Watch CBS News
After looking through the evidence suggesting that Apple might be creating a portable gaming device, or combination media and game player, I started wondering what Microsoft might be up to. IT turns out that there's evidence in patent applications and granted patents of a potential integrated game console/set-top box as well as hints of mobile gaming, including a portable gaming console.
There's been a buzz in journalistic circles about media economist Professor Robert Picard's claim that reporters deserve low pay. Although he makes some good points, his line of argument is largely flawed.
Google has been a high profile target in the public eye. It has faced growing antitrust issues, and there has even been evidence that some growing perceptions of Google could damage the company's brand. The practical evidence of the pressure is showing in the form of an advertised position for a communications manager for public policy in Mountain View and another one in Washington, D.C.
HP's quarterly earnings report seemed to catch observers off-balance, as illustrated by the divergent coverage given by the Financial Times and BusinessWeek, both of which know their way around an earnings report. The FT chose to accentuate the positive, noting that HP beat earnings projections, whi...
Apparently the Microsoft price ads are taking a heavy toll on Apple in perceived brand value, according to research done by BrandIndex, an ongoing consumer perception analysis done by market research firm YouGov. The perceptions of 18- to 34-year-olds has shifted significantly when it comes to PCs versus Macs. But in the long run, how much will that really matter to Apple?
Intel's new operating system, designed for cloud-computing devices like smartphones and netbooks, is a potentially fatal stab wound to Microsoft's operating system empire. This is a critical juncture for Microsoft, which is trying to catch up with competitors like Salesforce.com, Google, VMware a...
My colleague, Michael Hickins, has an interesting view of Apple's future as inimitably tied to the iPhone's future in business. I'd agree without hesitation that Apple needs more than just consumer acceptance for the iPhone to make it a dependable long-term company strategy. But the company has a major hurdle: gaining the IT department's trust and acceptance.
IBM is still trying to take advantage of Microsoft's stumbles with Vista in the hopes that customer confusion results in defection to IBM platforms and applications. The most recent evidence of this is a posting by IBM blogger extraordinaire Ed Brill (a sometimes commenter on this blog) in which ...
Mellmo CEO Santiago Becerra has had to swallow a bitter pill. When Becerra briefed me on a new iPhone application for business users last week in New York, he told me that an enterprise license for the software, which makes it easier to read reports from business information crunching application...
The iPhone has been called the third evolution in computing platforms (mainframes and PCs were the first two), and where Apple's fortunes are concerned, there had better be a lot of truth -- and growth -- in that. Indeed, there isn't a lot of good news for Apple in its core businesses as its head...
After weathering a Twitter uproar over some "adult-oriented" books not showing up in searches, Amazon is facing yet another squall, as its search results go haywire in the opposite direction: adding seemingly irrelevant products to customer searches. And Twitter users have resurrected the #amazonfail hash tag to alert people to the problem.
Qualcomm's new Plaza Retail, a supermarket for mobile applications, gets the handset technology vendor into the mobile application space, and is potentially a boon for consumers and the application developers themselves. Currently, mobile applications have to be tailored for each individual app s...
Skype, the Internet-based telephony company which eBay plans to spin off in 2010, claims it's gaining a new audience -- business users. Chaim Haas, a spokesman for the company, told me that the proportion of business users as a percent of the total customer base grew from 30 percent to 35 percent...
Uniloc gets $388 patent infringement judgment against Microsoft; laptop vendors suing NVidia; Texas trademark owners suit targets Google, AOL, MySpace, others; L'Oréal loses French trademark suit against Google; RealNetworks countersues Hollywood; and Shazam customers including Apple, Amazon, and Verizon face patent infringement suit by Tune Hunter.
The $1.45 billion fine levied against Intel last week by the European Commission, will doubtless be seen in hindsight as a watershed event heralding a new era of government clampdowns on certain types of business activities. The only question in the balance is whether this new era of regulation will...
