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Today in Tech: The iPad 3 is coming!
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* Yes, folks, the day many have been waiting for is fast approaching: Apple (AAPL) is set to unveil the iPad 3 next Wednesday, March 7. At this point, it's almost certain the newest tablet will feature a Retina-like display, one with nearly double the resolution of its predecessors, however MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 29, 2012 3:30 AM ET -
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 -
Video: ABC takes a camera crew inside an iPad factory
Nightline to air its special after the kids are asleep Tuesday at 11:35 p.m. ET and PT
Four years ago, when I first starting writing about Foxconn, it was almost impossible to get a photo of the factory workers who assemble 40% of the world's electronic devices.
Now, 18 suicides, two fatal explosions, an off-Broadway show and a New York Times exposé later, Foxconn has opened the factory where Apple's (AAPL) iPads MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 20, 2012 12:01 PM ET -
Where would U.S. consumer electronics be without Apple?
Down 6% in 2011, that's where, according to the NPD Group
If it weren't for tablets and mobile phones, 2011 would have been a miserable year for the U.S. consumer electronics industry.
Total U.S. retail sales for the year were $144 billion, down 1% from 2010, according to a report issued Monday by the NPD Group.
That might not sound too bad. But sales of PCs, TVs and video game hardware were all down, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 13, 2012 10:13 AM ET -
Today in Tech: HP says Apple will become PC leader
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.
* HP CEO Meg Whitman told the French newspaper Le Figaro that, if you count iPads as PCs, Apple (AAPL) will likely surpass her company as the leading PC vendor next year. (Though, HP wants to reclaim that title come 2013.) Also, Whitman said the company could announce the fate of its webOS operating MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 1, 2011 9:24 AM ET -
Nielsen: iPhone & Android own 71% of U.S. smartphone market
83% of the apps downloaded in the past month were for a Google or Apple phone
The U.S. smartphone market is starting to look like a two-horse race, judging from data scheduled to be released Wednesday by a Nielsen general manager at AppNation III in San Francisco. Among the new findings:
44% of all U.S. mobile subscribers now own a smartphone
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 29, 2011 2:00 PM ET
56% of the mobile phones purchased in the past three months were MORE -
Today in Tech: Apple's four keys to success
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* All Things D reports that Facebook is working with HTC to build a smartphone, codenamed "Buffy," built around the social network. (All Things D)
* HP CEO Meg Whitman told investors during her first earnings conference call to lower their expectations and that the road ahead in 2012 "just MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 22, 2011 9:01 AM ET -
Today in Tech: What happened, Sony?
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 - Nov 21, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
Cisco promised a turnaround. Is this it?
Cisco has been struggling to find a suitable second act. Now, with its major competitors distracted, the first glimmers of hope may be in sight.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- Few companies have been as central to the Internet's development as Cisco. ISPs, private companies and public institutions have relied on its switches and routers so much that the San Jose company's name might as well be synonymous with the Net's MORE
Nov 15, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Cisco, csco, Earnings, Hewlett-Packard, HP, John Chambers, Juniper, routers, stocks, switches, turnarounds -
Morgan Stanley: Apple's share of world's largest PC market -- China -- set to grow from 5% to 21%
Chinese consumers rate Macs as most desirable, although only 7% can afford one
In August, according to IDC, China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest consumer of personal computers.
On Wednesday, Morgan Stanley issued the results of a survey suggesting that Apple (AAPL) is the best positioned of all PC manufacturers to capitalize on the boom.
Summarizing the results of a proprietary Alphawise survey of 1,553 consumers in 16 Chinese cities, Morgan MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 10, 2011 6:39 AM ETPosted in: Apple, China, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Katy Huberty, Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, PCs, Tablets
