Yukari Iwatani Kane and Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 3, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Apple Inc. is working to funnel more electronic sales of magazines, newspapers and other content through its iTunes store, an effort that is making some publishers uneasy.
The effort is aimed largely at spurring more subscription sales of digital content for Apple’s hit iPad, which the company hopes to accelerate with the aid of a coming new delivery and billing system that it discussed at an event Wednesday.
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 19, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Music app developer Smule’s latest app, Magic Fiddle, emerged out of a dare. Walking out of classical musician Lang Lang’s concert in San Francisco last April, in which the pianist played an encore with Smule’s iPad piano app, Smule co-founder Ge Wang joked with colleagues about creating a violin app that would force users to put their iPads up to their face and rest their chins on the device to make it work.
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 6, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
AmTran Technology, a contract manufacturer of monitors and televisions, is making a bold bet. It licensed the rights to make, distribute and market TVs in North America under the brand of JVC, the long-troubled Japanese consumer-electronics maker, and it promises to offer affordable but high-end TVs by the end of the third quarter.
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 3, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Vizio Inc., which put inexpensive flat-panel TVs in living rooms, now is setting its sights on cellphones and tablet computers.
Vizio, which has vied with Samsung Electronics Co. for leadership in U.S. sales of television sets, plans Monday in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to discuss its new mobile products.
Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 18, 2010 at 8:48 am PT
Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner’s real name–even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off.
These phones don’t keep secrets. They are sharing this personal data widely and regularly, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
