NPD data show iPod sales were also up -- 7% year to year -- for the first time in 16 months
In a report to clients issued Monday afternoon, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster -- a long-time Apple (AAPL) booster -- found much to cheer about in the NPD Group's U.S. retail sales data for January and February.
"We are buyers of AAPL based on Feb. NPD data," he writes. He points to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 15, 2010 1:35 PM ET
In the latest espisode of Techmate, Fortune Senior Writer Michael Copeland explains why Apple (AAPL) iPad pre-orders may matter, talks Cisco's (CSCO) new hype-heavy router, and breaks down how Pink Floyd may change digital music.
Mason Cohn, Producer - Mar 15, 2010 10:35 AM ET
Photo courtesy of Microsoft
Google dominates search on the Web, but on mobile phones -- where distribution matters and where the lessons of Google's ways are well understood -- Microsoft just might have an edge.
The escalating rivalry between Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) might be the best thing that happens to Bing this year. Microsoft's little decision-engine-that-can has yet to make much headway on mobile browsers. Ever since MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Mar 15, 2010 10:13 AM ET
The spike in new development observed after January's unveiling continued into February
Click to enlarge. Source: Flurry Analytics
In February, two weeks after Apple (AAPL) unveiled the iPad, Flurry Analytics reported a sharp uptick in the number of developers installing its analytics tools in new apps for the iPhone -- a device that shares the same operating system. (See The iPad that launched a thousand apps.)
On Monday the company took a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 15, 2010 9:57 AM ET
To help Mayo Clinic improve detection of potentially deadly aneurysms, IBM prescribed technology used to treat ailing business operations.
Here's the thing about brain aneurysms: They aren't necessarily deadly, unless they pop. If that happens, there's roughly a 50% chance that the patient will die—so it's best to spot and treat them early.
To help in their aneurysm hunt, radiologists at Mayo Clinic use special software developed with IBM (IBM) that analyzes MORE
Jon Fortt - Mar 15, 2010 7:47 AM ET
The infrastructure of the Internet isn't capable of handling the amount of traffic sure to come in the next 25 years. To get there, government and business are going to have to work together.
We're going to need a bigger Internet (and more cake). Photo: Anna-Maria C Sviatko
By Mark McLaughlin , CEO VeriSign
In the movie "Jaws," after the Great White rams against the hull and nearly sinks the MORE
Mar 15, 2010 7:30 AM ET
A rough three-day estimate, based on an analysis of order numbers: 152,000 units
Source: Daniel Tello
After the initial burst of excitement on Friday that saw iPad pre-orders coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour, there was a dramatic fall-off over the weekend.
According to Daniel Tello, the Venezuelan blogger-analyst who has been tracking order numbers submitted by volunteers at Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board, orders on Saturday and Sunday MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 15, 2010 5:17 AM ET
eBay is already flooded with dubious offers of iPads and iPad paraphernalia
Click to enlarge. Source: eBay
It's not too late to bid on the new, sealed-in-box 16GB iPad being offered by egiftscentral_123 -- an eBay "top-rated seller" with 99.3% positive feedback -- for the Buy It Now price of $21 million (plus $14.42 for shipping).
If that seems like a lot to pay for a tablet computer you can pick up MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 14, 2010 11:04 AM ET
A snapshot of who's buying what based on a sample of first-day pre-orders
Click to enlarge. Source: AAPL Sanity
The team at Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board have completed their initial analysis of pre-orders for the iPad tablet computer.
Apple (AAPL) began taking orders on Friday for delivery starting April 3.
Based on a sampling of 99 orders (for 110 iPads) over 19.5 hours, and not counting units that were reserved but not MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 13, 2010 10:58 AM ET
For filling in for Steve Jobs: A $5 million bonus and stock worth nearly $17 million more
Photo: Monica M. Davey/EPA/Corbis
Tim Cook, Apple's (AAPL) chief operating officer and heir apparent, got his today.
For taking the reins when Steve Jobs went on medical leave in Jan. 2009 and heading the company with no visible hitches until his master's return six months later, Cook was awarded a $5 million cash bonus and MORE
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