Apple’s 45 Million iPhones in 2008

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009.[From FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones [...]

Dear LiveLeak, The Problem With Beliefs

UPDATE: LiveLeak has had a change of heart, Fitna is now available on their service and they have issued another statement. I commend LiveLeak for changing their position but have to question the intellectual honesty of the statemen, which says, to paraphrase, that they are unbiased yet personally offended by the film. 

Having them isn’t hard, [...]

Yahoo’s Three-Year Plan: Grow Revenues 73 Percent

It would be easy to look at the plan Yahoo put out and suggest they are smoking crack. Seriously, if they could grow revenues to the degree that they are projecting in this economy, they are superstars in my book.

Of course if they did I’d be inclined to suggest that Jerry Yang is actually Eric [...]

Microsoft Buys Ad Inventory Management Firm Rapt

Congratulations to Tom and the crew, this has been a long time coming. Rapt has been around for the better part of a decade and has it’s roots in enterprise supply chain management (Sun was their first customer), so it’s a great case study about how a management team can repurpose one solution to another [...]

Reed Elsevier Puts BRI Up For Sale

It’s kind of interesting that this didn’t get more widely reported on yesterday, it is a fairly significant event when you consider the size of the company and the number of web sites and publications that the company operates, which is somewhere in the range of 900.

Reed is not a company that gets a lot [...]

A lost laptop, a $54 million lawsuit

“It shouldn’t take a $54 million lawsuit to motivate Best Buy to address these issues,” she said. Her initial offer to settle for $2,100 has been withdrawn because her expenses have risen, including time spent filing a police report and consulting with lawyers about her case, she said. Concerns about identity theft also [...]

Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today

Mike offers a pretty good analysis of the current choice that Yahoo is facing. One thing that really represents the strategic blunder on the part of Yahoo’s Board is that they allowed a full week to pass without substantive comment or marketplace movement and that only reinforced the point that nobody outside of Microsoft wants [...]

GOOG Moment of Truth

It’s been interesting to watch GOOG loose 200 points and hardly a mention… it’s almost like Barack Obama and Tony Rezko, it doesn’t fit the narrative so let’s ignore it.

More significantly, we are now seeing analysts downgrade GOOG, something that is certainly a new phenomena for the company. But this post isn’t about schadenfreude, it’s [...]

New Windows vs. Old Windows

Two weeks ago, InfoWorld launched a petition campaign to save Windows XP. So far we???ve gotten more than 70,000 signatures, thanks to a passionate response from a wide range of XP users. We hope we can persuade Microsoft to keep selling XP licenses indefinitely, past the June 30 deadline, after which Microsoft has [...]

Gizmo5 - Backdoor dialing

Backdoor dialing… just the sound of it makes you want to check around to make sure no one is looking when you load the page…

It’s an interesting concept, you basically tap into the telephone network and place calls to numbers supported by the network. I was trying to find a simple label to hang on [...]

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