Today in Tech: Redbox and Verizon's Netflix killer

• Verizon's future is in the clouds

  Verizon's chief cloud strategist discusses where the communication giant's cloud business stands today and where it's headed.

  FORTUNE -- Verizon Communications is best known for operating cell phone networks and fiber-optics-based TV and Internet offerings. But over the last couple of years, the company has made a big push in cloud computing services, which it says is key to future growth. That's why, last January, the New York-based carrier shelled out $1.4 MORE

  Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jun 10, 2011 12:26 PM ET
  Posted in: cloud computing, Verizon, Verizon Communications

• Analyst: 25,000 to 120,000 Xooms sold. Motorola Mobility's survival at risk

  Rather than try to out-innovate Apple, he says, it should sue its Android competitors

  There's some pretty blunt language in the latest note to clients from Global Equities' Trip Chowdry, who may have been spending too much time talking to retailers and developers.

  He estimates that Motorola Mobility (MMI) has sold somewhere between 25,000 and 120,000 Xoom tablets -- hardly a propitious start for a company he perceives as being on the MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 25, 2011 2:09 PM ET
  Posted in: Android, Apple, Google, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Motorola, Research in Motion, Tablets, Verizon Communications

• iPhone 5: Another vote for summer

  An analyst offers four reasons she doesn't believe the launch has been postponed until fall

  "We believe nothing hurts sales more than stale product."

  So writes Cross Research's Shannon Cross in a note to clients Tuesday. The stale product, in her view, is the iPhone 4, and she is unconvinced by the arguments put forward by those who expect its replacement to arrive in the fall:

  Argument 1. Apple needs LTE, since competitors MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 13, 2011 11:20 AM ET
  Posted in: 3G, Apple, Cross Research, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Shannon Cross, Steve Jobs, Verizon Communications

• Where the CDMA iPhone goes next

  After the U.S (with Verizon) and South Korea, Apple is likely to target China, India and Japan

  The iPhone built around the CDMA protocol that Apple (AAPL) launched in February went first to Verizon (VZ).

  That made sense, since Verizon Wireless, with 94 million customers, represents the world largest market for CDMA mobile phones.

  But as J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz points out in a note to clients issued Tuesday, Verizon's is not the MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 13, 2011 9:48 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, CDMA, China, Code division multiple access, India, iPhone, J.P. Morgan, Mark Moskowitz, Mobile, South Korea, Verizon Communications

• Apple runs out of most iPads

  The only model left at Apple's Fifth Ave. flagship store Saturday was the $829 Verizon 3G

  Second-day iPad 2 stories were dominated by reports of long lines and product shortages, some of them clearly colored by the reporter's personal disappointment.

  Mark Gurman's piece about "poor retail launch planning" posted at 9to5 Mac, for example, might not have been as critical of Apple (AAPL) if, after waiting 10 hours in line at the MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 12, 2011 12:12 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Store, AT&T, iPad, New York City, Verizon Communications

• Dooce was paid to switch to Droid

  The "Queen of the Mommy Bloggers" makes a curious revelation

  Lisa Belkin's marvelous piece in the New York Times Sunday magazine on mothers who blog is filled with juicy details about Heather Armstrong, whose dooce.com draws 100,000 daily visitors and reportedly generates ad revenue of $30,000 to $50,000 a month.

  Armstrong, who famously got fired from an L.A. start-up for nicknaming her bosses and describing their foibles online, writes under the pseudonym MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 27, 2011 7:21 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, AT&T, Dooce, Droid, Google, Heather Armstrong, iPhone, Mobile, Verizon, Verizon Communications

• RBC Capital: Verizon will sell more than a million iPhones in its first week

  Expects Apple to sell 75 million iPhones in calendar 2011, 12%-13% of them through Verizon

  RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky, whose estimate that Verizon (VZ) had fewer than 100,000 Apple (AAPL) iPhones in stock for pre-sale last week seemed low, has issued a new report with some more aggressive numbers.

  He now estimates that Verizon will sell more than 1 million iPhones in its first week and 3-4 million before the end of MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 9, 2011 11:30 AM ET
  Posted in: Android (operating system), Apple, AT&T, Google, iPhone, Mobile, Verizon Communications

• Today in Tech: Verizon iPhone unlimited plan, more Yahoo layoffs

  Though Yahoo's fourth quarter revenue and profit beat analyst estimates, its forecast for this quarter was significantly low enough -- revenue between $1.02 billion and $1.08 billion versus a consensus of $1.13 billion -- to send the Internet giant's shares down 4% by yesterday afternoon. (Tech Trader Daily)
  Yahoo also laid off about 1%, or likely around 100-150, of its current global staff. "The personnel changes we are making are part MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 26, 2011 6:34 AM ET
  Posted in: Amazon Web Services, AT&T, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Intel, iPhone, iPhone 4, Mobile, Sequoia Capital, Verizon Communications, Verizon iPhone, Yahoo

• Today in Tech: Apple iOS 4.3 details, MySpace spinoff

  A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

  Apple released iOS 4.3 beta to developers and quickly enough, users found some rather interesting new features, chief among them: four and five finger-multitouch gesture support for the iPad. A five-finger pinch brings users back to the home screen, a four-finger swipe up or down shows or hides the multitasking bar, and four-finger swipes to the MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 13, 2011 8:27 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Boy Genius Report, iOS, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, Lowell McAdam, Mobile, TechCrunch, Verizon Communications, Verizon iPhone