Live: Apple's Tim Cook speaks
14 Feb 2012 8:29pm GMT The man who took over from Steve Jobs makes a rare public appearance In a much anticipated follow-up on the 2008 Q&A that helped seal his reputation with investors (see here), Tim Cook takes questions at a Goldman Sachs technology conference. Apple (AAPL) is providing a live streaming audio webcast here. We're going to assume you are listening in real time or catching the event after the fact, and will keep our MORE
Motorola is the ammo Google needs
14 Feb 2012 7:24pm GMT The deal to acquire Motorola will give Google the ammo it needs to battle patent lawsuits from competitors like Apple. FORTUNE -- The Justice Department on Monday gave Google (GOOG) the go-ahead to complete its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI). Judging by the stern warnings the DOJ issued, and its criticisms of Google's promises to not misuse any of the the 17,000 patents it is acquiring in the MORE
How many times have we heard about a smaller Apple iPad?
14 Feb 2012 5:00pm GMT A Google search turns up 114 million hits, but that couldn't be right. Could it? Image: Techmeme The Wall Street Journal was getting a lot of play Tuesday morning with a report out of Taiwan that Apple (AAPL), to "broaden its product pipeline" and respond to "intensifying competition," was testing a new smaller tablet with a screen size of about 8 inches. Color us skeptical. First of all, we don't sense MORE
Inside Google's bet on 'consumerization'
14 Feb 2012 3:21pm GMT Google's sales to large businesses are still relatively small, but the company is making rapid gains. And it plans to ride the wave of "consumerized" IT to even greater heights. FORTUNE -- Here's Google's (GOOG) strategy for selling to the enterprise: Take a popular consumer product, make a few small enhancements and tack the words "for business" on the end of the name. Sound simplistic? Turns out, it works. Larger and larger MORE
Taking on Apple with industrial-strength e-textbooks
14 Feb 2012 3:00pm GMT The flaws in Apple's plan to reinvent textbooks become apparent when you see Inkling's From Inkling One of the things the tech press missed last month when Apple (AAPL) summoned them -- satellite trucks and all -- to Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum for the unveiling of its new textbook authoring tools, is that Inkling got there first. Launched two years ago by a former Apple educational marketing manager named Matt MacInnis, Inkling had MORE