Best Buy Up on Deal to Sell iPhone; Radio Shack Slips
Best Buy (BBY) shares are on the rise this morning on news that the company’s Best Buy Mobile stores will carry the Apple (AAPL) iPhone starting Sept. 7. Pricing will be the same as it is through Apple...
View ArticleApple: Bigger Black Friday Bargains This Year?
So, just how big will be the bargains tomorrow when Apple (AAPL) unveils its pricing for Black Friday? Bigger than last year, asserts Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu. Wu, who just yesterday picked up...
View ArticlePC to Mac: I’m Cheaper
For months, Microsoft (MSFT) has jabbed at Apple (AAPL) with an, at times, baffling advertising campaign for Windows PCs. Now Microsoft may finally land a solid blow against its rival. In a new chapter...
View ArticleHulu: Watch Our Shows on a Big Screen, but not on a TV
Want to watch the season finale of “30 Rock” for free, whenever you want, on a big screen? Go for it, says Hulu–just don’t watch it on a TV. Confused? Of course. So was I, when I checked out Hulu’s new...
View ArticleMicrosoft "Laptop Hunters" Campaign Having No Effect Whatsoever on 13-inch...
Looks like Apple may have another hit on its hands with the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The company is reportedly having a hard time keeping the machine in stock as it heads into the back-to-school buying...
View ArticleApple Q3: BOOM!
To see Peter Kafka’s liveblog of Apple’s Q3 Earnings Call, click here. The economy is in recession, consumer spending is down and the PC market is in the worst decline since the Great Dark Times of...
View ArticleWonder if This Has Something to Do With Those Laptop Hunter Ads…
The high-end PC market is not a bad place to be. Just ask Apple, which rules it and with great financial success. According to new stats from NPD Group, Apple now claims 91 percent of the U.S. retail...
View ArticleUpgrading from XP to Windows 7
This week’s Mailbox is devoted to the most common of the hundreds of questions I received in response to last week’s Personal Technology column describing how difficult and time-consuming it will be to...
View ArticleApple's iTunes 9 Makes it Easier to Share, Organize
Apple’s iTunes program is one of the most popular software products in the world. The company says hundreds of millions of copies of iTunes have been downloaded, far exceeding the 220 million iPod...
View ArticleApple’s New iMac, MacBook Grow Better, Brighter
This is the week when Microsoft finally starts selling Windows 7, its much-improved successor to the disappointing Vista version of Windows. PC makers, who have suffered from Vista’s poor reputation,...
View ArticleMore on the Nexus One
In reviewing Google’s new Nexus One phone, you said its memory is expandable to 32 gigabytes, but that the portion of memory used for storing apps is just 190 megabytes. Is the expandable memory...
View ArticleFebruary Expected to Be a Great Month for Mac Sales
February 2009 was not the greatest month for Mac sales. They were down 16 percent year over year and 10 percent from January. And while that may have been unfortunate at the time, it’s good news for...
View ArticleApple's Mac Business Headed for Another Big Quarter
We haven’t even reached the midpoint of the June quarter, but it already looks like Apple’s financials for the period will be as strong, if not stronger than they’ve been in quarters past. In a...
View ArticleApple Beats Earnings Estimates, but Low on Guidance, iPad Sales
First hit from Apple earnings: EPS of $4.64 and revenues of $20.34 billion. The consensus was $4.05 and $18.8 billion. The Street won’t like guidance, though: Apple is predicting Q1 EPS of $4.80, below...
View ArticleThe Outlook for Java on the Mac Perks Up
The future of Java development for the Mac OS, which was starting to look a little dicey recently, firmed up today with a new deal between Apple and Oracle. Under the agreement, Apple, which has always...
View ArticleGoogle Goes To the Cloud For New Idea In PC System
In the personal-computer industry, where things change fast, one fact has been a constant for years: There are two major, mainstream operating systems for consumers. One, Microsoft Windows, runs on...
View ArticleA Lot of iSales: Apple Sold 7.3 Million iPads, 16.2 Million iPhones in...
Apple sold a whole lot of iOS devices in the December quarter, according to its just-released earnings report. Apple sold 4.13 million Macs during the quarter, up 23 percent from a year ago. It sold...
View ArticleCounting Tablets, Apple Is Third in Global PC Sales
Apple is now the third-largest PC maker in the world, according to research firm Canalys, which has decided to include tablets like the iPad in its definition of a PC. Cupertino shipped 11.5 million...
View ArticleWorking With AirPrint
Q: How does Apple’s AirPrint work? And what new things would I have to get to make it work? A: AirPrint allows certain apps on an iPhone or iPad to wirelessly print to locally networked printers....
View ArticleSecond-Quarter Mac Sales Likely to Be Magical, Revolutionary
One more quick data point in advance of Apple’s second-quarter earnings report tomorrow: New estimates from the NPD Group show the company’s Mac business gathering considerable momentum. In January,...
View ArticleSeven Questions for Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net
Box.net, the enterprise cloud data-sharing service, is on a roll. Today it launched a service that lets Box customers synchronize their data across multiple computers — Macs and PCs. And word also...
View ArticleApple Products Appear Headed for Staples' U.S. Shelves
Office products retailer Staples may soon be stocking its shelves with Apple’s products, at least according to tweets from several employees. As noted by CNET, Apple Insider and others, several Staples...
View ArticleU.S. Mac Sales Dip in June
It has been a slower summer than usual for Mac sales. According to the latest market data from NPD Group, Apple’s domestic Mac sales declined 5 percent year over year in the June quarter and 12 percent...
View ArticlePracticing Safe BYOD: Is Your Data at Risk?
Image copyright PixsoozOver the next few years, we’re going to see the ad hoc use of personal devices in the workplace transform into a cohesive, total mobile experience that unites data across every...
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