Today’s Bargain Electronics Store

Record revenue and earnings for Apple on huge iPod sales — but iPhone sales miss expectations

Apple’s first quarter earnings came in today. Once again, Apple set a new quarterly revenue and earnings record for the company. Sales of the iPod also reached record levels for the quarter ending December 27, 2008. One number that didn’t beat many analysts’ expectations however: iPhone sales.Specifically, Apple posted revenue of $10.17 billion GAAP and [...]

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Windows 7: The search for a good headline

When news broke today that Microsoft was officially naming the next iteration of its operating system “Windows 7,” all of the VentureBeat writers hanging out in our chat room had the same reaction: Really? Before long we had a rousing game of “write the best headline” going. VentureBeat’s Anthony Ha finally picked one for his [...]

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Long gestation period: Microsoft’s first iPhone app coming next year

TellMe, a voice-recognition software company is at work on an application for Apple’s iPhone. This in and of itself may not be surprising, except that TellMe is owned by Apple nemesis Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft, at least by extension, is developing on the iPhone. But we’ve actually known that would probably be the case for [...]

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Hulu gets more serious about HD content (still not that serious)

It’s so good in fact, that when Hulu adds more content in HD I may just have to go out an buy a Mac Mini to hook up to my HD TV to play it on there. Assuming one of the many set top boxes doesn’t gain Hulu support first. See the [...]

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