An Australian court has ruled in favor of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in a patent dispute with Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF). Apple won an injunction preventing Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet…
There are news reports that Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may not spin off its large PC business. The business is a financial drag on the company’s prospects. HP will be hurt if a spin-off or…
The death of Steve Jobs is a loss for the world of technology and innovation. How many guys could make a computing device or a piece of consumer electronics a major fashion statement? You…
Several analysts who track consumer electronics sales say that sales of the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Fire are already into the hundreds of thousands. The 7-inch tablet may not be the flagship of the…
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) has some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that it is going to miss its third quarter sales and income targets. The good news is…
Monday’s news that J.P. Morgan was lowering some orders from Asia in channel checks on the iPad for the quarter was met with some clarification inside J.P. Morgan itself and other research outfits have…
Just last week we noted a new study from the Gartner Group Inc. (NYSE: IT) that the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) looked set to dominate the tablet market until at least 2015. …
It is old news that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sells more iPads by a huge margin than any rival can sell other tablet PCs. Apple is so successful that it is almost unfair. New research…
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is a company that most Americans have historically used for auto navigation. Now that smartphones have taken over much of that market for free or nearly free, Garmin has been…
DRAM price trends were not exactly going that great for chip makers this summer. It was brutal. Now we are seeing some production cuts, so even if demand is slack this is offering some…
Smartphone adoption in the US market has reached 35% of US adult mobile phone users, and 42% of all mobile phone owners. In Europe’s five leading markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK),…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is going to try to be a bit opportunistic, but this time in buying its own stock on the cheap. The PC giant (and IT-services player) has authorized a share…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been one of our dividend offenders for quite some time, but it is hard to argue that the company’s equity-investor strategy has been wrong. After all, its stock has…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has so far refused to succumb to the economic slowdown in the same manner as other technology companies. Even the threat of a long-term brain drain is not changing the…
The predictions that the PC era is coming to an end are supported almost every time an important piece of research on the industry is released. Research firm Gartner has issued its new forecasts…