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- Google Wireless?
- Google announced last Friday that it earmarked at least $4.6 billion to enter the wireless industry via an upcoming federal auction of the once-occupied 700-MHz band of airwaves. But Google also said it won't participate in the auction unless the Federal Communications Commission FCC agrees to an "open access" framework,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- How Nokia Wins the Mobile War
- News from the mobile phone market tends to hype innovation and sexy high-end products, like the one just released by that one company... what was it called? Ah, yes, the Apple iPhone. Behind the scenes, however, supply-chain management rules king. With 37 percent of the global market, Nokia is the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Home Depot, Microsoft, Tesco, and the U.S. Dollar
- Home Depot announced today the largest environmental labeling initiative in the history of American retailing. The program will tag almost 3,000 products with the "Eco Option" label, indicating superior environmental performance. “Who in the world has a chance to have a bigger impact on this sector than Home Depot?” said...
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Citigroup, Chevron, Palm, and Consumer Confidence
- After a three-month review, an anonymous source said that Citigroup is likely to cut 5 percent of its workforce, or 17,000 jobs. The largest U.S. bank seeks to lower annual expenses by $1 billion, and is eying the possibility of closing offices and moving some of its 337,000 workers to...
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Housing, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Price-Fixing
- It's official: The U.S. is experiencing the worst housing slump in a decade. The number of homes sold last month fell 3.9 percent from the year before, and prices slid 0.2 percent. America's third-largest home builder, Lennar Corp., reported a 73 percent decline in profits. The drop in housing has...
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
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- Email Trumps Coffee, Chocolate, and Even Spouses/Significant Others
- New online survey results on the role of email in modern life suggests that almost 75 percent of email users see the communication technology as essential to their lives, and some are willing to give up their Spouse/Significant Other for a day in order to check their Inbox! The survey...
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- How Verizon Will Compete with the iPhone
- Maybe he's delusional, maybe he knows something we don't, but Verizon chief executive Ivan Seidenberg is confident the iPhone won't hurt Verizon so much as help it. How, you ask? By adding excitement to the market and convincing users that it's entirely reasonable to spend $600 on a handset and...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Time is Money. But Is It a Good Business?
- Most of us don't think twice about the fact that our cell phones also tell us the time. But if you're in the business of making and selling wristwatches, it's all you think about. In 2005, watch sales fell nearly 5 percent, to $7.6 billion. The culprit? Blame the clock...
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Is Surface Computing for Real?
- Depending on which side of the tech world you're coming from, "surface computing" may sound more like a repackaged marketing ploy for touch-screens rather than an entirely new product category. For tech-averse consumers, however, surface computing offers an intuitiveness that should help it grow into a serious market. Its value...
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Notebook Computers Get Fruity
- The home computer market is all but through with desktops and thoroughly enamored with notebooks. Last month, U.S. retail sales of notebook computers jumped 40 percent from the year before, while desktop sales declined overall. But that's not the headline finding from the NPD Group market report released on...
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- The iPhone: What it Means for AT&T
- AT&T is the exclusive iPhone carrier for the United States, which means you can expect every AT&T store in the country to overflow with customers at 6:00 PM local time on June 29. Demand is expected to be so high that AT&T stores reportedly will close shop for about two...
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Why Research In Motion Rocks
- When the iPhone hit store shelves a week ago, Research In Motion RIM gained $6 billion in market capitalization and its stock price hit a three-year high. What? You'd think investors would shy away from any iPhone rival, instead betting with Steve Jobs and his super-device. But RIM, maker of...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
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