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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

China Unicom iPhone Sales Hit Record One Two-Hundredth of a Million

chinaiphoneWhat do you know: China Unicom just coughed up some first weekend sales numbers for the iPhone and…well, they’re not much to look at, despite what I said earlier. The carrier sold just 5,000.

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Monday, November 2, 2009

$1.9 Billion in Capex? What’s Apple Planning?

157880064_mSo6o-Th-2Here’s an interesting data point from Apple’s recent 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: The company has budgeted $1.9 billion in capital expenditures for fiscal 2010. That’s 70 percent more than the $1.1 billion it spent in 2009. What does Apple plan to do with those additional funds?

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Year of the iPhone Officially Added to Chinese Lunar Calendar

1945557Apple’s iPhone finally arrived at market in China today and is evidently selling fairly well, despite wallet-emptying prices. ChinaNews.com found about 300 people queued up to buy the device at China Unicom’s flagship store in Beijing.

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Apple Breaks Palm Pre Media Synch a Third Time

jobswpredieWhen Apple said it does not support iTunes integration with third-party digital media players, it meant it. With iTunes 9.0.2, it has once again disabled the Palm Pre’s ability to synch with the media software.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Apple Finally Gets Around to Updating Apple TV

movies_hero20091014It has been about two years since Apple last released a major firmware update for its Apple TV platform, so the release of Apple TV 3.0 today will come as welcome news to those who own the device. 3.0 is largely as rumored: Adding support for both iTunes LP and iTunes Extras.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

A Verizon iPhone? If Steve Will Ever Speak to Us Again.

vzcancel-150x150Though the iPhone-slagging ad campaign for its forthcoming Droid handset may make negotiations uncomfortable, Verizon is still very much interested in adding Apple’s iconic device to its smart-phone lineup. But if and when it does is entirely up to Apple, according to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

AT&T Activates Record 3.2 Million iPhones in Q3

happy-iphoneHow badly does AT&T want to renew its iPhone exclusivity contract with Apple? Pretty damn badly. Posting third-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street expectations this morning, AT&T said it activated a record 3.2 million iPhones during the period. Of those, 40 percent were for customers new to the carrier.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

AT&T Earnings Expected to Be Better Than Expected

imagesAT&T reports third-quarter earnings Thursday and by all accounts, they should be strong enough, thanks to the sheer size of the company’s footprint and, of course, its exclusive carrier rights to the iPhone.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Apple to Investors: You’re Welcome

aaplThe econalypse may be winding toward its end, but for Apple it evidently never even started. Shares in the company spiked more than $12, or more than six percent, to $202 in early trading Tuesday as investors celebrated another of the company’s great quarters.

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Analyst Favors iPhone Carrier Polyamory

jobs_canyouhearmenow-250x205jpgThough Verizon’s new Droid ad campaign might seem to preclude one, Apple would be wise to ink an iPhone distribution deal with the carrier–if not to hasten iPhone adoption, then to slow rivals that would supplant it. That’s the argument put forth by Piper Jaffray analyst Chris Larsen in a research note to investors Monday.

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Friday, October 16, 2009

iPhone Supply Issues Dulling Apple’s Shine?

steve_moneybags_thumbOverwhelming demand for the iPhone has made it hard for Apple to keep the device in stock globally, so much so that some observers wonder if the company’s fourth-quarter earnings might be a slight disappointment.

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Nokia Reorg Actually “Job Rotation”

51X00X3ZKSL._SL500_AA240_Nokia describes the management overhaul it’s undertaking as a common “job rotation,” but coming as it does after its lousy third-quarter financial performance and a worrisome decline in smartphone market share, it seems perhaps just a little bit more. This morning the Finnish mobile phone giant tapped Rick Simonson, currently its chief financial officer, as head of its handset division. And the company named Timo Ihamuotila, currently global head of sales, CFO.

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Monday, October 12, 2009

MacBook Pro Selling Well at Amazon and Best Buy

steve_boomApple has long been a subscriber to the underpromise-and-over-deliver school of guidance theory, so it’s not unusual to see research houses raising their guidance on the company in advance of its fourth-quarter financials. Among those doing so today: Morgan Keegan, whose Tavis McCourt says the June refresh of the MacBook Pro line and the recent launch of Snow Leopard have juiced sales at Amazon and Best Buy.

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Chinese iPhone Sales “Disappointing,” Perhaps Because iPhone Not Yet on Sale in China

dunce“Sales of iPhone through China Unicom, to state it mildly, have been disappointing. Volumes since launch have run at a fraction of stated goals.” So says Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar, who, in a research note to investors this morning, warned that Chinese sales of the iconic handset are not nearly as good as expected. Which I suppose makes perfect sense because the iPhone hasn’t yet gone on sale in China.

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Art Levinson Bails on Google Board Amid FTC Probe [UPDATED]

ArtLevinson_smFormer Genentech chairman and CEO Art Levinson has resigned from Google’s board, where he has been a director since April 2004. No reason was given for his departure, though his membership on both the Google and Apple boards, and the Federal Trade Commission inquiry into into possible implications of such dual memberships, surely played a role.

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