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- AAPL stock closes at all-time high
- AAPL stock closes at all-time highWe wouldn't be reading this blog if we weren't totally obsessedAt least reading AAPL could be practical.This is obviouslya result of the outrage at Apple deliberately bricking iPhones to keep its AT&T cronies happy.It makes perfect sense. Apple's stock always tanks on good news, so...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Sales strategy, Desktops, Investment, Operating systems, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., installed base, Apple Inc., Leopard, Apple Macintosh, stock
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- Report: 500,000 iPhones sold over the weekend
- Colleague Tom Krazit reports that analyst firm Piper Jaffray estimates Apple's sold around half a million iPhones over the weekend.Data comes from a report issued Sunday night by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, estimating that Apple and AT&T Mobility have moved about 500,00 units thus far. Munster (now stop...
- Tags: News, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Average customer acquisition cost for search is $7-10
- Piper Jaffray estimates the average customer acquisition cost for search to be between $7 and $10, compared to $15 and $25 for Yellow Pages, $40 to 80 for e-mail and $60 to 80 for direct mail.
- Tags: U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-02-04
- Average customer acquisition cost for search is $7-10
- Piper Jaffray estimates the average customer acquisition cost for search to be between $7 and $10, compared to $15 and $25 for Yellow Pages, $40 to 80 for e-mail and $60 to 80 for direct mail.
- Tags: U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-02-04
- Engineering, support executives leave Apple
- Engineering, support executives leave AppleRats from a sinking ship?Or some other dumb comment like the ones made when an MS exec. leaves...Who cares?Today, another XP machine went totally unusable from a virus and all data was lost because the sysadmin hasn't had time to get the machine on the backup...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Apple Inc., virus, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Mac OS X, XP Machine, diagnosis, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-11-22
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- What is the "product transition" Apple alluded to?
- During Apple's Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts, Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO and Tim Cooke COO both mentioned a "product transition" that Apple is preparing for that will cut profit margins to help shut out rivals. Both executives punted on several analyst questions for more "color"...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Product Transition, iTablet, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap
- Amid all the chatter about Apple's fiscal third quarter results, which were strong, most concerns about the future revolve around two words: Gross margins. The big takeaway for technology buyers: Those lower margins hint at cheaper iPods and notebooks in the not-to-distant future. Following Apple's typical strong...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple iPod, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Peter Oppenheimer, September, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries
- Updated: Apple on Monday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 a share, on revenue of $7.46 billion, well ahead of Wall Street estimates as Mac sales continued to surge. However, Apple lowered its outlook and failed to allay concerns about CEO Steve Jobs' health. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Macintosh, Health Care, Apple Inc., Steve, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week wait
- According to Apple's iPhone availability tracker, the iPhone 3G is sold out nationwide. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is reporting that there's a four week wait for new stock to arrive stateside. Munster says that Apple didn't correctly predict the initial demand for the product...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, 3G, Manufacturing, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Apple moves 1 million iPhones in 3 days; 39 percent of buyers own PCs
- Apple said that it has sold 1 million iPhones over Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Given the activation hurdles, Apple's tally statement is stunning and well ahead of what Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster--one of the more bullish Apple followers out there--predicted. Munster estimated that Apple would hit...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, PC, Apple Inc., 3G, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- The iPhone 3G rollout: Assessing the wild cards
- Update 2:35 p.m. ET: Looks like one of these wild cards--the snafus--turned out to be a big issue today. We've got iBricks, struggling servers and other issues with the rollout. Jason O'Grady was first on the case from a store in Atlantic City, N.J. After a rough go at the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Card, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Analyst: 35% of iPhone 3G buyers will get it for $199
- The pricing of the next generation iPhone may be a point of confusion on Friday and Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster expects only 35 percent of buyers will get the $199 price. As a result, initial sales of the iPhone 3G may be diluted. See all incoming iPhone posts...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., 3G, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Pricing, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- News to know: Midori; Yahoo; iPhone; VMware
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009 Microsoft to push XP SP3 via Auto Update on July 10 Microsoft to deliver SQL Server 2008 in August...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Open Source, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., Phishing, 3G, Cyberthreats, Hardware Upgrade, Spam, Strategy, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper
- VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source PiperOn the other hand ...... if all the hypervisors and their attendant management suites become free ... then will I choose to serve:1. Basic software via increasingly powerful cloud computing or open source freebies (e.g. Firefox, Open Office)2. MyCompanysSoftware via *IX (I have...
- Tags: Operating systems, value-add, VMware Inc., open source, Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper
- It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a very bad day for VMWare. My friend and fellow tech blogger colleague at ComputerWorld, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols, thinks the company will be down for the count when they take their next hit, that essentially, the...
- Tags: Software, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Hardware, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Apple's biggest threat: High expectations
- Apple has notched another milestone in its iPhone international expansion by inking a deal with Softbank Mobile to bring the device to Japan "later this year." In a statement Softbank Mobile said: SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., 3G iPhone, Com, Pacific Crest Andy Hargreaves, 3G, Cellular Phones, Apple Mac OS X, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Why Apple will blow past its 10 million iPhone target
- The iPhone ante is being raised by the minute for Apple. The question now shifts from whether Apple will ship 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 to by how much it'll blow away its own target. To wit: Piper Jaffray analyst Gene...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- E-trade, Schwab, Google fall victim to "Office Space/Superman 3" attack
- A great example of an attack where Web Application Firewalls WAFs, simple scanning tools, HackerSafe certifications, and PCI (it might through some financial controls I'm not aware of) are not going to help you stay secure was posted by Kevin Poulsen over at the crime blog at blogs.wired.com. Poulsen's article states: ...
- Tags: Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., Bank, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Attack, Poulsen, Financial Services, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- What to expect from Steve Jobs at WWDC '08
- 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...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Notebooks, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- iPhone's international rollout continues; 10 million units not a stretch
- Apple's iPhone will be headed to a few more countries courtesy of a new deal with French telecom carrier Orange. In a statement, Orange said: Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Orange customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic,...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Wireless, Telephony, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
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