John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 24, 2011 at 4:55 am PT
Asked last October about Apple’s plans for the nearly $60 billion in cash it had on hand, CEO Steve Jobs suggested the company intended to allocate some to future big-ticket purchases. But was he talking companies or components?
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 6:56 pm PT
Aside from producing oddly funny onstage stunts, storage company EMC launched 41 new enterprise products at its New York event yesterday.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
If you’ve got $49.99, you can buy a copy of “Rock Band 3.” Or you could have bought the company that makes the videogame. Ouch.
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Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 23, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Most personal computer makers buy chips the way Intel wants to offer them. But the technology giant has learned it needs to be more flexible in other markets, as an unusual arrangement with another Silicon Valley company shows.
Intel on Monday detailed plans to begin offering a version of its Atom microprocessor–best known as the calculating engine inside millions of low-end portables called netbooks–that the company is packaging along with a different sort of a chip supplied by Altera.
Kara Swisher in News on September 29, 2010 at 3:01 am PT
Cisco, the networking giant, is making yet another big step into the consumer space, with the introduction next week of an inexpensive home telepresence product for personal use.
Consumer or Home TelePresence, sources said, might be launched with Comcast and Verizon. It is not clear if AT&T is involved.
The cost for a small unit is reportedly around $200, but that price will be heavily subsidized. Another source said a $500 price point was also possible with fewer hooks.
Kara Swisher in News on August 11, 2010 at 8:15 am PT
Cisco Systems is expected to report strong fourth-quarter earnings later today after the markets close, which should be another boost to the tech market.
The Internet computer networking equipment maker is being buoyed by a return to spending by customers eager to upgrade after recession pullbacks.
John Paczkowski in News on February 10, 2010 at 9:04 am PT
For the past few years, we’ve been hearing rumblings about Google leasing hundreds of thousands of square feet of carrier hotel space, buying up dark fiber, mulling the purchase of hundreds of millions of dollars in DWDM and Ethernet-based telecom equipment and helping to build out a trans-Pacific multi-terabit undersea cable. Now we know why. Google is developing its own 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home Internet service.
John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2010 at 7:07 am PT
So AT&T has finished upgrading its 3G footprint to HSPA 7.2, completing the first phase of an effort that will improve connection reliability and at some point later this year or in 2011, raise its maximum 3G data speed to 7.2 Mbps from 3.6 Mbps. Welcome news for long-suffering AT&T subscribers–but only those in cities where additional back-haul connections have been added to support those higher speeds.
John Paczkowski in News on October 30, 2009 at 4:00 am PT
The Palm Pre may have been the most successful handset rollout in Sprint’s history, but it hasn’t stopped the carrier from hemorrhaging customers in the months following its launch.
John Paczkowski in News on October 30, 2009 at 4:00 am PT
The Palm Pre may have been the most successful handset rollout in Sprint’s history, but it hasn’t stopped the carrier from hemorrhaging customers in the months following its launch.
