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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.
"Who wouldn't aspire to be Google? But we're not a Google, we're Yahoo." -- Carol Bartz, Yahoo CEO. (Third Age)
Bartz took to the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco earlier this week and revealed MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 17, 2010 4:25 AM ETPosted in: Adobe, Apple, August Capital, Carol Bartz, Facebook, Financial, Google, Gravity, iPad, Khosla Ventures, Maveron, Microsoft, Mobile, MySpace, Palm, PayNearMe, PlayBook, RIM, Shantanu Narayen, Steve Ballmer, Tablet, True Ventures, Yahoo -
Addicted to bits: Smartphones are our new drug of choice
Smartphones' sleek forms, tactile buttons, and blinking lights add up to a sort of game -- and a perfect catalyst for compulsive behaviors.
If you've got a smartphone, check it. Chances are, it's flashing a light or showing you an icon to signal a new text, e-mail, Facebook message, or even the archaic missed call. And that feels good. Face it, it's a bummer when you pick up your phone after MORE
Shelley DuBois, writer-reporter - Oct 20, 2010 11:32 AM ETPosted in: 3G, Addiction, Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Compulsive behavior, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Disorders, DSM-5, Health, Impulse Control, Internet addiction disorder, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, Mental disorder, Mental health, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Motorola, Palm, Phones, Research, RIM, Samsung, Sony, Steve Jobs, University of Connecticut Health Center, Verizon -
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.
Cisco (CSCO) exec Tony Bates will be Skype's new CEO, replacing Joshua Silverman, who had filled the position since early 2008. (Reuters) Yahoo (YHOO) head of Audience David MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 5, 2010 6:30 AM ET -
HP stops making Androids
Though the company was at one point in development of Android products, it has now shifted completely to webOS.
Jon Rubinestein, the former CEO of Palm, which HP (HPQ) picked up for $1.2 billion earlier this year, dispelled any myths of multiple portable operating systems happening at HP to the Financial Times today. Specifically, he said there wouldn't be any Windows Mobile and HP killed off its Android efforts:
HP is on MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 29, 2010 12:32 AM ET -
Elevation's $100 million Pandora stake: jinx?
After years of stasis, Pandora is on the verge of being rewarded for recent growth with a fat check. But can Elevation Partners' Roger McNamee -- even with U2's Bono in the backseat -- pick a winner?
By Chadwick Matlin, contributor
Pandora, that online music station you likely have open in another tab right now, is on the verge of adopting a new sugardaddy. Elevation Partners, the venture capital firm most famous for its MORE
Aug 26, 2010 11:47 AM ET -
Smartphone wars: The big picture
Apple, Google, RIM, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm, Linux -- who's in it for the long haul?
Two news events -- the imminent arrival of Research in Motion's (RIMM) newest entry and Apple (AAPL) falling behind Google (GOOG) in U.S. market share -- has triggered some interesting long-term thinking about where we are in the battle for smartphone supremacy.
Here's who we've been reading (while we are supposed to be on vacation):
MG Siegler in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 3, 2010 8:01 AM ET -
HP casts a wide net to compete with Apple's tablets
HP stays true to its plans to build a tablet with Microsoft despite just having bought Palm
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
Hewlett Packard has been hinting that it was going to come out with a fancy new tablet for some time. Bloggers have been questioning whether the company's new partnership with Palm would finally generate the product that talks with Android and Microsoft didn't.
Turns out HP and Microsoft are still making MORE
Jul 22, 2010 6:30 PM ET -
What to watch for at Brainstorm Tech
From tablets to conflicts, business models to investment opportunities -- what we are hoping to hear.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
Fortune's 2010 Brainstorm Tech conference kicks off tomorrow in Aspen. Here's a preview of some of the questions our moderators will be asking top tech execs.
-Twitter, Zynga and LinkedIn are courting online ad money. Group M CEO Irwin Gotleib has a ton of it - his company is a major media-buyer. Group MORE
Jul 21, 2010 3:31 PM ET -
HP tablet: third time's a charm?
HP needs to make products that consumers think are cool. Is the new partnership with Palm the answer?
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
The big buzz about Hewlett Packard's handheld strategy is that it's teamed up with Palm, presumably to join the tablet game.
HP's executive vice president of its personal systems group, Todd Bradley, will be at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference along with Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein to talk about the new deal. MORE
Jul 21, 2010 10:33 AM ET -
Developer interest in tablets soars
Apple's iPad leads the way, but Android tablets are gaining fast, even before they exist
There's lots to learn about where the next generation of third-party mobile apps are coming from in a survey published Wednesday by Appcelerator, maker of a popular Titanium cross-platform development tool that seems to have escaped the wrath of Steve Jobs.
The survey, conducted last week among 2,733 of its more than 51,000 customers, took a deep MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 23, 2010 6:02 AM ET
