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Apple and Microsoft are promoting a particular video compression technology -- and attacking free alternatives -- to eliminate some competitors in the browser space and better coalesce control over delivery of web content.
Symbian is trying to use Palm's old strategy of offering web-based app development tools for its mobile platform to attract developers and further pain Apple and others as proprietary and closed.
No matter how hard Google works to secure their system, the truth is that the real threat keeps growing. That's because in a cloud computing world the biggest danger comes not from outside hackers, but from Google's own users.
Disagreements over how to code Web videos might let traditional media keep their waning grip over viewers for that much longer.
What does an e-tailer have to do to get people buying with their mobile phone?
Motorola handset sales crash, but it's the champ of Google Android sales, moving more than 40 percent of all smartphones running the operating system.
Amazon (AMZN) is now watching what its Kindle users are highlighting -- and publishing the results. This bold, unnecessary move may erode consumer trust and hurt Kindle book sales, two things Amazon can't afford as it wages war against Apple (AAPL). From MediaBistro's GalleyCat: Amazon recently...
Why does Steve Jobs call Adobe closed? Because he wants to divert attention from Apple being even more closed. He shouldn't bother and, instead, admit to what the company does so brilliantly.
For a company whose every move is scrutinized by legion sof fans and pundits, the coverage of Apple's acquisition of a small company called Siri has been rather muted. Found by Robert Scoble in a Federal Trade Commission filing, it may be that the story was simply overwhelmed by HP's acquisiti...
Nokia's N8 smartphone is an impressive entry that should scare the consumer electronics industry. It raises the bar on what people can expect from a handset, which means more pressure to add expensive features for the phone companies and less reasons for consumers to buy additional devices.
Now that HP has scooped up Palm for $1.2 billion, analysts are discussing how HP will reset Palm's troubled past. However, Palm also gives HP gets a new opportunity to hurt Apple -- namely in the tablet arena. If applied on a bigger scale, the Palm Pre technology could give the upcoming HP Slate a d...
HP saves Palm and becomes a problem for Microsoft, Apple, Google, and RIM.
Microsoft uses IP lawsuit threat to get royalties on Android handsets from HTC and some strategic benefits as well. Google -- and Apple -- should be worried.
E-commerce links might be a way for newspapers to regain some clout in their own business models.
Polaroid is back! Sort of, and in a very odd way. The company has set aside its bread-and-butter -- simple, affordable cameras -- and decided to pursue the aftermarket video game accessory market. Yes, the storied camera company that was synonymous with instant photography is putting its efforts int...
