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  • Shares of AAPL down after the Stevenote

    Shares of AAPL down after the Stevenote

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    During the WWDC keynote today, shares of AAPL retracted lower as investors showed mixed feelings about the announcements. As of this story AAPL is down nearly 3 points, but not as bad as a few years before.

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  • BlackBerry Curve 9300 fixing to replace the 8500 series?

    BlackBerry Curve 9300 fixing to replace the 8500 series?

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    It death of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 on T-Mobile (you can still get it on AT&T, by the way) bummed us out for the simple reason that it was perhaps the best-looking BlackBerry every made. The Curve 8500 series that followed it just didn't have the same sort of sleek, high-end air about it, so we're happy to see that the 8500's follow-on should go a little ways toward closing the gap. What we're apparently looking at here is the Curve 9300, a phone that carries over the now-standard optical pad from the 8500 but uses a decidedly 8900-esque chrome surround while adding 3G and support for 802.11n, a feature it shares with the Pearl 3G. What keeps the 9300 on the low end of the spectrum, though, is its screen -- it's apparently just QVGA, and we're a little discouraged that the leaked unit here isn't running BlackBerry 6 -- but you get what you pay for, right?

    BlackBerry Curve 9300 fixing to replace the 8500 series? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • TiVo Responds To Court’s Decision To Revisit Patent Case As Stock Plummets

    TiVo Responds To Court’s Decision To Revisit Patent Case As Stock Plummets

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    TiVo is having a very rough morning. A federal appeals court stated today that it will revisit a digital-video recorder patent dispute between TiVo and both Dish Network and EchoStar. TiVo has sued the companies back in 2004 over its patented DVR technology back when the two were still a single company. They won the suit, but the court has now decided to reconsider its verdict, which is a bit of a cold shower for the company. Today's decision pushed TiVo shares down as much as 36 percent.

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  • Rumor: Apple Thinking About Buying ARM. iPhone Rivals To Sleep With The Fishes?

    Rumor: Apple Thinking About Buying ARM. iPhone Rivals To Sleep With The Fishes?

    Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
    The following is very much a rumor, but if true, it would be absolutely huge. A UK publication is reporting that Apple is considering buying ARM Holdings -- aka, the company behind most of the world's mobile phone processors. If Apple were to buy them, it would likely reshape the mobile landscape completely. To be clear, London's Evening Standard is only citing "gossips" within the city's financial district. But those gossips aren't the only ones convinced there is something to this talk: ARM's shares went up 8.1 points today, with more than 5 million shares changing hands by midday, the paper reports. The deal, would apparently see Apple buying ARM for something in the neighborhood of 5.2 billion British pounds, or roughly $8 billion in U.S. dollars.

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  • Palm now worth nothing

    Palm now worth nothing

    Posted on March 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Woof. Analysts have placed a sell rating on Palm and are now valuing their stock, at least in hyperbolic terms, at $0. Quoth CNN:
    Shares of Palm (PALM) plunged 19% to $4.59 a share early Friday, a new 52-week low. Investors are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the company's future and several analysts downgraded their positions on the stock to "sell." Two analysts even lowered their price targets to $0.

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  • Review: Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station

    Review: Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station

    Posted on March 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Short Version: We now have so much storage in our homes that we could probably, each of us, start our own Rapidshare service. But how do we get all that data to the other machines on our network or, better yet, out onto the Internet? Devices like the Iomega iConnect allow us to place storage [...]

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  • Nippon Oil and Hitachi aim at mass-producing microbe-derived biofuel

    Nippon Oil and Hitachi aim at mass-producing microbe-derived biofuel

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Major Japanese oil wholesaler Nippon Oil and Hitachi subsidiary Hitachi Plant Technologies are developing a technology that's supposed to make it possible to mass-produce eco-friendly jet fuel from Euglena, single-celled organisms that live in ponds and lakes. To be more exact, both companies are cooperating with and acquired shares in a Tokyo-based venture called Euglena, Inc., which is trying to find a way to extract oil from these organisms to produce fuel.

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  • Finally: Panasonic to convert Sanyo into 100% subsidiary next month

    Finally: Panasonic to convert Sanyo into 100% subsidiary next month

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | No Comments
    The deal has been in the making for months now, but yesterday Panasonic finally announced a tender offer for Sanyo Electric, paving the way to convert Sanyo into a wholly owned subsidiary as early as the middle of next month.

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  • Nokia posts first quarterly loss in a decade and why it matters

    Nokia posts first quarterly loss in a decade and why it matters

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Nokia's shares are down 6.02 percent today on news that Nokia suffered an $834 million loss due to falling handset sales. In this environment it's easy to wave this away as a crisis blip but there may be something more afoot. Nokia blamed the loss on component shortages, a valid concern. Apple has been buying up all the flash it can eat and companies like LG and Samsung are blowing out feature phones to directly compete with Nokia's lower-end models faster than anyone thought possible.

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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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  • The iPod, As We Know It, Is Dying

    The iPod, As We Know It, Is Dying

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    During its quarterly earnings call today, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer focused a lot of attention on what the company is now calling its "pocket products." That is, the iPhone, the iPod touch and the iPod. You'll notice that Apple has taken to separating out the iPod touch from the rest of the iPod line. And that makes sense, given it shares many more similarities with the iPhone. But it's also for another reason: The iPod, as we know it, is dying. Of the three pocket products, two saw huge year-over-year growth this quarter, one did not. While iPhone sales grew a massive 626% year-over-year, iPod touch sales actually grew just about 130% too. And while Apple may consider the iPod touch outside of the iPod line, for financial purposes, it's still counted with them. So when you hear that overall the iPod family saw a 7% decline year over year, you know that the actual iPod numbers minus the iPod touch, must not be very good at all.

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  • Swedish software firm acquires The Pirate Bay for $7.7 Million

    Swedish software firm acquires The Pirate Bay for $7.7 Million

    Posted on June 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X this morning announced it has agreed to buy file-sharing service The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns (which currently converts to approx. $7.7 million). In addition, GGF has entered into an agreement to acquire the shares in Peerialism, a software technology company that develops solutions for data distribution and distributed storage based on new p2p technology. The transaction is scheduled to be closed in August 2009. Update: The Pirate Bay has confirmed the news (see their commentary below).

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  • Apple nearly triples stake in UK chip maker Imagination Technologies

    Apple nearly triples stake in UK chip maker Imagination Technologies

    Posted on June 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Apple is nearly tripling its stake in UK-based Imagination Technologies, boosting its interest to 9.5 percent with the purchase of 2.2 million new shares at £1.4275 ($2.35 million) each - the mid market close price on 25 June - and another 11.52 million shares. In total, Apple is spending £3.14 million (approx. $5.17 million) for the new shares, exactly the same amount it paid last December when it purchased a 3.6 percent stake in the microchip maker.

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