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My Top Mobile Phone Stock Picks

March 29, 2010

A reader asked for my opinions on mobile-phone stocks, so I thought I’d give everyone a quick run-down of my opinions on the big names in the space:

Apple (AAPL) – BUY
What can I say? I’m an Apple shareholder and a huge fan of their products. I fully expect the iPhone to resume taking market share, [...]

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Amazon Offers $20 Gift Card With Halo Reach

March 25, 2010

Are you planning on buying Halo Reach?
If so, check out Amazon. It’s offering a $20 gift card with the Xbox 360 title, bringing the effective price down to $39.99. Sweet deal on a brand-new game!

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Is Bing Killing Google?

February 12, 2010

Okay, okay. That title was a bit theatrical.
But Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing engine did squeeze out a market share gain from December to January, moving up to 11.3% from 10.7%. The almighty Google (GOOG) had a slight decline to 65.4%.
So is this latest Comscore (SCOR) data something to jump up and down about?
No. Here’s why.
Bing is [...]

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Of Moms and iPads

February 1, 2010

iPhone game developer Ethan Nicholas just did something shocking: wrote some nice things about the embattled Apple iPad in a TechCrunch guest post.
Mr. Nicholas calls the iPad “a computer for people who don’t like computers.” In fact, he feels so strongly about the iPad’s supposedly-easy usability that he plans on buying one for [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet the iPad!

January 27, 2010

Meet the Apple iPad!
Apple (AAPL) finally unveiled its tablet computer, and it’s actually looking a lot better better than I expected.
The iPad is simply gorgeous – but then again, we knew it would be. Yes, it’s basically a giant iPhone, but the iPad is nothing less than striking. It natively runs all iPhone apps, has [...]

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Kindle vs. Tablet! One Will Stand. One Will Fall…

January 26, 2010

Now this is an interesting piece of news from our buddies at TechCrunch:

We believe there is a good chance there will be a Barnes & Noble bookstore built into the Apple Tablet, either as one of the showcase apps which launches with the device, powering a new book section in iTunes, or integrated directly into [...]

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Google’s Ultimate Sin

January 20, 2010

You have to do something pretty crazy to inspire a techno-bromance between the head Steve’s at Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT).

Bloomberg is reporting that the tech heavyweights are in talks to have Microsoft’s Bing replace Google (GOOG) as the default search engine on the iPhone, and I believe it. There had to be a reason [...]

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Xbox 360 Price Cut – Blech!

August 27, 2009

Minyanville just posted my latest article on today’s Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 Price Cut.
Here’s a quick taste:
In the wake of Sony’s (SNE) PS3 price cut, Microsoft (MSFT) just slashed the price of its top-of-the-line Xbox 360 console by $100 to $299. It sounds like good news, but it’s just not what the industry needs. [...]

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Will Apple Make a Gaming Console?

July 22, 2009

This isn’t super new, but Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter had some interesting things to say about the possibility of an Apple (AAPL) Gaming Console:
I think Apple has a deliberate strategy.  They want to see what they can do with the handhelds (iPod Touch and iPhone) first, then move into console games.  Apple TV is [...]

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NPD Data Indicates Trouble for Sony

July 17, 2009

Sorry I haven’t been posting, but I had some problems with my domain-forwarding and they weren’t cleared up until last night. In the meantime, I’ve joined Minyanville.com as a contributor to their excellent site.
This is great news. I did some of my best work on TheStreet.com’s RealMoney, but I was always disappointed that so [...]

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