Apple and Verizon have yet to announce an iPhone deal. But this sure gets them pretty close: The carrier is going to start selling iPads.
Here's another bright, shiny object for Steve Jobs to brandish in front of iPhone owners: News that Netflix is bringing its streaming video service to the iPhone. But if AT&T can't keep with voice calls now...
Comcast wants you to know it loves Web video. Time Warner, too. Just keep paying your cable bill, okay?
Maybe people really are looking for the Droid. On the bright side, not the worst numbers for Steve Jobs and company to wave in front of the Feds.
Hey, cable guys (and cable investors): No need to freak out about the Federal Communication Commission. Not yet.
If you own a Kindle, you also own a mobile Web browser. But chances are you never use it. That's because it's a lousy experience, and one Amazon does its best to keep away from its users. Amazon may be ready to rethink that, but it's a move with significant ripple effects.
It is all Apple, all the time in techland this week. Except at Reddit, where the social news site's users spent most of yesterday obsessing about something else: A rogue ad.
Interesting footnote in AT&T's earnings this morning: The carrier everyone loves to hate has quietly become the carrier of choice for e-book readers from Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble. They generated a million new subscriptions last quarter, and now the iPad will bring more.
Eric Schmidt's tender feelings for Apple won't stop Google from competing directly with Apple's iPhone: The company spent much of the time on its Q4 earnings call discussing its large mobile ambitions--without talking about specifics, of course. Meanwhile, the search giant posted a big jump in quarterly revenue. But not enough for twitchy investors, who...
Live in New York City? Want to buy an iPhone? Don't try ordering one from AT&T's Web site: The wireless carrier, at least for now, won't sell New Yorkers a new phone online, citing "increased fraudulent activity." Huh?
Google is going to sell its own phone, something it has never done before. And it's going to ask customers to buy the phone without the help of a mobile carrier, something that Americans, at least, almost never do.What are Eric Schmidt and company up to? Here's a graphic that might explain their thinking.
Confirmed! Reddit Users Really, Really Dislike Pop-Up Ads.