“It’s key to note that the DigiTimes has a hit-or-miss track record for nailing predictions….”
“Digitimes has a spotty track record with regard to Apple rumors…”
“Given the lack of hard evidence and DigiTimes’s …
Match the Yahoo Memos with the Pollyannaish Sentiments, 2007-2012
At Yahoo, the sun will always come out tomorrow. Or at least that’s my conclusion after reviewing some of the memos that have leaked from the company after its various difficult transitions over the past five years, culminating …
Yahoo Mess: More Proof That Media Companies Don’t Know Anything About Dealing with the Media
And so it ends. This morning, All Things D’s Kara Swisher — whose stories about Yahoo’s crisis over the widely-circulated but false statement that its new CEO Scott Thompson earned a degree in computer science have made for …
Qualcomm’s Tagg: Like ‘Find My iPhone’ for Your Dog
They generally don’t let dogs into tech trade shows — how unfair! — which is why the pooch in the photo above, which I took at CTIA Wireless in New Orleans, is stuffed. He’s helping to demo Tagg, a gadget that uses GPS to help …
Passpoint Aims to Take the Hassle Out of Hotspots
“Excuse me, can you tell me how to get on the wi-fi?”
Several fellow journalists asked me that as I used my iPad in the press room here at the CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans. Actually, it’s a question I get a lot when …
Buy a Cadillac, Get an iPad
Later this spring, Cadillac will start selling the 2013 XTS, a $44,995 luxury sedan with a standard infotainment system called CUE (Cadillac User Experience), cameras that provide a 360-degree view, magnetic suspension and other …
New Google+ for iPhone Is a Slick Wonder (Still Needed: a Decent Google+ for iPad)
Keeping up with Google+ is — for me — a never-ending roller-coaster ride. At first, I loved Google’s social network. Then it slipped out of my list of daily must-visit sites, in part because the quality of the conversation …
This Phone Is All Firefox, All the Way
This year’s CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans is surprisingly short on major new smartphones. But at last night’s MobileFocus press event, I happened across a fascinating, one-of-a-kind handset which I hadn’t seen in person …
Virgin Mobile and Boost’s Not-Quite-New 4G Android Phones Make Prepaid More Palatable
When you think about it, it shouldn’t matter that much whether you pay for your wireless service after you’ve received it — as most of us do — or before you use it, as you do if you have a prepaid carrier such as Virgin Mobile …
HP Introduces New Ultrabooks and Sleekbooks (But Let’s Just Call Them Notebooks, Shall We?)
HP is taking this whole Ultrabook thing pretty darn seriously. After launching the Folio business Ultrabook last November and the Envy Spectre high-end model in January, it’s back with another Folio and three additional Envy …
Android Update Delays: AT&T CEO Passes the Buck…to Google
At a Milken Institute event on May 2, an audience member asked AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson why phones are so often so slow to get the latest versions of Android. Stephenson’s response is raising eyebrows — including those of …
Color’s Video-Sharing App: Now Optimized for Verizon
Back in March of last year, an innovative but ill-fated iPhone and Android app named Color debuted. It let you share photos with nearby folks who you didn’t necessarily know; the idea was that it would be cool for use at …
