Two years ago, GPS products cost more than $1,000. Car companies charged as much as $2,500 for the systems. Tom Tom and Garmin (GRMN) stocks hit remarkably high levels on demand for GPS devices…
Microsoft (MSFT) believes, almost certainly, that the future of its operating software and search business is as much if not more on wireless portable devices as it is on the PC where the market…
Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ) is just about done. This morning came the final announcement which we have been expecting for longer than imaginable. We named CEO Mike Zafirovski as one of our Top CEOs…
Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) made our volume spike alert this morning based on last night’s dismal earnings results. But after a deeper look, there is an old reminder here that might need…
Networking giant Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has just posted its quarterly earnings for its fiscal year end 2009. It posted $0.31 non-GAAP EPS and $8.5 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had the estimates…
RIM (RIMM) has come up with a way to take market share from Apple (AAPL) and Palm (PALM) in the smart phone market. It is launching the BlackBerry 8520, a handset that will be…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to report earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. Be advised that estimates could change ever so slightly before the formal number if there are any last…
Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has been a troubled handset and communications and networking equipment provider for what is becoming longer than memory cares to record. Its restructuring plans have never seemed to end in…
Nortel Networks Corporation (OTCBB: NRTLQ) is still alive. Sort of. The bankrupt telecom and communications networking equipment provider has announced that the company, its Nortel Networks Limited, and the other Canadian subsidiaries that filed…
These are the top upgrades, downgrades, and new coverage calls from Wall Street analysts in technology and telecom this Thursday morning: Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) Cut to Hold at Jefferies; Cut to to Neutral…
It turns out the Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) has a solid value after all. Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) has decided to acquire Virgin Mobile USA. The total equity value of the merger…
AT&T (T) appropriately makes the point that its earnings now are driven by its cellular business and its new fiber broadband. The company now has 79.6 million wireless subscribers. The Apple (AAPL) iPhone is…
AT&T’s (T) wireless, broadband, and U-verse TV subscription businesses all did well in the second quarter. Buried a bit deep in the press release about earnings was the fact that AT&T had 46.3 million total…
QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) has just posted $0.54 non-GAAP EPS on $2,75 billion in revenues versus the Thomson Reuters targets of $0.52 EPS and $2.73 billion in revenues. Unfortunately, the company’s effective tax rate…
Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader has access to the Internet through the Sprint (S) network. The e-commerce firm’s rival, Barnes & Noble (BKS), has done the Kindle one better. It will connect to the…