Time to Stoke Those Kindle Fire Sales Estimates

Some 5.5 million in Q4, says Barclays. By the way: Has anyone seen one of these in the wild?
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Kindle Fire Won’t Cool Off iPad Sales

Will Apple’s December quarter still bring an all-time record for iPad sales?
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Further Delays for RIM’s QNX Smartphones?

First quarter of 2012 looking like a bit of a long shot.
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If YouTube Is Doing $1.6 Billion a Year, Why Does It Need Hollywood?

A new guesstimate gives Google’s video site a staggering 80 percent of the Web’s video revenue. So if that’s true, why chase “channels”?
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Will Apple Pump Cash Into Cloud Control?

More than $7 billion in nonretail capital expenditures next year is a big spike; a significant share could be headed into iCloud.
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Nokia’s Lumia: New Dawn or Dawn of the Dead?

Is Nokia’s Lumia a serious contender or “worryingly uncompetitive?”
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A More Modest Amazon Tablet Guess: Two Million in 2011

Last month, Forrester started the bidding on Amazon tablet predictions and guessed that Jeff Bezos could move three to five million by the end of this year. Today Barclays analyst Anthony DiClemente offers a more modest forecast: He thinks Amazon will sell two million seven-inch Android tablets this year. But he thinks that number will jump to 6.4 million in 2012, and that Amazon will also sell another 1.5 million units of a 10-inch model he predicts will show up next year. Context: Barclays predicts Apple will sell 48.7 million iPads in 2012.

Hey, Guess What Happens to Advertising if the Economy Tanks

Here’s some unpleasant deja vu: Summer’s over, the economy is wobbling, and analysts are starting to hack away at advertising forecasts.
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Tablet Market Booms as More Also-Rans Chase Apple

While there don’t seem to be any new winners beyond Apple’s first-to-market device, there are enough competitors (and losers) to force Wall Street to raise its tablet forecasts on their sheer number alone.
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It's Business Time for Apple's iPad

Though there’s no dedicated salesforce selling it in the enterprise market, Apple’s iPad has gained significant traction there. Since its debut, more than 65 percent of the Fortune 100 have deployed or piloted the device. If Apple’s not pushing the iPad into the enterprise market, how is it getting there?
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FaceTime: Apple’s Killer App?

About That Advertising Comeback…

No Verizon iPhone Until 2011?