July 1, 2009
When he parks his car, author Timothy Ferriss snaps a photo of the nearest cross streets with his camera phone. In business meetings, he'll often take pictures of ...
June 30, 2009
When Apple (AAPL) upgraded its iPhone operating system in June, it included some highly prominent and loudly demanded features, like search and copy & paste. But the ...
June 30, 2009
Uncle Sam may soon get a little diplomatic help from the iPhone and BlackBerry. On June 30, an Egyptian company specializing in translation software released a tool ...
June 29, 2009
Motorola (MOT) has yet to unveil its new lineup of phones based on the Android operating system, but already analysts are placing bets on its likely success. While the...
June 25, 2009
Giant online retailer Amazon.com may be plotting a broader foray into software for smartphones. The company already offers a handful of mobile applications. One lets ...
June 23, 2009
Apple's handling of reports that CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant has rekindled concern among corporate governance experts that the company and its board are ...
June 23, 2009
Intel and Nokia hope their third time is the charm. After two aborted attempts over the past few years to collaborate on wireless devices, the world's largest computer...
June 23, 2009
From the outside, nearly everything about Apple's iPhone 3GS seems nearly identical to the iPhone 3G released last year. Even Apple's TV ads make light of this fact: ...
June 22, 2009
T-Mobile USA hopes there's room for at least one more device in an already crowded smartphone market. On June 22, Deutsche Telekom's (DT) U.S. cell phone arm is ...
June 18, 2009
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIMM) is benefiting from buoyant demand for smartphones, but not as much as some investors had hoped. The Canadian company said on...
June 17, 2009
From the day it launched two years ago, Apple's iPhone has been a tornado of disruption ripping through the wireless phone market. With the release of the iPhone 3G S ...
June 17, 2009
Add another to the list of markets likely to be upended by Apple's iPhone. Buoyed by both improved hardware and more capable software for both new and existing phones,...
June 17, 2009
The will to regulate the wireless industry may be growing in Washington. On June 17 the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation met to consider whether ...
June 16, 2009
Opera is stepping up efforts to grab share of the Web browser market. To do that, the tiny Norwegian company released a version of its software that's designed to give...
June 16, 2009
Apple (AAPL) wants to give software developers one more reason to love the new version of its mobile operating system. Released June 17, iPhone 3.0 includes a feature ...
June 14, 2009
New iPhone products and price changes are never cause for celebration among Apple's rivals in the wireless industry. The latest additions to the iPhone family are no ...
June 12, 2009
As Pedro Ortez and his wife, Wanda, watched Law and Order on Thursday night, they knew that soon after the program finished their screen would fade to static. The TV, ...
June 12, 2009
I would not want to have been an AT&T employee at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. There were at least three moments when comments by Apple (AAPL) executives ...
June 10, 2009
Qualcomm and Freescale Semiconductor are hoping that a netbook by another name smells as sweet. In hopes of eroding Intel's lead in the burgeoning market for small, ...
June 10, 2009
When the Palm Pre first hit store shelves on June 6, it took no time for analysts to take the device apart. Among them was Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal ...
June 8, 2009
Apple (AAPL) appears poised to make good on repeated assurances that CEO Steve Jobs would be back at the helm by the end of June. As the date approaches and Apple ...
June 8, 2009
Throughout the recession, Apple (AAPL) watchers have wondered whether the consumer electronics giant would release cheaper products to appeal to today's thrifty ...
June 8, 2009
Expectations for Palm's newest smartphone proved too high to meet. In the days after the Pre went on sale on June 6, shoppers complained of shortages. Investors ...
June 4, 2009
Poolhouse, the Toronto-based creator of pet-related applications on Facebook, recently got an unexpected but welcome phone call from the producers of The Oprah Winfrey...
June 4, 2009
To the iPhone's extensive résumé, add magazine cover illustration. Artist Jorge Colombo recently drew widespread attention for creating the image for The New Yorker's ...