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Bing and Blackberry: Friends Forever!

May 4, 2011

How does it go? The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Two drunks trying to hold each other up? I don’t know. But Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer announced at the BlackberryWorld conference that Bing would become the default search engine on Research In Motion’s (RIMM) Blackberry devices. This isn’t terribly exciting news for either [...]

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Why the Wall Street Journal is Wrong About Microsoft

May 2, 2011

Hi y’all, I published a new article over at SeekingAlpha discussing why the Wall Street Journal is wrong about Microsoft. Check it out.

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iPhone, Android Still Rule While BlackBerry Falters

April 29, 2011

Just a heads up! I have a new article up at Minyanville discussing yesterday’s vital smartphone-industry news. Here’s an excerpt: On February 7th, IDC reported that smartphone shipments surpassed PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011, marking an important first for the mobile-computing industry. Then in late March, IDC said it expected the smartphone market to [...]

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iPad has 95% of the Tablet Market

November 2, 2010

Now this isn’t much of a surprise – market-research firm Strategy Analytics just came out and said that Apple’s (AAPL) iPad now has 95% of the tablet market. This isn’t much of a surprise. We hear an awful lot of talk about competing tablets, but I’ve only seen one in the wild so far. That [...]

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Android Market Share Skyrocketing, NPD Says

November 1, 2010

NPD just released its Q3 2010 smartphone market-share numbers, and one thing’s for certain: Google’s (GOOG) Android OS really is taking over. During Q3, 44% of all smartphones purchased in the US were powered by Android. That’s up from 33% in Q2. No, that’s not a typo. Android actually did gain 11 points of share [...]

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Motorola Tops Estimates – Will It Last?

October 28, 2010

Motorola (MOT) delivered much better-than-expected Q3 earnings numbers this morning, sending the stock up 5% to $8.4o in pre-market trading. Motorola is riding high on its wave of its successful Droid brand of smartphones, all of whom run Google’s (GOOG) red-hot Android operating system. However, I’m not wondering how long its success can last. Samsung, [...]

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Belated Macbook Air Reaction

October 27, 2010

I’ve had some time to digest the new Macbook Air, and hot damn, Apple (AAPL) just ruined life for the old-school Windows PC makers one more time. The old Macbook Air was way overpriced and way underpowered. However, the new models start at just $999 and scream performance-wise due to their fast solid-state drives. Start-up [...]

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PC’s Still Stink: Seagate Misses

October 21, 2010

(image courtesy of Seagate) I’m still a major PC-industry bear, and my negative view was only reinforced by hard-drive maker Seagate’s (STX) earnings miss yesterday. Seagate’s Q1 EPS number came in a 37 cents, missing the consensus forecast by 8 cents. Gross margins were an anemic 20.4%, well-below the company’s prior expectations of 22-26%. Now, [...]

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iOS + Snow Leopard = Mac OS X Lion

October 20, 2010

Okay, so Apple (AAPL) didn’t actually put iOS in the new Macbook Air. It did the next best thing – it married iOS with Snow Leopard and turned it into Mac OS X Lion! We don’t have all the details on OS X Lion just yet, but we do know that it getting some iPad-style [...]

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Verizon to Sell Samsung Galaxy

October 20, 2010

The Apple (AAPL) iPad won’t be the only tablet computer that Verizon (VZ) pushes. Verizon Wireless said today that it will being selling the Samsung Galaxy tablet on November 11th for $600. This does not bode well for the Galaxy. The entry-level iPad sells for just $500, and has a much bigger and thus more-impressive [...]

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