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Yahoo Should Expect Incoming Lawsuit Lobbed by Loeb Tomorrow on CEO Hiring

Kara Swisher in News on May 6 at 9:01 am PT

Add another log to the wildfire.

Fetchnotes Wants to Get Your “To Do” List Out of Your Head

Drake Martinet in Mobile on November 5, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

Start-up Fetchnotes is trying to use an armload of APIs to build a mainline between your real brain and the one you keep on the Internet.

Apple Analysts: Screw Everything, Everything, We're Doing $550

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 20, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Evidently a 78 percent net income increase in Apple’s fiscal first quarter was all it took for the market to put aside concerns about CEO Steve Jobs’s indefinite medical leave. Analysts following the company issued a fusillade of bullish notes celebrating the company’s leviathan quarter and raising their guidance for the year ahead. The most bullish target price of all: $550.

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Amazon Brings the Kindle App to Windows Phone 7

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 7:06 am PT

Amazon’s Kindle app now works on at least 11 different platforms with the addition of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 today. The apps allow you to start an e-book on one platform, and then continue reading it where you left off on another. Features include the ability to synch bookmarks, notes and highlights. Yesterday, Amazon also confirmed that in addition to supporting the iPad, it will tailor the apps for upcoming Android and Windows-based tablet computers. At this point, it’s clear Amazon sees value in supporting all platforms. Rather than be discriminating, it’s trying to sell as many books as it can on as many platforms as a customer may want to read them.

Kno Prices Its Student Tablets at $599 and $899 to Ship by End of the Year

Kara Swisher in News on November 8, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Kno, the high-profile Silicon Valley start-up trying to jump-start a market for tablets focused on students, announced tonight that it will have a limited number available by the end of the year for sale at prices of $599 and $899. The lower price is for its single-screen device, while the clamshell double-screen version is more expensive. Kno would not say exactly how many it has ordered for its first tablet production run–the device is being built by China’s Foxconn–but co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid said in an interview earlier today that units would number “in the thousands.”

Apple Shares: “A Magical and Revolutionary Product at an Unbelievable Price”

John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 21, 2010 at 9:43 am PT

“After the big run, what’s next? The big run.” So begins a research note from RBC analyst Mike Abramsky that’s a good representation of the market’s reaction to Apple’s latest blow-the-roof-off-the-sucker quarter. The 90 percent spike in profit the company reported yesterday, which surpassed already lofty expectations, inspired a rush of analyst notes this morning, all of them enthusiastic.

The Entire BoomTown Video of the Mossberg-Jobs Chit-Chat at Apple iPad Launch!

Kara Swisher in News on January 29, 2010 at 9:03 pm PT

A video BoomTown posted earlier this week–following around my All Things Digital partner, Walt Mossberg, at the launch of the Apple iPad–has gotten an awful lot of attention, due to a little over two minutes of him kibitzing about the device with CEO Steve Jobs. Since that section of my longer video was in the middle, I decided to put all the Jobs clips I had together, all done in my usual shaky spycam style.

Premium Buys Encryption for Evernote

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 27, 2010 at 3:06 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions about security for an Internet-based notes system, and recommendations for lightweight laptops.

Nook E-Reader Has Potential, but Needs Work

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 9, 2009 at 6:03 pm PT

Barnes & Noble’s new e-reader has Wi-Fi and allows users to lend books, but it’s slower and less polished than its Kindle competitor, writes Walt Mossberg.

Succinctly Speaking With Steve Ballmer: Sidekick Fiasco "Not Good"

John Paczkowski in News on October 20, 2009 at 12:07 pm PT

T-Mobile Sidekick users who lost their personal data in a humiliating server failure at Microsoft subsidiary Danger last week are today restoring their contact lists–but not much else at this point.