January 26, 2010
Michael Bayle has been fielding a lot of phone calls in the two months since Google bought mobile-ad company AdMob for $750 million. Bayle is a vice-president at ...
January 21, 2010
Ever since we first tried out Sherpa, a location-based services application, we became fans of Geodelic, the Santa Monica (Calif.)-based company behind it. The app, ...
January 20, 2010
In 2003, when Apple said its iTunes music software would work on PCs using the Windows software of its age-old rival, Microsoft, Apple made up posters that read "Hell ...
January 20, 2010
Don't be fooled by the latest round of price cuts by Verizon Wireless and AT&T. The two biggest U.S. mobile-phone companies said on Jan. 15 they'll cut monthly prices ...
January 18, 2010
British scribe Paul Carr is not one to mince words. For him, Google's (GOOG) newfound morality around censorship and China is too little, too late. Four years too ...
January 15, 2010
Increased access to high-speed Internet connections helps create jobs, though it doesn't always result in higher wages, according to a new research report from the ...
January 12, 2010
Like many technophiles who were among the first to snap up the new Nexus One smartphone, Rob O'Connor has had to put up with an inconvenience or two. The Aspen (Colo.)...
January 10, 2010
When Google announced its Nexus One phone, it appeared that the new Android-driven connected device ecosystem would be a three-headed monster: Qualcomm (QCOM) as ...
January 8, 2010
From the outside, the Nexus One and Droid smartphones have a lot in common. Both run Google's (GOOG) Android operating system software and have touch-sensitive ...
January 7, 2010
For consumers concerned about wireless network congestion, hope may be at hand. That's the message from a group of tech companies backing wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, ...
January 6, 2010
By Olga Kharif and Brian Womack (Bloomberg) Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Nexus One marks more than the company's entrance into mobile phones: It propels the Internet ...
January 5, 2010
By Brian Womack (Bloomberg) Google Inc. (GOOG), seeking to wrest consumers from Apple Inc. (AAPL), and Research In Motion Inc., is poised to unveil a mobile ...
January 5, 2010
By Brian Womack (Bloomberg) Google Inc. (GOOG), aiming to take on Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone and defend its dominance in Internet search, introduced a ...
January 4, 2010
By Todd Shields (Bloomberg) The U.S. should free "underutilized" airwaves for use by wireless companies such as Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) and Sprint Nextel Corp. ...
December 31, 2009
By Crayton Harrison and Michael Buteau (Bloomberg) AT&T Inc. (T) cut ties with Tiger Woods after his admissions of marital infidelity, following at least two ...
December 30, 2009
Business writers love hyperbole. The ground will swell. The paradigm will shift. But what if occasionally a new tech gadget comes along that really does shake up ...
December 29, 2009
By Kelly Riddell and Nick Turner (Bloomberg) Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares may advance next year after reaching a record yesterday as the maker of the iPhone and ...
December 28, 2009
A brief halt in online sales of the Apple iPhone in the New York area kept alive concerns that AT&T's network isn't up to the task of handling smartphone traffic in ...
December 28, 2009
By Ville Heiskanen (Bloomberg) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should block Google Inc. (GOOG)'s planned acquisition of AdMob Inc. because the deal would ...
December 27, 2009
It's a nightmare that startups and big businesses alike fear—Google suddenly getting into their market and sucking users and profits. It's a legitimate concern, ...
December 24, 2009
By Dina Bass (Bloomberg) Vonage Corp., the provider of Web- based phone service, advanced in New York trading after rival Jajah Inc. agreed to be bought by Telefonica ...
December 24, 2009
By Owen Fletcher Beijing - Google's (GOOG) purchase of mobile advertising provider AdMob for $750 million has drawn closer regulatory scrutiny as U.S. antitrust ...
December 23, 2009
It wasn't so many years ago that U.S. wireless carriers wanted nothing more than to convince their customers to use their phones for more than talking. Having invested...
December 17, 2009
There's no telling yet whether or when AT&T (T) might lose its position as the sole U.S. carrier of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. But in the event Apple opts to partner ...
December 17, 2009
By Hugo Miller (Bloomberg) Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) surged in late trading after the BlackBerry maker forecast sales and profit that beat analysts' ...