When it comes to touch-screen phones, there are those who dig them and those who want to bury them.
Research in Motion is set to show whether it can keep defying the slumping economy and the slowdown in mobile phone sales, and withstand the looming threat of Apple's iPhone.
Steve Jobs has won over legions of new customers since he returned to Apple, but one key group has stubbornly eluded him: big business.
Steve Jobs says he won't have anything to do with smut, but porn purveyors are lusting to exploit Apple's updated device
Almost one year after the original Apple iPhone went on sale, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced a 3G version of the device, finally putting to rest months of rumors and speculation.
The new iPhone and the way it will be sold look set to shut down a small industry that arose to make the first version of the iconic phone available around the world
Apple announced on Monday a much faster iPhone that's half the price of the current model.
AT&T Inc.'s profits for the next two years will take a hit as it subsidizes the new low price of the latest iPhones, the company said Monday
Steve Jobs unveils Apple's latest incarnation of its revolutionary device, with a fanfare that seems justified
European telcos are likely to subsidize Apple's new version of the iPhone, say analysts.
When it comes to touch-screen phones, there are those who dig them and those who want to bury them.
Research in Motion is set to show whether it can keep defying the slumping economy and the slowdown in mobile phone sales, and withstand the looming threat of Apple's iPhone.
Steve Jobs has won over legions of new customers since he returned to Apple, but one key group has stubbornly eluded him: big business.
Steve Jobs says he won't have anything to do with smut, but porn purveyors are lusting to exploit Apple's updated device
Almost one year after the original Apple iPhone went on sale, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced a 3G version of the device, finally putting to rest months of rumors and speculation.
The new iPhone and the way it will be sold look set to shut down a small industry that arose to make the first version of the iconic phone available around the world
Apple announced on Monday a much faster iPhone that's half the price of the current model.
AT&T Inc.'s profits for the next two years will take a hit as it subsidizes the new low price of the latest iPhones, the company said Monday
Steve Jobs unveils Apple's latest incarnation of its revolutionary device, with a fanfare that seems justified
European telcos are likely to subsidize Apple's new version of the iPhone, say analysts.
In another step in the worldwide march of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America said Wednesday that it has inked a deal to bring the multimedia gadget to more than a dozen countries starting later this year
As anticipated, Apple announced a series of software developments Thursday to make the iPhone more useful to business customers while venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said it is starting a $100 million "iFund" to finance startups developing applications for the iPhone.
Among the new developments in store for Apple's iPhone showcased today at an analysts' gathering in Cupertino, Calif., is a plan to allow iPhone users to access their office e-mail.
I'm no Apple lover. Sure, I dig the design coup that is the iPod Touch, the lovely software interface of the Apple operating system, the content of the iTunes service. And I truly believe Steve Jobs is a living, breathing American genius. But Apple's hardware has always been frustratingly limited, particularly for small businesses.
In some ways, you've got to feel a little sympathetic for Sony. The company effectively invented the placeshifting concept -- the ability to stream TV programming from your living room to another device via the Internet -- in 2004, only to see it co-opted by smaller upstart Sling Media a year later. The latter company's Slingbox series of products have become the industry leader, popular enough for the start-up to be purchased by Dish Network parent EchoStar for a cool $380 million.
Google is a company convinced of its own brilliance and its clear vision of the future. Being a hotbed of Mensa members will do that to you. As will stumbling early onto an obscenely lucrative business model. The same thing happened to a company called Microsoft.
Nearly five months have passed since Steve Jobs unleashed his flashy iPhone upon the world, and the sleek, do-everything gadget has met his ambitious initial sales targets and then some -- so far, more than 1.5 million have been sold.
So, Apple's much hyped iPhone is finally available in Europe. Well, in the UK and Germany at least. French readers will have to wait just a few more days until they can get their hands on one.
The iPhone is more than just a gadget. It's a genuine handheld computer, the first device that really deserves the name.
Forget the price cut on the iPhone. The potentially big deal for the wireless industry was Apple's announcement Wednesday of the iPod touch, a music player that also can access the Internet over Wi-Fi networks.
When Apple's iPhone debuted, it seemed to have it all - sleek hardware, a revolutionary user interface, and a cult following. But flash-forward a couple of months, and it's getting flak for being chained to AT&T's slowpoke network and for blocking non-Apple software programs.
Apple on Monday warned iPhone owners who have used unauthorized programs to unlock the cellular service feature of their handsets that they may end up with a phone that doesn't work after the company's next software update for it.
Apple Inc. took its million-selling must trans-Atlantic Tuesday, announcing a November rollout in Britain with an eye toward expanding into Europe in coming months, if not days
After receiving hundreds of emailed complaints from existing Apple iPhone customers angry about a steep price drop, chief executive Steve Jobs says the company will give a $100 credit to certain customers who bought the gadget.
Apple announced Wednesday the first major overhaul of its popular iPod music digital players in nearly two years and slashed the price of its new iPhone.
Apple Inc.'s price cut of its iPhone and new lineup of iPod players are expected to ring in healthy holiday sales, but Wall Street investors accustomed to Apple's meaty profit margins appear a bit disappointed.
Treo maker Palm will not release its smartphone companion product, the Foleo, Chief Executive Edward Colligan said in a posting on the company's blog.
It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads - all at a parent's fingertips.
A group of anonymous software developers said they will soon start selling a program that will allow iPhone owners to use the hugely popular device on cell phone systems around the world and not just with AT&T.
Hackers have found a way to use Apple's iPhone on networks other than AT&T Inc's., opening up the coveted device to rival carriers and overseas customers, according to a Web report Friday.
A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.
Forget checking email on your cell phone - that's soo 2004. Today's teens are doing much more with their mobile devices. Speed texting with their eyes closed is only the beginning, and the technology can barely keep up with their rising demand for new features.
The most widely-mocked accessory of the popular Apple iPhone - an incredibly detailed bill that can run hundreds of pages - is being dropped by AT&T, the wireless phone provider that offers service on the phone.
By the time Apple's iPhone hits Europe later this year, CEO Steve Jobs can expect a serious counterattack from the world's biggest handset vendor, Nokia. Just as Apple is marching onto Nokia turf with its first-ever phone, Nokia will reciprocate with its own long-anticipated online music service.
Apple's shares jumped more than 7 percent Thursday, a day after it reported stellar third-quarter earnings on strong sales of iPods and Macintosh computers, which eclipsed the iPhone sales figures.
AT&T Inc. wiped some of the glow off Apple Inc.'s iPhone on Tuesday, releasing numbers that showed fewer people than expected signed up for service in the first two days of the multimedia cell phone's release
Remember the Electronic Entertainment Expo -- that action-packed madhouse of a video game conference that was once the industry's biggest event of the year? It took place again this week, only this time it was much smaller, tamer and, overall, a big snooze-fest.
A well-known hacker claims to have overcome restrictions on Apple Inc.'s iPhone, allowing highly technical users to bypass AT&T Inc.'s network to use the phone's Internet and music features.
Settle down, kids. The iPhone's much-heralded revolutionary ride has only begun.
Apple Inc.'s iPhone could deliver a profit margin of more than 55 percent after hardware and manufacturing costs, research firm iSuppli said Tuesday, sending shares in the company up nearly 5 percent.
Finally, the wait was over. The much-heralded iPhone was here.
Two weeks ago, I asked Steve Jobs if he was surprised by the growing frenzy about his upcoming iPhone. (I happened to be talking to him in a social situation.) He told me he wasn't really surprised that the device has captured the world's imagination, because even two years ago, which was one year into the project, he and his colleagues realized this was what a phone had to eventually become. He did concede that he didn't necessarily expect the world to get it so fast, however.
The Apple iPhone, the most-anticipated gadget debut in years, went on sale Friday in the United States, ending months of waiting for diehard Apple fans and signaling the start of what could be the company's biggest test yet.
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It's official - iPhone mania was in full bloom Friday as hundreds of people camped out at Apple stores in New York and elsewhere for their shot at the pricey gadgets.
Few companies generate the kind of excitement before a product launch as Apple has before the debut of its eagerly awaited iPhone on June 29.
Palm Inc. Thursday posted lower quarterly profit and revenue, even as it reported record sales of its Treo smartphones.
The debut of Apple's iPhone has become perhaps the most hyped product launch in U.S. history, but across the pond, the excitement around the gadget is decidedly more muted.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't the only executive girding himself for the iPhone's release June 29. Stanley Sigman, CEO of AT&T Mobility, has been getting his team ready for iPhone mania for months. Sigman, a wireless industry veteran who is credited with turning around Cingular (as AT&T's wireless unit was previously was known) five years ago, recently spoke with FORTUNE's Stephanie N. Mehta about his company's hot new device, AT&T's partnership with Apple -- and why the iPhone could be bigger than Caller ID. Here are excerpts from their conversation:
The launch of Apple's iPhone is just a week away, and much of the tech world seems to agree that the device will be the greatest thing since, well, the telephone itself. "I think the iPhone may really change the whole phone industry," CEO Steve Jobs modestly predicted during a CNBC interview shortly after he announced the product.
Apple's iPhone will have a longer lasting battery than originally expected, exceeding those in rival phones, the company said on Monday.
The nightmare begins early in the morning with an innocuous-looking e-mail on your mobile phone instructing you to check a specific Web site for information about repairing your credit score.
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The NCAA has spent considerable time and resources the past few years attempting to convince us it's no longer the stuffy, bloated, ivory-tower bureaucracy of old. It claims to be more in touch with the issues facing its members today.
The days of text-messaging recruits may be coming to an end by the end of the summer if a measure proposed by the Ivy League is passed next week.
It's not often that Nokia finds itself the underdog. But in the business of smartphones - powerful wireless devices that can handle e-mail and office documents in a compact package - that's exactly where the world's largest cell-phone maker stands.
Smartphone makers are aiming to extend their reach beyond corporate walls, but consumers may not heed the call.
Rupert Murdoch, the 75-year-old head of News Corp., has added another youth-oriented brand to his media conglomerate.
When it comes to cell phones, the smarter they are, the harder they fall - for viruses.
If you're a frequent overseas business traveler, you've likely encountered the frustrations of using a cell phone abroad.
Texas Instruments is looking for growth on opposite ends of the technology spectrum: low-cost cell phones for emerging markets users, third-generation cell phones with high-tech features, and high-end video chips.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Arctic Monkeys, Britain's latest "it' band, share a pretty amusing take on the current state of the recording industry in the song "A Certain Romance."
There's something for young and old and everyone in between at the CTIA Wireless 2006 trade show that opened here yesterday. While most of the new mobile handsets introduced here are aimed at active adults -- more than 70 percent of whom already have a mobile phone, according to market research -- at least two new services are hoping to dial up seniors and kids.
As the wireless industry gathers this week in Las Vegas for the CTIA Wireless conference, opening this Wednesday, the mobile entertainment business is in the midst of a fundamental shift.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) - SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) - Palm beat analyst expectations today on strong smartphone sales, posting $19.8 million in earnings on $388 million in revenues for its third fiscal quarter ended in February.
DISCO D IS FRUSTRATED. THE 25-year-old deejay/producer/ composer needs to catch a flight to Australia, he hasn't packed, and his mobile phone keeps ringing. And yet he is stuck in his home recordin...
Electronic Arts decided it couldn't beat Jamdat, a publisher of videogames for cellphones, so this week it made the largest acquisition in its history, paying $680 million for the Los Angeles-based game-maker, the biggest player in the burgeoning $2.6 billion market for games on mobile phones.
Today, most ringtones for cellular phones are snippets of existing songs or compositions, with top-40 and hip-hop hits making up the bulk of the downloaded tones. But a new generation of songwriters sees the mobile phone as an emerging medium for artistic expression, and they are composing original material exclusively for cellphones: the ringtone for ringtone's sake.
As cameras become a common feature on mobile phones, travelers are becoming increasingly aware of when they can or cannot use them.
When Bill Gates took the stage at a Microsoft developers conference in Las Vegas in May, he used his keynote speech to showcase one of the most advanced mobile phones ever created. Compact, loaded ...
A simple bowling simulation played on tiny LCD screens wouldn't normally generate excitement about a young software company. Yet by combining hypnotically simple games with a seasoned management te...
The number of complaints filed about wireless phone service soared 38 percent last year, a consumer group reported Tuesday.
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Cell phone users will soon be able to find out how popular their ringtones are as Billboard magazine begins ranking the customized mobile phone tunes.
After the market closes on Thursday, PalmSource, the software company created by the split of PDA maker Palm Computing, will report its fourth-quarter and annual earnings.
On a foggy day in the fall of 2001, the top executives of Handspring gathered in a drab conference room at a hotel in Monterey, Calif. The mood was tense, the debate heated. The company, co-founded...
Next week at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association conference in Atlanta -- the largest annual cell-phone confab in the United States -- the Motorola booth likely will be rocking as the company puts the spotlight on its three new music-minded handsets.
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In a home recording studio near San Francisco, Del The Funky Homosapien's chart-busting rap tune "Phoney Phranchise" comes pumping out of a silver Kyocera 3225 cell phone lying on a cramped desk. T...
My phone is chirping, reminding me that it's time to call the office. It also wants me to stop by the bookstore to pick up some reading material before getting on the plane. Nag, nag, nag. Go to th...
Whoever said "bigger is better" has never carried a cellular phone around--or even shopped for one lately. But the big news in cellular phones this year is not their decreasing size, or even their ...
THE BOTTOM LINE of all the hullabaloo over whether cellular phones cause brain cancer: Nobody knows. Why not? Because -- as with electromagnetic radiation from other sources like video display term...
YOUR PHONE used to be black, it had a dial, and you could no more unplug it from the wall than fly. Now, of course, you think nothing of calling friends while you weed the garden or buzz down the i...
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