Apple Quarterly Earnings
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The story looks pretty good; tons and tons of iPod, iPhone, and Mac sales. But because Steve Jobs didn't announce an $11 trillion profit, AAPL is down 6.95 today. Right now is a great time to buy.
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The story looks pretty good; tons and tons of iPod, iPhone, and Mac sales. But because Steve Jobs didn't announce an $11 trillion profit, AAPL is down 6.95 today. Right now is a great time to buy.
Apple Says No to Royalty Hike
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008From AppleInsider: Acccording to Fortune, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) in Washington, D.C. is expected to rule Thursday on a proposal from the National Music Publishers' Association to raise the rates paid to its members on songs purchased from digital services like iTunes from 9 cents to 15 cents a track. Apple doesn't want to ...
New DS Rumored
Sunday, September 28th, 2008From Kotaku, the rumor is that Nintendo is preparing a a new iteration of the DS, this time with a camera, music playback, and improved wireless. Some are jumping to the conclusion that this is Nintendo's answer to the push Apple is making into the handheld gaming market with the ...
MobileChat Updates Rejected by Apple
Friday, September 26th, 2008Just when I was starting to get annoyed that twenty08 wasn't fixing bugs, Saverio informs us that the blame falls on Apple: I understand that people are frustrated and are tired of waiting and Shaun and I feel absolutely terrible. However, all I can offer is your money back. For that, ...
Jabbisco
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Ah, TechCrunch. Is there anything you can do? Don Reisinger gets it completely wrong in his posting: Cisco announced today that it has acquired Jabber, an open-source IM and presence protocol used by Google Talk and Gizmo, for an undisclosed sum. This is so flawed as to be laughable, and very well sums up the quality ...
Best Global Brands
Saturday, September 20th, 2008Some selections from the 2008 Rankings: Google at #10, BMW at #13, Cisco at #17, and Apple at #24.
Cisco
Friday, September 19th, 2008Ben Schumacher said it best: Argh mateys, Jabber has been boarded by Cisco: http://tinyurl.com/4juk53
Nintendo Working on “Core” Games
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Kotaku, on the long gap between "core" games from Nintendo: So if they take 2-3 years to make...where are the ones you started working on 2-3 years ago? As we get deeper into this hardware cycle, I become convinced that the Wii is more lucky accident than ingenious savior. Nintendo needs some quality leadership ...
Kindle Clones
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008At first, I thought it was a joke. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington suggests that Amazon open their Kindle e-book reader for third-party clones. My advice to Amazon is to always do the opposite of whatever Arrington says. Just ask Apple what clone programs do for revenue and brand identity.
Microsoft and Seinfeld Address Vista Quality Concerns
Thursday, August 21st, 2008How, you ask? With better marketing. Their new attempt to bring users back into the fold is reportedly fueled by $300 million. Sounds serious. $10 million of that is going to Seinfeld. That’s not a bad fee for selling out after featuring Macs so long as his computer of choice ...
Amazon Prime
Monday, August 11th, 2008Amazon Prime. Quite possibly the best $79 I've ever spent. As an Amazon affiliate program member, I received an email this morning suggesting that I pimp the Amazon Prime service. I have belonged to a lot of affiliate programs over the years, and I get these all the time. Usually they ...
Microsoft Pokes at Apple
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008From AppleInsider: "Windows Vista has fewer than half the security vulnerabilities of Windows XP," Microsoft said. "It's also 60% less likely to be infected by spyware or malware than Windows XP SP2. And in early 2008, Windows Vista was shown to have 89% fewer vulnerabilities than MacOS X 10.5, making it ...
Aurora Feint Privacy Concerns
Monday, July 21st, 2008Danielle Cassley,one of Aurora Feint's creators, trying to clear the air on what the game is doing with your phone's contact list: The text associated with the community features says “Supply your phone number and email to automatically locate your friends!”. We assumed people would guess that meant we used their ...