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PC showdown: Netbook threat heats up
There's going to be a PC retail showdown this holiday season. Let's call it the netbook vs. the nymph.
In the netbook corner: the cheap, small, underpowered laptops that are all the rage lately. Asian manufacturers like Asus first introduced them, and consumers love them because they handle documents, e-mail, and web surfing for as little as $300. The big PC makers offer their own models, but also secretly hate that MORE
Jon Fortt - Sep 15, 2009 6:30 AM ET -
Live: Apple iPod event, 9/9/09, San Francisco
Will we get new iPods with video recording? Will Steve Jobs show or won't he? Refresh this page during the event for live updates. It all begins at 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET. The presentation is about to begin.
Steve Jobs walks out on stage to a standing ovation. He clearly appreciates the reception. He still looks quite gaunt -- much like he did before he took his leave. Applause MORE
Jon Fortt - Sep 9, 2009 1:04 PM ET -
Remember Lexmark? The printer underdog is still fighting
In this era of Kindle books, text messages and Facebook photos, printed information is taking it on the chin – and perhaps no company has been hit harder than Lexmark. The Kentucky-based printer company is one of the worst performing stocks in the hardware sector this year, down about 30%.
But Lexmark (LXK) CEO Paul Curlander hopes a new line of printers will help him climb off the canvas.
The eight new MORE
Jon Fortt - Sep 1, 2009 9:00 AM ET -
Apple's Animal Farm
I'm sorry, Microsoft. On behalf of Silicon Valley, I'm sorry.
We cursed you, mocked you, labeled you the Evil Empire. Your crime: trying to control the technology world. Sure, we had reason to be upset. During the dawning of the PC era, the Windows operating system made you the most powerful company in tech, and it went to your head.
Your detractors say you intimidated PC makers, crushed Netscape, and tried to MORE
Jon Fortt - Aug 24, 2009 1:38 PM ET -
Why the market's mad at Yahoo
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said two months ago that Microsoft would have to cough up "boatloads of money" to get Yahoo's search business. In the end, it took nothing of the sort.
Apparently, all Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer had to do was let Yahoo (YHOO) take the lead in selling search to premium advertisers, and promise to supply Microsoft's Bing search technology on the cheap. Under the terms of a MORE
Jon Fortt - Jul 30, 2009 10:44 AM ET -
Google launching Latitude for iPhone today
Google's location-based Latitude service is coming to the iPhone within hours, Google mobile VP Vic Gundotra said at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference this morning.
Gundotra said the latest iPhone OS update, which enables location-based services in the browser, paved the way for Latitude.
UPDATED: Google's blog post on the news is here.(AAPL) (GOOG) (RIMM)
Jon Fortt - Jul 23, 2009 1:04 PM ET -
How Firefox will take on Chrome, Safari and IE
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Jon Fortt of Fortune, Jon Swartz of USA Today and Scott McGrew of NBC chat with Mozilla CEO John Lilly about the future of Firefox. (AAPL) (GOOG) (MSFT)
Jon Fortt - Jul 17, 2009 2:45 PM ET -
Microsoft Office to go online -- for free
The last version of Office didn't include a free online version. The next one will. Image: Microsoft
It's too early to say Microsoft has checkmated Google in online documents – the latest version of Office hasn't shipped yet. But the sleeping giant in Redmond has clearly woken up to the Internet threat.
Get this: Microsoft – the king of paid software – will announce today that it is going to give a MORE
Jon Fortt - Jul 13, 2009 9:30 AM ET -
Google Chrome OS vs. Microsoft Windows [video]
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Jon Fortt - Jul 8, 2009 11:44 PM ET -
Techmate: HP thin laptops, legal gambling, and Android [video]
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Jon Fortt - Jun 30, 2009 2:52 PM ET
