Bryan Chaffin

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…

Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I by himself motivated by the desire to make something he could show his geek buddies. Steve Jobs was able to sell 50 of the machines to a local computer store (one of the only ones in the country at that point), and Apple Computer was born. Back to CNBC:…

Todayis entry comes from our own Editor-in-Chief, Bryan Chaffin. Launch CPU Monitor. Move CPU Monitor to the Dock. Get URL for Understanding and Working With The Dock for those who may not know how to add things to the Dock. Add it to Login Items in System Prefs. Open CPU Monitor prefs. Turn on Display…

PowerSchool offers a host of features, and we took the liberty of providing links for your benefit. This system offers some seriously powerful tools for schools, teachers, students, and parents. According to PowerSchoolis Web site: Scheduling/Course Request Manager Integrated Gradebook and Attendance Parental Access via Internet or Phone Transcripts and Report Cards Electronic Daily Bulletins…

That brings us back to the Reuters article. Reuters was reporting on how much those options would be worth once they were fully vested, assuming an average of a 5%-10% growth of the stock price per year. We arenit sure about their math, but it is interesting to see Mr. Jobsi compensation still making news…

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The following is the introduction Mr. Marquardt wrote on his own site. In the Fall of 1984 Apple published a 16-page (with fold-out) advertising insert in Newsweek magazine. For many, this was the first “up-close” experience with a Macintosh — detailing the radical features of this new computer. The Macintosh was obviously evolving during the…

The Dow, on the other hand, posted its 5th straight day in the black, and, counting todayis 100+ point gain, sits just 600 points or so off of its all-time high. The Blue Chips are the recipients of some of the money fleeing tech. Volume was moderate for both major indexes, though again, most of…

Apple® announced that it will begin airing a new television commercial tonight that features over 20 talented musicians appearing together to demonstrate how Mac® users can pick their favorite tunes from their CD library and create (burn) custom CDs on their Macs. Among the musical talent participating is Barry White, George Clinton, Liz Phair, Steve…

"I have in my hand a list of 205 cases of individuals who appear to beeither card-carrying members, or are certainly loyal to the Open Source Movement." "Are you now, or have you ever been, a user of the Linux operating system?"

"Keep in mind that the PC industry has gone from all of them making money in December, to today — Gatewayis losing money, Appleis losing money, H-Pis losing money," said Bear Stearns analyst Andrew Neff. "You donit think their boards (of directors) are getting a little antsy?" No, Mr. Neff, I donit think that Appleis…

Oracle had big impact on other software stocks, and the Nasdaq opened up lower across the board. Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe both closed lower, as did most other software stocks. Akamai also too a heavy hit as a company that depends heavily on sales from corporate revenue. SAP and Manuguistics made announcements that reaffirmed their…

The big news for the financial world was Fed Chairman Alan Greenspanis testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in the Testimony Formerly Known As Humphrey-Hawkins. The markets have gone up and down on a roller coaster ride as popular opinion swayed first one way, and then the other on whether or not the Fed…

Then the backwash hit as the logic loop danced back around to the idea that the economy wasnit responding well to the Fedis most recent actions to stimulate the economy. Throughout it all, there was continued talk about the news that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan was changing his testimony in advance of tomorrowis Humphrey-Hawkinsi testimony…

IBM today announced its highest performing embedded PowerPC® processor – the PowerPC 750CXe. While the PowerPC 750CXe is used as a stand-alone high-performance microprocessor in consumer-based desktop computers, it is also being used increasingly as an embedded processor in a broad range of networking and imaging applications. The new PowerPC microprocessor will be available in…

That rally was sparked in part by news that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan would be changing his testimony to the House of Representatives later this week. That testimony, which used to be called the Humphrey-Hawkins testimony and is now known as the "testimony which used to be called the Humphrey-Hawkins testimony" usually mirrors the testimony…

Richard Hallmark sent us scans of the cover and the table of contents. The cover is a great picture of Steve Jobs standing over three of the original Mac (128k) units. We have another version of that image below as well. Note that Mr. Jobs is in a suit, something that made a lot of…

Sun Microsytems issued lowered guidance for the current quarter in an after hours conference call. After hours trading was halted. The company said that growth will come in between 10-13%, while the Street had been expecting 3rd quarter growth to come in at 30%. Look for this to have a negative impact on hardware stocks,…