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  • RIM's BlackBerry Bold Is Something To Behold Monday, 12 May 2008 | 11:02 AM ET

    It's here! Or almost here. It's the new Research in Motion BlackBerry 9000 Bold, and what a bold step this is. It's been a year since RIM released an update, and during that time, just about every spotlight has turned to the iPhone from Apple with so many experts ceding the market to the upstart touch-screen wonder.

  • RIM May Take on Apple With New BlackBerry Bold Monday, 12 May 2008 | 10:46 AM ET
    blackberry bold 9000

    Research In Motion is launching a new high-end version of the BlackBerry aimed at its core base of business users, but it hopes the sleek device will also catch on in the broad retail market.

  • Google's Back! (Did It Ever Leave?) Friday, 9 May 2008 | 11:40 AM ET
    How Google Got its Groove Back

    A funny thing has been happening to Google lately. Have you noticed? It's going up! And I'm not talking about the one-day pop it got from those surprisingly good earnings. I'm talking about the day to day creep-up, the steady momentum. The parallels to Apple are pretty striking.

  • Little-Known Investing Gems Wednesday, 7 May 2008 | 12:28 PM ET

    Haim Israel of Merrill Lynch in Jerusalem has some ideas about smaller Israeli companies that might have escaped the attention of U.S. investors.

  • Sprint - Together with Nextel

    Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are close to announcing a $12 billion joint venture with major cable operators for high speed wireless Internet access for mobile phones and laptops, a source said.

  • Free Wi-Fi, but Not for All Tuesday, 6 May 2008 | 3:40 PM ET

    Airports and hotels are looking for new ways to pay for the wireless networks that their customers are demanding.

  • Sprint Considering Sale or Spinoff of Nextel: WSJ Monday, 5 May 2008 | 3:42 PM ET
    Sprint - Together with Nextel

    Sprint Nextel is considering spinning off or selling its Nextel unit, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, quoting people familiar with the situation.

  • I don't get it. I wish I did, but when it comes to Apple, I just don't get it. Shares have been ebbing and flowing with little rhyme or reason since the end of last year, and it continues. Heading into last week's earrings, they rallied.

  • Apple Investors Talk Back: 'On Target' or 'Garbage'? Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 | 10:11 AM ET

    Hours away from Apple's earnings, as you might expect, investors are a little nervous -- with a stock going from $119 to just short of $170, and then back to $160 in a matter of weeks. Some of you have written in with your thoughts ahead of earnings. Here's a sampling...

  • Sony Ericsson Profit Drops Less than Anticipated Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 | 5:52 AM ET

    Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson posted sharply lower profits on Wednesday as a slowdown in consumer spending hit its business, but earnings were at the high end of the firm's range and exceeded market expectations.

  • Apple's Surge Showing The Signs Of Optimism Monday, 21 Apr 2008 | 5:13 PM ET

    Back in February, following weeks of steady coverage focusing on Apple's fundamentals, I wrote that the Apple sell-off, which had taken shares from over $202 to around $119, seemed overdone.

  • AT&T, Verizon Facing Slower Earnings Growth Friday, 18 Apr 2008 | 3:42 PM ET

    A weaker economy is forcing U.S. consumers to find ways to lower their telephone bills, likely limiting profit growth for phone companies like AT&T and Verizon Communications.

  • AT&T to Cut 4,600 Jobs, Sees First-Quarter Charge Friday, 18 Apr 2008 | 10:26 AM ET
    AT&T's headquarters in San Antonio, Texas is shown on Sunday, March 5, 2006. AT&T Inc. is nearing a deal to acquire BellSouth Corp. for around $65 billion, according to media reports Sunday. The companies were expected to announce the terms of the deal as soon as Monday, according to an article in The New York Times and on the Web sites of The Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and USA Today. The papers cited unidentified sources, due to the sensitivity of the negotiations. (AP Ph

    AT&T said Friday it would cut its work force by 1.5 percent, or 4,600 jobs, primarily affecting management-level employees, resulting in a first-quarter pre-tax charge of $374 million.

  • Tech Earnings: Investors Should Go Company By Company Monday, 14 Apr 2008 | 12:12 PM ET

    It's so easy to paint investing with broad brushstrokes, and say "tech" is strong, or "tech" is bad, but with Intel, IBM, eBay and Google all reporting this week, we get to remind ourselves that the sector is made up of individual stocks and individual industries.

  • Bon Jovi: Born To Be A High Tech Baby (Part 2) Friday, 11 Apr 2008 | 6:13 PM ET
    Jon Bon Jovi

    This is the second of my two part blogs on Bon Jovi. Make no mistake: Bon Jovi is big business, as we discovered during the band's recent stopover here in Silicon Valley in the middle of its 100 city, global "Lost Highway" tour. Just ask the band's manager, Paul Korzilius.

  • Bon Jovi: Born To Be A High Tech Baby (Part 1) Thursday, 10 Apr 2008 | 12:08 PM ET

    This is the first of two posts on my "exclusive" interview with Bon Jovi. Be sure and come back tomorrow for more. Bon Jovi's tour continues through the United States today, but it was at a visit to Silicon Valley earlier this week that I got a taste of the phenomenal technology the band is using during the show.

  • Apple Earnings 'Kernels' Start to Pop Monday, 7 Apr 2008 | 2:20 PM ET
    A flag showing the Apple Computer logo flies outside the Apple shop in Regent Street, London

    You ever watch popcorn pop? The oil gets hot, the kernels start moving around, and then one pops. And another. And then pretty soon, it gets so hot that everything pops all at once. Check out what's going on today on Wall Street with Apple and you gotta wonder whether these are merely the first kernels to pop before the company reports earnings.

  • Motorola to Name Two Icahn Nominees to Board Monday, 7 Apr 2008 | 10:40 AM ET

    Motorola said Monday it has settled all litigation with billionaire investor Carl Icahn ahead of the cellphone maker's annual meeting and agreed to name two of Icahn's nominees to its board of directors.

  • Microsoft And Yahoo Turn Up The Heat On Each Other Monday, 7 Apr 2008 | 10:08 AM ET

    Microsoft's deadline ditty late Friday that Yahoo has three weeks left to get a deal done before the deal gets hostile spurred a lengthy, and at some times personal, retort from Yahoo. And the rhetoric is getting interesting, but only to a point.

  • EU Regulators Approve In-Flight Mobile Calls Monday, 7 Apr 2008 | 8:22 AM ET

    The European Union on Monday opened the way for air travelers to use mobile phones to talk, text or send e-mails on planes throughout Europe's airspace.