Apple’s iPhone Business Is About To Get Its Mojo Back In A Big Way
Getty Images The world’s largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, is secretly taking pre-orders for the iPhone, Fortune’s Philip Elmer DeWitt reports. DeWitt has a screengrab of an iPhone pre-order site from a China Mobile subsidiary which is in Suzhou, a city west of Shanghai. The site has since been taking…
Twitter wasn’t the biggest IPO of 2013
It’s December, which means it’s about time for recaps of the year that was! Let’s start with the market for initial public offerings, since we can basically see through to the end of 2013 — barring last-minute entrants and any secret filings we may not know about, the companies that By…
BlackBerry upgrades BES to improve Android, iOS management
BlackBerry has upgraded its management platform Enterprise Server 10 (BES10) with more features for managing Android and iOS smartphones and has also improved scalability to lower overall costs. BlackBerry’s problems are well documented, but the company is soldiering on. On Monday, the company posted an open letter from CEO John Chen…
Windows 8.1 Surpasses Windows Vista Among Steam Users, Drives Windows 8 …
The Windows 8.x family of operating systems had a rough November, but among gamers the recently released Windows 8.1 is performing decently. In November, gamers using the Steam platform sent Windows 8.1s market share to 6.34 percent, up 4.49 percent in the month. Windows 8 itself ended the month at 12.11 percent, giving Windows 8.1 As…
Holy Cross Academy Robotics Team wins awards in competition
The following was submitted by Sue Romero, communications coordinator at Holy Cross Academy: Members of the Holy Cross Academy in Oneida’s FIRST LEGO League robotics team presented their prize-winning project to Oneida Mayor Max Smith Nov. 26. When the team heard this year’s competition theme was Nature’s Fury, they immediately thought…
Commentary: Have you and your smartphone been stalked?
As job searches on smartphones and tablets explode, many companies are missing out on top candidates because their websites or job applications aren’t optimized for mobile devices.(Photo: Andrew Ross, AFP/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO — Last summer, retailer Nordstrom told the New York Times it had experimented with tracking…
iPhone 5c is a flop? According to one report, it’s just what Apple needed
Imagine a device that would allow Apple to eat into Android’s market share in several key markets, and yet only have a minimal negative impact on Apple’s margins. While early reports suggested the new iPhone 5c might be a flop when Apple had to cut orders with its manufacturing partners,…
Twitter stock gets mixed reviews from IPO underwriters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc shares slipped on Monday after some of the five lead underwriters of its initial public offering said the social media firm may not achieve Facebook-like scale and its stock may not rise much higher. In their first research reports since the November IPO, only…
Amazon drones and the coming robot smog
Cardiff writes mostly about US macroeconomic issues, with daily excursions into other topics about which he claim no expertise. Before Alphaville, Cardiff spent a little more than two years as a reporter at Dow Jones Financial News covering investment banking, asset management, and private equity. Along the way he has…
Jeff Bezos and Our Robot Future
Jeff Bezos has seen the future of retail delivery, and it is the drone. When the storied CEO of Amazon told 60 Minutes that he’s working on 30-minute delivery by tiny unmanned octocopter, it prompted an instant wave of disbelief and derision. One wag on Twitter joked that Amazon would Our…
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