Sanjay Jha of Qualcomm was tapped to head Motorola's troubled mobile phone division and share chief executive duties for the entire company in an usual power-sharing arrangement.[...]
Kevin Maney writes: There's a lot of skepticism around the tech industry regarding Google's apparent plan to create a venture capital unit. The phrase "more money than sense" comes to mind -- kind of like the newly wealthy guy who decides to invest in a high-end restaurant. First of all, [...]
Apple Inc. said its wireless data syncing service is fully functional now, but some users are still reporting problems. The company's MobileMe service was billed as "Exchange for the rest of us," and is meant to offer near-instant syncing of email and data between a customer's iPhone and computer. But [...]
With the new Apple iPhone SDK giving developers a chance to craft and create all sorts of applications for the iPhone 3G, it's no wonder that VoIP applications are popping up left and right. What does that mean for AT&T? Not a whole lot. The company will get their monthly [...]
In 10 years, which company will own the cloud computing space? That question has been the subject of long and contentious funding debates over the past year, especially here on Sand Hill Road. And while I know that predicting the future is an inaccurate science, I think that when it [...]
With little to no desire to do any real writing this weekend, I decided to clean my work space. Once the papers were filed and the books were shifted to the right corner, a clear picture emerged, one of too many gadgets - and too little desk space. Thankfully, some [...]
Easy-to-use devices come with fewer features than the iPhone, Instinct I t happens every time I write about new smart phones, as I did last week. Despite the growing popularity of such useful products as the Apple iPhone and Samsung Instinct, I hear from readers with a simple question: "Where [...]