8 posts and columns on drop

App-y New Year!

in Mobile on December 28, 2011 at 1:54 pm PT

App-y New Year! Here are some apps for watching the ball drop, hailing a ride and thwarting all that drunk-texting.
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Samsung’s Galaxy S II Beats the iPhone 4S — At Least When You Drop Them

in Mobile on October 17, 2011 at 12:42 pm PT

Forget comparing features, just drop them from shoulder height and see which survives. That was the approach taken by SquareTrade and yes, we’ve got video!
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Apple Shares Down, but for How Long?

in News on January 18, 2011 at 8:57 am PT

No big surprise here: Apple’s stock is slipping this morning following news that CEO Steve Jobs is taking another medical leave of absence. The company’s shares dropped some 6.5 percent this morning as the market mulled Jobs’s health issues and the potential timing of his return to the company. But how long they stay that way is up for debate.

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Waiting for the $80 Kindle? Hang On Till 2013

in Media on January 18, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Since Amazon refuses to say how many Kindles it sells, observers keep making educated guesses: Barclays now thinks the e-commerce giant moved 7.1 million e-readers last year. That’s a bit less than the 8 million estimate that Bloomberg reported in December, but no matter what the number is, it’s a lot of Kindles. Barclays think Amazon will keep selling more, despite (and perhaps because of) competition from Apple, while dropping prices of the devices. By 2013, it predicts the average price of the e-reader will drop to $79.

Apple Shares Down Nearly Eight Percent in Frankfurt on News of Jobs's Medical Leave

in News on January 17, 2011 at 7:10 am PT

The knee-jerk reaction to news of Steve Jobs’s medical leave of absence from Apple was as expected, though somewhat muted by the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the States. U.S. markets are closed today, so Apple’s share price here remains at $348.48, its Friday close. But it’s already taking a beating abroad. As I write this, Apple’s stock is down nearly 8 percent in Frankfurt trading.

Memory Chips Are About to Get Cheaper

in Enterprise on January 13, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

As demand for PCs has slowed, so has demand for the memory chips that go into them. Good news for everyone but the companies that make memory.

SAP CEO Steps Down

in News on February 8, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Global IT Market: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

in News on June 30, 2009 at 8:40 am PT

First-quarter spending on information technology goods and services was worse than Forrester Research predicted at the beginning of the year. But it will grow no worse. We’ve hit bottom. Finally. According to Forrester, anyway.
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