Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT
After running HP for 11 months, former CEO Léo Apotheker got several million dollars in severance benefits. Exactly how much is hard to determine. For that, HP has won a unique and dubious award.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 9:30 am PT
While many are offering their tech predictions for 2012, we thought we’d take a moment to remember those that have gone to the tech-product graveyard.
Kara Swisher in Media on December 28, 2011 at 1:06 am PT
Should auld iPhone 5 be forgot and never brought to market …
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 26, 2011 at 7:47 am PT
Forget analyzing your Facebook status updates and Foursquare check-ins. The really interesting data lies in your email exchanges from the past year.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 21, 2011 at 6:04 pm PT
Important new products and services—including Ultrabooks, cloud computing and Android devices—raised questions and anticipation for the year ahead.
John Paczkowski in News on January 13, 2011 at 1:52 pm PT
Here’s an interesting data point regarding Microsoft’s Xbox. According to Larry Hryb, director of programming for Xbox Live,
the Xbox 360 was sold out by the end of December, and the company is evidently struggling to keep up with demand. “Jan/Feb supply is tight as well,”
Hryb said in a tweet, adding that he expects “amazing” year-over-year growth in 2011. We’ll see where things stand when NPD releases its December sales data today.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 13, 2011 at 1:29 pm PT
Earnings were up a record 48 percent, while PC revenues were flat and data center sales grew.
John Paczkowski in News on January 7, 2011 at 9:45 am PT
A few noteworthy nuggets from Apple’s 2011 Proxy Statement, filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The most interesting, a strongly worded rebuttal to a shareholder proposal calling on the company to adopt a written CEO-succession-planning policy.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 7, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
Research in Motion’s PlayBook tablet is on schedule for launch in the first calendar quarter of 2011. And that’s the word from the company itself.