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- Sony Earnings Slide on Currency Issues, Decreased Consumer Spending
- Seth Gilbert submits: Sony SNE warned of financial trouble last week. Now it’s official. Hit with the triple whammy of a unexpected currency fluctuation, weakening consumer spending and mounting losses at the music division, the company reported a 72% drop (y/y) in net income for the fiscal second quarter ended...
- External links 2008-10-30
- Nintendo Earnings: Currency Woes Balanced by Strong Gaming Demand
- Seth Gilbert submits: Since the beginning of August, the Japanese Yen has risen almost 35% against the Euro and about ten percent against the dollar. For Japanese businesses that rely heavily on overseas sales, companies like Sony SNE and Canon CAJ, these fluctuations are wreaking havoc on net income...
- External links 2008-10-31
- Apple Rumors: Mac Upgrades and iPhone Production Drop
- Seth Gilbert submits: Fresh off recent upgrades to Macbooks last month and with no iTunes chatter to replicate Harmonix’s Beatles’ conquest, the Applevine (aka Apple AAPL rumors and speculation) surprisingly came to life to start this week with a couple new speculative suggestions. On the Mac front: Apple-watching...
- External links 2008-11-04
- Hacker Watch: iPhone 3G Unlocked? BD+ Secured?
- Seth Gilbert submits: With Digital Rights Management [DRM] there’s a constant cat and mouse game at play. Companies spend money to restrict their product’s use, hackers spend time trying to set it free. Recently, in two different battles from the same war - both sides scored victories....
- External links 2008-12-17
- Palm Wins Vote of Confidence from Elevation in the Form of $100 Million
- Seth Gilbert submits: In June of 2007, private equity firm Elevation Partners announced they were committing $325 million and several experts, including iPod guru Jon Rubinstein, to turn Palm’s PALM floundering ship around. Palm’s CEO Ed Colligan predicted it would take about 18 months to chart...
- External links 2008-12-23
- Wal-Mart to Ring Up iPhone 3G
- Seth Gilbert submits: As a retail brand, Wal-Mart WMT is as ubiquitous as any. The chain’s stores have been the subject of movies, protests and debates, praise and condemnation. You’d have to live under a rock to never have heard of them. The same is becoming true for...
- External links 2008-12-30
- Zune Bug Further Blemishes Microsoft's Consumer Hardware Reputation
- Seth Gilbert submits: If you type “hate Vista” and “Microsoft MSFT” into Google, the search engine returns 91,200 results. “Vista Sucks” and “Microsoft” returns 124,000. It’s no secret Microsoft’s latest operating system offering has its critics. Xbox and Zune owners are far less venomous. Many, in fact,...
- External links 2009-01-04
- LG First to Launch TVs with Streamed Netflix Programming
- Seth Gilbert submits: In October of 2007, Netflix NFLX CEO Reed Hasting spoke to analysts about convergence and digital movie distribution. In the remarks, he defined three long-term goals for the company: “to expand the content [Netflix] offers online,” “to make it inexpensive and easy for consumers to view that...
- External links 2009-01-07
- Palm's Pre Goes a Step Further Than the iPhone
- Seth Gilbert submits: A year and a half ago, Palm PALM bet its future on its new operating system and the phones that go with it. After an extended development period, Thursday in Vegas, the company finally showed its hand. To a boisterous CES crowd mixed with people harboring both...
- External links 2009-01-09
- Apple Bucks Faltering Retail Trend with Best Revenue Result Yet
- Seth Gilbert submits: Many retailers fell apart this holiday season, their registers ringing up far less of the holiday cheer than they’d have liked. Companies were cutting staff. Cash was being conserved. Spending, especially on premium products, was way down. Apple AAPL, despite the so called “Apple Tax,” the...
- External links 2009-01-22
- Has the Economy Finally Caught Up with Nintendo?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Nintendo released its third quarter earnings last week PDF file. Unit sales over the holiday period were great but having to convert overseas purchases from foreign currency to yen wasn’t. Profits took a hit. It was all largely as expected. Same as the last quarter, mostly....
- External links 2009-02-01
- Microsoft Making Video Shorts for Zune: Wild Tangent or Testing New Services?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Much as it seems a wild tangent from core focus, especially given recent financial performance, the news from Redmond today is Microsoft MSFT has set up a unit to create original short form video content for the Zune. Microsoft’s gone Hollywood. ...
- External links 2009-02-05
- Nintendo Does It Again: DSi Brings New Types of Interactive Play to U.S. in April
- Seth Gilbert submits: Not that Nintendo (NTDOY.PK) needs any help, as the company’s already dominating its competition in the US, an added boost is due this spring. Nintendo announced Wednesday that the third generation of their popular Dual Screen (DS) portable will come stateside on April 5th. Available...
- External links 2009-02-22
- Sony Joins the Reorganization Parade
- Seth Gilbert submits: In a February 2007 interview for the PBS series CEO Exchange PDF Sony’s CEO Sir Howard Stringer said one of the first jobs he had to do at Sony was “reach out and get people to collaborate with each other.” Sony SNE was too vertically integrated,...
- External links 2009-03-01
- Apple Launches Talking iPod
- Seth Gilbert submits: Until recently when Apple AAPL geared up to launch a new product, it was lights, camera and action; the full-on spectacle. Lately, though, the theater’s dark. With recent launches, the company has been opting to use a simple press release instead of a big stage show. To...
- External links 2009-03-12
- On the Applevine: iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Apple AAPL appears to have bought up large amounts of flash memory fueling a new round of iPhone 3.0 rumors. The company was also hit with a new patent infringement lawsuit. THE FLASH Memory orders are often monitored as potential indicators of consumer electronics production changes. It’s...
- External links 2009-04-12
- Teardown of Apple's iPod Shuffle Leads to New Estimates
- Seth Gilbert submits: Ask an accountant or economist to define the value of an iPod Shuffle, or what it’s worth, and you might get a few dissertations in reply. Ask what it costs? That’s a little easier to peg. Market research firm iSupply has done a teardown of...
- External links 2009-04-14
- Apple's Q2 by the Numbers: Another Solid Showing
- Seth Gilbert submits: In the second quarter, despite the economy’s effect on consumer sales, Apple’s AAPL train continued to roll ahead with plenty of steam. Wednesday, the company announced the best non-holiday earnings in its history. After the close of the market, Apple reported net income of $1.33 a...
- External links 2009-04-23
- Apple Apps Hits Billion Download Milestone in Huge Lead over Competitors
- Seth Gilbert submits: The iPhone is a great device, there’s no denying its innovations, but the phone’s greatest competitive advantage may well be the platform not the product. A few minutes ago, Apple’s AAPL supporting “App Store” passed a billion downloads. A billion downloads in about nine months?...
- External links 2009-04-24
- Will iPhone's Latest Incarnation Accelerate Demand?
- Seth Gilbert submits: True to expectation, Apple AAPL launched its World Wide Developers Conference [WWDC] in San Francisco Monday with a bang, or at least, plenty of news. Two days after Palm PALM rolled out the Pre, a solid Smartphone in its own right, Apple rolled out the...
- External links 2009-06-09
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