Japan’s Toshiba Corp. thinks it has identified a new class of device, a multipurpose mobile computer, that is a fully functional personal computer and an e-reader. To meet that demand, Toshiba has announced a…
It is hard to tell why anyone would want an e-reader that only works with WiFi, but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) believes that there is a market. The faltering bricks-and-mortar constrained firm says…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) CEO Sir Howard Stringer spends his time jet setting among his offices and homes in Tokyo, New York, and his native Wales. Sony has lost money two years in a row…
Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK) makes and sells more handsets than any other company in the world. The company faces two problems. First, it doesn’t compete well against high-end smartphones from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Research in…
After fumbling around in the feature phone business for the past couple of years, Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is now struggling with something else — success. Its Droid phone, which uses the Android operating system…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is a lost company by the count of many investors. Gone are the hay-day gains of the company with new PC’s selling like hotcakes as everyone in America started to…
There are many estimates of the size of the e-reader market and which companies have the most market share. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) claims it has sold “millions of Kindles” and that the device is…
Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that sales of its iPad tablet have gone above tw0 million less than 60 days after the product was launched on April 3. Late last week, the company released…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has begun to sell its highly successful iPad in Asia. The company shipped one million units in the first month it was sold in the US. There was a shortage…
Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL), usually late to market with new products such as handsets and netbooks, will challenge Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) with a new tablet PC. It is called the Streak. The fist…
It is not certain that consumers and businesses want faster and faster PCs, especially notebooks which are often used for simple e-mail and web surfing, tasks which can also be done on most smartphones.…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) reported earnings after the close, and shares are retreating away from any endorsement of Dell over rival Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ). The PC-maker said earnings were 0.22 GAAP EPS but…
A chart of the shares of the large diversified tech companies’ stocks- IBM (NYSE: IBM), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)– against monoline tech companies Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), VMware (NYSE:…
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) keeps beating and raising estimates. The PC and technology giant just reported earnings of $1.09 in non-GAAP EPS on revenues of $30.85 billion. Thomson Reuters had estimates at $1.05 EPS…
What exactly is that device that you can hold in your hand and use to read a book, surf the web, and send an email or text message? Industry analysis firm IDC is beginning…