Steve Wildstrom
Recent Stories By Steve Wildstrom:
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Connected Cars: New Reason for Distracted Driving?January 14, 2012
You’re driving around, looking for a place for dinner. As you pass a favorite restaurant, you decide to head in, but the parking situation looks grim. Before hunting for a space, you want to make...
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CES 2012: A New Picture of the Future of TVJanuary 10, 2012
For the past several years, television manufacturers have been trying to sell Internet-connected television sets. For the most part, consumers yawned. It turns out that not very many people really...
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It’s Apple’s Way or the HighwayOctober 5, 2011
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse is betting his business on Apple’s iPhone. Having slipped far behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Sprint was so eager to land the latest iPhone that it reportedly...
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Microsoft’s Dicey Answer to the iPadOctober 3, 2011
In January 2010, back when the iPad was still a rumor, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show and demonstrated an iPad-like tablet that ran Windows 7. Ballmer was...
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Smart Phone Maker RIM Needs Urgent Wakeup CallJuly 29, 2011
To be sure, all the recent news about RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) has been bad. Its share of the worldwide smartphone market, as measured by Gartner, has fallen from a peak of 20 percent two years ago to 13.4...