Maybe you weren’t fighting for your life on the grounds of a Wal-Mart last Friday. But neither did you whip out your mobile phone and shop like there was no tomorrow. According to data assembled today by ThreatMetrix, just 3 percent of Black Friday sales were transacted through mobile phones. As interestingly, the bulk of [...]

Who wants the new iPhone?

That’s what we want to know. Last week, Apple fans suffered a major let down after the long-awaited iPhone 5 didn’t materialize. Steve Jobs then passed away and the twittersphere nearly blew up from all the emotion and fanboy tributes.

This week, the focus is back on the iPhone 4S, which has been getting some great reviews. The standout feature is Siri, the …

Here we go again. Repeatedly, Sprint has tried to bet the farm (and failed) in its quest to remain relevant. They bet the farm on Nextel, then Wi-Max and Clearwire, then all-you-can-eat plans, and all along on wholesale/MVNO. Frankly, it’s amazing they have any farm left to bet – having lost 80% of their market [...]

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The white iPhone 4 seems like the unicorn of Apple’s trove of gadgets.

We hear about it, we think we’ve seen one (Steve Jobs apparently appeared on stage with one last summer), but the white iPhone 4 has yet to show up in stores.

The latest news on the long-awaited whit iPhone 4 is that it will be released this spring. No word on exactly when that will be. It’s been several months since Apple unveiled the iPhone 4 (last June to be exact). The white version apparently has been beset with manufacturing problems.

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iPhone!!!!! New iPhone is coming! New iPhone is coming!

Will the iPhone platform help anyone make money? The underlying questions are 1) What is a platform? 2) Is the iPhone a platform or just a fun piece of hardware?

Last year Facebook evolved from an application to a platform enabling a gold rush of investment in application vendors and new venture funds focused on monetizing the new platform.

Presumably being a platform is better than being an application, as anybody old enough to remember the Flying Toaster screensaver can attest. After near-ubiquity in the PC era, Wes Boyd and better half Joan Blades (who would later go on to found MoveOn.org) in 1997 sold Berkeley Systems — including its Flying Toaster application — for a reported $13.7 million. In 2008 dollars, this would be a Series A. Applications were not a way to make money in the 1990s.