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Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on May 27, 2011 at 3:40 pm PT
Federal telecommunications regulators reviewing AT&T Inc.’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA on Friday delivered their first request for information on the deal, demanding detailed data on AT&T’s pricing, spectrum holdings and any alternatives it considered to solve its capacity constraints.
John Paczkowski in News on April 7, 2011 at 12:06 pm PT
Research in Motion’s PlayBook tablet might have launched a month earlier were it not one thing: A shortage of touch-screen panels caused by the iPad.
John Paczkowski in News on February 17, 2011 at 8:35 am PT
Apple is to the touch-panel business what Starbucks is to the coffee business–a market maker and mover. Particularly a mover. To wit: Claims today that Apple’s voracious appetite for the component is expected to cause an industrywide shortage this year. According to Taiwanese trade mag DigiTimes, Apple has locked up nearly 60 percent of the world’s touch-panel capacity.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 26, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Most of the questions that remained when the product was announced on Jan. 11 have now been answered, including how much the data and hotspot service will cost.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 13, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
As demand for PCs has slowed, so has demand for the memory chips that go into them. Good news for everyone but the companies that make memory.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 29, 2010 at 7:56 am PT
Two problems conspired in a strange confluence of events to knock millions of users off Skype last week.
Peter Kafka in D8 on June 1, 2010 at 7:56 pm PT
Will Apple ditch AT&T for Verizon or another carrier? Steve Jobs wouldn’t address that directly tonight at
D8. But he did say that AT&T’s well-documented trouble handling calls made with his iPhone should improve soon. How soon? “By the end of the summer.”
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 26, 2010 at 5:45 am PT
Now that a pair of lost next-generation iPhone prototypes has robbed Apple of the element of surprise, the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference is likely to be a “non-event” for its stock. So says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who doesn’t expect the WWDC to have much in the way of big “Oh, One More Thing” moments. According to Munster, Apple will probably announce a fourth-generation iPhone at the conference, and the device will probably look a lot like the prototypes we saw earlier this spring.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 24, 2010 at 10:02 am PT
This is, perhaps, stating the obvious, but 2010 is likely to be a big year for Apple. With the iPad set to arrive April 3 and the company presumably heading into an iPhone upgrade cycle, Apple is poised to move a lot of product in the coming months. That’s the word from Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes, who is quite bullish about Apple’s prospects.