Worry Over Sales Spurs Talk of Cheaper iPhones
By now, most of the world knows what an iPhone is — and they know it typically doesn't come cheap. — That is the problem Apple faces. Analysts say it must decide whether to keep catering to the hig...
California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial
A plan to offer an array of online college classes at a California state university could, if the students are successful, open the door to teaching hundreds of thousands of California students at a l...
Windows Phone app revenue and downloads double as Microsoft debuts contest for prime-time ad spot
To kick off 2013 in the Windows Phone app world, Microsoft has announced a new contest for developers called Windows Phone Next App Star. The top prize is a featured placement of the app in a Windows...
How Apple sets its prices
Comparison-shopping for new electronics can be fun and addictive. With a bit of patience, some luck, and an eye for good deals, you can find everything from TV sets to hard drives at a significant di...
Belgian consumer group sues Apple over its ‘misleading and illegal’ warranty policy
Belgian consumer protection organization Test-Aankoop yesterday filed a lawsuit (Dutch) against Apple for not respecting local laws on warranties. — All Apple hardware comes with a one-year limited ...
Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Departs — With More Top Execs Under CEO Scrutiny
With More Top Execs Under CEO Scrutiny — Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Justin Somaini (pictured here) has left the company, according to sources. — It's not clear why the top security ...
What if Microsoft exited the search business?
Amazingly, most everyone totally ignores a linchpin competitive assumption when they talk about search competition and Google's antitrust liabilities - that Microsoft will always be a competitor in th...
Google Glass to Hold Developer Events in Two Weeks
Google today invited the people who signed up for the $1,500 developer edition of its Project Glass wearable computing device to a set of developer events in San Francisco and New York City. — The c...
News outlets improperly used photos posted to Twitter: judge
(Reuters) - A judge has found that two news organizations improperly used images that a photojournalist had posted to Twitter in one of the first big tests of intellectual property law involving socia...
Apple Retail VP Jerry McDougal Resigns
Jerry McDougal, Apple's vice president of Retail and a potential candidate for the company's now-vacant SVP of Retail position, has left the company, Apple confirmed to AllThingsD. — McDougal, who r...
AT&T Exempts Itself From Its Data Cap, Violates (at least) the Spirit of Net Neutrality
Last year, Comcast started exempting its own online video service from the data cap it imposed on consumers. When consumers streamed online video (say, because they were thinking about cutting the co...