by Jason Wilk on February 3, 2009
- Motorola in its earnings call today said it is going to shift away from Windows 7 as its primary operating system used on it’s next generation of devices. Co-CEO Sanjay Jha said that they will be focusing on Android in the coming year. Why you ask? Because he said it’s better. Jha said it will wait for Microsoft to finish WinMo 7 before making any rash decisions to cut them out completely, but for the time being, change is desperately needed on the homefront for Motorola. Jha also said that Android is a smoother consumer experience and with the recent rise in third-party applications taking over the deck, an open platform for developers is they key ingredient to success (see: Apple).
- Motorola doesn’t have any time to waste. The company today posted a $3.6 billion loss in the fourth quarter, suspended its dividend and projected further losses in the first three months of 2009. Even worse, the days of the RAZR are long behind. Last year Motorola shipped about 19.2 million devices in the fourth quarter, compared with about 41 million in the year-ago period. Maybe that touch screen Krave wasn’t such a hot follow up idea after all. Image: AllthingsD
Check Out Relevant Motorola stories:
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by Jason Wilk on February 3, 2009
- Above is an image of what the Apple tablet is going to look like. It has been widely rumored that Apple would move to an entirely touch screen notebook experience, and the confirmation of their patent today confirms those claims. What’s even more interesting is that in the last few months, Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, decided to join the board of a company called Axiotron that makes the award-winning ModBook. You guessed it, the ModBook is a custom MacBook that has been entirely repurposed to become a touch screen tablet. Currently they run at an extremelly high rate of $4,998. Funny enough, the latest edition (and best yet) will be availabe in May/June, right around the same time as the next Mac keynote. Coincidence or is the next Axiotron ModBook going to be coming out of Cupertino? Many think Wozniak joined their board to oversee the operation and technology behind creating a seamless tablet computer. I’d sday it’s more than coincidence and the next keynote will be seeing the debut of the next generation of mobile computing. Here is a clip from the patent claim by Gizmodo.
[0015]As a housing for a computer device, one embodiment of the invention includes: a front shell; a back shell coupled to said front shell to produce said housing, electrical components for the computer device being internal to said housing; and a foam stiffener provided internal to said housing to substantially fill unused space internal to said housing, thereby providing stiffness to said housing.
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by Jason Wilk on January 29, 2009
- Amazon.com is scheduled to release fourth-quarter 2008 earnings results today in a conference call at 5:00 PM ET. You can catch the live webcast here.
- Amazon supposedly had the best holiday season ever, beating out many of the major retailers. They were selling 72.9 items per second during the holiday shopping season. Thomson Reuters expect Amazon to report a profit of $0.39 per share, compared to $0.48 per share in the same period of the previous year. Although the holiday sales season was a monster hit for Amazon, revenue for the quarter is expected to total $6.4 billion, down 13.5% from a year ago.
- As BloggingStocks points out, Amazon is notorious for blowing earnings reports out of the water, beating some quarterly reports by as much as 43%. As I have said before, Amazon is fine in the down economy. It comes down to a simple equation to define their success: There is a much greater increase in online shopping adoption compared to the decrease in consumer spending this year. Some investors realize this. The share price has risen more than 30% from its 52-week low back in November. It is still down 33% from a year ago, but expect things to continue trending upward for the online retail giant. Keep in mind, the Kindle 2 hasn’t even come out yet.
Earnings Are Out:
Highlights:
- Operating cash flow was $1.70 billion in 2008, compared with $1.41 billion in 2007.
- Free cash flow increased 16% to $1.36 billion in 2008, compared with $1.18 billion in 2007.
- Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards outstanding totaled 446 million on December 31, 2008, compared with 435 million a year ago.
- Net sales increased 18% to $6.70 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $5.67 billion in fourth quarter 2007.
- Operating income was $272 million in the fourth quarter, compared with $271 million in fourth quarter 2007.
- Net income increased 9% to $225 million in the fourth quarter, or $0.52 per diluted share, compared with net income of $207 million, or $0.48 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2007.
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