Michelle Megna

Today’s launch of the HTC Hero in London marks the debut of the first Android smartphone with Adobe’s Flash, as the graphics company gears up for this fall’s wider release of Flash for mobile operating systems. But Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) had little good news for Apple fans wanting to see the iPhone also get the […]

It’s official: Adobe’s Flash Player 10 is coming this fall to most mobile operating systems, including Android, Windows Mobile and webOS. The multimedia content player will enable smartphone owners to watch videos embedded in Web sites and will provide a smoother Web browsing experience with improved audio and graphics, according to Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE). For […]

Apple fans keep sharing the love — and loyalty — for the iPhone. And their infatuation is proving infectious. Thirty-eight percent of phone owners who don’t have an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone would “probably” or “definitely” switch to the popular device upon their next purchase, according to a new study from market research firm Crowd […]

Yahoo and Google’s new advertising moves — [which we reported about today](/ec-news/article.php/3826331/Yahoo+Google+Rev+Up+New+Ad+Products.htm) — come as online display advertising is suffering due to declining demand as more marketers turn to performance-based advertising, or those in which advertisers only pay for measurable results, as budgets get squeezed due to the recession. Still, a new [comScore-Online Publishers Association […]

It’s a mixed bag of news for Apple. The company today announced that it had sold one million iPhone 3G S units over the weekend — topping early estimates by industry observers. But the company is also doing damage control by issuing credits to customers experiencing activation delays. “Apple today announced that it has sold […]

T-Mobile today unveiled key details about the highly anticipated follow-up to the T-Mobile G1 — a new, Android-powered model called the myTouch 3G. Like the G1, the myTouch is built by HTC and runs on T-Mobile’s 3G network, while also supporting Wi-Fi connectivity. Unlike the previous Android phone, which sports a QWERTY keyboard, the myTouch […]

Not even the mop-tops from Liverpool could sustain Beatle-mania forever, and so it goes with the iPhone 3G S today as smaller-than-expected crowds gather to buy the next smartphone in Apple’s popular series. Early reports indicate that, as expected, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) faithful arrived during the wee hours at stores to buy the new smartphone, […]

Research In Motion disappointed investors with solid — but not spectacular — numbers for its first-quarter earnings yesterday, but analysts are still bullish on the BlackBerry maker. RIM’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) adjusted earnings of $0.98 per share topped Wall Street expectations by four cents, the company reported a 53 percent jump in sales to $3.42 billion, […]

Apple and Palm are trading barbs over the subject of the Palm Pre’s support for Apple iTunes software, and it appears neither company is backing down. Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) showed off the iTunes sync feature at a conference last month, a move widely lauded as a successful strategy for courting Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) fans who […]

While Google continues to dominate in search market share and volume, social media sites are the only properties showing positive growth, according to comScore’s numbers comparing May to April. For expanded search rankings, the comScore May 2009 analysis shows Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) sites leading with 13 billion searches. Yahoo sites ranked second with 3 billion […]

AT&T today took steps that may help mollify customers unhappy over iPhone upgrade pricing, making the new model more affordable for some qualifying users. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) unveiled the new iPhone 3G S last week to wide acclaim. But existing iPhone owners eager to trade up from their current devices complained when they learned the […]

Amazon this week added to the publicly available source code from its Kindle e-book reader. Does this mean we should expect a slew of Kindle-compatible knockoffs coming to market soon? Not likely. While portions of the Kindle source code has been available from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) since 2007, the company today added the large-screen Kindle […]