CES 2011: There will be tablets
Dozens of tablets! Dual-core processors in your phone! LED backlighting for everyone! Live in 3D, with the inevitable pounding headache! Here's our preview of what's coming out of Vegas this week. Take...
View ArticleThe Motorola phone that becomes a laptop
Coolest thing so far at CES, and it isn't a tablet: the Motorola Atrix, a souped-up 4G smart phone that doubles as the engine for a notebook/netbook running Android. But ask the Motorola Mobility gang...
View ArticleIntel and Nvidia play nice for a $1.5 billion price
Intel agrees to a huge licensing deal that pays graphics powerhouse Nvidia handsomely. But, it's not exactly a thaw in their cold war. After canceling a Dec. 6 trial date to hash out lawsuits they had...
View ArticleAdult supervision over: Schmidt yields back to Google co-founder Page
Larry Page, the original Google CEO, gets his job back. No one saw it coming. Sure the Google board, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt knew about the executive change-up bomb they were about...
View ArticleGoogle's Honeycomb is sweet
Honeycomb, or Android 3.0, is a big, impressive step toward the unified, mobile world that Google is trying to bring to us. But rest assured that Apple will give Google some stiff competition with its...
View ArticleWhat HP really bought from Palm: A mobile future, untethered from Microsoft
The Touchpad, not reliant on Android, Windows or (of course) iOS, is a sign that HP demands to be taken seriously as a software company. Yes, HP (HPQ) has now jumped into the tablet fray with its...
View ArticleLiveblog from Apple's iPad 2 event
Fortune's Michael V. Copeland takes us into the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco with live coverage of Apple's media event. [11: 10 AM PT] And the highlight reel of iPad 2 ends. Jobs...
View ArticleApotheker sets HP's course: Heading for the cloud
Hewlett Packard's CEO plans to kick the company and its flagging stock back into gear in part by selling apps and services via a new public cloud. It's been just over eight months since Mark Hurd left...
View ArticleNetflix buys its first original show, starring Kevin Spacey
Reed Hastings' disruption tour continues as Netflix weighs ploughing its profits into an original series. "It's not TV, it's HBO" may soon be "It's not HBO, it's Netflix." Update: 24 hours later, it's...
View ArticleJive adds Facebook, Google and McAfee muscle to its board
Is the "Facebook for the office" company joining the rest of the Valley in cranking up the IPO machine? FORTUNE -- Nothing says, "we plan to go public" more than when a startup bulks up its board with...
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