FORTUNE - October 7, 2008, 9:40 am

Apple was the outlier Monday. On a day in which the Dow lost nearly 370 points (having plunged 800 points in midday trading), Apple’s shares actually ended up in positive territory, closing at $98.14, up 1.1%.

But to see that as good news you would have to ignore the fact that at one point Monday Apple was trading for $87.24 a share — off nearly 60% from its December 2007 high of $202.96.

Apple closed down nearly 9 points (9.5%) Tuesday, while the Dow fell more than 508 points (5.11%).

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Informationweek - Sep 23, 2008 01:29 PM

Posted by Serdar Yegulalp

The first phones sporting Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s open-source phone OS Android are set to be announced sometime today, courtesy of T-Mobile (my own cell provider, huzzah!). Android-powered phones are set to compete with the iPhone,Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s Symbian, Windows Mobile, and all the rest — and the way I see it, it’ll be in much the same way Google itself competed with AltaVista, Yahoo Search, and so on: quietly, but decisively.

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Informationweek - Sep 12, 2008 03:55 PM

Posted by Eric Zeman,

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has some staffers touring college campuses trying to teach students the merits of using Google Apps. In the “back to school spirit” Google has added some features to its Apps programs that are sure to appeal to students and regular Joe’s alike.

Google has slowly been adding to the functionality of Google Docs. It is now offering four new tools to help aid in whatever it is that you happen to be writing.

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International Herald Tribune - Published: August 15, 2008

By Laura M. Holson and Miguel Helft

T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google’s Android software, according to people briefed on the company’s plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world, and is expected to go on sale in the United States before Christmas, perhaps as early as October.

The high-end phone is expected to match many of the capabilities of Apple’s iPhone and other so-called smartphones that run software from Palm, Research in Motion, Microsoft and Nokia to access the Internet and perform computerlike functions.

The HTC phone, which many gadget sites are calling the “dream,” will have a touch screen, like the iPhone. But the screen also slides out to expose a full five-row keyboard. A video of the phone has been posted recently on YouTube. A person who has seen the HTC device said it matched the one in the video.

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FORTUNE - August 11, 2008, 4:42 am

By Philip Elmer-DeWitt

It’s been a month since the iPhone 3G and the App Store made their debut, and Steve Jobs used the occasion to offer up some selected facts and figures:

• Users have now downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone and iPod touch, or roughly 2 million per day.
• Revenue from those applications came to about $30 million. 70% went to the developers; Apple kept 30%. (Free apps apparently accounted for the vast majority of the downloads, since average revenue per download is 50 cents.)
• If sales continue at the current pace, Apple stands to clear at least $360 million a year. “This thing’s going to crest a half a billion, soon,” Jobs told the Wall Street Journal. “Who knows, maybe it will be a $1 billion marketplace at some point in time…. I’ve never seen anything like this in my career for software.”

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Sillicon Alley Insider - Dan Frommer | August 11, 2008 2:59 PM

We already know Apple’s iPhone 3G is a big hit. But is it possible that they’ve already sold 3 million of them, as former T-Mobile exec-turned-consultant Michael Cote tells Fortune? Sure, why not?

Apple sold 1 million 3G iPhones in its first three days of sales, July 11-13. That means they would need to have sold another 2 million in the last 28 days, or approximately 71,400 phones a day.

Last Christmas, the company sold 2.3 million iPhones in the December quarter, or about 25,000 a day. But that was at $399, and mostly in the U.S. — European sales in the U.K., France, and Germany started later in the quarter, and were relatively mild.

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FORTUNE - Last Updated: August 8, 2008: 10:50 AM EDT

The latest personal navigation devices offer lots of bells and whistles, but are they really necessary in the iPhone era?

By Michal Lev-Ram, reporter

SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — Garmin’s latest GPS device, the nuvi 880, says a lot about the state of the market for portable navigation devices. The gadget has it all: directions, MP3 player for listening to songs and books, a photo viewer - even an alarm clock.

Why all the bells and whistles? Because these are tough times for GPS makers. Demand is slowing and prices are falling fast, in part due to competition from cell phone manufacturers like BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIMM) and Apple.

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