R.I.M. may have trouble dominating the smartphone market’s next phase…
Month: April 2008
Apple to launch iPhone in Canada with Rogers soon?
The stars finally seem to be aligned for a Canadian launch of Apple’s popular iPhone…
Apple to make PowerPC laptops again?
Apple says it bought P.A. Semi to get its hands on some patents and a bunch of very bright engineers…
Wall Street is missing important aspects of Apple’s story
Apple’s CFO stated forward guidance was $7.2B, inline with expectations, and EPS of “about $1”, while expectations are $1.10…
RUMOR: Apple’s next-gen iPhone to feature GPS, slightly thicker design
So we’ve got it on authority that the second-gen iPhone is already well into testing…
Sun continues working on Java for Apple iPhone, iPod touch
Sun continues to pursue talks with Apple Computer to have Java applications run on Apple’s iPhone…
Microsoft’s Windows earnings slide due in part to Apple’s Mac OS X surge?
Microsoft’s client revenue–Vista and XP came in below expectations–and the company cited three primary reasons…
Apple’s vertically integrated Mac could make interim Wintel model look like a detour
Apple sold 2.29 million Macs with a growth of 51% y-o-y that is about 3.5 times the overall PC market rate of growth…
Study confirms Apple iPhone a true, balanced convergence device
Recently, I read an interesting report regarding iPhone use. Market research firm iSuppli Corp…
Apple under promises, over delivers, under promises, over delivers, under promises, over delivers…
Apple (AAPL) and CFO Peter Oppenheimer have a history of being conservative with their guidance…
Microsoft profit drops as Windows sales dive; shares slide
Microsoft Corp., whose Windows software dominates the personal-computer market, fell 4.6 percent in early U.S. trading…
PC Mag reviews Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard: Editor’s Choice, best OS ever for vast majority
After three months with Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5, I have three main things to say about it….
Analysts: Apple to announce next-gen iPhone on June 9
The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference…
RUMOR: Salesforce.com dumping Windows PCs, moving all 4000+ employees to Apple Macs
Apple’s about to have a new big enterprise shop to add to its evangelism of the value of switching from Windows…
Apple releases Common Criteria Tools for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Apple has released Common Criteria Tools for 10.5 which is an internationally approved set of security standards…
Apple releases Boot Camp Update 2.1
Apple has released Boot Camp Update 2.1, with specific versions for Windows XP, Windows Vista 32, and Windows Vista 64…
Apple granted new iPhone input patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office today published several of Apple’s patent approvals, all of which relate to…
Why Apple bought PA Semi
Just ahead of its recession defying, record setting Q2 2008 earnings reports…
RBC Capital reiterates ‘Buy’ rating on Apple, ups price target
RBC Capital Market’s Mike Abramsky, in a research note release to clients Thursday…
Needham reiterates strong buy on Apple
Needham analyst Charlie Wolf says Apple’s (AAPL) $1.16 second quarter EPS, and $7.51 billion revenues…
RUMOR: Apple to unveil new iMacs next week
Our Apple tipsters haven’t let us down before, so we know that this hot-off-the press news…
Apple’s conservative guidance is nothing new
With strong Macintosh sales that drove a 36%-growth in earnings from a year ago…
Apple well-positioned to deal with maturing iPod market
Apple has a little iPod problem. And it is doing an amazing job of rising above it…
Would-be Mac clone maker Psystar raises many questions
Even if Psystar is legit, what it is doing – selling PC boxes capable of running the Mac operating system without Apple’s blessing – raises many other questions…
Ballmer: We’d rethink XP phase out if customers show they want to keep it but so far they have not
Microsoft could re-think plans to phase out its Windows XP operating system by June 30 if customers…
Analyst: Apple seems ‘unfazed’ by sluggish U.S. economy; ships 2.3 million Macs in quarter
Apple said Wednesday it shipped nearly 2.3 million Macs in the first three months of the year,…
Apple can now make its own processors
If you listen to Intel, the last hold-outs against the x86 instruction set are about to fall… Apple doesn’t listen to Intel much…
SDK smackdown: Apple’s iPhone SDK vs. Google’s Android SDK
In this corner: the current champion of the mobile phone market, the iPhone. In the other corner…
Apple’s Q2 08 earnings conference call transcript
Seeking Alpha has posted the entire transcript of Apple’s Q2 08 earnings conference call which includes…
Apple again smashes Street, but stock wobbles on guidance, margin concerns
Apple Inc.’s fiscal second quarter was another blowout, with results that easily surpassed…
CNBC’s Mark Haines on Windows: I’m done with this; I bought a Mac and I’ve been happy ever since
CNBC this morning covered reaction to Apple’s earnings and outlook…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs summoned to court in latest backdating lawsuit
Yet another Apple Inc. shareholder has filed a lawsuit in California seeking to prove that the company’s directors…
Beleaguered Dell shuts down two-year-old Ottawa-area call centre, axes 1,100 employees
The beleaguered box assembler Dell “said Wednesday it is cutting about 1,100 jobs with the shutdown…
Apple releases fourth iPhone SDK beta
Apple has released the fourth beta version of the iPhone SDK which adds OpenGL ES support…
U.S. Department of Defense may take issue with Apple’s PA Semi acquisition
Apple Inc. may have to face the ire of the U.S. Department of Defense following its planned acquisition…
Parallels Desktop virtualization for Apple Mac surpasses one million units sold
Parallels today announced that its Parallels Desktop for Mac has sold more than one million copies…
Apple’s Q2 08 conference call notes
Apple on Wednesday announced its most profitable second quarter in company history, and held a financial conference call…
Piper Jaffray analyst Munster: Apple’s Mac business is on fire
Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPod get most of the limelight, but it was the company’s decades…
Apple smashes Street, reports record second quarter results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 second quarter ended March 29, 2008…
Reminder: Apple to webcast Q2 08 financial results conference call today at 5pm EDT
Apple’s conference call audio webcast discussing Q2 – 2008 financial results will begin at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT today…
Time Magazine writer doesn’t seem to have heard of Apple TV
There is a certain kind of person who takes pleasure in announcing that he doesn’t own a TV…
What will Apple do with its own in-house embedded processors?
Word today is that Apple is buying PA Semi. The reported price is $278 million in cash…