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Seagate cuts June quarter outlook: Storage giant Seagate delivered solid fiscal third quarter results, but cut its outlook for the June quarter. Seagate (all resources, statement) reported earnings of $344 million, or 65 cents a share, on revenue of $3.1 billion. Excluding charges, Seagate reported earnings of 70 cents a share, a penny...; Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Dell: Still a work in progress; Sees conservative IT spending: Dell's fourth quarter results fell short of expectations Thursday and the company "will continue to incur costs as it realigns its business to improve growth and profitability." Meanwhile, Dell said future results "could be adversely impacted by more conservative spending by its customers." Simply put, Dell is...; Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., IT-spending, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-28
RIM ups its subscriber tally: Research in Motion on Thursday confirmed its outlook for its fiscal fourth quarter and expects to add more subscribers than initially projected. RIM said it expect fourth quarter subscriber additions to be 15 percent to 20 percent higher than the 1.82 million it projected in December. There...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-21
Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and away: Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and awaySame old story"Results in the prior year were impacted by the deferral of $1.64 billion of revenue and operating income and $0.11 of diluted earnings per share from the second to the third quarter of fiscal 2007, due primarily to technology...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Financial accounting, Operational accounting, paragraph, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Q2 earning, Microsoft Q2; Discussion threads 2008-01-24
Microsoft earnings shine; Ups fiscal year outlook: Microsoft on Thursday reported fiscal second quarter earnings of $4.7 billion, or 50 cents a share, on revenue of $16.36 billion. More importantly, Microsoft's outlook was in line with expectations for the March quarter. The software giant upped its outlook for fiscal 2008. Wall Street was expecting...; Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Revenue, Income, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-01-24

The AT&T leaves: Wireless strong; U-Verse buildout continues; Outlook in tact: AT&T reported its fourth quarter earnings and the big takeaways are that wireless growth is strong and enterprise spending is chugging along. AT&T's earnings report garnered a little more attention this time around given that CEO Randall Stephenson rattled the markets with comments that consumers were struggling....; Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, AT&T Corp., U-Verse, U-Verse Rollout, IP Data Service, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-01-24
IBM's alternate universe: Big Blue sees great 2008: Thus far 2008--all two weeks of it--hasn't been a pretty for the tech industry. Worries about the economy prevail. And even companies that had relatively good things to say like Intel get clobbered. It's ugly out there--unless you're IBM. IBM's earnings results for the fourth quarter Thursday...; Tags: Software, Revenue, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-01-18
Total BlackBerry user base passes 12 million: The number of BlackBerry users worldwide has now passed 12 million. That's according to BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, which reported its latest quarterly earnings today. This report encompasses the period from September 1-December 1. The company said revenue for the third quarter of fiscal...; Tags: Tax, Net Income, Quarter, RIM BlackBerry, Taxes, Free Trade, Handhelds, Financial Planning, Finance, Hardware, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-12-20
AT&T: U-verse TV service to pass 30 million homes by 2010: AT&T unleashed a bevy of metrics Tuesday at an analyst conference. The big one: AT&T's U-Verse television service is expected to reach about 30 million homes by the end of 2010. By the end of 2008, AT&T's U-Verse service will top 1 million homes. Simply put, AT&T plans...; Tags: AT&T Corp., TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Operational Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-11
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Google: $900 price targets and the 'most basic element of Internet life': Google: $900 price targets and the 'most basic element of Internet life'But wait!! But wait!!! This is all based on Linux and users do NOT likeLinux. It is only for nerds that use the command line and recompile the kernel.Silly in the extreme...I hope I am able to catch it...; Tags: Investment, Linux, software-as-a-service, Google Inc., valuation; Discussion threads 2007-11-20
Dell gets more channel religion; Buys EqualLogic for $1.4B: Dell said Monday it will buy storage vendor EqualLogic in a deal worth $1.4 billion in cash. EqualLogic makes iSCSI storage area network gear that's optimized for virtualization. Dell's motive is to use EqualLogic to bolster its storage lineup and channel ties. Dell added...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., EqualLogic, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-11-05
We will all end up working for Microsoft...: MSFT profits in its latest quarter exceeded GOOG's total revenues. Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share...; Tags: Revenue, Quarter, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2007-10-26
The virtualization market: The real scrum is just beginning: VMware's first quarter as a public company was a humdinger, but the real battle in the virtualization market is just getting started. Over the next year or so the virtualization landscape is going to become a lot more interesting. VMware is a company with a lead and...; Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Return On Investment Case, Simon Crosby, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-25
eBay: All is not well: Forget the Skype acquisition debacle. It's eBay's core business you should be worried about. That's the takeaway from Wall Street on Thursday after eBay reported what appeared to be strong third quarter results (also see Techmeme). But there's the fine print. Currency effects--if you haven't noticed the...; Tags: eBay Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Planning, Finance, Investment, Business Operations, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-18
Five questions: SAP's acquisition of Business Objects: SAP took a rather big plunge with its $6.8 billion acquisition of Business Objects and left the business intelligence market much smaller than it was a day ago. Here are some lingering questions that remain to be resolved: Can SAP digest a large acquisition? Business Objects is...; Tags: Acquisition, Cognos Inc., Business Objects, SAP AG, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-08
Tech earnings: So far so good: A trio of technology companies reported earnings and provided a rough sketch of industry conditions. Here's a quick survey of the landscape. Overall, the results weren't bad--with the exception of Tibco, which turned in a poor quarter. Combined with earnings from the likes of Oracle and Red Hat...; Tags: Revenue, TIBCO Software Inc., Cognos Inc., Accenture Ltd., Outsourcing, Earnings, Wall, Application Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-09-28
'Whole-brained' enterprises need SOA: here are the numbers to prove it: Okay, okay, we get it -- business and IT need to be aligned. They're obviously not in alignment, or we wouldn't have 50,000 conference speakers and analyst reports telling us so. So, let's have at it, and align away.Finally, a study that provides hard numbers on the connection between business-IT...; Tags: SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI; Blog posts 2007-08-01
Microsoft earnings hit target; client, business divisions shine: Microsoft's fiscal fourth quarter earnings hit their targets courtesy of a Vista and Office 2007 boost. For the quarter ending June 30, Microsoft reported earnings of 31 cents a share, including charges related to a revised Xbox 360 warranty policy. Excluding that charge earnings were 39 cents a share. Revenue...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, Microsoft, General; Blog posts 2007-07-19
SOA demand gives IBM services boost: IBM's second quarter results were strong amid growth in its services business. Big Blue said Wednesday that earnings per share from continuing operations were $2.33 billion, or $1.55 a share, including a gain of 5 cents a share related to the sale of its printing services division. Backing that gain...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, IBM, Hardware Infrastructure, General; Blog posts 2007-07-18