Apple’s iPhone takes slow boat to China
In China, Apple’s iPhone commands a strange presence. Perenially “coming out”, already widely available on the black market, viewed with trepidation by local telecom players but with undisguised lust...
View ArticleVerizon and iPhone: Deal or no deal?
Verizon Communications Chief Financial Officer John Killian had a lot to say about how well his company’s smartphone and data business is doing, but skirted the elephant in the room at the Reuters...
View ArticleDell’s enterprise chief pooh-poohs netbooks
Netbooks: flavor of the month? Not according to Dell’s Steven Schuckenbrock. The PC giant’s head of enterprise sales was quick to point out flaws in the stripped-down, no-frills mini-computers that...
View ArticleiSkyscraper? If you were Apple, why not?
If you had paid $3.5 billion for a skyscraper named after bankrupt automaker General Motors, wouldn’t you want a tenant to come in and pay you another few million to rename the building, with the added...
View ArticleSpeak, memory! The eternal search for notebooks with flash drives
Good news for us computer geeks! PCs are nearly ready to ditch hard drives for faster, less energy-intensive drives with flash memory, like in a camera or cell phone, according to memory maker Micron,...
View ArticleWant an in with Kleiner? Send a drawing
For Matt Murphy, partner with influential Silicon Valley Venture fund Kleiner Perkins and point person on the firm's iFund, old-school is still the way to go. During an interview at the Reuters...
View ArticleIs Apple in Intel’s future?
Apple developed the processor for it’s recently launched iPad tablet PC in-house. Intel was left waiting on the sidelines but change may be in store. Future tablets from other device makers, and maybe...
View ArticleGlobalMedia: EA nabs triple word Scrabble score from Oprah
Forget sports tournaments or new movie releases as boosters for game demand. Electronic Arts' latest hero is America's most famous chat show host. Chief Executive John Riccitiello, at the Reuters...
View ArticleGlobalMedia-iPad cautionary tale: What not to watch, up close
Media executives love to go on about their love of the Apple's iPad. But the tablet isn't suited for everything. Walt Disney's Anne Sweeney relayed her recent experience catching up on an ABC TV show...
View ArticleGlobalMedia-Baseball exec frustrated, but shies off lecturing Jobs
One of Major League Baseball's top executives may not think Apple's iTunes app store is particularly user friendly, but he's not about to offer advice to the hottest technology executive on the planet....
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