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Reorganization Shakes Microsoft Management

Feb 15, 2008 1:00 PM CST

Reorganization Shakes Microsoft Management

Cellphone, online services VPs out

(Newser) - Under pressure from strong competition, especially in the cellphone business, Microsoft revealed a major executive shakeup yesterday, reports the New York Times. Mobile communications operations senior VP Pieter Knook is heading off to help Vodafone get into mobile Internet services, according to the Wall Street Journal. Another big departure is...

25% of iPhones Get Unlocked

Feb 13, 2008 9:38 AM CST

25% of iPhones Get Unlocked

Gray market Apple handsets getting reconfigured globally

(Newser) - The worldwide demand for the iPhone is creating a growing gray market where the phones are bought and sold outside of Apple’s restrictions, BusinessWeek reports. The devices are supposed to operate only through cell phone carriers who have contracts with Apple. But as many as 1 million iPhones, or...

Apple Boosts Memory on
Hot Gadgets

Feb 5, 2008 3:55 PM CST

Apple Boosts Memory on Hot Gadgets

16GB iPhone, 32GB iPod cost $100 more, allow movie rentals

(Newser) - Apple released new iPhone and iPod Touch models today that cost $100 more than their predecessors and have double the memory. The new iPhone boasts 16GB of memory, and the new iPod Touch has 32GB; each costs $499. "For some users, there's never enough memory," an Apple VP...

Mac OS X Grabs
Record Market Share

Feb 2, 2008 8:41 PM CST

Mac OS X Grabs Record Market Share

Gains 3.56% over January, while Windows drops .36%

(Newser) - Apple's Mac OS X operating system grabbed a record 7.57% of market share in January, up 21.7% from the year before, Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog reports. The computer company’s share grew 3.56% over the course of December, while rival Microsoft Windows faced a .36% loss—...

Motorola May Sell Ailing Cell Phone Division

Feb 1, 2008 2:50 AM CST

Motorola May Sell Ailing Cell Phone Division

Company struggling against smart phone competition

(Newser) - Motorola, battered by more innovative competitors in the cell phone industry, is considering spinning off or selling its flagship mobile phone division to concentrate on other parts of its business. Motorola, which once rocked the industry with its innovative StarTAC flip phone and the ultra-slim Razr, now plans to refocus...

Meet the Next Big Interface: Multitouch

Jan 31, 2008 1:00 PM CST

Meet the Next Big Interface: Multitouch

The iPhone was just the beginning. Mossberg sees it everywhere

(Newser) - The iPhone was just the coming-out party: The gesture-based touch commands the phone uses, writes Walter Mossberg in today’s Wall Street Journal, have since been ported everywhere from the Macbook Air laptop to a Microsoft coffee-table-sized computer to iPhone wannabes exhibited all over the recent Consumer Electronics Show. Multitouch...

Errant iPhones? No Big Deal, Analyst Says

OPINION

Jan 28, 2008 8:41 PM CST

Errant iPhones? No Big Deal, Analyst Says

Apple profits can withstand unaccounted for gadgets without loss

(Newser) - An estimated 1.4 million iPhones that have been either inventoried or clandestinely unlocked may not pose a significant threat to techno-juggernaut Apple's overall profit. The "missing" phones could force stock prices to dip, "but if you look at Apple," reassures analyst Ezra Gottheil, "It's solidly...

AT&T's 4Q Numbers Bolstered by Cell Sales

Jan 24, 2008 7:53 PM CST

AT&T's 4Q Numbers Bolstered by Cell Sales

Other operations lagging behind

(Newser) - AT&T's quarterly numbers indicate strong wireless sales, the Wall Street Journal reports, though unimpressive figures from its landline and Internet divisions have left some analysts and investors concerned. AT&T enjoyed a quarterly revenue of $3.14 billion—up from $1.94 billion this time last year—bolstered by...

No Worm in Apple, Yet
Stock Falls

Jan 22, 2008 10:23 PM CST

No Worm in Apple, Yet Stock Falls

Record-high $1.5B earnings fail to placate nervous investors

(Newser) - Despite reporting record-high earnings, Apple saw its stocks fall more than 11% after the market closed today, the New York Times reports. Apple's lowered 2nd quarter earning expectations may have sparked the drop, analysts say, unless investors are anxious about the high-end electronics market in general as the US economy...

Apple Lets Businesses in on iPhones

Jan 21, 2008 4:37 PM CST

Apple Lets Businesses in on iPhones

Corporate-focused data plan costs $25 extra each month

(Newser) - Get ready to send a more fashionable Out-of-Office Auto Reply. Apple and AT&T today revealed their first iPhone plans for businesses, allowing for discounted voice plans but charging a $25 monthly premium for data plans. New customers must sign up for a 2-year agreement, and existing AT&T customers...

Music Fans Dodge Fees With Handset 'Sideloads'

Jan 19, 2008 7:50 AM CST

Music Fans Dodge Fees With Handset 'Sideloads'

Smartphone users are choosing to share music rather than pay for downloads

(Newser) - Apple has sold 4 million iPhones since last summer’s launch, and it’s become the industry leader in mobile web access, while having just 1% of the handset market, reports Reuters. But the sleek smartphone hasn’t appeared to have made a bump in music downloads. Overall, downloads to...

NetFlix Tries to Pre-Empt Apple

Jan 13, 2008 10:59 PM CST

NetFlix Tries to Pre-Empt Apple

New rental rivals prepare for Internet movie showdown

(Newser) - Netflix and Apple are preparing to go head-to-head in the burgeoning business of delivering movies over the Internet . AP reports Netflix is expanding its fledgling movie streaming service, Watch Instantly, to give most subscribers unlimited access to 6,000 titles. The move comes just as Apple is about to...

LG's Voyager Not So Fly

Jan 11, 2008 4:06 AM CST

LG's Voyager Not So Fly

iPhone lookalike doesn't hold candle to real thing

(Newser) - LG’s new touch-screen Voyager phone is vastly inferior to the obviously similar iPhone, despite offering a few features Apple doesn’t, concludes the Wall Street Journal. The Voyager's hardware and particularly its software fails to impress, and the phone’s interface is “clumsy and confusing, requiring too many...

A Rocky 2008 Forecast for Consumer Tech

OPINION

Jan 3, 2008 2:36 PM CST

A Rocky 2008 Forecast for Consumer Tech

Subprime jitters, lack of new gadgets may mean bad year for buying

(Newser) - As the tech industry prepares for two huge events—the Consumer Electronics Show and Macworld—MarketWatch’s Therese Poletti takes a look at the year ahead, and has little nice to say about consumers’ continued appetite for buying. Few big products are expected to debut—“the commonly stated mantra...

Apple Shares Smash $200 Barrier

Dec 26, 2007 3:40 PM CST

Apple Shares Smash $200 Barrier

Hot gadgets help company muscle past IBM, Dell, Intel in value

(Newser) - Apple's shares hit a record high today, climbing $1.80 to $200.60 before retreating to close at $198.95. Strong sales of the Macintosh computer, iPod, and iPhone fueled the rally, reports Bloomberg, and Apple says sales this holiday season will be the highest in its 31-year history. The...

Colorful Cube 'Next Big Thing'

Dec 26, 2007 5:42 AM CST

Colorful Cube 'Next Big Thing'

Huge demand expected by next Xmas

(Newser) - Santa is already kicking back and thinking what will be under trees next Christmas. High on the list is the Fentix cube, an innovative, colorful, electronic device that can detect up from down. Inventor Andrew Fentem tells the BBC it can be adapted for many uses - games platform, puzzles,...

Will Japan Flip for the iPhone?

Dec 21, 2007 11:36 AM CST

Will Japan Flip for the iPhone?

Tech-savvy nation may not be all that jazzed about Apple's bells and whistles

(Newser) - Japan’s tech-savvy market may be a tough sell for Apple’s iPhone, which will face more competition from handset makers there than it has anywhere else in the world, reports BusinessWeek. The market already has phones that send e-mail, browse the Internet, and, more important, are compatible with newer...

Apple Crushes News Leak Website

Dec 20, 2007 4:02 PM CST

Apple Crushes News Leak Website

Think Secret published unreleased corporate info, inside scoops

(Newser) - After seven years publishing sneak previews on all things Apple, website Think Secret has been run out of the water by its biggest target. While die-hard Apple-pickers flocked to the site for breaking news on updates and upcoming software, Apple found the site a nuisance, and launched a lawsuit in...

Apple Plays the Field in Japan

Dec 18, 2007 10:34 PM CST

Apple Plays the Field in Japan

Seeks exclusive partner for iPhones

(Newser) - Apple wants to bring the iPhone to Japan to compete with some of the most futuristic phones around, but it's being choosy in its search for a partner, Reuters reports. Apple is in talks with DoCoMo and Softbank, the country's biggest and third-biggest mobile operators respectively, but they're both wary...

Why IT Isn't Buying the iPhone

Dec 13, 2007 2:55 PM CST

Why IT Isn't Buying the iPhone

It's hard to accomodate this vogue

(Newser) - Your company's IT department isn't just being snotty when it refuses to support iPhones. Fortune runs down 10 ways Apple's new baby is problematic for business:

Your infrastructure has to be configured to get business email and calendars
It won't support third-party apps
You can't encrypt data or otherwise secure

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