Website Gizmodo is reporting that the Apple iPod’s ability to "automatically rotate from portrait to landscape mode depending on how you hold it" is a function that was patented by Sony Ericsson (SNE)(ERIC) in…
LoopRumors is convinced that Apple has a very big announcement in the offing. Word is that it could be a wide screen/touch screen video iPod or an announcement with the Beatles. The International Business…
Sometimes companies appear to make announcements simply for the sake of getting press. That would appear to be the case with a new partnership between Amazon (AMZN) and Tivo (TIVO). The two companies have…
Apple’s (AAPL-NASDAQ) Steve Jobs’ call for dropping DRM (digital rights management) online is something that while it sounds great, is likely not realistic. The music industry has fought this on and on and on…
Steve Jobs. What a guy. Let all music downloaded over the internet be free of digital rights management. Those nasty record companies don’t want their content stolen. Job’s reasoning is perverse. Since CDs don’t…
The torpedoes from Ninendo’s Wii ran true. According to Reuters, Wii outsold Sony (SNE) Playstation 3 in Japan last month by a margin of 3-to-1. Reuters quotes the largest game magazine outfit Enterbrain in…
Eastman Kodak (EK) is coming out with a new printer. On paper, it looks unbelievable. The ink stays vibrant for 100 years instead of the normal decade or so. Ink cartridges are cheap. The…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Dell should abandon direct sales model – vnunet.com Michael Dell’s return as the chief executive of Dell could mark the entry of the computer maker into…
The news that UBS thinks XM Radio (XMSR) will end 2007 with only 9.1 million subscribers must be depressing for owners of the stock and its rival Sirius (SIRI). That would put it growth…
By Chad Brand of The Peridot Capiltalist The news that founder Michael Dell is coming back to lead his company again is quite interesting. Normally, a CEO change alone wouldn’t totally alter an investment…
Michael Dell, one of the world’s richest men, decided to cut bonuses for most of the people at the PC firm who would have been candidates to get them for 2006. Many will get…
Disney (DIS), which has close ties to Apple (AAPL) due to Mr. Job’s presence on the entertainment company’s board, has gotten 1.3 million movie downloads through the iTune service. These movies are played on…
Michael Dell has not even had the time to put the CEO title on his business cards and he is greeted with a shareholder suit that alleged funny accounting between Dell (DELL) and its…
Stock Tickers: DELL, HPQ After the news of Michael Dell taking full control back from Rollins by re-assuming the CEO role, it wasn’t just a "that’s great for DELL holders" thought that prevailed. There…
Lenovo, the big Chinese PC company that owns the old IBM (IBM) PC business had mediocre earnings. Revenue was flat at $4 billion. But, the company did well in it home market. Outside China,…