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The $99 iPhone

Needham Research's Charlie Wolf thinks that Apple could drop the price of an 8GB iPhone to $99 and crush the competition. Except for "niche" smartphone manufacturers, like RIM, that is. Any such price drops would be potentially devastating to competitors in the market, according to Wolf. The...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Smart Phone, Needham Research, Smart Phones, 3G, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-27

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iPhone clouds true Smartphone snapshot

Can Apple, specifically its iPhone, save an entire industry? The iPhone - now ranked the second most popular smartphone - saw strong enough adoption in the quarter ending Sept. 30 to mask the sluggishness of the overall smartphone market this past summer, according to a report by...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Could a $99 iPhone rule the world?

Just when you thought things couldn't get interesting enough, someone goes and says something crazy. Apple has the room to cut the price of the iPhone to where it could take command of the smartphone market, analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham Research wrote today in a research...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Charlie Wolf, 3G, Smart Phones, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Sales Force Management, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Analysts predict minimal iPhone impact on BlackBerry sales, stock

An article running this morning on the Dow Jones Newswires quotes analysts and presents information that the release of the iPhone may have minimal impact on BlackBerry sales.John Lynch of Needham & Co. tells Dow Jones that while the Palm Treo is popular with the iPhone's target market of...

Tags: Corporate Stuff

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Google cuts deals to open up state websites

Thanks to an agreement with Google, Virginias 95 agencies will expose their databases to the search engine, making them widely accessible to the public, The Washington Post reports. Google will announce similar deals with California, Arizona and Utah. "These are difficult databases to access," said Aneesh Chopra, the Virginia...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Yahoo ambushed by hindsight and armchair CEOs--again

Yahoo should have paid dearly for Facebook and was silly for worrying about little things like valuation. Yahoos inability to Facebook is especially troublesome since the social networking has blown past Yahoos initial assumptions. Thats the thesis of a report by Needham...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Social networking, MySpace, General

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Michael Dell's return no slam dunk

Will Michael Dells second act at his namesake company look like Steve Jobs? Or Ted Waitts. The computer industry offers two recent examples of what happens when prodigal sons return to the PC companies they helped create. Steve Jobs...

Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Dell Computer Corp.

Blog posts 2007-02-01

Music industry files 2,000 more lawsuits

Music industry files 2,000 more lawsuitsIn the good old daysI used Nabster. That was the only time I ever bought music. Before Nabster I did not buy music and after Nabster I quit buying music. I used Nabster as a sampling service. If the music was...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, music, sales, Nabster, RIAA

Discussion threads 2006-04-04

Secondhand Microsoft software goes on sale

Secondhand Microsoft software goes on saleSecondhand Microsoft software goes on saleIts still a win for Microsoft. Discout prices means they will be able to retain their current customers and gain new ones. Once they see how great Microsoft software is they will continue to use MS's products based...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Asset management, Microsoft Corp., Secondhand Microsoft software, software, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-11-10

PalmOne's Colligan on the hot seat in Asia

In a relentless line of questioning, CNETAsia's Aloysius Choong hangs on to PalmOne president Ed Colligan like a pit bull to get a better idea of the course that the hardware manufacturer has charted for itself amidst an onslaught from the Microsoft-based PocketPC world and a setback with China's largest...

Tags: palmOne Inc., PalmSource Inc.

Blog posts 2004-11-17