John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 12, 2011 at 3:55 am PT
More than 18 million iPhone 3GS users are expected to upgrade to the new iPhone 4S.
Kara Swisher in News on September 16, 2011 at 2:31 pm PT
So why was the ousted CEO of Yahoo shown the door so abruptly? Because it is Yahoo, which never met a crisis situation it could not hopelessly complexify.
Kara Swisher in News on June 28, 2011 at 1:14 pm PT
What did Skype employees know and when did they know it?
A lot, if you’re reading this “Equity Incentive Plan” deck, which clearly outlines what happens to “good leaver” and bad leaver” execs.
Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT
Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.”
Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 23, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT
Motorola is launching its Xoom tablet on Feb. 24, and it’s the first real competitor to Apple’s hit iPad, writes Walt. That is partly because it is the first iPad challenger to run Honeycomb, an elegant new version of Google’s Android operating system designed especially for tablets.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 16, 2011 at 2:47 pm PT
For Apple, a smaller, cheaper iPhone may be more than a means of entering the market for lower-end phones currently dominated by Android and Symbian–it could be the final step in the company’s global smartphone dominance.
That’s the theory put forth today by Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi, who sees an iPhone Nano or Mini as an inevitability, one that would dramatically expand Apple’s addressable market.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm PT
Walt reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G Android smart phone, which acts as the brains of a small laptop device.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 7:32 am PT
With demand for its iOS devices growing, Apple is once again moving to secure vast storehouses of parts with which to build them. Cupertino is said to be finalizing a massive component contract with Samsung, one that would make it the company’s single largest customer.
John Paczkowski in News on February 10, 2011 at 6:45 am PT
Good news for long-suffering Sprint Nextel investors: Customer retention has finally improved to the point where the carrier is able to report actual gains in postpaid subscribers, rather than losses.
