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The Mysterious iMac Delay

Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 2, 2010 at 2:29 pm PT

Three months after Apple updated its iMac desktop computers, the company is still experiencing two-week delays in shipping its 27-inch model. When the delay was first noticed on its online store in December, Apple attributed the delays to the model’s popularity, even as some owners complained about flickering screens and yellow-tinged displays. Apple said then that it was “working hard to fulfill orders as quickly as possible.”

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Procter & Gamble to Test Online Store to Study Buying Habits

Anjali Cordeiro and Ellen Byron, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 15, 2010 at 5:41 pm PT

Procter & Gamble Co. plans to launch an online store that will sell key brands, aiming to study consumer buying habits as it counters moves by traditional retailers, which have reduced the variety of brands they carry. P&G spokeswoman Tressie Long said the company sees the new online store as more of a “learning lab,” where it can study consumers’ online buying habits, rather than as a direct source of sales growth.

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.

Running Windows Programs on Macs

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on October 28, 2009 at 4:57 pm PT

Running Windows programs on a Mac, upgrading to Windows 7, netbooks.

Walmart.com Bulks Up, Aims at Amazon, eBay

Peter Kafka in Media on September 1, 2009 at 5:16 am PT

Wal-Mart is the world’s biggest retailer, but online, it’s still a relative piker. Now the company is trying to change that by opening up its Web store to other retailers–just as its biggest competitors already do. But no need for Amazon and eBay to start sweating just yet.

A MacBook Surprise

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 26, 2009 at 2:38 pm PT

Walt Mossberg answers questions about buying a MacBook online and setting parental controls in Firefox.

Dell Dullephone Sighted in China

John Paczkowski in News on August 17, 2009 at 6:58 am PT

No wonder cellular carriers rejected Dell’s first smartphone offering for its “lack of differentiation.” Unveiled in China this morning, Dell’s “proof of concept” handset looks like the chimerical offspring of Apple’s iPhone and the Palm Pre, but lacks some of their more powerful features.

App Aims to Up Social Status of Some Basic Cellphones

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on March 10, 2009 at 4:46 pm PT

Katie reviews iSkoot’s Notifier, an application designed to give basic cellphones smart-phone-like capabilities.

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Amazon: Will It Benefit From Circuit City's Demise?

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on January 16, 2009 at 3:58 pm PT

J.P. Morgan’s Imran Khan theorized in a research note this afternoon that Amazon.com could eventually be a beneficiary of the demise of Circuit City, which earlier today said it would close all of its remaining stores and liquidate. Khan thinks Amazon could inherit as much as half of Circuit City’s online business.