Apple-Samsung patent fight gets its Law & Order moment
The ongoing patent battle between the dominant smartphone providers, is about to get its prime-time drama moment, when the CEOs of Apple and Samsung will reportedly be brought before a U.S, federal judge for mediation on Monday. Get ready for Law & Order: Silicon Valley.
Superstacks: How consumers trade convenience for choice
Welcome to the concept of the superstack -- which acts to circumvent the openness that the Internet and the digitization of content has enabled and once again lock consumers into a single platform for their content determined in part by the hardware they choose.
T-Mobile grows but its lack of iPhone is still a problem
T-Mobile is still struggling after its planned acquisition by AT&T fell through. In the first full quarter after the proposed merger was scuttled, the nation's fourth largest carrier managed to gain only 187,000 customers; most from lower revenue businesses, such as prepaid and M2M.
Hey cloud startups, have we got a treat for you!
Every year at our Structure 2012 conference we host a Launchpad of startups. This year, we decided to give the 10 finalists more than stage-time: We teamed up with venture firm Sequoia to give them a hands-on training session at Sequoia HQ.
Redefining luxury for a mobile world
Rich people have phones, like apps and want to buy things using said phones. A study from the Luxury Institute offers some facts and figures around this "trend," but what's really worth pondering is how to create luxury mobile experiences to help drive commerce.
The new iPad has CIOs quaking in their cubicles
It has become increasingly clear to corporations that their networks can't handle the many devices that employees are bringing into their offices. And this iPad has more elements that could make it a hit in the enterprise, such as a higher-resolution screen for video.
Siri isn’t a bandwidth hog & users aren’t the problem
The sky is falling again in cellular land, and this time Siri is to blame. At least that’s the assessment form this opinion article in the Washington Post this morning claiming Siri's piggy ways will destroy our cellular networks. But this assessment is wrong.
Did someone order 500 copies of our newsletter?
This morning, we had an issue with our bulk mail server and inadvertently sent a massive amount of our weekly email newsletters out to people, perhaps people who don't even subscribe to the newsletter in the first place. We're sorry, and we're fixing it.
The SIM cards they are a shrinkin’. Introducing the nano-SIM
SIM cards, those tiny slivers of silicon that carry your identity inside a cell phone or connected device, are once again poised to get smaller as Giesecke & Devrient introduces the nano-SIM. If adopted, they could mean thinner devices or more room for larger batteries.
For ISPs Skype sounds better on iPads, worse on MacBooks
From the perspective of an ISP, making Skype calls on your iPad is far better than doing so on a MacBook Pro, while making calls via an Android handset falls in the middle when it comes to adding to the congestion of the overall network.
This is why Apple needs China
China Telecom, the No. 3 player in the Chinese mobile market, has managed to add 9 million subscribers in the third quarter and 26.4 million so far this year. No wonder mobile players such as Apple (AAPL) are so eager to get into the market.
Apple hires Yahoo’s data center chief
Scott Noteboom, the man who has been in charge of Yahoo’s data center operations since 2005, has now joined Apple as the iconic consumer electronics maker expands into the cloud. This follows Apple's hiring of Microsoft data center guru Kevin Timmons a few months back.
