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Sony Ericsson's Infinite Hope for a Turnaround

Bored with the buttons on your current phone and their limited functions? Sony Ericsson says its new cellphones will features an “Infinite Button” that can connect you to your friends, photos, music, videos and more. Well, it will do this if it can ...

From SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sony,  Motorola, Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.

Why Economists Love to Study Cellphone Pricing

Have I tragically underestimated the ability of foreign cellphone companies to come up with devilishly complex pricing plans and the skill of economists to convert those schemes into pat theories that can be illustrated with neat charts and graphs. The ...

From SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Damon Darlin,  Harvard University,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Skype,  Microsoft Corporation

Underdog Palm Takes on Giants in Smartphones

In a land of cellphone giants, Palm is a mouse. Palm invented the category of a Web-surfing pocket-computer phone with its Treo line in 2002. But more recently it lost its way in the market as some of its rivals developed more innovative phones. Its ...

From SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Motorola, Inc.,  AT&T Inc.,  Wal-Mart

Is There a Method in Cellphone Madness?

HERE’S a consolation prize to the millions who recoil in bafflement from cellphone companies’ labyrinthine price plans, with their ever more intricate arrays of minutes, messages and megabytes: Economists don’t understand them, either. In many parts of ...

From SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yale School of Management,  AT&T Inc.

Dell Will Introduce a Smartphone

Dell confirmed on Friday what has been bouncing around the market for some time: it is entering the smartphone business. The computer maker, based in Round Rock, Tex., said its first phone, the Mini 3, would run on Google’s Android operating system and ...

From SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Research in Motion

Dell's Out-Of-Town Tryout for Smartphones

Why the decline in traffic to Twitter.com could be misleading. - Claire Cain Miller Robert Scoble explains why Twitter Lists are useful & how they have changed the way he uses the Web. - Claire Cain Miller Dell will make an Android smartphone, ...

From SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.,  New York Times Company,  Scobleizer,  Microsoft Corporation

Apple to Open Upper West Side Store, Fourth in New York

Rick Maiman/Bloomberg A glass-roofed Apple retail store that will open Saturday at Broadway and West 67th Street. “We are the most humble store on the Upper West Side,” said Ron Johnson, the senior vice president of Apple’s retail effort, capping a ...

From SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ron Johnson

Apple's Modest Addition to the Upper West Side

Rick Maiman/Bloomberg Apple’s glass-roofed retail store that will open Saturday at Broadway and 67th Street in New York. “We are the most humble store on the Upper West Side,” said Ron Johnson, the senior vice president of Apple’s retail effort, ...

From SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Damon Darlin,  Microsoft Corporation,  Ron Johnson,  Louvre,  Google Inc.

Motorola Said to Explore Dividing Into 3 Companies

Motorola, which has said it wants to split into two separate companies, is exploring a three-way split instead in order to raise cash and pay down debt. The pioneering maker of radios and cellphones has hired JPMorgan Chase, Centerview Partners and ...

From SAUL HANSELL AND MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Motorola, Inc.,  J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.,  Goldman Sachs,  Wall Street Journal,  Verizon Wireless

R.I.M. Woos BlackBerry App Developers

BlackBerry owners may be able to type circles around their iPhone-toting friends when it comes to speeding through e-mails. But when the work is over and it’s time to play with the latest useful or silly applications, their speedy thumbs have nowhere ...

From SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Research in Motion,  Google Inc.,  Jim Balsillie,  Yahoo!,  Electronic Arts Inc.

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