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Consumer Retail

More Cash In More Places, AT&T Earnings Solid

April 22, 2009

AT&T reported solid earnings today, showing little to no signs of slowing from the rough economic state. Beating the Street estimates, the death star delivered first quarter net income of $3.1 billion, or 53 cents a share, on revenue of $30.6 billion. CEO Randall Stephenson said the company continues to play through a tough [...]

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Variable Song Pricing Comes To Amazon. Still Cheaper Than iTunes

April 8, 2009

Yep. That just happened. The labels are getting what they want all across the board now with variable song pricing showing up on Amazon, Walmart, Rhapsody, etc. This comes a day after Apple made their big push to move 90% of songs in the top 100 to $1.29. Notice the top screenshot however, which contains [...]

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Cisco Goes Flip Mode

March 19, 2009

Cisco Systems Inc, the company which should be buying Sun Micrososytems, has announced it will be buying buying Flip digital camcorder-maker, Pure Digital Technologies
Cisco, the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment said today it would pay $590 million in stock to purchase all of privately held Pure Digital’s shares.
Cisco is attracted to Pure Digital’s [...]

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Google’s Android To Take Over The iPhone By 2012

March 9, 2009

The iPhone’s lead over Google’s open source mobile operating system, Android, may end as early as 2012. The first phone to be powered by Android, the HTC G1, already accounts for 20 percent of T-Mobiles contract sales. The second HTC phone with Android, the Magic (pictured), is supposed to be an even bigger hit and [...]

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PC Sales Outlook Worst In History

March 2, 2009

Research outfit Gartner today warned that PC sales will suffer the “sharpest unit decline in history” this year. Gartner expects the PC industry to ship just 257 million units this year. That’s an 11.9 percent decline from 2008, one that easily eclipses the previous worst decline in 2001, when shipments fell 3.2 percent. Gartner [...]

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