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Handicapping Apple's iPod launch

Apple confirmed a September 5 "special event" so now the handicapping of the announcement can begin in earnest. Officially, Apple is introducing new digital media offerings, according to a bunch of folks who got the invite. Unofficially, Apple is expected to roll out new iPods--as it...

Tags: Web Surfing, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Gene Munster, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-29

New iMacs likely to be boon to Apple

Update below: Apple will hold a press event Tuesday and most observers expect the company to introduce a redesigned iMac. AppleInsider, News.com and Gizmodo noted last week that Apple had been calling analysts and media members to give them a heads up on the shindig at the company's Cupertino headquarters....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Analyst: here's how much AT&T is paying Apple per iPhone sub

No, that's not the slope of a mountain, but Apple's stock chart over the last month.Might as well be a mountain, though.My colleague Larry Dignan notices a research note from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster that AT&T is paying $3 a month per every iPhone customer already with AT&T and...

Tags: Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-19

iPhone expectations: Lofty to loftier

Can Apple's iPhone sell 45 million iPods in calendar year 2009 and take 7 percent of North America handset share?That's what Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is arguing in a research note Thursday. Wall Street analysts have been floating big predictions on iPhone shipments for days. Apple has projected 10...

Tags: Mobile, Personal Technology, iPhone, General, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-07

Is Apple obligated to pass on commodity savings?

Apple delivered a blowout quarter largely based on lower commodity costs that boosted gross margins to a healthy 35 percent. Think about it: If all the parts of a $1,099 MacBook get cheaper and consumers pay full price thats a great business. ...

Tags: Apple, General, Hardware Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Analyst: Vista will dent Apple market share short term

Apples Mac market share will take a hit in March due to the launch of Vista. That in turn will raise questions about Apples halo effect strategy, said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. In a research note, Munster said that...

Tags: Apple, General, Microsoft, Vista

Blog posts 2007-02-14

Additional Resources

Repairing genetic mutations with lasers?

German researchers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel CAU think they've proved that genetic information can be controlled by light. The group studied the interaction between the four DNA bases -- adenine A, cytosine C, guanine G, and thymine T -- by using femtosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The researchers think that...

Tags: DNA, Laser, CAU, Adenine Femtosecond, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-12

The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy

We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator

We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...

Tags: Information Security, Kevin Mitnick, Nobel Laureate, Osamu Shimomura, Productivity, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry

No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...

Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Apple dominates the teen vote, but...

Teenagers just love their Apple gear as the iPhone and iPod widen their lead among this fickle set. According to a Piper Jaffray report Apple is dominating teenagers' buying patterns. The high level details of a survey of 769 teens: 22...

Tags: Teen, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, 401(k), Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-08

The viral theory of cancer

The viral theory of cancerViral cancersThe explanations of viral cancers are just now coming to light. However, your article missed out in how the virus may require certain human gene modifications to become active. These theory's are interesting, but there is much to be discovered before we can create...

Tags: Cyberthreats, theory, virus

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Microsoft's search perks gambit eyes 22% of market up for grabs

Microsoft will pay and perk you to death to get you to use its search and the move may not be so silly. Why? Roughly 22 percent of the search market is up for grabs so you might as well buy some loyalty. That 22 percent figure...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Regulations, Marketing Research, Internet, Government, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Was Apple's stock battering justified?

Was Apple's stock battering justified?Apple, like RIMM......was horrendously overvalued. If you have a PE in excess of 35 you need exponential growth to sustain your share price. Apple's gains in market share, whilst seemingly impressive in terms of relative percentages, are too small to justify the price plus,...

Tags: Investment, Apple Inc., stock, MP3-player

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Apple: Is it really recession proof? Wall Street says no

Updated below: Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty thinks that Apple can't outrun a slowing economy. And she's betting her estimates on it. In a research note Monday, Huberty downgraded Apple shares from "overweight" to "equal weight" and lowered her price target to $115 from $178 on the...

Tags: Unit Growth, Recession, Apple Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hit

Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hitBack again?Always to be found around here bashing Apple. He's just upset that Microsoft is becoming increasingly irrelevant. (Its value as a company peaked NINE years ago!)Not to mention that Windows Mobile is going down the tubes since developers are...

Tags: Cellular phones, windows mobile, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, supplier

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Android: It's not about Sex, Excitement, or Cool

This week, Google and T-Mobile launched the G1 "Dream", the first of the Android devices to hit the market. The initial reaction by some of my colleagues and industry peers was whether or not it had enough sex appeal,  excitement or the coolness factor to be...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple Inc., 3G, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-26

KAUST to house fastest supercomputer in Middle East

Thanks to one of my tipsters, I was informed the other day that KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, have teamed up with IBM to build the fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East. KAUST is one of the most modern, dedicated...

Tags: Supercomputer, University, Middle East, Supercomputing, KAUST, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Google's Android: Following the money on mobile search

Google launched its G1 Android powered phone with T-Mobile Tuesday and it didn't take long for Wall Street to make some guesstimates on mobile search revenue. What's it worth in revenue to put Google's search on handsets? First up, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster reckons that Google...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Google Android, Mobile, Mobile Search, Collins Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-23

YouTube profit (and revenue) watch intensifies

Google has made profiting from YouTube a big priority in 2008, 2009 and beyond and the video site's potential is being monitored closely amid a weak ad market. Sure YouTube founder Chad Hurley wants to conquer every screen. In a blog post Hurley wrote: Our goal...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-16