Articles By Jeff Dorsch

Jeff Dorsch

Jeff Dorsch (feat. T-Pain) has written about the high-tech industry since Intel was shipping 8088 microprocessors for that newfangled IBM Personal Computer. Yeah, that long ago. He's been at Hoover's since 2003.

Ford gives Mercury the blues

by Jeff Dorsch, June 11, 2010, 2:10 pm

Well if I had money
Tell you what I’d do
I’d go downtown and buy a Mercury or two
Crazy ’bout a Mercury
Lord I’m crazy ’bout a Mercury
I’m gonna buy me a Mercury
And cruise it up and …

Eureka! Golden State GOP voters flock to wealthy ex-CEOs

by Jeff Dorsch, June 9, 2010, 8:40 am

Silicon Valley went 2-for-3 in yesterday’s primary elections in California.

No doubt you have heard by now of the primary victories by Meg Whitman, who scored the Republican nomination …

What will Steve Jobs reveal?

by Jeff Dorsch, June 7, 2010, 6:01 am

This morning, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take the stage of the Moscone West convention center facility in San Francisco and will likely hold aloft a new model of the …

New hope for NUMMI’s plant

by Jeff Dorsch, May 21, 2010, 3:32 pm

Lots of interesting topics today — the FTC cleared Google’s acquisition of AdMob, thanks to Apple; people are deserting Facebook because of privacy concerns; …

Androids overwhelming the iPhone — for now

by Jeff Dorsch, May 18, 2010, 12:54 pm

Apparently, these are the Droids you’re looking for. It’s no Jedi mind trick.

During the first quarter of this year, smartphones using Google’s Android software for mobile devices outsold the Apple iPhone …

Microsoft: No longer evil, nor an empire

by Jeff Dorsch, May 7, 2010, 2:51 pm

There’s no doubt that Microsoft remains a very powerful company, reaching deep into corporate enterprises with its application software, operating systems, and (it hopes) …

Will Palm pilot HP to smartphone success?

by Jeff Dorsch, May 3, 2010, 1:15 pm

Hewlett-Packard’s $1B-plus deal to buy Palm is viewed positively by many parties. Both companies are also-rans in the smartphone market, which is dominated by Apple, Nokia, and …

Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box

by Jeff Dorsch, April 23, 2010, 2:08 pm

More on the last-factory-closing beat: The last US factory exclusively canning sardines abruptly closed this month in Prospect Harbor, Maine. Bumble Bee Foods, which operated the cannery, chiefly blamed the federal limit on …

AMD made a profit? It made a profit — sort of

by Jeff Dorsch, April 19, 2010, 2:00 pm

The clever comedian Demetri Martin does a routine about how the meaning of any statement can be changed by adding the phrase “sort of.” Such as adding “sort of” to “I love you” …

That’s all there is for NUMMI

by Jeff Dorsch, April 9, 2010, 3:15 pm

Little attention was paid last week when the last auto assembly plant in California closed, apparently forever.

A red Toyota Corolla sedan was the last vehicle produced at the New United Motor Manufacturing, …