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Comment Apple's luck ran out after three consecutive years of growth. However, the real gold mine this week seems to be the B2B marketplace. Although no giant, Ariba went into the black for the... [19 Jan 2001]
Ginger: Marketable myth or monster of misinformation?
Comment As one of a number of industry heavyweights invited to a top secret demo of Ginger by inventor Dean Kamen, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, is alleged to have said that cities will spring up around it. The original story was... [16 Jan 2001]
Ginger spices up the news with 'wonder invention' rumours
Comment Apple's Steve Jobs and Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos have both been given behind-the-scenes demos and are advisors, while backers include legendary VC outfit Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers' John Doerr, and Credit Suisse... [12 Jan 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Caught in the learning curve
Comment Delegates booed the high priest of alternative computing when he sold part of Apple to Microsoft. After an impressive recovery from the doldrums of the eighties, Apple has shown signs of slowing again. [07 Jan 2001]
Does the PC still matter?
Comment Profit warnings from Apple, Intel, Microsoft and co last autumn foretold the story and just yesterday Wall Street number crunchers lowered Dell's earnings forecast by 10 per cent. For the first time on record personal... [04 Jan 2001]
Apple slashes prices to offload stock
News Apple's 450MHz Power Mac G4 Cube is now priced at $1,499, down from $1,799, while the 400MHz PowerBook is now at $1,999, down from last week's $2,499. Specifically, Apple's... [03 Jan 2001]
Apple narrowly misses Q4 targets
News Apple's share price fell to a 52-week low of $18.31 on the news after closing last night at just above $20, but rallied slightly in early afternoon trading. The company reported Q4 earnings, with profits... [19 Oct 2000]
The Best of 'Reader Comments': Smartcards, e-marketplaces and Apple
Comment Apple and Microsoft - can't we all just get along? Apple had an expo recently, and talked more about its affair with Microsoft. The Mac faithful should realise that the largest number of developers... [06 Oct 2000]
Morning Edition 05.10.00
News It normally happens on Friday but Dell has decided to break from the tradition imposed by Intel and Apple in recent weeks. Reassuringly, like Intel and Apple before it, Dell also shifted the blame on... [05 Oct 2000]
Apple profit warning causes stock to slump
News In after-hours trading on the Nasdaq, Apple shares were worth around $29, down 45 per cent on yesterday's close of $53.10. Apple also reports there will be no rise in revenue from that period. Last... [29 Sep 2000]
Morning Edition 29.09.00
News For a company as prominent in the market as Apple - as seen with Intel last week - such a fall will have a knock-on effect for the sector as a whole, tarred with the tech-stock stigma, and we can expect... [29 Sep 2000]
Inprise: the first stage to recovery is admitting you have a problem
Comment Yukom duly fell on his sword in March 1999, and Fuller - already a very wealthy man following a career which included heading up Apple's successful PowerBook division - was persuaded to try and take Inprise/Borland back... [28 Sep 2000]
The Core of Apple: open source spirit to guide the Mac OS
Comment His standing rose even higher when with his announcement halfway through his keynote at Apple Expo last week that the Mac OS is going open source. Jobs also got a cheer for including Java as an important... [27 Sep 2000]
Office announcement upsets Apple cart
News The Apple CEO managed to regain some popularity though, by announcing the release of the public beta version of Mac OSX, which will go on sale for $30. Jobs also met with opposition when he announced that the latest... [13 Sep 2000]
The Electronic B@zaar: Part 4 - Apples from Alaska
Comment He informed me in a matter-of-fact way that the web-based supplier he had found in Alaska provided him with Apple computers cheaper than those he could get in the UK, and also, more importantly, they were delivered faster. [30 Jun 2000]
