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Apple's iPhone 'dead in the water'? Really?

A second look at the claim that Apple's four-year conquest of the mobile market is adrift

Business Insider's Henry Blodget may come to regret -- if he doesn't already -- using the phrase "dead in the water" to describe the performance of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in a comScore market share survey that seemed to show, as Blodget's headline put it, that "Android is destroying everyone."

The comScore survey to which Blodget was MORE

Nielsen: Apple's iPad still commands 82% of the U.S. tablet market

Also-rans from Samsung, Motorola and others don't seem to have made much of a dent

"Despite the addition to the market of new tablet computers like the Samsung Galaxy and the Motorola Xoom, in the United States, Apple's iPad is still dominating the conversation – and market."

So begins Nielsen's summary of the results of a survey of U.S. tablet owners fielded in April.

Apple's (AAPL) iPad had the largest share (82%), split MORE

Why Barnes & Noble should go from bookstore to Nookstore

With 2013 looming as a tipping point for ebooks, the struggling giant should regroup behind its Nook ebook business, fast.

In the late 1990s, the book industry was upended by the rise of the superstore. With big footprints in exurban shopping centers, Barnes & Noble (BKS) and Borders (BGP) superstores offered what many shopping-mall-sized and downtown mom and pop stores couldn't: aisles upon aisles of hardbacks, paperbacks and magazines, and cushy MORE

Richard Branson has deep-sea ambitions, launches Virgin Oceanic

The intrepid Branson launches Virgin Oceanic, a quest to explore the deepest parts of the aquatic world.

FORTUNE -- Yesterday at the Brainstorm GREEN conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif., Richard Branson sat down with Fortune Managing Editor Andy Serwer for a conversation where he unveiled his latest venture, Virgin Oceanic, through which he will explore the deepest underwater areas of the world.

"Virgin Oceanic will expand the reach of human exploration on our planet. MORE

Intelligent Environments: Android now #1 in UK

The Android phenomenon isn't a US-only affair.

Digital banking provider Intelligent Environments published the results of a study yesterday profiling the buying habits of smartphone buyers in the UK.

Some 28% of smartphone users own an Android, with 26% using an iPhone and 14% a BlackBerry, the study for digital banking provider Intelligent Environments found. More than four million British people over 18 years old own an Android - and it is popular with both MORE

The CIA discovers 91 million missing Chinese Internet users

The Agency's country-by-county Internet count plays catch-up to Wikipedia

The last time we visited the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook -- a document that is supposed to be updated every week -- its "country comparison" list of Internet users seemed woefully out of date. Specifically, its December count of Internet users in China (298 million) differed from Wikipedia's (425 million) by 127 million people.

Wikipedia's numbers struck us as more credible MORE

Can I get out of my T-mobile contract?

Now that it's set to become part of AT&T, many T-Mobile customers are wondering, "Will they let me get out of my contract?" It's the question T-Mobile doesn't want to answer yet.

By Daniel Roberts, reporter

It seems anyone with a cell phone contract has had the thought, whether due to owning an antiquated phone, moving to an area with no service, or dealing with an umpteenth dropped call: "When is my MORE

AT&T-Mobile: Merger brings efficiencies, but will consumers see the benefit?

T-Mobile and AT&T say they won't have to raise rates to make more money after the merger, but it's hard to see how they could resist.

At a recent investor conference, T-Mobile's top executives made a point of belittling data plans for smartphone users offered by rivals AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). T-Mobile's entry-level data plan costs $10, they pointed out, while AT&T demands 50% more for the same 200 megabyte-a-month MORE

AT&T-Mobile and Verizon: Is Sprint third place in a two-man race?

What does AT&T's $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA mean for Sprint? A whole lot of trouble.

Sprint (S), the third-largest U.S. carrier, has struggled to find its niche for years. It spent billions of dollars building out a WiMAX 4G network that has failed to pay off. It's also battled customer losses (a.k.a. churn in industry lingo) and a reputation for less-than-stellar customer service. Assuming AT&T's (T) acquisition of T-Mobile MORE

AT&T-Mobile: AT&T buys T-Mobile USA for $39B

AT&T announced that the new entity would be the biggest in the US with 130 million subscribers.

The national mobile carrier choices for US consumers will decrease by one if the purchase of Deutsche Telekom AG's U.S. T-Mobile unit by AT&T (T) passes regulatory hurdles.  The $39 billion deal, announced ahead of a major wireless conference in Orlando tomorrow, would create the nation's largest wireless carrier and drop the big US mobile carriers to just three.

Charles MORE