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The $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising network AdMob by search giant Google (GOOG) signals a new stage of the battle for the soul of the mobile Internet between Google and its arch-rival Apple (AAPL). The acquisition gives Google the strongest player in the fast-growing market for...

Lots of people claim that Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is the first smartphone to really unleash the potential of the Internet on a handset. And they are right. iPhone users suck up so much more Web time than Blackberry (RIMM) users (even though far more Blackberry units have been sold over time) that...

It sure was fitting that Google (GOOG) killed an entire product segment on Oct. 28, just a day before the 80th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash. And appropriately enough, on Wednesday the tech-heavy NASDAQ tumbled mightily. Contributing to that fall was the pummeling of GPS makers Garmin...

Recently I bought an Apple (AAPL) iMac, and after upgrading the hard drive and opting for a bigger display, I wound up spending more than I had planned. Listening to Apple's earnings call this week, I discovered that many of its customers have had similar experiences buying Apple products. Apple...

My Apple (AAPL) iPhone recently started delivering voice-mail messages a day late. But sometimes, I don't get them at all. Calls have been dropping more frequently and I find that surfing the Web using my iPhone, which operates on the AT&T data network, is a drag. Growing more frustrated with...

I read with some amusement an article published by BusinessWeek highlighting Apple's (AAPL) big plans to become a more green company. Apple CEO Steve Jobs pointed out in that article that his company was releasing more information on its total carbon footprint. That omission had earned Apple...

When BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) missed earnings on September 24, investors punished the Canadian smartphone giant by quickly selling shares off a whopping 17 percent. While RIM management tried to paint a bright picture for future quarters, Wall Street surmised that sales...

College kids are opting to scale back their wardrobes and save their pennies for new gadgets, according to a study in today's WWD. Students will have spent a projected $13 billion on electronics by the end of this year -- more than twice what they'll likely have spent on clothing and accessories:...

On his "Mad Money" show on September 16, Jim Cramer went nuts on Apple (AAPL), saying he thinks shares are going to soar after an accounting change lets Apple book the full dollar amount of each iPhone sold upfront. This has been a recurrent theme among Apple bulls lately. Wall Street has a funny...

Here's some advice to entrepreneurs looking for early stage capital to build a mobile phone or mobile Web application. Hit up your grandma, cash out your IRA, or look under the car seat for quarters. Because you certainly aren't going to get any love from the venture capitalist community. In data...