Bryan Chaffin

Apple® today demonstrated its ongoing commitment to providing innovative technology solutions for education at the National Educational Computing Conference in Chicago. During the opening keynote, Steve Jobs, Appleis CEO, announced that three more school districts, Chicago Public Schools, the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Fremont Union High School District, will be implementing the PowerSchool® from…

Q Another person who has a certain mythology about him is your friend Steve Jobs. Everybody seems to believe they know the book on Jobs: heis brilliant but hard-driving, overly sensitive. Do you and he ever talk about that? A We almost decided to wear T-shirts: "The Mercurial Steve Jobs" and "The Arrogant Larry Ellison."…

"Even though the earnings that are going to come out in this next quarter are pretty weak, thereis a sense that maybe tech land is bottoming out," said Michelle Clayman, chief investment officer at New Amsterdam Partners. IBM is about to announce a new technology that will increase processor speeds by up to 30-35% without…

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The Newton was one of the most exciting technologies to come out of Apple during the reign of John Sculley. The Newton was a handheld computer that stemmed from a vision of Mr. Sculleyis, then CEO of Apple, called the Knowledge Navigator. The Knowledge Navigator was actually more of tablet computer, but one of the…

Volume was light on both the Dow and the Nasdaq as the selling sent the Nasdaq off by 3% and the Dow by 1.35%. Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of the PC hardware sector today. The firm offered Dell a fat "Recommended" rating, while Apple, Gateway, and Compaq all got "Market Outperform" ratings. Our old friend…

Steve Jobs demonstrates wireless connectivity through AirPort. This is merely a screen shot, for the real movie, hit the link below.

iPeople are looking ahead for when earnings are going to turn, because it appears the Fed is insistent on getting the economy moving," said John Davidson, chief investment officer at Circle Trust Co., which has $8 billion under management. "People believe this is eventually going to work." All of the stocks we track in he…

Ms. Herera noted that Dell Computer had so far resisted the move to open its own retail stores, unlike Gateway and Apple, and asked Mr. Dell if his company would ever consider doing so. “No, you know, we figured out 10 or 15 years ago that you don’t need stores to sell computers,” replied Mr.…

Mr. Jobs said that Appleis goal was to locate their stores in high-traffic gathering places where those people (the other 95 out of 100) were concentrated. "Weire going to make it so that those customers only have to walk a few feet into our store," he said. "Once they get in our store, weire going…

The Newton was one of the most exciting technologies to come out of Apple during the reign of John Sculley. The Newton was a handheld computer that stemmed from a vision of Mr. Sculleyis, then CEO of Apple, called the Knowledge Navigator. The Knowledge Navigator was actually more of tablet computer, but one of the…

Intel Corporation today introduced the Xircom SpringPort(tm) Wireless Ethernet module, the first wireless local area network (WLAN) device for the Handspring(tm) Visor(tm) handheld computer. The new module complements Intelis existing line of WLAN products and is the first product announced after the companyis acquisition of Xircom. Slightly smaller than a deck of cards, the module…

As has already been reported, the invitations have the Apple logo on the front in the form of a bar code, and the announcement of the companyis first store which opens in McLean, Va. on May 19th. Ms. Wells also reports that the store will "most likely" be modeled after the company store at Appleis…

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Unlike todayis PDAs, a category of devices that the Newton itself gave birth too, the Newton was a true handheld computer. It did just about everything, including handwriting recognition at a time when Macs and PCs were running at 33 MHz, and while that made the Newton extraordinary, it also helped doom it to the…

Apple® today announced an agreement with Henrico County Public Schools to supply 23,000 iBooks™ to the district. This initiative will give every middle and high school student and teacher access to their own laptop computer with plans to eventually provide every teacher and student throughout the district with an iBook. "This is the mammoth–the single…

Observers Lex Jenkins and Fred Turner each sent us some great scans of Appleis advertising from this year. In particular we love the ad for the Mac IIfx. The Mac IIfx was one of the most powerful computers of its day. It was also a truly innovative computer for the time, and we might remind…

when Apple announced the company had seen a major decrease in sales during the beginning of the December quarter (Appleis 1st fiscal quarter). The consensus since that announcement is that Mr. Mandich was ousted from his position, though Apple has been playing it straight. Mr. Mandich has apparently decided that he would rather rid himself…

Currently, the stand alone product is priced at US$499. Adding it to the high-end PowerMac G4 models will now cost US$250 extra (in place of a GeForce2MX), while adding it to the low end model will cost US$350 (in place of the less expensive ATI Rage 128 Pro). NVIDIAis Web site does not have pricing…

With the further weakness in consumer PC demand in March, we see moderate risk that Apple Computer will fall short of its heavily sought goal of a "slight profit" in the March quarter and see high risk that Apple will fall short of consensus estimates for the June quarter. We are maintaining our Street-low March…