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Live from Apple's iPhone event
Fifteen months after the iPhone 4 was introduced, Apple unveils its successor: the iPhone 4S
Apple on Tuesday introduced a new iPhone, the iPhone 4S, and a new voice control system called Siri that it hopes will keep it ahead of its competitors by changing the way people communicate with their mobile phones.
Siri, however, is still in beta -- or not quite finished -- mode.
And the phone most of the world MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 4, 2011 11:38 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Sprint betting billions on next iPhone
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* Sprint (S) is betting billions that the next Apple smartphone will boost its business. The number 3 mobile network in the U.S. reportedly committed to buy more than 30 million iPhones and doesn't expect to make money off the deal until 2014. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Speaking of, Apple (AAPL) finally reveals MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 4, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Google, iPhone, iPhone 5, Kindle Fire, MG Siegler, Mike Arrington, Napster, Rhapsody, Sprint, TypeKit, YouTube -
Get ready for another iPhone 'big bang' says J.P. Morgan
Expect two new models and expansion into untapped U.S. and Chinese carriers
J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz, one of the last holdouts on Wall Street, has come around to what has become conventional wisdom among Apple (AAPL) watchers: That the company is set to release not one but two iPhones, an iPhone 5 and what Moskowitz calls an iPhone 4-plus.
In a report to clients Monday he describes what his "research" has turned up. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 19, 2011 12:14 PM ETPosted in: Apple, AT&T, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, iPad, iPhone, iPhone 4-plus, iPhone 5, J.P. Morgan, Sprint, T-Mobile USA -
Today in Tech: Netflix lets Starz go
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* The Netflix-Starz partnership is no more, meaning all Starz content on the movie and TV-streaming service will be unavailable beginning next February. In a statement, Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings told Business Insider that domestic viewership of Starz content has declined to 8% given increasing content from MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 2, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: AOL, AT&T, Economic Policy Institute, Facebook, Michael Arrington, Netflix, PC, Reed Hastings, Sequoia Capital, Sprint, starz, T-Mobile, TechCrunch, Twitter -
Sprint soars 10.12% on report that it's getting the iPhone
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple will add a third U.S. carrier in mid-October
"Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, closing a huge hole in the No. 3 U.S. carrier's lineup and giving Apple Inc. another channel for selling its popular phone."
So begins the report in the Wall Street Journal -- Apple's (AAPL) current favorite backchannel outlet for releasing unofficial product news -- that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 23, 2011 5:26 PM ETPosted in: Apple, AT&T, iPhone, iPhone 5, Mobile, Sprint, Sprint Nextel, Verizon, Wall Street Journal -
Good news, mobile phone users
Brain tumor rates in Japanese atomic bomb survivors are often used to scare cell phone owners. The real story turns out to be far more reassuring.
FORTUNE - Tumors in the brains of Japanese civilians who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem to tell a frightening tale, the story of how a cancer epidemic can remain hidden for several decades and then suddenly metastasize. The atomic bombings thus provide a perfect explanation MORE
Scott Woolley - Jul 28, 2011 9:00 AM ET -
America: Land of the crummy-sounding cell phone
Want to buy a high-definition cell phone? You can now get one in 22 countries, including Uganda — but not the U.S.
FORTUNE -- Thirty years of experience have taught people to expect conversations over mobile phones to be low-fidelity affairs. But around the world people are quickly learning it doesn't have to be that way.
Today, the technology exists to make mobile phone calls sound not just good, but flat-out great. This MORE
Scott Woolley - Jul 18, 2011 8:51 AM ET -
What the iPhone did for Verizon
The No. 1 carrier signed up 3.4 million new subs last quarter, while its competitors lost share
It's probably fair to assume that at least part of the Q1 2011 bump in the blue line at right can be attributed to the Feb. 10 launch of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone for Verizon Wireless (VZ).
As Piper Jaffray's Christopher Larson notes in a report to clients Monday, 38% of the new cellular subscriptions MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 9, 2011 1:10 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Latest iPhone 5 rumors, "Friday" singer becomes millionaire
A curated selection of the day's newsworthy tech stories from all around the Web. Read on, and join the conversation with a comment below.
According to the China Times, the iPhone 5 will supposedly go into production during the third quarter of this year, which if true, means the MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 23, 2011 8:30 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Facebook worth $85 billion, Apple sues Amazon
A curated selection of the day's newsworthy tech stories from all around the Web. Read on, and join the conversation with a comment below.
Microsoft is suing Barnes & Noble -- alongside Foxconn and Inventec -- over alleged patent infringement, including "features" in the Android operating systems on which its Nook eBook readers are based. Things like window tabs, status bars, and showing the content of a page while it's still loading, are MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 22, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Android, Apple, appstore, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mobile, Nook, Reddit, Samsung, Sprint, Stephen Colbert, TechCrunch, Trademark infringement
