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This weekend in Barron's online: the pros and cons of memory-foam mattresses and the prospects for Facebook's IPO and for aircraft maker Embraer and semiconductor testing equipment maker ChipMOS. Cover Story "Sex or Sleep?" by Miriam Gottfried. Sales of memory-foam mattresses have surged as more...

Is the cloud-based phone service worth the trouble of enduring one major outage a year? Benzinga uses RingCentral. In 2011, on our company's most important day of the year, the service went down, effectively terminating our ability to make or receive calls with our office phones. It was awful, to...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) seems to be in a sphere all by itself these days, and its fiscal second-quarter results no doubt will be the highlight of the earnings reports due this week. However, others also on tap this week to share their results for the most recent quarter include Amazon.com (NASDAQ:...

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2012 results tomorrow, April 19, before the markets open. Verizon ended 2011 with improving top and bottom lines. Its wireless business remained healthy, with strong gross subscriber additions. The company also reduced its...

Reed Hastings has suddenly realized that broadband data caps could destroy his business, and he's not happy about it. In a move that is almost as funny as watching Netflix's CEO perform stand-up comedy, Hastings has published a brief rant on his Facebook page (via CNET), claiming that Comcast's (...

They say you get what you pay for. But if you're an iPad user in Australia, that may not be the case. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is being accused of “misleading” Australian consumers. Businessweek quoted the following statement from the Australian Competition &...

Another day, another negative piece of news about Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new iPad. Earlier today, USA Today reported that the new iPad's 4G connection can drain users' limited 2 GB data plans in less than 24 hours. Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is currently offering monthly data plans for iPad starting from...

The telecommunications giant isn't just the leading cellular carrier among existing customers. Future subscribers are turning to AT&T as well. In a survey regarding future tablet purchases, ChangeWave Research asked 1,604 business IT buyers whether or not they plan to buy a tablet for their...

AT&T and Verizon are ready to take your wallet. But are iPad users prepared to hand it over? There has been a lot of hoopla surrounding the 4G LTE support for the new iPad, which Apple has been touting as the most revolutionary device since the iPad 2. Most consumers I've spoken to do not seem...

As one cellular giant comes under fire for new data caps, one major satellite provider is attempting to break new ground. But has the battle already been lost? Roughly 12 months ago, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) acquired the ailing video rental chain Blockbuster Video. Since that time, the company...