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The S Is for "Sales," Not "Speed"…

John Paczkowski in News on June 22, 2009 at 5:41 am PT

Looks like Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s second estimate of Apple’s weekend iPhone sales underestimated demand just as badly as his first. Apple didn’t sell 500,000 units of the iPhone 3GS over the weekend, as Munster first predicted. Nor did the company sell 750,000 as he said in a research note this morning. It sold over one million. Moreover, downloads of Apple’s new iPhone 3.0 software, launched last Wednesday, have already reached six million.

The S Is for “Sales,” Not “Speed”…

John Paczkowski in News on June 22, 2009 at 5:41 am PT

Looks like Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s second estimate of Apple’s weekend iPhone sales underestimated demand just as badly as his first. Apple didn’t sell 500,000 units of the iPhone 3GS over the weekend, as Munster first predicted. Nor did the company sell 750,000 as he said in a research note this morning. It sold over one million. Moreover, downloads of Apple’s new iPhone 3.0 software, launched last Wednesday, have already reached six million.

Weekend Update, 1.31.09

Beth Callaghan in News on January 31, 2009 at 8:04 pm PT

Rumor has it there are big games going on this weekend–at least one of which involves football players. The rest involve the usual players, though they might appear in different positions–and on different teams–from week to week. These games, most likely, will continue through Monday and beyond. Scores will be kept on an ongoing basis.

A BlackBerry That’s Easy on Your Thumbs

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on January 27, 2009 at 5:04 pm PT

In two weeks, the latest version of the BlackBerry, the Curve 8900, arrives. This device doesn’t have a sleek touch screen or completely overhauled operating system, nor is it meant to compete with the likes of Apple’s iPhone. But it has a physical keyboard and still manages to look stylish — and that’s no small feat.

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RIM: Orange to Pull BlackBerry Bold? Guardian Alleges Software Glitches.

Tiernan Ray, Blogger, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on January 2, 2009 at 8:17 am PT

U.K. paper The Guardian this morning reports that Orange, the mobile phone operator owned by France Telecom, is considering yanking Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Bold from its handset lineup because of what the paper calls persistent software errors.

RIM: A Less-Than-Perfect Storm?

John Paczkowski in News on December 3, 2008 at 5:40 am PT

Research In Motion’s downside guidance for the third quarter is playing hell with the company’s share price today. After market close Tuesday, RIM said revenues for the three months ended November will fall short of its earlier forecast. The company blamed the news on product-launch timing, general economic conditions and foreign-exchange volatility, but could there be something else at work here a well? Like an uncompelling product line?