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- Citrix Makes the iPhone More of a Business Tool
- Business-critical applications continue their push into the mobile world and, increasingly, that world includes the iPhone - giving the popular device more respect as a business tool, instead of just a toy, and giving IT administrators one less reason to insist on the Blackberry as a preferred handset. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Smartphones Weak, iPhone Strong
- Can Apple, specifically its iPhone, save an entire industry? The iPhone - now ranked the second most popular smartphone - saw strong enough adoption in the quarter ending Sept. 30 to mask the sluggishness of the overall smartphone market this past summer, according to a report by...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Apple Could Crush Competitors With a $99 iPhone
- Sam Diaz submits: Apple AAPL could slash the price of an iPhone to $99, continue to supply a nice margin of more than 40 percent and potentially dominate the smartphone market. At least that’s the opinion of a research analyst who issued a report Monday, according to a...
- External links 2008-10-27
- A Sign of the Times: Macs on Sale
- Sam Diaz submits: If there’s one thing about Apple AAPL products that you can pretty much always bank on, it’s that they rarely go on sale. Best Buy BBY launched some pre-Black Friday specials that discounts a whole lineup of Macbooks, iMacs and even the Mac Mini....
- External links 2008-11-25
- Apple: Plenty of Questions on the Street Ahead of Earnings
- Sam Diaz submits: Wall Street analysts likely will have plenty of questions when Apple AAPL executives host a conference call to report first quarter earnings later Wednesday. Has the company been contacted by the Securities and Exchange Commission about its disclosures related to Steve Jobs’ health?Speaking of Steve...
- External links 2009-01-21
- Apple: 35,000 'Wicked Smart' People Will Keep Things Humming
- Sam Diaz submits: Back in 1997, Apple AAPL was a company in turmoil. It was losing money. Its stock was at an all-time low. And it had experienced several failed attempts to improve the Mac operating system. Fast-forward to today and Apple is a brand name recognized...
- External links 2009-01-22
- IBM: More U.S. Job Cuts, Some Jobs to Shift to India
- Sam Diaz submits: A big round of layoffs is expected in [[IBM]]’s U.S. global business services unit, with some of the jobs heading to India, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The number of jobs affected is unknown and IBM didn’t comment on...
- External links 2009-03-25
- Dell: Services Targeting SMBs
- Sam Diaz submits: Dell DELL today announced a three-tier service offering targeted at small and medium-sized businesses, which the company sees as one of the sweet spots for growth in a sluggish economy. Statement Small and medium sized businesses are often overlooked as headlines focus...
- External links 2009-04-14
- Apple Q2: Beats Estimates in 'Best Non-Holiday Quarter'
- Sam Diaz submits: Apple AAPL, known for conservative financial forecasts, easily surpassed Wall Street’s estimates for the second quarter, reporting net income of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per share, on sales of $8.16 billion. Statement Wall Street had been expecting earnings of $1.08 per share on $7.9 billion...
- External links 2009-04-22
- Sun's Disappointing Q3: Oracle Is Buying a Mess
- Sam Diaz submits: Oracle ORCL sure is buying a mess. In what could be Sun Microsystems JAVA final report as a public company, the company Tuesday reported a third quarter net loss of $201 million, or 27 cents per share, on revenue of $2.614 billion, missing...
- External links 2009-04-28
- Tech Vendors: Ready to Spend Obama's Stimulus Money
- Sam Diaz submits: If you don’t think tech will be one of the first sectors to recover from the current economic conditions, think again. Technology taps into pretty much every sector out there - from manufacturing and health care to education and energy. Many of the...
- External links 2009-05-03
- EMC and VMWare: CEOs Discuss Acquisitions, Customers, and Competition
- Sam Diaz submits: The CEOs - EMC’s Joe Tucci and VMWare’s Paul Maritz - took some time this afternoon to meet with reporters at [[EMC]] World for a Q&A session about the companies, the technologies and the future. by Sam Diaz
- External links 2009-05-18
- Mac Pricing: Value Is in the Eye of the Buyer
- Sam Diaz submits: Lauren would have felt so uncool at yesterday’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference keynote speech. You remember Lauren, right? She was the gal in the Microsoft commercial who actually wanted to buy a Mac but had to walk out of Apple store when she discovered there was...
- External links 2009-06-09
- No Surprise: Apple Beats for Q3, Jobs 'Thrilled' Over iPhone Sales
- Sam Diaz submits: Apple AAPL Tuesday reported third quarter net income of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per share, on sales of $8.34 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimates of $1.17 eps on revenue of $8.2 billion, a 12 percent increase from a year ago. Statement The news comes as...
- External links 2009-07-21
- Back to School on the Cheap: Another Round of Mac vs. PC
- Sam Diaz submits: Market research firm NPD Group said Tuesday that 44 percent of consumers will spend less this back-to-school season. And electronics, despite falling below school supplies and clothing on the priority list, still ranks high on the chart as consumers go cheap and start looking for...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Apple Preview: A Non-Event for Wall Street?
- Sam Diaz submits: Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is known for being bullish on Apple AAPL. But, in a report issued Tuesday, he sees Wednesday’s event - where announcements about upgrades to the iPod line are expected - as really more of a non-event. And he predicts that...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Dell's New Laptop: Getting into the Innovation Game
- Sam Diaz submits: Dell DELL is unveiling a new Latitude business notebook computer today but it’s a bit different from what Dell - at least the old Dell - used to represent. When Dell first hit the scene, it made a name for itself by focusing on standardized...
- External links 2009-09-29
- HP's Touchsmart: Sure Its a PC, But It Also Makes a Cool TV
- Sam Diaz submits: I think HP HPQ may be on to something with its TouchSmart PC. The new TouchSmarts, which are being unveiled today, are technically computers, complete with mouse and keyboard. (For the specs, check out Andrew Nusca’s post.) But the heart of the device...
- External links 2009-10-13
- Another Strong Quarter for Apple: Credit iPhone, Mac Sales
- Sam Diaz submits: Apple AAPL said Monday that Mac computers and iPhones saw strong year-over-year sales jumps in the fourth quarter, allowing the company to once again beat Wall Street’s expectations for the quarter and sending the stock surging in after-hours trading. Apple reported fourth quarter earnings of...
- External links 2009-10-19
- With Apple, There's a Fine Line Between Paying a Premium and Being a Sucker
- Sam Diaz submits: It’s no secret that I’m a Mac guy and yet I always find the need to disclose that. Therefore, I must be one of those types of people who finds value in Apple AAPL products and is willing to pay a premium for them. But...
- External links 2009-10-20
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