Bad news for Palm: after the company announced it would miss revenue estimates for the last quarter ending in February, its shares took a relatively nosedive. The reason? Weak sales of the Palm Pre. While everyone expected sales to slow down because of the economy, the scale of the miss surprised many.
Among the analysts...
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Sony hasn't been able to report good news on the financial front for quite some time, but now it looks like things changed to the better. The company today said in Tokyo it returned to the black in the October-December quarter (Sony's fiscal year ends March...
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There was plenty of talk ever since Lehman Brothers exploded in mid-2008 about how would consumers cope. Would they keep buying widgets in the face of insane job cuts? Would they keep buying, but only at a fraction of what they had in the past? Let's take PC sales, a pretty good barometer of...
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We've all been a little breathless over the idea of The Google Phone, and that everything could change (some of us, anyway). But, wait, you say, Google can't just give away a phone like that. Well, they could.
Let's just start with the numbers. Google has a gigantic $22 billion pile of cash. Just sitting...
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And… it's… outta here. TiVo is down to less than three million subscribers and they sold about 500 DVRs a day last quarter, giving it 8% of the 38 million US DVR market. That's not much.
TVByTheNumbers has the numbers. They're down 314,000 subscribers to 2.76 million and lost 146,000 last quarter. Rough stuff.
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