Source: Morgan Stanley
Thursday night, just as a tornado -- or something like it -- was knocking down the trees that grow in our Brooklyn neighborhood, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty issued a report to clients with a chart (copied above) graphing the damage done to the notebook PC market over the past eight or nine months. "Tablet cannibalization" -- chiefly by Apple's (AAPL) iPad -- is at least partially responsible, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 17, 2010 6:47 AM ET
Heavy rains -- and a lively grey market -- may have dampened the turnout in Beijing
Photo: M.I.C Gadget via Flickr
There were plenty of reporters but only about 100 customers queued up outside Apple's (AAPL) Beijing retail outlet at 8 a.m. Friday when sales of the iPad officially began in China.
The first customer, Han Ziwen, wearing a blue "I BUY IPAD NO 1" T-shirt, was mobbed by the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 17, 2010 5:56 AM ET
By Katie Benner, writer
Our toys and devices are amazing -- until they're obsolete. That's bad news for the planet, but good news for Electronic Recyclers International, a $50-million-in-revenue company that expects sales to double by 2012. Fresno-based ERI partners with the likes of Samsung and Best Buy (BBY) and is the largest electronics recycler in the U.S.
Bobcat operator Frank Giannandrea sccops up e-waste, which he'll dump into the shredder MORE
Sep 17, 2010 3:00 AM ET
We'll be on hand today at Samsung's media event with news as it happens.
That's all folks!
Not much gleaned from the Q&A. You will be able to rent movies from the SamsungHub as well as buy. Also the content is streaming and can be played on five devices on your domain.
7:30 New Samsung.com site. Zzzzz.
7:25 Gavin Kim talks about Media Hub. He announces agreements with major studios. NBC shows a preview.
7:20 They MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 16, 2010 7:13 PM ET
The company fears being shut out of smartphone handsets, first by Apple and now Google.
Apple (AAPL) started using Skyhook's location based services for their iOS Maps application June 2008 and dropped Skyhook April 2010 after it developed its own location-based mapping system.
That's one of the benefits of making your own hardware and software.
Unfortunately for Google (GOOG), who doesn't make hardware and also wants to supplant Skyhook's services with its own, MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 16, 2010 5:33 PM ET
Viewsonic's G tablet might be the sweet spot for those who are looking for an Android powered iPad alternative.
Image via HotHardware.com
Laptop Magazine did a quick review of the $429 Viewsonic G 10.1 inch Android 2.2 tablet. From a hardware perspective it matches up pretty well with the iPad. The 1024x600 screen has a few fewer pixels but a wider aspect ratio which is great for watching movies. MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 16, 2010 5:07 PM ET
Climbs $6.35 for the day, passing a record $274.07 set last June
With the iPad set to go on sale the next morning in China and five South American countries, Apple (AAPL) shares rose $6.35 (2.35%) Thursday to close at a record $276.57. The stock is still a couple dollars shy of the record intraday high of $279.01 set on June 21, 2010.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 16, 2010 4:18 PM ET
The world's most populous country is the 20th to get Apple's tablet computer
Photo: Apple, Inc.
Apple (AAPL) announced Monday that it will begin selling the Wi-Fi-only version of its "magical" iPad in China on Sept. 17.
[UPDATE: In a separate, Spanish-language press release, Apple also announced that the iPad will go on sale in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru the same day.]
The 3G iPad will be arriving in China at MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 16, 2010 10:50 AM ET
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the morning's most newsworthy bits below.
Microsoft (MSFT) and Facebook are in talks to expand their search partnership, which could give Bing access to anonymized data from consumer usage of the social network's MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 16, 2010 8:18 AM ET
Sure Google is gaining on Apple, but not as fast as comScore's latest data suggest
I don't want to get into what Ben Bradlee, the Watergate-era editor of the Washington Post, used to call a "defensive crouch," but I've got a bone to pick with some of the headlines that came out of comScore's July 2010 mobile market share report, issued Wednesday afternoon. For example:
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dow | 12,663.49 | -71.14 | -0.56% |
| Nasdaq | 2,812.82 | 7.54 | 0.27% |
| S&P 500 | 1,315.83 | -2.60 | -0.20% |
| Treasuries | 1.91 | -0.02 | -1.09% |
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