Bryan Chaffin

The Dow actually traded on the plus side for most of the morning, then dabbled back and forth in midday trading, only to start a 68 point slide that ended only when the dayis session closed. Tech stocks were hit the hardest today and the Nasdaq spent the entire day in negative territory. At one…

After the bell, Dell posted earnings of 18 cents a share that were a penny short of Street estimates, but within the 18 cent to 19 cent range offered by the company in recent guidance. The company also announced they would be cutting some 1,700 jobs. HP, on the other hand, met lowered expectations in…

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Mr. Zaret says that AOL needs a media player of its own to leverage all the music, movies, and other entertainment titles AOL/Time Warner own. With QuickTime being one of the best on the market, owning Apple offers AOL the best way to fight Microsoft and the Windows Media player. Besides, the iMac could sold…

The effect on todayis overall trading was dubbed The Cisco Effect and most technology stocks closed in negative territory. Bargain hunters helped pick many stocks off their lows in late afternoon trading. Of the stocks we track in the Apple Stock Watch, only IBM and Microsoft traded higher. Microsoftis stock benefitted from speculation that the…

Appleis strong cash position was also cited. Mr. Lemonides said that Apple currently had some US$15 per share in hard assets, including the US$4 billion in cash on hand. This means that if the company was shut down in order to sell itis physical properties, the sale would result in some US$15 per share to…

Officially, Dr. Amelio is joining the ADCis Board of Directors, but the companyis press release says that is "expected" that he will take the mantle of Chairman and CEO after negotiations are completed. Dr. Amelio was the CEO of Apple for some 15 months in 1996 and 1997, having taken over after taking over from…

Also impacting computer hardware stocks was Sun Microsystems. Sun announced a new initiative called OpenNet that is designed to compete with Microsoftis .Net. Note the thinly veiled attack on Microsoftis proprietary approach. Sunis CEO Scott McNealy has a long running nasty relationship with Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer. The two companies…

Steven Wozniak of Los Gatos, Calif., who founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1977 to manufacture and distribute their invention, the first ready-made personal computer. Since retiring from business, he has worked on charitable projects on the arts and expanding computer literacy. The $250,000 award, bestowed annually by the Heinz Family Foundation since 1993,…

Microsoft announced it would no longer be offering its trademarked US$400 rebate offers for signing up for MSN when purchasing a new computer. That immediately set off rumors of a buyout of Earthlink by MSN and ELNK became the only stock we track that closed higher. More information below. Apple has been slowly losing ground…

Part I of our analysis involves Appleis effort at delivering the message. Most of the meeting was spent giving the same presentation we saw in the keynote at MACWORLD San Francisco, though in a much more informal manner. The biggest difference in the two events was that Steve Jobsi was plagued by hardware difficulties with…

All of the execs in attendance talked about the companyis efforts to reduce their inventory, control their, and ship the companyis new products now. Demand for the companyis new PowerBook G4 (which has begun shipping) and PowerMac G4 lines has been strong, and the company is on track to begin shipping the new high end…

The results for the market were that many stocks were up, especially in the tech sector. Appleis stock took off early and never looked back, trading up more than 10% on almost twice the normal volume. Disney announced today that they would be terminating their Go.com "Internet Portal," and converting stock in that company into…

Iive heard many stories of techies around the world posting this in their local work areas and can imagine that this is happening even at Microsoft. I am not directly slandering the company or any of the products, just a totally fictional construct of my own. Disclaimer: Windows CE, Windows ME, and Windows NT are…

"The expectation is that the worst could very well be over and that results from here continue to go higher," said George Godfrey, an analyst at ING Barings, who rates the shares "buy." Not much happening on the Apple front other than rumors of an update to Mac OS X Server expected in the spring.…

Analysts had warned that without a version of Office, or a similar productivity suite, running natively under Mac OS X, Apple would face problems getting businesses to switch to the new operating system. "This is a very significant announcement for Apple," Gartner analyst Chris LeTocq said. "Frankly, this is the endorsement they needed." Until Wednesdayis…

Mr. Steinis game show on Comedy Central pits him against three players who win money for beating Ben to the buzzer with the correct answer to a variety of questions. That money comes from a pool of US$5000 that ostensibly belongs to Mr. Stein, hence the name of the show. The final round is comprised…

And itis not only the Cube thatis priced wrong. I visited Appleis online store and compared its top-of-the-line G4 to a similar model offered by Gateway on its Web site. The 500-megahertz dual-processor G4 with 256 megabytes of memory costs $7,598 from Apple. A 700-MHz Gateway with a single processor boasting the same memory goes…