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  • Analyst: PS3 to win over Xbox 360 and Wii

    Analyst: PS3 to win over Xbox 360 and Wii

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Technology analyst firm Strategy Analytics just announced their latest forecast: Sony's Playstation 3 will will outsell the Wii and Xbox 360 by the time they all end their product cycle. Say what?

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  • Analyst: iPad could be delayed until April

    Analyst: iPad could be delayed until April

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    It begins: Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek is harshing on all our buzzes by announcing that according to an unidentified source at Hon Hai Precision, a CE manufacturer, the iPad could be delated until April. The source said that there were only 300K units available for a March launch, which may put a damper on what we're calling iPad Awareness Month. He expects Apple to sell about 1.2 million units in 2010 and 3.5 million in 2011.

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  • SSD sales up last year, despite recession

    SSD sales up last year, despite recession

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    So it wasn't all bleak last year, SSD manufacturers experienced a 14% increase in sales, along with a total of over 11 million drives sold. That's a whole lot of memory chips.

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  • AT&T needs to spend $5 Billion to catch up

    AT&T needs to spend $5 Billion to catch up

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    With all the crap that’s gone on (and still going on) between AT&T and Verizon, it’s safe to say that this is the last thing AT&T wanted to come out. According to a study that just came out, AT&T would have to spend approximately $5 billion US to get their network to the same level [...]

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  • Analyst noise: Apple tablet in March for $1k, publishers on-board, Verizon iPhone coming too

    Analyst noise: Apple tablet in March for $1k, publishers on-board, Verizon iPhone coming too

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    If you've been following mainstream news today, then it's likely you've seen the story doing the rounds on new Apple tablet rumors, spurred by a note sent to clients from Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner. Never heard of him? That's not surprising, since he has no real connection to Apple, and his job mainly consists of telling people how to move their money around -- a Master of the Universe gear-cranker, you might say. Anyhow, Yair is sure that Apple will be releasing its 10.1-inch, multitouch tablet around March or April, with a ramp-up on production sometime in February. He also notes that the device will sell for $1,000 (so far we've heard rumored price points from $699 all the way up to $2,000), but ultimately Reiner seems most concerned with how it will impact Amazon, the Kindle, and book and media publishers.

    According to the note, Apple has been in talks with publishers concerning a "very attractive proposal" in which the company will split revenue with publishing houses 70 / 30, as they do with iTunes and App Store sales (just as we speculated in our post on the Time Inc. digimag). What's most disconcerting about the report is that it seems more interested in disrupting or dismissing what Amazon is doing (particularly noteworthy as the company is in the midst of its biggest season for Kindle sales ever). When financial analysts start squawking in this manner, we like to approach with caution. As of right now, we have zero solid evidence that Apple is even producing a tablet, let alone ready to drop one for a G come March. We have heard plenty of other rumors that corroborate much of this, but if the above is the plan, you can expect a big reveal from Cupertino around the time of Macworld or CES, so you won't have to wait long to know the truth. For now, keep your BS detectors set to "stun."

    P.S.: See what we mean? Now a Piper Jaffray analyst is 70 percent certain (70 percent!) that Apple will introduce an iPhone for Verizon in 2010. Hold onto your hats folks, we've only just begun.

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  • Turns out you really, really, like your television provider

    Turns out you really, really, like your television provider

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Last year, overall satisfaction with television providers was at the lowest level in 5 years. It seems however, that when J.D. Power tells the providers that they suck, they listen. And now, they seem to have actually turned it around.

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  • Analysts say wireless charging is pointless without super capacitors

    Analysts say wireless charging is pointless without super capacitors

    Posted on August 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Well, despite the fact that the wireless charging system for the Palm Pre is popular and functional, the analysts at Strategy Analytics say that it's pointless. Come again?

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