Post Tagged with: "Steve Wildstrom"

Apple and its Non-Acquisitions
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Apple and its Non-Acquisitions

Over at Technologizer, Harry McCracken has an excellent rundown on the long history of rumored acquisitions by Apple that never came to pass. Some of these hypothetical deals made at least superficial sense, most didn’t. Here’s one test to apply to any talk of an Apple deal: Margin dilution. When financial analysts talk of dilution, [...]

Published by on July 29, 2011 6:38 am
Can a New Approach to Wireless Beat Shannon’s Law?
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Can a New Approach to Wireless Beat Shannon’s Law?

For the past 60 years, electrical engineers have understood the hard limits that physics imposes on the data capacity of any channel. The law, formulated by Claude Shannon of Bell Telephone Labs, says that the data capacity, in bits per second, is a function of the bandwidth, the signal strength, and the noise in the [...]

Published by on July 28, 2011 1:53 pm
Do Students Hate Textbooks More than They Like Sex?
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Do Students Hate Textbooks More than They Like Sex?

It’s no secret that students hate both buying bloated, overpriced textbooks and lugging those bricks around in their backpacks. But we didn’t know how much. A new survey sponsored by Kno, Inc.–which, not coincidentally, is in the business of e-textbook software–found that 73% of college students would do something they otherwise wouldn’t consider, including giving [...]

Published by on July 28, 2011 7:12 am
A Sure Sign of Real Trouble at RIM
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A Sure Sign of Real Trouble at RIM

The senior Research In Motion executive who chose to vent his (or her) frustration in a open letter to Boy Genius Report may not have chosen the most graceful way to make those views known. But the writer may well have exhausted other means of communications. Certainly, RIM’s response suggests strongly that the increasingly troubled [...]

Published by on June 30, 2011 9:00 pm
The Case For (and Against) a Cheap iPhone
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The Case For (and Against) a Cheap iPhone

There’s been a fair amount of buzz in the last few days about Apple introducing a cheaper iPhone this fall and in “The iPhone Is Too Expensive” at Slate, Farhad Manjoo makes a good case for Apple doing just that. But I seriously doubt that Apple will do so because, while the arguments for going [...]

Published by on June 28, 2011 10:21 pm
Tech Patent Fights: What’s at Stake
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Tech Patent Fights: What’s at Stake

Recent days have been filled with news about patent disputes. Lodsys, a company that claims fundamental patents on in-application purchases, fired off another batch of suits against alleged infringers. Apple and Nokia resolved a complex legal fight over smartphone patents. Dolby Labs sued Research In Motion. And the U.S. Supreme Court told Microsoft to pay [...]

Published by on June 20, 2011 7:22 pm