IOS (Apple)

A peek at Apple's new server farm

The local Fox TV affiliate finally sent a camera crew to the site

Did someone declare April to be National Visit Your Data Center Month and forget to send us the memo?

First there was Robert Scoble's breathless photo tour of Facebook's new facilities in Prineville, Oregon. Then Google's (GOOG) scary video about the security surrounding its Goose Creek, S.C., server farm, where it scans employees' eyeballs and crushes misbehaving hard drives MORE

iFund companies going Android

More jobs are opening for Android developers according to a report today.

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Dow Jones' VentureWire reports this evening that most of the companies seeded with cash from Kleiner Perkins famous iFund are taking their iApps and porting them over to Google's (GOOG) Android platform.

A telling stat:

13 of the 16 companies backed by the $200 million iFund now have both iOS and Android apps or will within a few MORE

Games you can Xerox

Gameloft, a French mobile games company, had its best year yet. But something about its success feels familiar.

By Chadwick Matlin, contributor

Imagine you've finally published that novel you've been working on for the past few years. It's one of those sci-fi epics, where there's an alien invasion to be overturned, a stoic soldier to defeat it, and maybe a cool gun or two to use in the process. And now that MORE

Your smartphone will be your new computer and bank. China's, too.

Sure, smartphones are booming, but here's how banking, enterprise and OS battles are really going to play out on the sleek gadget in your pocket.

By Mitch Cline, guest contributor

Wireless handsets have been around for decades, but this market has perhaps never had a more promising future than it does now in terms of potential market penetration, consumer demand, and global significance. Take mobile handset penetration: Globally, we're talking big-time numbers MORE

Today in Tech: The 64 GB iPhone, how HP "lost its soul"

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"HP has lost its soul." -- HP CEO Leo Apotheker (Bloomberg Businessweek)

M.I.C. Gadget got its hands on what is likely a legit 64 GB iPhone prototype. Though, before you let your minds run wild, bear in mind it's a prototype of the iPhone 4 and not MORE

Holy social media, Batman! Video rentals come to Facebook

Facebook users can now watch The Dark Knight right on the website. It won't be the last time content providers come to where the users are.

Would you watch movies on Facebook? That's what Warner Brothers, a division of Time Warner (parent company of Fortune), wants to know by offering up The Dark Knight for viewing on the movie's Facebook fan page. 3.9 million fans have already "Liked" it and they MORE

Mac OS X Lion: The 7-minute preview

Looking for a good video intro to the Mac's new OS? This one's the best we've seen

Anyone who downloaded the first developer release of OS X Lion from Apple (AAPL) last week had presumably signed a nondisclosure agreement promising not to breath a word of it (unless it was something Apple had already revealed on its website, its press release, or the demo Steve Jobs and Craig Federighi gave last MORE

Apple meets shareholders; yawns all around

Apple shareholder meetings are, contrary to their sleek gadgets and product launch spectaculars (see: iPad2, hoped-for on March 2nd), designed to underwhelm.

CUPERTINO, Calif.--Annual shareholders meetings are designed to be yawnfests. Bylaws require a meeting, so companies work hard to comply with the letter of the law--and little more. Apple (AAPL), such a master at jazzing up events to release new products, ably jazzes down its annual meeting.

The usual collection of MORE

Apple & Android: 50% of smartphones

The indefatigable Horace Dediu points out on Asymco.com that although Apple's (AAPL) iOS and Google's (GOOG) Android are less than two years old as platforms, together they have captured 50.2% of what he calls "the most competitive market technology market on the planet."

Below: The same data graphed as market share.

Susquehanna ups AAPL target to $465

Expects sales of 76.7 million iPhones and 32.1 million iPads in fiscal 2011

[Needham's Charlie Wolf also raised his price target Monday, to $450 from $375, and Ticonderoga's Brian White reiterated his $550 target. By 10 a.m. Apple was trading above $350 for the first time.]

In his first Apple (AAPL) supply chain check since Verizon (VZ) iPhone pre-sales began, Susquehanna's Jeff Fidacaro has raised his Apple price target (to $465 from MORE