Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 11, 2011 at 1:35 pm PT
South Korea’s Samsung is a key player in the global mobile war between and among Apple, Google, Nokia and others. Here’s its smartphone general.
Kara Swisher in Mobile on October 4, 2011 at 12:08 pm PT
Be nice to Mac fanboys today. Apple rolled out a new iPhone today.
Sort of.
John Paczkowski in News on February 16, 2011 at 10:31 am PT
If the iPad truly is a PC and not the “media tablet” that some claim, then Apple is the largest mobile PC vendor in the world. According to DisplaySearch, Apple shipped 10.2 million mobile PCs in the fourth quarter of 2010–iPads, MacBooks and MacBook Pros–to claim a 17.2 percent share of the mobile PC market. That makes it the new global leader.
John Paczkowski in News on December 13, 2010 at 11:50 am PT
Some 54.7 million tablets will be sold next year and of those, 37.2 million will be iPads. That’s the forecast from Goldman Sachs’s Bill Shope, who says exploding sales of the device may well make Apple “one of the largest vendors in the global personal computing market.”
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 2, 2010 at 3:53 pm PT
On the day of the premiere of a Bloomberg TV documentary that promises to burnish his legend, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison also got to brag that Oracle had retaken the current land speed record in database computing from IBM. Of course he used the opportunity to engage in his favorite new hobby: Taunting Hewlett-Packard.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 19, 2010 at 11:12 am PT
Sports Illustrated hasn’t come to Apple’s iPad yet, but the publisher is already showing off a new version of its future: A digital magazine designed with Google in mind. Here’s the demo that Editor Terry McDonell gave at Google’s I/O developer conference today.
Kara Swisher in News on December 23, 2009 at 8:59 am PT
To start, let’s just dispense with huffing and puffing angst over whether or not people should broadcast their credit card transactions online.
Because that’s what you can do on a new site, with the unlikely name of Blippy, headed by longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Philip “Pud” Kaplan.
In other words, a kind of Twitter for spending–the next step in the inevitable trend toward radical transparency online.
John Paczkowski in News on December 17, 2009 at 6:58 am PT
As earnest as it might have been, Microsoft’s apology to Plurk, the microblogging service whose code and design it copied, has not eased the start-up’s outrage over the incident or its desire to squeeze all the PR it can out of it. Though Microsoft has taken responsibility for the offense–perpetrated by a third-party vendor with which it contracted–it has not offered accountability, says Plurk. And that makes the microblogging outfit inclined to pursue legal action, or threaten it, anyway.
John Paczkowski in Social on December 15, 2009 at 10:37 am PT
If Microsoft didn’t know what a Plurk was before, it knows now. The software giant has suspended MSN Juku, its Chinese microblog site, “indefinitely” after confirming that the vendor that developed the site did indeed, as Plurk charged, copy design and code from Plurk, a Twitter rival popular in Taiwan and Indonesia.
