Nintendo Reports $459M Profit While Microsoft Gaming Division Posts $96M Loss
Nintendo reported $459.5 million profit for the first half of fiscal 2006, driven by phenomenal Nintendo DS sales and anticipation for the…
The phone market in late 2006 belongs to Nokia
Nokia ships roughly a third of the handsets sold on earth, and I keep waiting for somebody to explain to me why…
The N73 is the Nokia most people should buy
The N73 has quietly become the phone Nokia is selling to everybody, and I find that more interesting than anything in the…
HTC cut its best idea before shipping and told everyone why
HTC put four new Windows Mobile devices on the table at CTIA last month and the one worth talking about is the…
TSMC’s 65nm Node and the Quiet Bet Behind the Foundry Model
TSMC's 65nm is ramping into volume in 2006. The real story isn't density, it's leakage, the rising cost of every node, and…
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Google Acquires YouTube for $1.65 Billion, Dominating Online Video Distribution Platform Market
Google acquired YouTube on October 9, 2006 for $1.65 billion in stock representing largest acquisition in Google’s history establishing dominance in online…
Europe waits until March for the PlayStation 3
Sony told European buyers in September that the PlayStation 3 would not arrive until March, and I still do not think people…
Samsung is in every camera and sells almost none
Samsung is in almost every camera you can buy and almost nobody buys a Samsung camera, and I find that gap more…
Sony Ericsson K800i Debuts with 3.2MP Camera and Carl Zeiss Optics
Sony Ericsson launched the K800i camera phone on September 30, 2006 featuring integrated 3.2-megapixel camera with optical zoom capabilities, Carl Zeiss lens…
The BlackBerry Pearl admits the enterprise has a ceiling
RIM has put a camera and a music player in a BlackBerry, which for that company is close to an act of…
The graphics card race is about to reset
ATI put GDDR4 on the Radeon X1950 XTX last month and reclaimed the single-card performance crown, which normally would be the story.…
Apple held an event and there was still no phone
Apple spent an hour on stage in San Francisco this month showing off aluminium iPod nanos, movie rentals and a small silver…
LG’s enV matters more than the Chocolate and gets a fraction of the attention
LG is currently selling Americans two phones that share almost nothing except a badge, and the one getting all the attention is…
The Slvr looks superb and the software still lets it down
The Slvr is a Razr that has been unfolded and flattened, and I mean that as a description rather than a criticism,…
Don’t wait for Vista to buy a laptop this month
Everybody buying a laptop this month is being told to wait for Vista, and I think that is bad advice for almost…