Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby
Even in these tough economic times, tech giant Cisco offers employees some pretty sweet benefits: Employees can visit on-campus doctors and dietitians, drop off dry cleaning, or get an oil change, and now they can pick the kind of computer they want to use at work.
That's right - Cisco has started letting workers choose from a handful of laptops, including an Apple MacBook Pro. Only don't call MORE
Jon Fortt - Apr 15, 2009 8:37 AM ET
Most enterprises will eventually migrate to Windows 7 -- Microsoft's (MSFT) newest version of the world's dominant PC operating system -- but they're not in any hurry to do so.
And half are thinking about switching to a non-Windows system, such as Apple's (AAPL) Mac OS X.
These are among the findings of a survey commissioned by KACE, a Mountain View, Calif., systems management company that hopes to cash in on MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 14, 2009 8:57 AM ET
In the early days of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, when corporate IT managers were taking their first close look at the device (and wondering whether it would find a place in their organizations alongside Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry), few documents were more influential than the Forrester Research report entitled "The iPhone Is Not Meant For Enterprises."
Released on Dec. 12, 2007, the six-page, $749 report was better known by its subtitle: MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 13, 2009 4:44 PM ET
Less than three weeks after sounding a bearish note on Apple (AAPL) by dropping the stock from his firm's "Focus List," Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu turned around Monday and raised his price target to $152 a share, up from $120.
With Apple scheduled to release its fiscal Q2 earnings report on April 22, many analysts are taking another look at the stock -- and most seem to like what they MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 13, 2009 10:20 AM ET
In what reads like a strategic leak from Apple's (AAPL) Cupertino boardroom, the Wall Street Journal reports in its Saturday edition that Steve Jobs -- half-way through a six-month medical leave -- still "maintains [his] grip" on the company from his Palo Alto, Calif., home.
But the evidence the Journal offers doesn't go much beyond Jobs' January statement to Apple's staff that he planned "to stay involved in major strategic decisions MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 11, 2009 7:49 AM ET
Microsoft (MSFT) raised the stakes in its anti-Apple (AAPL) PR offensive Thursday by issuing a 10-page "white paper" that puts a price tag on what it calls the "Apple tax" -- the premium paid by consumers who choose Apple computers over those that run Microsoft Windows.
It's a theme that was first raised last month by CEO Steve Ballmer, who told a Business Week-sponsored forum last month that Mac customers were MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 10, 2009 2:56 PM ET
Not much news leaks out of Apple's (AAPL) tight-lipped Cupertino campus. The suppliers and developers working on the new family of iPhones, however, are another matter.
Over the past few weeks, enough bits and pieces have dribbled out of the companies making parts and the programmers writing software for the new iPhones to put together a detailed -- if speculative -- picture.
Based on leaks from these sources, we can expect at MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 9, 2009 10:53 AM ET
Adding his voice to the drumbeat of speculation about Apple's (AAPL) future iPhone plans, Kaufman Bros.' Shaw Wu weighed in early Wednesday with a new report from his supply chain and industry sources.
Among his findings:
Two out of three. Wu had heard that there are three new iPhones in the works, but based on clues that developers are finding in the beta iPhone 3.0 software, he now believes "only two will MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 8, 2009 11:42 AM ET
Two surveys released Tuesday, one of American teenagers, the other of professionals and early adopters, show interest in Apple's (AAPL) iPhone holding steady despite increased competition from Research in Motion (RIMM), Google (GOOG) and Palm (PALM).
In its biannual "Taking Stock With Teens" survey, Piper Jaffray reported that the iPhone remains popular among U.S. teenagers -- although it's not as hot as it was immediately following the launch of the iPhone MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 7, 2009 6:09 PM ET
Here's an interesting pair of lists.
On Seeking Alpha, Birinyi Associates' Cleve Rueckert lists the 40 S&P 500 stocks with the largest changes in market capitalization so far this year. Although other shares have scored higher percentage gains -- some more than 100% -- Apple (AAPL) tops this list on a total dollar value basis. Since Dec. 31, 2008, its shares have grown 35.9%, adding more than $27 billion to its MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.86% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.26 | -0.48 | -3.75% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.22 | -0.25 | -5.59% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.62 | -0.75 | -3.33% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.59 | -0.24 | -1.21% |
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