooey Deschanel -
iPhone owners least likely to switch when service sucks
Blackberry and Android users are quicker to drop both their phone and their carrier
FORTUNE -- A new survey of smartphone users doesn't speak well for the quality of the cellular telephone service provided by U.S. carriers.
Roughly 40% of respondents said they experience at least five dropped calls a month, and 9 out of 10 said they'd be willing to switch carriers due to poor call quality.
But in this regard, not MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 3, 2012 11:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Will Google's Dropbox rival launch next week?
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* Research in Motion (RIMM) is reportedly seeking a financial advisor to help the ailing handset maker weigh strategic options. One analyst suggestion? License out the BlackBerry operating system to a company like Samsung. Also: A look at RIM's only (and lonely) BlackBerry story. (Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal)
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JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 17, 2012 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Amazon.com, Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Dropbox, Google, iOS, iPhone, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Windows 8
