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...
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Microsoft "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...
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Apple 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...
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Wonder 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...
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Apple'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...
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Apple’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...
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February 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...
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Apple'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...
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Apple 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...
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Google 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...
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A 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...
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Counting 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....
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