Post Tagged with: "News"

AT&T Without T-Mobile: Whither Wireless?
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AT&T Without T-Mobile: Whither Wireless?

We now know what the U.S. wireless landscape will not look like in a couple of years. The filing of U.S. v. AT&T effectively ends AT&T’s dream, tacitly shared by Verizon Wireless, of a wireless duopoly with a troubled Sprint maybe hanging on. Of course, AT&T made the obligatory noises about fighting on to win [...]

Published by on August 31, 2011 12:17 pm
Here’s a Ridiculous Idea-Split Apple in Two
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Here’s a Ridiculous Idea-Split Apple in Two

I saw a story earlier today that said that some on Wall Street have suggested that Apple should split their business in two- A Mac business and the more profitable iOS business. I normally don’t criticize my brethren on Wall Street but I have to say that this is a very dumb idea and shows [...]

Published by on August 29, 2011 3:40 am
What Does the TouchPad Fire Sale Tell Us? Not Much.
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What Does the TouchPad Fire Sale Tell Us? Not Much.

Way too much is being made of the success of Hewlett-Packard’s fire sale of TouchPad tablet, essentially the liquidation of a lot of distressed inventory.For example, this The Next Web article speculates on what TouchPad sales might mean for Amazon’s still completely notional tablet. First, let’s put the TouchPad “frenzy” in some perspective. HP, directly [...]

Published by on August 22, 2011 4:19 pm
What If Apple Puts A-Series Processors in MacBooks?
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What If Apple Puts A-Series Processors in MacBooks?

Apple Insider posted a bit of news around the rumor that someday Apple may use its own A-Series chips in products like the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. When Apple made the move to design their own ARM processor by acquiring P.A Semi and Intrinsity it became clear that using their own processors in all [...]

Published by on August 22, 2011 1:17 pm
My Advice to HP: Give All the TouchPad’s Away
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My Advice to HP: Give All the TouchPad’s Away

Shock and Bewilderment swept the industry as well as the tech journalism and blogger community yesterday. HP announced that they are not just looking to spin off their PC business but that they are also discontinuing all webOS hardware which included the HP TouchPad. It was fascinating to watch the twitter stream of people commenting [...]

Published by on August 19, 2011 3:37 am
Check Out The New Tech.pinions Recommended Reading Section
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Check Out The New Tech.pinions Recommended Reading Section

We have added a new featured section to the homepage called Recommended Reading. In this section we will link to other opinion pieces that we think are essential reads. Clicking on the the title of the article will take you directly to the original article. We hope that this section can become a quality curated [...]

Published by on August 14, 2011 8:52 am
Why iPhone Competitors Should Release Less Products
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Why iPhone Competitors Should Release Less Products

The Next Web asks an interesting question in this article titled “As Apple’s smartphone sales boom, should its rivals release fewer handsets?” As I pointed out in my article “Why it matters that Apple is the number 1 smart phone maker,” Apple only needs one product each year to dominate the smart phone market. They [...]

Published by on August 9, 2011 3:44 am
Apple and its Non-Acquisitions
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Apple and its Non-Acquisitions

Over at Technologizer, Harry McCracken has an excellent rundown on the long history of rumored acquisitions by Apple that never came to pass. Some of these hypothetical deals made at least superficial sense, most didn’t. Here’s one test to apply to any talk of an Apple deal: Margin dilution. When financial analysts talk of dilution, [...]

Published by on July 29, 2011 6:38 am
A Sure Sign of Real Trouble at RIM
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A Sure Sign of Real Trouble at RIM

The senior Research In Motion executive who chose to vent his (or her) frustration in a open letter to Boy Genius Report may not have chosen the most graceful way to make those views known. But the writer may well have exhausted other means of communications. Certainly, RIM’s response suggests strongly that the increasingly troubled [...]

Published by on June 30, 2011 9:00 pm