Most investors would assume that the only handset companies to post increases in unit sales last quarter are Apple (AAPL) and RIM (RIMM). Those two high-end handset companies are damaging the market share opportunities of Sony Ericsson,…
Wall St. analysts expect Apple’s earnings to do better than estimates. This is not surprising. Apple (AAPL) has a history of setting low expectations about its figures and then beating them handily. It has…
If you can imagine it, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has actually performed well off its lows. But it has also performed well enough that Goldman Sachs is downgrading the troubled handset maker. The $7.00 price…
Nokia (NOK) posted poor earnings, but handset sales rose to 103 units, up 11% from the immediately previous quarter. Revenue dropped 25% to 9,9 billion euros. Net income was down 73% to 287 million…
Analysts in the United States are already saying that sales of the Palm (PALM) Pre by exclusive distributor Sprint (S) are starting to slow. Fortunately for Palm shareholders, the handset company has already found…
What started as a qu ery to the FCC last month by Sen. John Kerry, (D-Mass.), and a handful of other senators asking whether exclusive deals between carriers and cell phone makers stifle competition…
Pre sales have to keep a very brisk pace for Palm (PALM) to continue its turnaround. Many experts believe that consumers will make a decision to buy the Pre in lieu of the Apple…
Software is supposed to be a high margin business and hardware a sector in which most companies struggle with gross margins. Hardware components are expensive and there is almost no getting around that. Apple…
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has been one of 2009’s top performers due to the anticipation of the Palm Pre smartphone this month. The company’s earnings are out and it has shares marginally higher. The…
If you can believe it, an analyst is raising the rating on Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT). It is not even a boutique brokerage firm. Bank of America Merrill Lynch has raised its official rating…
Intel (INTC) means to push deeply into the mobile chip market. That is bad news for the two companies that own most of the territory now–TI (TXN) and Qualcomm (QCOM). Intel is the largest…
Apple (AAPL) sold more than one million of its new iPhones over the weekend. The costs of those handsets could have been $300 million, and that does not include the two-year calling plan from…
Yahoo! (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) actually have something to worry about, if Steve Ballmer is not bluffing. The Microsoft (MSFT) CEO says that he company is prepared to spend 5% to 10% of its…
Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) report its highly awaited earnings today. The BlackBerry maker posted $0.98 EPS and $3.42 billion in revenues. The Thomson Reuters estimate was $0.94 EPS on $3.42 billion in revenues and…
Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today. This will be a key report that can impact rivals such as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Nokia (NYSE: NOK),…