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Price drops on digital cameras

If you're looking to buy a new camera, now might be just the right time. Both Casio and Olympus posted major annual losses last week, with the two brands losing approximately $240 million and $1.2 billion respectively. Barclays Capital suggests that the point-and-shoot camera market will shrink 24% by the...

Tags: Digital Camera, Camera, Barclays Capital, Digital Cameras, Sales Strategy, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Barclays Capital Achieves Guaranteed Reliability and Performance With New Fixed-Income Solution

Barclays Capital is one of the stellar success stories in investment banking of recent years. The firm's projected growth plan required the bank to review its existing fixed-income trading system, to see how it could handle an increasing amount of trading volume. After close consultation with Microsoft Services, Barclays Capital...

Tags: Latency, Performance, Barclays Plc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Barclays Capital, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Salesforce.com fires back at Oracle in SaaS war

In recent quarters Oracle has been taking aim at Salesforce.com, noting that its Siebel On Demand was poaching customers. On Thursday it was Salesforce's turn to return fire. Following Salesforce's fiscal second quarter earnings, CEO Marc Benioff, as chatty as ever, took aim at his trash talking...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Watching Palm's August Pre numbers - it's anyone's guess

When it comes to sales of the Palm Pre smartphone, it's anyone's guess how the numbers will look when the quarter ends in two weeks. Even the experts on Wall Street have conflicting outlooks. Barrons' Tech Trader Daily blog today points to conflicting reports by Wall Street...

Tags: Palm Inc., Analyst, Barrons, Faucette, Rozwadowski, Palm Pre, Sales Strategy, Smart Phones, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-17

What drives solar stocks?

At the Intersolar Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Vishal Shah, solar equities research analyst at Barclays Capital, predicted that the U.S. market will remain a strong force for solar stocks as commercial projects continue to grow. In addition, he says, many other countries--China, India, and Japan, among...

Tags: Stock, Investment, Finance, Intersolar

Videos 2009-07-15

LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?

LogMeIn, which offers on demand remote access software, goes public today at $16 a share and is getting a nice round of applause from the folks following the venture capital world. After all, LogMeIn raised $107.2 million or so in a stock market that stinks. LogMeIn shares...

Tags: LogMeIn, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, IPO, Financial Services, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Verizon Wireless CEO throws jabs: Plans to offer Palm Pre (and its 'cousin'); Scoffs at AT&T's network upgrade

Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said Thursday his company hopes to offer the Palm Pre and talked up the carrier's upcoming phone lineup, which includes the latest BlackBerrys and Android powered phones. Meanwhile, McAdam panned AT&T's network upgrade.   McAdam, speaking at a Barclays Capital conference in...

Tags: Network Upgrade, Network, Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Verizon Wireless, Network Administration, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-28

Amazon Kindle sales to reach $4 billion by 2012?

With all the talk yesterday about the new Kindle DX, it's no surprise to hear that Kindle sales are skyrocketing, and are expected to stay that way. Amazon is said to generate $840 million in gross profit on $3.7 billion of revenue in 2012. Of course, that's just an estimate,...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-05-07

US newspaper ads to decline 22% in 2009

Barclays Capital projects US newspaper advertising will decline 22% in 2009 and another 10% in 2010. by AM

Tags: Advertisement, AM

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Apple to launch 'aggressive' Black Friday sale?

As Black Friday sales begin to leak on the Web, experts at Barclays Capital say they expect Apple to counter rival PC vendors' promotions with a one-day sale more aggressive than usual, offering deep discounts on a number of Mac models. Low cost notebooks top the list...

Tags: Discount, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Desktops, Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Dow and AAPL down big in early trading (updated)

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 300 points on a report that consumer spending is down. Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is down US$20 (around 16 percent) as of this writing â€" its largest drop in over 8 months. Apple fell $17.97 to $110.27 at 10:10 a.m. New York...

Tags: Apple Inc., The Dow Chemical Co., Investment, Finance, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Sun wins injunction against MS in Java dispute

Sun wins injunction against MS in Java disputeJohn T. Chambers must goVia my blog at http://www.newerawisp.blogspot.comYesterday I asked readers accross the Internet to write to John T. Chambers, President of Cisco Systems regarding Black Hat confrence and Michael Lynn Saga. since then Things at Cisco systems moved in the negative...

Tags: Java, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., NetSolve

Discussion threads 2005-07-30

Scott McNealy's Carly Fiorina moment?

Charlie Cooper asks why Sun CEO Scott McNealy is still in the driver's seat despite what he termed a "dismal" performance for shareholders post-bubble. Coop comments: To be sure, McNealy is a co-founder and still owns more than 56 million shares. But my guess is the top institutional holders--Capital Research and Management Company, Barclays'...

Tags: Scott McNealy

Blog posts 2005-02-23