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What exactly is that device that you can hold in your hand and use to read a book, surf the web, and send an email or text message? Industry analysis firm IDC is beginning to distinguish between a...
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) has what feels like the good side of a perfect storm pushing it.  As the leader and pure-play in flash memory, it is a winner in the current climate where more and...
Someone blundered. After Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) ran low on iPads for its overseas launch and then had to delay shipments of the tablet sold on its website, its U.S. stores are running out of the...
Amazon (NASAQ: AMZN) announced that it would begin to sell its Kindle digital  book reader in some Target (NYSE: TGT) stores. The news was viewed as a big “win” for Amazon, which has been...
Did you think that $275 or $300 was already a very bullish outlook on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) last month or even this month before its earnings report?  After all, shares have already doubled from...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is out with earnings, and there are some surprises here.  Steve Jobs and friends reported earnings of $3.33 EPS and $13.5 billion in revenues.  Thomson Reuters had...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today.  Today we’ll find out if there is a traditional ‘sell the news’ mentality that prevails or if this is...
Due to demand that drove iPad sales in the US to more than 500,000 units, the company had to delay the launch of the product overseas until May 10. That does not seem to have curbed the...
Dell Corporation (NASDAQ:DELL) is still having trouble in its race for global PC market share. Its number for the first quarter of 2010 was 13.3%. Taiwan manufacturer Acer had a worldwide share of...
The Russian and German investigations of potential bribes made by Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE: HPQ) turned vicious today. German prosecutors are examining evidence that HP paid  “about €8 million...
Have you been reading about flash memory shortages coming during the current consumer electronics boom?  Whether or not this comes true this time is something that will be seen, but Morningstar’s...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) may have already unleashed its iPad and already disclosed its first day sales of more than 300,000 iPad units.  We have already seen many analyst calls this morning.  We...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has released some first-day sales figures on the iPad.  The numbers are huge and above the initial projections we were using of 250,000 to 300,000, but at the same time...
An unsettling piece of news from Consumer Reports via Business Insider. The non-profit consumer protection and testing firm reports “we’ve been unable to charge our iPads in any USB port on a...
The estimates for first day sales of the Apple (AAPL) iPad have begun to come out. They are useless, educated guesses at the best. Apple has not give out any numbers and may never. That makes analyst...