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March 4, 2011

The Dream of Mobile Content Delivered via HQME

The fears that video will crush cell phone networks as people casually scan YouTube clips on the street or stream Netflix (NFLX) movies from their iPads is forcing ...

March 3, 2011

Google's Android Spurs More App Jobs Than iPhone

Software engineers skilled in making applications for Google's (GOOG) Android mobile-operating system this week became more sought-after than developers for Apple's ...

February 28, 2011

After the iPhone, Connected Devices Emerge as AT&T's Savior

AT&T (T) is going to start selling Kindles in its stores, it said Monday, Feb. 28. Verizon sells iPads at its retail locations. T-Mobile and Sprint (S) are hawking ...

February 25, 2011

Four Signs of Honeycomb's Rush to Compete With Apple's iPad

Now that the Motorola (MMI) Xoom is available, the first of many Google (GOOG) Honeycomb tablets is poised to battle Apple's (AAPL) iPad for consumer dollars and ...

February 18, 2011

What Honeycomb Means for Apple and Microsoft

Overall tablet sales for 2011 are estimated in the tens of millions, and many of those new units will run Google's tablet-specific mobile platform, Honeycomb. Though a...

February 9, 2011

Amazon's Cloud-Computing Guru Honed Skills Fixing Lamborghinis

Amazon.com (AMZN) Vice-President James Hamilton's schooling in computer data centers started under the hood of a Lamborghini Countach. Fixing luxury Italian autos in ...

January 27, 2011

The Unlikely Story of Apple's iPad, One Year In

Jan. 27 marks one year since Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad at a special event at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. At the event, Jobs repeatedly referred to the ...

January 26, 2011

Samsung, LG Take Aim at Whirlpool with Smart Appliances

Samsung Electronics (005930:KS) wants to become the biggest U.S. large-household-appliance brand by making refrigerators smarter. Fridges, washers, dryers, ...

January 25, 2011

Kinect and the Power of Big Broadband

Whichever way you slice it, I am not much of a fan of Microsoft (MSFT) products. Sure, I like the Microsoft Office for Mac, but beyond that, I don't think any ...

January 25, 2011

IPhones, iPads to Gain NFC Payment Features

(Bloomberg) Apple Inc. plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director ...

January 24, 2011

Guess What Could Stop the Tablet Revolution?

With 2011 shaping up to be the Year of the Tablet, securing the display components for the looming army of tablets may be a key factor in determining success. Last ...

January 19, 2011

Apple Conference Call: Six Things You Should Know

Unlike last quarter, Apple's (AAPL) conference call on Tuesday, Jan. 18, regarding quarterly results did not include a cameo by iconic Chief Executive Officer Steve ...

January 10, 2011

Ten Tablets to Keep an Eye On in 2011

With nearly 100 new or updated tablets shown last week at CES, the show was unofficially nicknamed Tabletpalooza. But how to keep track of all those gadgets and which ...

December 30, 2010

Skype Video on Apple Devices

(Bloomberg) Skype Technology SA, the biggest provider of international calls, introduced video calling for Apple Inc.'s wireless devices, a move that may ...

December 21, 2010

Google's Big Problem: It Ain't What You Think

When I first met Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in the 20th century, my first impressions about them included phrases like super-smart, engineer's engineers, and ...

December 21, 2010

SEC Said Probing Mark Hurd's HP Departure

Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has begun an inquiry into Mark Hurd's departure as chief executive officer from Hewlett-Packard...

December 19, 2010

RIM Looks to Distant Shores, Tablets for Growth

Research In Motion (RIMM) on Dec. 16 reported strong smartphone sales, shipping 14.2 million BlackBerry devices in the quarter, which helped boost revenues to $5.5 ...

December 16, 2010

EA's App Store Tactic: Dirty Trick or Just Business?

Electronic Arts (EA) (ERTS) has a lot of games in the App Store (AAPL), and a huge chunk of them are now available for only $0.99 (via Touch Arcade) as part of a ...

December 3, 2010

Google Gains Market Share in U.S. Mobile Ads

Google, owner of the world's most popular search engine, will widen its lead in the $877 million U.S. market for mobile advertising, ending the year with a 59 percent ...

December 2, 2010

Oracle Says Sun Servers Set Database Record

(This story was corrected to show Oracle's benchmark calculated on a per-minute, rather than per-second, basis. It was also corrected to reflect the type of chips used...

November 30, 2010

Ghosts of Christmas Family Tech Issues

If you are your family's resident geek, you get a lot of tech-related questions. These can range from tech support to questions about what you think tech's future ...

November 30, 2010

SAP's Hana Speeds the Database Race

(This story was updated to include information on the software's speed.) When SAP's co-chief executives, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, took over in February, ...

November 23, 2010

HP's New CEO Steps Up Research Spending

(Bloomberg) Leo Apotheker, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s new chief executive officer, gave Wall Street an inkling of how he'll lead the company, saying he won't ...

November 22, 2010

In Aisles, Consumers Turn to Mobiles for Holiday Shopping

Of the $447 billion in predicted U.S. holiday spending this season, $127 billion of it, or 28 percent, will be touched by some form of mobile commerce or social ...

November 19, 2010

Dell Profit Tops Estimates as Component Prices Dip

(Bloomberg) Dell Inc., the third-largest supplier of personal computers, jumped almost 10 percent in late trading yesterday after posting earnings that beat ...

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