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 8, 2010
By Brian Womack (Bloomberg) — Carol Bartz gives herself a B-minus in her first year as chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), saying she could have moved...
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 6, 2010
By Ian King (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp.'s (INTC) position as the gateway to the Internet will come under attack in 2010 as more consumers start going online via ...
January 4, 2010
It's June 30 and Scottevest Chief Executive Scott Jordan is on the phone losing his temper. Thieves have made off with about 3,000 jackets sold by his Ketchum, ...
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. ...
January 3, 2010
For a device that has yet to be introduced, the tablet expected from Apple this year is whipping up a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. A tiny Indian startup called ...
January 3, 2010
Jack Dorsey's Square, Incase, VeriFone (PAY), and now Mophie—these companies' credit-card readers are turning the iPhone/iPod touch platform into an e-commerce ...
December 31, 2009
A few days ago, Antonio Rodriguez, a Boston-based entrepreneur and founder of Tabblo, e-mailed to let me know that he was leaving Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) to go do ...
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
Google's computer operating system, due to be released next year, may rank among software most targeted by hackers in 2010, according to a Dec. 29 report from the ...
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 Kelly Riddell and Nick Turner (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. (AAPL), maker of the iPhone and Macintosh computer, climbed to a record $211.61 on the Nasdaq Stock ...
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 27, 2009
Sometimes in life, admitting your own limitations is half the battle. I outsource all the things I can't do well. I'm a certified public accountant, yet admittedly a ...
December 27, 2009
By Robert X. Cringely San Francisco - Stop me if you've read this one before. Actually, stop me if you've read anything at all original on the Web over the last year. ...
December 24, 2009
By Agam Shah San Francisco - Twitter has enhanced geolocation services provided on its messaging service by buying Mixer Labs, the company said on Wednesday. Mixer ...
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 22, 2009
Ten days before Christmas, Patricia Curry placed two online orders for last-minute gifts. A GPS device for her mother arrived from Best Buy (BBY) with days to spare. ...