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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Apple Alumni Association of Palm, Inc. Announces New Member

apple_palm_logoPalm has added another Apple alum to its employee roster. Jeff Zwerner, who did stints at Apple as both senior art director and creative director for packaging, has signed on at Palm as senior vice president of brand design.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

iPhone Claims 32 Percent of Handset Industry Operating Profits

steveingotWith the iPhone, Apple is doing to the handset industry what it has done to the PC industry with the Mac: Claiming an inordinate share of profits relative to revenue. Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi estimates that Apple, though it is only the fifth-largest handset vendor, claimed nearly a third of handset industry profits in the first half of 2009.

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Google CEO Bails on Apple Board

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Psystar: The Roughest, Toughest, Hackintosh Stuffest Hombré That’s Ever Crossed the Rio Grande

yosemitesam Interesting turn of events in the Apple-Psystar spat. The Mac clone maker has hired a new law firm in its battle against Apple’s copyright-infringement suit. Why? “Psystar has always been more a Cowboy than a Hippie,” the company said. “Now we’ve changed lawyers to better reflect who we are.”

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Microsoft Tweaks Laptop Hunter Ads

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Laptop Punters

lauren-2Microsoft COO Kevin Turner must be so disappointed. Remarking on the company’s “PC Hunter” ad campaign last week, Turner said he’d been ebullient when attorneys for Apple called to complain. But now the company has quietly modified the ad in question to address Apple’s complaints.

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Microsoft Misses

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Apple Defies Recession

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iPhone 3GS Now Available in Federal-Reserve-Note Green

Demand for Apple’s iPhone 3GS, which topped one million handsets sold in its first weekend at market, has surpassed even the company’s presumably aggressive targets. Reporting earnings Tuesday, Apple said it sold 5.2 million iPhones in its third quarter and finally copped to something that’s long been apparent to anyone who’s been keeping an eye on its iPhone availability widget: Demand for the new iPhone 3GS is far outpacing supply.

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Q3 Apple Earnings: Hold and Wait for the Boom

steve_boomWell, nobody is buying Apple’s conservative estimates for this quarter. Certainly not after the release of the latest Mac sales data from NPD Group this morning. Analysts had been calling for Apple to sell 2.45 million Macs in its third quarter. Instead, NPD says the company sold approximately 2.6 million.

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Mac Shipments Up. Also, Mac Shipments Down.

confused-apeDomestic Mac shipments for the second quarter of 2009 rose to 1.422 million, a 2.5 percent year-over-year increase. Or, they fell to 1.2 million, a decline of 12.4 percent. All depends on whom you believe, Gartner or IDC.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

SEC Won’t Let Steve Be

stevewtfWhat happened between Apple’s January 5 disclosure of Steve Jobs’s “hormonal imbalance” and the company’s January 14 announcement that the CEO would be taking a six-month leave of absence? That’s the focus of an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission probe into Steve Jobs’s health, an investigation that seems to, well, be going nowhere.

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Sony Apparently Recovering From Netbookaphobia

vaiowIf the netbook market is a race to the bottom, then Sony is bringing up the rear. Not a year after Sony execs disparaged netbooks as undeserving of its premium brand attention, the company announced its token entry into the market: the Vaio W.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Gmail Exits Beta

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Analyst: 750,000 iPhones Sold Last Weekend

750kiphonePiper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster was right. The iPhone 3GS didn’t sell as well as the iPhone 3G did during its launch weekend last year. But it did quite a bit better than he thought. In an investment note issued this morning, Munster estimated the company sold 750,000 iPhones over the weekend.

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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