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Today in Tech: Google unveils augmented reality glasses
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* Google (GOOG) is now testing a pair of augmented reality glasses it intends to eventually sell. "Project Glass," as it's called, will project information onto the lenses for users to consume and interact with. (The New York Times)
* How Facebook is winning the war against Yahoo (YHOO), patent by patent. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 5, 2012 10:34 AM ET -
Munster: How Apple becomes the first $1 trillion company
Its market cap today is $577 billion. Where do the next $400-plus billion come from?
In a note to clients issued early Tuesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster raised his Q2 iPhone estimate (to 33 million), set a new 12-month price target ($910 per share) and -- most provocatively -- laid out a roadmap for Apple's (AAPL) market capitalization to go from $576.79 billion as of Monday's close to $1 trillion by MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 3, 2012 7:06 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Dell, Gene Munster, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Market Cap, Market capitalization, Microsoft, Nokia, Piper Jaffray, RIM, Sony -
HP's printer problem
The printer industry is experiencing a long, slow decline — and HP is doubling down. That may be a mistake.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE – When Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy in January, no one was surprised. The 131-year-old company once controlled 90% of the U.S. film market in the 1970s, only to be displaced by the rise of digital cameras. It took decades for Kodak to fall.
Now a similar kind MORE
Mar 29, 2012 10:34 AM ET -
Apple now takes the biggest bite of the world's chip market
Overtook Samsung and HP in 2011 on sales of iPhones, iPads and MacBook Airs
The pie chart at right, created from data that showed up in Gartner Inc's RSS feed on Thursday, tells only part of the story. It shows Apple (AAPL) consuming 5.7% of the world's semiconductor capacity, overtaking Samsung and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) in 2011.
But to get a sense of how dramatically conditions changed in the worldwide chip market last year, check out MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 23, 2012 7:48 AM ETPosted in: Apple, DRAM, Gartner, Hewlett-Packard, iPad, iPhone, MacBook Air, Nokia, Samsung, Semiconductors -
Today in Tech: As HP reorganizes, layoff numbers up in the air
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* In light of news that HP (HPQ) is restructuring, CEO Meg Whitman says she's unsure at this point how many people will be laid off. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Zynga (ZNGA) is acquiring OMGPOP, maker of the popular app Draw Something, for a reported $210 million by some accounts. (Zynga MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 22, 2012 11:48 AM ETPosted in: Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, iPad, iPhoto, Jeff Bezos, Meg Whitman, OMGPOP, Steve Jobs, Zynga -
Today in Tech: New iPad runs hot, says Consumer Reports
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* In a new report, Consumer Reports says Apple's (AAPL) new iPad can run as hot as 116 degrees while running some games -- 10 degrees warmer than its predecessor. This in turn caused somewhat of a kerfuffle in the tech blogosphere, with some outlets conducting independent tests of their own, some MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 21, 2012 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Dr. Dre, Google, Hewlett-Packard, iPad, Kevin Rose, Oracle Corporation, Reddit, Todd Bradley -
Free download: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Mike Daisey has released the script of his controversial monologue on the Internet
UPDATE: Anybody who is interested in Mike Daisey's work should first listen to the retraction prepared by This American Life here.
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Even as he performs an extended stay of his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at the New York Public Theater, Mike Daisey has done a rare thing for a professional writer and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 22, 2012 4:16 PM ET -
How many times have we heard about a smaller Apple iPad?
A Google search turns up 114 million hits, but that couldn't be right. Could it?
The Wall Street Journal was getting a lot of play Tuesday morning with a report out of Taiwan that Apple (AAPL), to "broaden its product pipeline" and respond to "intensifying competition," was testing a new smaller tablet with a screen size of about 8 inches.
Color us skeptical.
First of all, we don't sense that Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 14, 2012 12:00 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Hewlett-Packard, iPad, Kindle Fire, Samsung, Steve Jobs, Tablets, TouchPad, Wall Street Journal -
Mac sales zigged as Windows PC sales sagged in Q4
Apple is the only bright spot in the industry's worst quarter in a decade
Fourth quarter personal computer numbers for the U.S. market came in from Gartner and IDC Wednesday and for the second quarter in a row, Apple (AAPL) sales grew like gangbusters while the Microsoft (MSFT) Windows PC market actually shrank.
Apple sales in the U.S. were up 20.7%, according to Gartner, while HP (HPQ) was down 21.6%, Dell (DELL) MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 12, 2012 6:39 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Asus, Dell, Gartner, Hewlett-Packard, IDC, PCs, Personal computer, Thailand, Toshiba -
Today in Tech: Is Verizon pulling a Netflix?
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* Verizon Wireless (VZ) ruffled some feathers after users of its high-speed 4G network experienced the fourth outage of the year and the third this month alone. Also, news of a $2 surcharge fee for one-time credit or debit card payments conducted via phone or online spread, somewhat inaccurately, causing customers MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 30, 2011 6:00 AM ET
