12.18.07 - 02:05pm
Apple has introduced new iPods for the holiday quarter since the iPod revolution first began in 2001. This year, however was especially significant as Apple brought video to the nano and added touch to the Touch introducing “radically different” iPods.
Due to the complexity of the new iPods and the insurgent high demand analyst Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray says that he believes Apple may have sold 24 to 25 million iPods in the first two months of the December quarter, beating Wall Street’s consensus of approximately 23 million.
“While it is too early to make a definitive call on December quarter iPod results, we have analyzed the first two months of NPD data (October and November) for the quarter and found that it suggests iPod units of 24m-25m,” said Munster.
“Apple has announced new iPods in September for the last three years, but this year’s models are significantly more innovative than the past upgrades,” Munster said. “As such, we believe the new iPods are driving sales earlier in the December quarter (in October and November) to a greater degree than in the past.”
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10.12.07 - 03:02pm
Soldiers in Iraq are getting some help from nothing else other than the trusty little iPod by putting it to use as much more than just a music player. They are now using it similar to a translator.
With an new program called VCommunicator that can be hooked up to the iPod American soldiers can speak in Arabic without knowing the language. Say if they are guarding a checkpoint and need an Iraqi to get out of the car and let it be searched. They can simply look up “Vehicle Checkpoint” in the mission library on their iPod and a list of phrases will show up such as “we need to search your vehicle.” The soldier can then either have the iPod say the phrase to the person in Arabic through an attached speaker, or they can sound out the phrase shown in phonetics. They can also have the iPod list the phrase in Arabic and let the person read it. A primer on the right even shows them the proper gestures to make when saying the phrase.
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10.10.07 - 05:12pm
The new Zunes may not have too much effect on the iPod world but they could definitely have an effect on Carmella Lyman’s, the SanDisk PR spokesperson.
She has promised ZDNet writer, David Berlind, that she would shave her head if the Zune took over SanDisks coveted number two spot behind the iPod. Provided, of course, if she wins Robbie Bach, president of the Zune division at Microsoft, shaves his.
She is probably pretty safe in that currently the Zune is number four in the MP3 marketplace with only three percent. SanDisk in second place has ten percent.
Robbie Bach, pledged second place by the end of Christmas saying, “When we’re done with the holiday, people will look and say, ‘There’s Apple and there’s Microsoft.’ The reality of the numerics are that Apple will still be No. 1.”
Bach has until the 31st to accept Lyman’s challenge.
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07.16.07 - 12:49pm
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is maintaining his “Outperform” rating and a $160 target price on Apple’s stock as he predicts that Apple will report revenue above Wall Street’s US $5.3 billion estimate for June quarterly earnings.
Regarding the iPhone he said, “We have modeled for 200,000 iPhone shipments in the June quarter and the Street is modeled at about 330,000, but we believe Apple may have sold as many as 500,000 in the first weekend.”
He also says that Apple will most likely have sold more than 1.6 million Macs for the quarter and 10 million iPods beating Wall Street’s expectations for both.
Apple’s stock is currently trading at $138.02.
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07.16.07 - 12:12pm
Soon you will find more than just clothes at one of the biggest retail stores in the world you will find iPod vending machines as well.
Macy’s will be adding the iPod vending machines to 180 store locations around the U.S. this fall.
They will be owned and maintained by Zoom systems, a San Fransicio company.
The rollout was announced at the company’s annual sharholder meeting last week as a way “to do a better job bringing most-wanted, upscale consumer electronics back into our stores, †following a test at Macy’s Union Square store in San Francisisco.
The machines will carry iPods and iPod accessories. It is possible other brands such as Sony and Motorola may be added to the inventory as well.
Zoom machines resemble two traditional glass-fronted vending machines side by side. They use advanced Sanyo robotics to deliver products to buyers, with information and payment options available through a touch screen. They first began selling merchandise in airports and hotels in the U.S. in 2005.
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06.25.07 - 10:38am
It’s a little past this round of spring SAT tests but it is never too early to start studying for October!
I can already hear the groans with that statement, but seriously how much easier could it be than to download some help onto your iPod and flip through it while your waiting in the dentist office. (more groans)
Th program is from the Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions and is set for the fifth-generation iPods. It costs $4.99 for each download through iTunes. (A whole lot less expensive than their $899 prep classes) The downloads are interactive and focus on the three graded sections of the SAT; Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing.
Included in the download “expert Kaplan stratagies for the SAT”, tips to help with the college exam process and explanations of the exam structure.
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05.07.07 - 01:31pm
Alexis Khazzam, president of Junction Ventures wants to create a legacy, not by making the most money in business, but by helping others to create a business for themselves and to help a town called Peoria grow and be better.
To start this legacy Khazzam donated $200,000 to the Bradley University to start a competition amongst young entrepreneurs to create and build a business plan.
The winners were then given $10,000 and a year’s worth of “knowledge capital” from several local companies. The “knowledge capital” includes Junction Ventures providing office space and investing in the company; converse Marketing, who gives legal services; Coyle Insurance Agency who gives insurance, and Saturn of Peoria, who donates a car for a year. Basically everything these winners need to get their business going and time to make it stand on its own.
The competition was won by the iPod Repair Squad: James Scaggs, Patrick Whitt, Lynn Wiewell, Jamie Buggs and Brad Watson. Their business is to fix iPods quickly and with personalized support.
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05.03.07 - 03:23pm
Apple is going greener and while Greenpeace is still not satisfied, Jobs in an open letter posted on the Apple website did well to justify where Apple currently is and where it is going.
Apple has taken much grief over the past year from Greenpeace and environmentalists,
mainly because they have refused to acknowledge what it is they are doing to go greener but as stated in the letter Jobs wrote, “today we’re changing our policy.”
Apple states that it is taking steps to eliminate toxic chemicals in its computers by going to LED backlit display, as well as no longer using flame-retardant chemicals and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in any products. Apple is also working to get rid of mercury in its monitor backlighting as soon as it becomes “technically and economically feasible”.
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04.30.07 - 10:55am
Street robberies of iPods climbed 8 percent for the last 13 weeks of 2006 to 26,600 in the UK and Home Secretary John Reid wants something done about this. The iPods are seen as easy targets for muggers and Reid wants Apple and Sony to incorporate technological solutions into their devices that would make them obsolete to robbers.
“If I had one piece of advice it would be to ask the manufacturers to design in features which reduce crimes,” he told the BBC.
Reid wants the music makers to put in a system similar to what cell phone manufactures have put in. Called International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI), the system causes cell phones to be deactivated the next time they are logged onto the network if they are stolen.
“That knocks the bottom out of the market because, if people steal these phones, increasingly they recognize that they cannot sell them,” says Reid.
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04.26.07 - 09:54am
Apple stock rose to an all time high finally surpassing the $100 mark reaching 102.40 in after hours trading after Apple announced yesterday that their net income soared 88 percent for the last quarter which ended March 31st.
The rise in profits was due to a cut in component costs that overcame the usual post holiday slump. The news combined with the anticipation of the iPhone has bolstered Apple once again.
In total Apple sold 10.5 million iPods and 1.52 million Macintosh computers were sold with a total of $5.26 billion in sales, an increase of 21 percent. The iPod and related accessories accounted for 44 percent of the quarters total revenue overall.
In total earnings for the quarter were at 87 cents a share, which proved higher than the average analyst expectations who were looking for earnings of 64 cents per share, according to a poll by Thomson Financial.
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