UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal's Taipei bureau weighed in on this rumor Monday evening, adding screen dimensions that were missing from the original report. See below.
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The Chinese-language Commercial Times reported Monday that Wintek, a Taiwanese maker of LCD displays, will supply touchscreen panels for a mysterious new Apple (AAPL) product, with shipments to begin the second half of the year.
What that product might be is not clear -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 10, 2009 7:24 AM ET
more about "Obama's Bear Market ", posted with vodpod
On Friday I did a little non-tech commentary on CNBC. The topic: whether the current bear market is President Obama's fault.
Jon Fortt - Mar 9, 2009 9:00 AM ET
It took five tries -- and four redesigns -- but Apple (AAPL) last week finally won approval to build a retail outlet in Washington D.C., its first in the nation's capital.
The final rendering, shown at right, was designed to echo the architectural features of the city's historic Georgetown neighborhood. It was enthusiastically embraced by the same architectural preservation board that had soundly rejected Apple's previous designs.
"This is beautifully executed," Stephen MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 8, 2009 12:27 PM ET
The "end of June" is how long Steve Jobs said his medical leave would run when he announced in January that he was temporarily stepping down as Apple's (AAPL) CEO.
But David Zeiler, writing on another subject for the Baltimore Sun website, offers a scenario in which Jobs could return to the helm a few weeks earlier -- on June 8 to be precise.
Zeiler was trying to pinpoint the day Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 6, 2009 9:22 AM ET
Other smartphone manufacturers may be rushing out their versions of Apple's (AAPL) App Store -- the latest being Research in Motion's (RIMM) "App World" for the BlackBerry, set to open this month -- but that hasn't slowed the developers writing programs for the iPhone and iPod touch.
In fact, judging from the slope of the graph at right, the number of applications available for download seems to be accelerating.
The latest milestone: MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 5, 2009 1:51 PM ET
Apple (AAPL) is the exception to what one analyst describes as a "permanent and structural" collapse of PC pricing and revenue triggered by the onset of the recession and the rise of low-cost netbooks.
In the chart reproduced at right (click to enlarge), TBR analyst Ezra Gottheil documents a 13% drop in average selling price (ASP) and an 18% decline in PC revenues in the fourth quarter of calendar 2008.
"ASPs have MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 5, 2009 1:09 PM ET
Microsoft's (MSFT) new version of Windows is probably still a couple quarters away from official release, but Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu is already trying to measure its negative impact on Apple (AAPL).
"With the potential release of Windows 7 in either 3Q or 4Q of this year," he writes in a report to clients issued Thursday morning, "we believe we could finally have a Windows operating system worth upgrading MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 5, 2009 10:35 AM ET
Cisco CEO John Chambers needs to try new things to keep his company growing while corporate technology budgets shrink.
It is the buzz of the tech world: Cisco Systems may soon try selling servers, those heavy-duty computers that companies use to run critical back-office applications. The prospect of router giant Cisco's entering the already crowded $55-billion-a-year server market is intriguing (imagine if LeBron James decided to try his hand at football) MORE
Jon Fortt - Mar 5, 2009 10:00 AM ET
There's good and slightly less good news for Apple (AAPL) in a report issued by iSuppli on Wednesday.
Against a backdrop of slowing sales growth in the overall mobile handset market, the El Segundo, Calif.-based research firm sees a bright spot in smartphones.
The report offers two scenarios for 2009 and beyond. Its best-case forecast calls for global smartphone unit shipments of 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1% from 173.6 million MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 4, 2009 9:34 AM ET
If there was ever any question that Amazon's (AMZN) Jeff Bezos is more interested in selling books than selling Kindle electronic book readers, the answer showed up on the iTunes App Store overnight Wednesday: a free application to read Kindle books on Apple's (AAPL) iPhone.
Given that there are more than 17 million iPhones in circulation and probably not more than a few hundred thousand Kindles, Amazon has, with a single MORE
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