Hardware

Apple has been reporting extraordinary numbers lately … the company is embarking in new ventures like the acquisition of Motorola Mobility and launching its own hardware products, which will probably have a material negative impact on profit margins.

it would constitute a fairly significant challenge to Apple.” Laptop/tablet hybrids started to garner some attention and excitement this past winter during the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Chip maker Intel, looking to make a stronger …

In a case that has attracted worldwide attention, Apple and five book publishers were sued this … more people would buy its Amazon Kindle,” the only hardware device on which Amazon’s e-books could be read. Amazon’s longer-term strategy …

HSBC’s Carrie Lu and Jenny Lai today offer up their thoughts about the components and manufacturing industry supplying both the “ultrabook” laptop computers pushed by Intel (INTC) and its partners, and also Apple’s (AAPL) “MacBook Air …

Already Apple is committed to following the old Compaq model of intense … or quality products and turn them into anything with wide appeal. B&N (as AMD is to Intel) seems destined to be an anti-trust muppet for Amazon. Amazon … Continue reading →

Intel Corp. reports first-quarter results that were held … Services now make up more than half the company’s revenue. Tuesday: Apple Inc.’s Mac sales for the quarter came in slightly below expectations, at 4 million. But Apple once again …

Gary P. Naftalis, a lawyer for Mr. Gupta, said during an earlier court hearing last month that the government has secretly recorded telephone conversations of a Goldman executive discussing confidential information about Intel and Apple with Mr. Rajaratnam.

Apple’s own revenue forecast was more conservative than … “It can’t just be a piece of hardware,” Gartner’s Milanesi said of the possible TV, adding that it would have to “drive a similar replacement cycle as you see in the … Continue reading →

“No one in their right mind buys a device that doesn’t have the same prestige for the same amount of money when they aren’t getting hardware that’s better. Apple still has a big lead,” he said. There is also more … Continue reading →

By comparison, Intel was the next-highest holder of seminal LTE patents … One company that could be particularly vulnerable to LTE patent suits is Apple, which has been one of the most aggressive litigants in suing manufacturers of devices based … Continue reading →