Technology Industry Archive

I’ve reported before about a long-term problem that Apple iPhones have seemed to have with iPhones overheating, though the company hasn’t publicly acknowledge the extent of the issue. According to some, the major cause is likely a battery issue. Well, a Seattle reporter is claiming that Apple has been preventing her and others from getting information to document reports of iPod...

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Earlier I posted about what might be Yahoo’s big mistake: putting itself before its customers. But news brings a matched observation for company CEO Carol Bartz: hubris. In Yahoo’s earning call on Tuesday, an analyst asked Bartz for her opinion of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Here’s her answer: I think actually Bing is a good product. It actually extends sort of the...

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You know things are bad at a company when the earnings release crows about exceeding the “midpoint of revenue outlook range.” And given the recent history of Yahoo, there’s no question that things have been bad. But has the departure of Jerry Wang and installation of Carol Bartz as CEO changed the company enough? I’m not so sure. The essential problem of running a...

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Developers are finally getting their hands on the developer preview of Google’s Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand accounts of what it’s really like to use, unfiltered by Google’s own programmers. Wave, demonstrated by Google at its I/O developer conference in May of this year, allows customers to create a customizable communications and collaboration tool...

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It turns out that Gordon Moore never predicted that processing power would continue to double every two years. What former Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel co-founder Moore wrote for Electronics Magazine in 1965 was that the costs of electronic components will be sufficiently depressed by demand to allow vendors to stuff more and more processing power onto a single chip. This has taken on a...

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Earlier today, my colleague Michael Hickins discussed concerns about a new tech bubble involving Web 2.0. His take was that those who see the expanding iridescent form simply don’t “understand the value proposition of Web 2.0,” and that a person who raises such doubts “confuses enthusiasm engendered by the potential of the likes of Facebook and Twitter with the...

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Apple has announced its 2009 Q3 results, and of course the iPhone continues its relentless drive toward dominating its market. And on the personal computer side, there was unit growth again. But the cost seems to be the continuation and escalation of the potential profit margin that the company can hope to get from the Mac, which raises the question of how long will computers remain a viable...

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The recent dustup over Amazon.com removing unauthorized copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from the Kindles of people who had bought the title seems to have settled with muddled excuses from Amazon and righteous anger from many in blogging and the press. But what many seem to be missing is that for the industry, this brings up far bigger questions than what Amazon will and won’t do and...

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The wheel of fortune is spinning in the right direction for Sybase these days, making CEO John Chen’s decision to move the company into the mobile platform business seem positively prescient as enterprises move towards adoption of mobility and cloud computing. Sybase’s results also demonstrate the growing importance of cloud-based enterprise applications among the world’s...

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While Vic Gundotra, Google’s developer evangelist, argues that mobile applications will be sold through Web browsers rather than app stores controlled by handset makers, most mobile apps today are sold through app stores. Microsoft Windows Mobile (for which there is no app store at this point) aside, Apple’s iPhone, Nokia’s Symbian, Google’s Android and Research in...

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