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Today in Tech: "Cyber Monday," George W. Bush, Google and Groupon
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"The PC industry's inability to significantly innovate, and its overreliance on a business model predicated on driving volume through price declines, are finally impacting the industry's ability to induce new replacement cycles." -- Gartner Research director George MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 30, 2010 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Android, Cyber Monday, Facebook, Financial, Google, Groupon, IDC, iPad, Kleiner Perkins, Mary Meeker, Microsoft, Mobile, Morgan Stanley, MySpace, News Corp., PC, Seagate, Tablet -
Today in Tech
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.
News Corp head Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs are reportedly knee-deep in the Daily, a digital newspaper that combines "tabloid sensibility" with "broadsheet intelligence" and will appear exclusively on tablets like the iPad some time early next MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 22, 2010 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Accel, Apple, Facebook, Groupon, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, SAP, Sony Ericsson, Steve Jobs -
Today in Tech
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Reports are surfacing that the iPhone 5 will take Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies to an entirely new level. One hypothetical situation presented is that the new models will carry desktop data and settings. When owners MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 2, 2010 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Citysearch, Facebook, Google, iPhone, LinkedIn, News Corp., Reddit, Rubicon Project, T-Mobile, texting, Twitter -
Today in Tech
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.
Less than a month after Motorola filed a suit against Apple, Apple is returning the favor by suing Motorola for infringing on smart phone patents. (The Register)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 1, 2010 6:00 AM ET
Facebook reports a data broker paid app makers for user MOREPosted in: Apple, cablevision, Dan Hesse, ESPN, Evan Williams, Facebook, FCC, Motorola, Netflix, News Corp., Sprint, Supreme Court, Twitter, Verizon, Windows Phone 7, Xbox -
Today in Tech: News Around the Web
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"For those of us who live outside of Apple's distortion field, we know that 7-inch tablets will actually be a big portion of the market, and we know that Adobe Flash support actually matters to MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 20, 2010 7:08 AM ETPosted in: cablevision, Carol Bartz, Facebook, GPS, Intel, Jim Balsillie, Mark Zuckerberg, News Corp., RIM, Steve Jobs, Tom Tom, Verizon, Yahoo -
The best rhetoric in business: cable vs content
When the cable providers and the companies providing the shows fight over fees -- as Cablevision and News Corp currently are -- the viewers lose. But those who enjoy their business bare knuckled definitely win.
As the "Cablevision vs. News Corp." feud escalates, more than three million subscribers remain without Fox programming. Cablevision blames News Corp. for demanding an extortionate increase in retransmission fees; News Corp. argues Cablevision isn't negotiating MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 18, 2010 1:26 PM ET -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.
In yet another situation of cable negotiations gone awry, News Corp. yanked Fox programming from Cablevision. "This is an unfortunate attempt to extort unreasonable and unfair fee increases from Cablevision and our customers," stated a Cablevision email MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 18, 2010 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Android, Angry Birds, Apple, cablevision, Facebook, FaceTime, Fox, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, News Corp., Samsung, Steve Jobs, Yahoo -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
In light of reports that private equity players approached AOL and News Corp. to make unsolicited bids for Yahoo, the Internet company has asked Goldman Sachs to MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 15, 2010 8:23 AM ET -
What is MySpace now: an empty space?
The new logo could be a way for users to see their best selves in the soon to be rebooted social network. Or it could lead them to see nothing at all.
Late last week, the new MySpace logo was unveiled at the Warm Gun Design conference in San Francisco: the word "my" in a sans serif font (presumably Helvetica) followed by a bracketed underscore representing a space. Get it?
"MySpace is MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 11, 2010 12:28 PM ETPosted in: Facebook, Jason Hirschhorn, Jon Miller, Logo, Mike Macadaan, MySpace, News Corp., social network, TechCrunch, Twitter, User experience -
Live from Apple's fall product launch
This is the spot for our live coverage of Apple's (AAPL) Sept. 1 music event.
In sum, Steve Jobs delivered on most of the rumored new products and services. The headlines:
A new $99 Apple TV that streams (rather than downloads) $4.99 movie rentals and 99-cent TV rentals from ABC and Fox.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 1, 2010 2:00 PM ET
A new lineup of iPods, chief among them the iPod touch equipped with two cameras, one a front-facing camera that can MOREPosted in: ABC, Apple, Apple TV, CBS, Disney, Hollywood, iPhone, iPod, iPod nano, iPod touch, NBC, News Corp., Special Event, Steve Jobs
