Verizon Wireless will begin to market the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone next year, if media reports are correct. The large cellular provider will also launch a super-fast 4G LTE wireless network in 38…
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) may finally be getting the iPhone from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The Wall Street Journal is flashing headlines without much detail and we would not that these rumors have…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is not the number 1 mobile operating system used in smartphones in the US. It is not number 2. Google is now in third place with only 19.6% of the mobile…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) made a mistake when it bought Palm. It is about to make a much more costly mistake in launching a series of smartphones that run the rickety Palm webOS, scheduled for…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is testing the old “why buy the cow if the milk is free” cliché with the Android Mobile OS. The question remains whether the search engine giant will ever earn…
Amazon.com (NYSE: AMZN) has begun to raise the price of some of its e-books above their paper versions. According to The New York Times, “Don’t Blink,” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan, whose publisher,…
If you have heard buyout rumors of Skype ahead of its IPO, this newest addition to the Skype team may have you scratching your head a bit. Skype S.A. has just named Tony Bates…
Customers who bought Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPads when the table was first introduced loved the machines. People who have bought them more recently–not so much. NPD research shows that “almost 80 percent of early…
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), which has failed to catch Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) in search, is now trying to battle it the in mobile operating systems market. It’s a longshot at best. The world’s…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be late to launch a line of smartphones with its Windows 7 Mobile OS, but it plans to make up for that with a major foray into the business. The…
Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile phone operating system continues to eat away at the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone’s lead in the smartphone market. According to ChangeWave survey of 4,000 respondents, completed Sept.…
There are rumors that Skype, the Voice over Internet Protocol service, and social network Facebook may join forces. Each has hundreds of millions of members. In Facebook’s case, the number is over 500 million.…
Apple may have the largest application store in the world with 200,000 apps and nearly 4 billion downloads. But, software developers see Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android as the mobile platform of the future and…
Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), maker of the iconic BlackBerry smartphone, will launch its own tablet PC, presumably to compete with the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, according to The Wall Street Journal. RIM’s…
Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) today reported a 68% rise in quarterly profit, proving the BlackBerry maker is far from dead. The shares rose in after-hours trading. Profit was $797 million, or $1.46…