April 7, 2011
Cisco Systems (CSCO) is in trouble. It screwed up and John Chambers acknowledged as much in his memo to employees Monday, Apr.4, which was later published on the ...
March 31, 2011
(Bloomberg) Ingenico, a French maker of payment terminals, is in discussions to buy the U.S. assets of Hypercom Corp., giving it a bigger foothold in North ...
March 31, 2011
Microsoft (MSFT) has delivered 1.5 million downloads of a tool kit to make applications for Windows Phone 7, a sign the operating system may be winning over developers...
March 29, 2011
Megan Kendrick, an editor in Phoenix, just discovered 12 plastic gift cards stashed in a drawer, dating as far back as 2003. The unspent balance topped $500. "I didn't...
March 24, 2011
In the great mobile-device wars, Google (GOOG) has portrayed itself as the open-source crusader doing battle against the leaders in proprietary software—Apple ...
March 22, 2011
Research In Motion's (RIMM) PlayBook, a 7-inch tablet with Wi-Fi connectivity, arrives on Apr. 19 and as of Mar. 22 can be pre-ordered through Best Buy (BBY) in the ...
March 4, 2011
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
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
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
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 ...
January 26, 2011
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
(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 14, 2011
The Sundance Film Festival is a showcase that draws about 50,000 people to Park City, Utah—all toting cell phones, tablets, and computers, and all expecting to ...
January 4, 2011
Google (GOOG) is considering building a payment and advertising service that would let users buy milk and bread by tapping or waving their mobile phones against a ...
January 4, 2011
Wells Fargo (WFC) is again trying to make mobile payments at restaurants and retailers mainstream, three years after an earlier attempt lost steam. Peter Ho, product ...
December 31, 2010
(Bloomberg) Clearwire Corp., a company creating a nationwide high-speed wireless network using WiMax technology, said Chairman Craig McCaw will step down ...
December 30, 2010
(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
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 20, 2010
The "commercial disagreement" between Comcast (CMCSK) and Level 3 (LVLT) is still ongoing, and while many (including the cable company) portray it as a simple peering ...
December 19, 2010
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 7, 2010
Tech jobs are coming back after hitting bottom early this year, according to economy tracker Moody's Analytics (MCO). The U.S. economy has added 47,000 technology jobs...
December 7, 2010
Rogers Communications, a Canadian cable TV and wireless communications provider, said on Friday that it will allow customers to share existing mobile broadband plans ...
December 3, 2010
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 ...
November 22, 2010
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 18, 2010
Last December, engineers at General Motors' (GM) OnStar unit hunkered down in a dingy basement conference room plastered with whiteboards. Their mission: to reimagine ...