Episode 115 of the PowerPage Podcast has been posted. This week we discuss AAPL Q3'09 earnings, Apple tablet redux, App Store woes, firey iPods we play "What's on your Mac?" Featuring: Jason O'Grady and Rob Parker. You can subscribe to it in iTunes. by Jason D. O'Grady
The Alice Smith School IT department wanted to refresh its computers and reduce maintenance costs to optimize its IT resources and enhance the utilization of ICT in its curriculum. The school consolidated its hardware on the Dell platform, replacing legacy desktops with Dell OptiPlex personal computers and Dell Latitude notebook...
Advanced Micro Devices reported a first quarter net loss of $416 million, or 66 cents a share, on revenue of $1.17 billion, down 21 percent from a year ago. However, CEO Dirk Meyer said Tuesday that AMD is "more nimble" following the spin-off of its manufacturing assets, but the company...
Hot on the heels of Microsoft's line-in-the-sand advertisement for "Lauren," the girl who "isn't cool enough for a Mac," comes this laptop shootout from Technologizer pitting Apple's 17-inch MacBook Pro against similarly-equipped PCs to find out if there really is a $500 Apple tax. ...
I finally watched the new MS commercial "Laptop Hunters - Lauren" TV commercial, the tagline: "On a strict $1000 budget, Lauren hunts around town for a big screen laptop." While mostly true (the only only 17-inch Apple notebooks cost $2,000-$2,800) the ads don't take into consideration the...
The Vietnam client PC market grew 5.0% YOY to 337,000 units in Q2 2008. However, total shipments in Q2 2008 fell 5.6% from Q1 2008 due to the sluggish economy, the unstable exchange rate, and the decision of government and enterprises to cut back on investments in IT products. In...
Through the graces of an anonymous benefactor, I have a recent-vintage white MacBook to use for the next few months. As a newbie Mac user, I paid special attention to Apple’s announcements of new MacBooks last week. And Microsoft paid special attention, too, as I received multiple e-mails from folks...
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz about whether recent product announcements will have a positive impact on Apple sales. Dignan and Diaz also discuss the hiccups with the iPhone 3G launch, the new Nano, and whether Apple will refresh its...
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz about whether recent product announcements will have a positive impact on Apple sales. Dignan and Diaz also discuss the hiccups with the iPhone 3G launch, the new Nano, and whether Apple will refresh its...
Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster ends the week with a note to clients as to what to expect from Steve Jobs at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference on June 9. Here's what Munster thinks we can expect: New iPhone Well duh! However, Munster cautions...
One of my neighbors actually set a television out curbside as garbage a few weeks back, which reminded me that in spite all of the media coverage about green tech over the past year guilty as charged, there's still a big problem with how to handle electronic gadgets at the...
Enter tips easily using this application.With this little application, not only that you can calculate tips the right way, you can also save them in a built-in database so that you can review them later!You can also delete tips and sort them based on their date.You can also define your...
Dell on Monday gave a preview of its analyst meeting later this week and reaffirmed that it will aim to save $3 billion over the next three years and reduce headcount by 8,800. In fiscal 2009, Dell said it will focus on its consumer, enterprise, notebook, small and...
Taipei-based Twinhead International manufactures and markets notebook computers for the consumer and industrial sectors. Income from industrial products commands around 30 - 40% of the company's operating revenues. The biggest challenges facing the company are the number of customizations they undertake for each customer, and the fact that they often...
Is it in with the new, out with the old at Dell.com? Last night, I wrote that Dell had added a few Penryn options to one of its most popular laptops, the XPS M1330. Now comes word that the company may have dropped systems using AMD processors from Dell.com altogether....
Update below: Dell is trying to quell worries about its relationship with AMD. A blog ruckus has emerged after Engadget and DailyTech and others reported that Dell pulled AMD-powered desktops and laptops from Dell.com, which represents the bulk of the PC maker's sales. Instead, Dell pushed folks...
The Apple subnotebook rumor is really starting to percolate. A CNBC report by Jim Goldman video version quotes a "very good source" with connections to Apple's Asian manufacturing partners as saying the ultra-portable notebook will arrive at Macworld Expo in January of 2008 at a price point...
The average cost of a data breach incident was $6.3 billion in 2007, up from $4.8 million in 2006, according to a study. But the real impact of a data breach can be found in customer churn rates. The study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored...
A laptop computer has powerful implications for educating any student. There are many initiatives around the world to put laptop computers in the hands of school children including "one-to-one" computing and One Laptop Per Child OLPC. In the United States, this paper projects that f for less than 10% of...
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