Last Quarter Archive

  • McAfee Q3 2011 Threats Report Shows 2011 on Target to Be the Busiest in Mobile Malware History

    McAfee Q3 2011 Threats Report Shows 2011 on Target to Be the Busiest in Mobile Malware History

    Posted on November 21, 2011 | No Comments
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  • McAfee Shares Vision for Bringing Mobile Devices into the Security Infrastructure

    Posted on September 20, 2011 | No Comments
    SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–McAfee today shared its vision for securing mobile devices in corporate environments. The three-pronged approach for protecting mobile devices, mobile data, and mobile applications, is designed to help...

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  • McAfee Q2 2011 Threats Report Shows Significant Growth for Malware on Mobile Platforms

    Posted on August 23, 2011 | No Comments
    SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–McAfee today released the McAfee Threats Report: Second Quarter 2011, showing that the amount of malware targeted at Android devices jumped...

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  • The real reason Android is outselling the iPhone: Android is everywhere

    The real reason Android is outselling the iPhone: Android is everywhere

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    As usual, good old Harry "Unleash" McCracken hits the nail on the head. Last quarter, US sales of Android phones beat the iPhone by about 7 percent with BlackBerry holding onto a 15% lead. OMG! Everybody panic. The real reason, as Harry points out, is that Android is everywhere. The Droid is taking off and is surprisingly cheap - Amazon has them for $20 - and all carriers have an Android phone. Only one carrier has the iPhone and it's the "bad" one, yet the iPhone still rules consistently hits the 20% mark in terms of market share. Pretty impressive for one handset on a carrier much maligned in the media and blogosphere, right?

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  • Apple beats Moto

    Apple beats Moto

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Well if that don't beat all. Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones while Motorola sold 8.5 million last quarter. The crazy part is that those are all, obviously, iPhones while Motorola's entire line consists of smart and feature phones. Including Droid and Devour. 9to5 notes:
    Apple has eclipsed Motorola as the biggest mobile phone maker in the US, while fresh research tells us iPhone-driven global smartphone sales grew 50 per cent in the first quarter. Meanwhile, over half a million iPhones sold in just five months in South Korea.

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  • Apple sold 8.75 million iPhones last quarter, 51.15 million since launch

    Apple sold 8.75 million iPhones last quarter, 51.15 million since launch

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Aaaand the iPhone continues to print money. Fresh out of their earnings report, Apple has just announced that they managed to push roughly 8.75 million iPhones out the door in the second fiscal quarter of 2010 (January to March).

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  • PC sales are finally recovering

    PC sales are finally recovering

    Posted on April 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Someone is buying computers. Connecticut-based research firm Gartner said PC shipments are up 27% to 84.3 million units in the first quarter, surpassing most analysts' estimates. Helped by sales of all-in-one designs and touch screen displays, it seems the PC market has bounced back from the year-earlier period when sales dropped almost 7 percent to the lowest levels since 2001. Intel, which recently reported strong earnings for the quarter, forecasted a rise in sales and a rebound in technology spending. Sales in emerging markets played a key role in this recovery.

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  • Palm: We coulda been a contender

    Palm: We coulda been a contender

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    In Greek tragedy, the flaw of hubris was the decisive plot point that brought down many great men. Palm, then, is the Oedipus of a modern tragedy, their efforts to rebuild hampered by a failure to see past their own greatness and a refusal to enter the market on the market's terms. To be honest, I was a Palm fan, then I wasn't a Palm fan, and now am part of the chorus of voices bemoaning the lowly state to which the company has been thrust. Palm recently reported $349 million in revenue with a third quarter loss of $102.8 million. Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein said:
    "If we could have launched at Verizon prior to the Droid, I think we would have gotten the attention the Droid got. And since I believe we have a better product, I think we could have even done better."

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  • Google: Android now shipping on 60,000 handsets per day

    Google: Android now shipping on 60,000 handsets per day

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    We’re in Barcelona keeping an eye on Eric Schmidt’s Mobile World Congress keynote, where the Google CEO just disclosed an interesting fact: Google and their hardware partners are now shipping 60,000 Android handsets each day. Whether “shipped” here means “sold to end users” or “ordered by retailers” is unclear – but regardless, it’s quite the [...]

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  • Sony returns to black in last quarter, sees signs of hope for the future

    Sony returns to black in last quarter, sees signs of hope for the future

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony hasn't been able to report good news on the financial front for quite some time, but now it looks like things changed to the better. The company today said ["Sony Global Earnings Releases" in English] in Tokyo it returned to the black in the October-December quarter (Sony's fiscal year ends March 31) with a handsome $1.6 billion operating profit. This is Sony's first operating profit in five quarters, after CEO Howard Stringer (pictured) reduced the global workforce by 20,000 heads, freezed wages, closed 18% of all plants and cut fixed costs along all business lines. For the same quarter the previous year, Sony logged a $197 million operating loss.

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  • PC shipments up 15 percent last quarter (but none of those are the Apple tablet so whatever)

    PC shipments up 15 percent last quarter (but none of those are the Apple tablet so whatever)

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    There was plenty of talk ever since Lehman Brothers exploded in mid-2008 about how would consumers cope. Would they keep buying widgets in the face of insane job cuts? Would they keep buying, but only at a fraction of what they had in the past? Let's take PC sales, a pretty good barometer of where the average person is. (It's a big purchase, but not like buying a car or house.) Shipments of new PCs jumped 15 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. That's worldwide, by the way, and much higher than the people who expect things expected. This is good news.

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  • Palm loses $85.4 million in latest reported quarter — hey, it’s an improvement

    Palm loses $85.4 million in latest reported quarter — hey, it’s an improvement

    Posted on December 17, 2009 | No Comments
    We don't know just how quickly Palm (or Elevation Partners, for that matter) thought it'd become profitable following the release of webOS, but it's not there quite yet -- the company is in the process of outing its earnings for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 right now, and in a word, they're still in the red. The good news is that it's a marked improvement from last quarter -- they've gone from a $164.5M GAAP net loss to an $85.4M one this time around. On a non-GAAP gross basis, they actually made $5.5M, which is up from $2.8M a quarter earlier. They've got $590 million in cash and other "short-term investments" on the book right now, which seems like it should be enough to keep the company going without a profit or additional cash infusion for at least a few additional quarters, but then again, burn rate is going to vary with just how much hardware and software R&D they're doing and the kinds of carrier deals they're scoring. We bet they're looking forward to this Verizon business going down, eh?

    Update: Palm's specifically saying that they're looking to grow carrier and geographic coverage right now -- a good plan, if we say so ourselves.

    Update 2: They've sold 784,000 phones in the quarter, which compares to 823,000 in the last -- a 5 percent drop. That's up 41 percent from the same quarter a year ago... but yeah, of course it's going to be way up from the pre-webOS days.

    Update 3: Over 800 apps in the catalog so far, once they graduate from the Early Access Program exclusivity, Palm foresees a "flood" of apps. No plans right now to change SDK strategy to a more native development environment.

    Palm loses $85.4 million in latest reported quarter -- hey, it's an improvement originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Sad-Eyed TiVo of the Low Subscriber Rate

    Sad-Eyed TiVo of the Low Subscriber Rate

    Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Tivo-Subscribers-1009-590x472And… it's… outta here. TiVo is down to less than three million subscribers and they sold about 500 DVRs a day last quarter, giving it 8% of the 38 million US DVR market. That's not much. TVByTheNumbers has the numbers. They're down 314,000 subscribers to 2.76 million and lost 146,000 last quarter. Rough stuff.

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  • Numark announces NSFX for NS7 to use with ITCH by DJs. They also run out of capital letters.

    Numark announces NSFX for NS7 to use with ITCH by DJs. They also run out of capital letters.

    Posted on October 3, 2009 | No Comments
    DJs have been using double turntable setups ever since 1947 with Sir Jimmy Savile. Modern setups, however, forgo the vinyl and even CDs. One such computer-performance system is the Numark NS7 Controller for Serato’s ITCH software. The NS7 gives DJs the feel of a traditional turntable rig, while functioning as a controller for ITCH. A single [...]

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  • Apple Shares App Store Stats: 85k Apps Available, 2 Billion Downloads So Far

    Apple Shares App Store Stats: 85k Apps Available, 2 Billion Downloads So Far

    Posted on September 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Apple has announced that the App Store for the iPhone / iPod Touch has now seen more than 2 billion downloads of applications, with a half billion programs in the last quarter alone. In addition, the company revealed that the total number of apps in the store currently exceeds 85,000, and that they are now available to more than 50 million customers in 77 countries.

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