9 posts and columns on orders

Verizon Upholds Tradition of Bumpy iPhone Launch

in Mobile on February 3, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

AT&T must be snickering into its cornflakes this morning. Verizon began taking pre-orders for the forthcoming CDMA iPhone this morning and is suffering some of the same issues for which AT&T has been taken to task in the past (though not nearly as severe).

Launch Day iPads Sold Out

in Mobile on March 27, 2010 at 12:27 pm PT

Perhaps those claims that Apple will sell more iPads in the first three months than it sold original iPhones in the same period aren’t so far off. As of this morning, Apple has run out of launch-day Wi-Fi-only iPads.

NYC iPhone Fraud Epidemic Solved! AT&T Web Site Selling iPhones to New Yorkers Again.

in Mobile on December 28, 2009 at 12:08 pm PT

Looks like AT&T has gone and “modified its promotion and distribution channels” again. Either that or the carrier has a better handle on the “online fraudulent activity” that prevented it from selling Apple’s iPhone online to customers with New York City zip codes. AT&T’s Web site is once again accepting iPhone orders from potential customers living in Manhattan.
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Blink Different?

in News on December 14, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

According to NPD, Apple’s new 27-inch iMac has been among the best-selling desktop machines these past few months. Evidently, it is the most problem-plagued as well. As I write this, there are 82 pages of complaints about the machine on Apple’s support site, all from customers who claim the displays of their 27-inch iMacs flicker or otherwise distort. It’s interesting, then, to learn that Apple is delaying shipments of both its 27-inch iMac models by two weeks.
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Cisco CEO Optimistic About the Economy

in News on September 23, 2009 at 5:35 pm PT

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers was one of the first tech executives to predict that the recession–then limited to the financial sector–would spread to the rest of the economy. Now he’s among the first to say it’s on the way back.

$800 Apple Tablet Coming in October?

in News on July 13, 2009 at 6:09 am PT

So that mysterious touch tablet Apple’s rumored to be developing? It’s about to go into production in advance of an October launch date. This according to a report in the Information Times, which claims that three of Apple’s manufacturing partners–Foxconn, Wintek and Dynapack–have received orders from Apple that suggest the company is building a “netbook” with a 9.7-inch touchscreen.
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Palm Pre in Europe by Christmas

in News on July 7, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Now that sales of the Pre in the states have tapered off to a point where supply and demand are roughly in parity, Palm is gearing up to bring the handset to Europe. In a statement issued this morning, the company said Telefónica’s O2 subsidiary will carry the Pre in the U.K., Germany and Ireland, while its Movistar brand will offer it in Spain.
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Comcast Not Really Feeling All That “Comcastic” Right Now

in News on May 29, 2009 at 12:13 pm PT

The econalypse and the job losses and lower housing starts it’s brought with it are having a nasty effect on Comcast’s bottom line. And according to CEO Brian Roberts, that’s not going to change any time soon. “It’s still a scary time,” he said in remarks at Sanford Bernstein’s 25th annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York.
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Sony Announces Procurement Cost Killzone for PS3

in News on May 21, 2009 at 5:06 am PT

Facing back-to-back full-year net losses, Sony is taking a hatchet to its fixed costs in a yet another bid to return to profitability. The company plans to halve its roster of suppliers to 1,200, shaving a clean 20 percent off its procurement bill.
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