September sales for video game consoles were relatively good given the economy. Price cuts on the Nintendo Wii, Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS3, and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox stimulated activity. It appears that the initial surge in sales that those discounts caused is already over. Video game sales, includ ... Read more

Sometimes the unimaginable happens, and that is today.  3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) is being acquired, and in a deal that won’t run regulatory risk at least over China having access to core technology.  Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is the surprise buyer. H-P is buying the networking and r ... Read more

It is getting harder and harder to find any flaws in Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) businesses. The company’s shares trade at $190, very near their all-time high. Analysts expect record results from the company for the calendar fourth quarter as holiday shoppers drive better-than-ususual sales of ... Read more

Lots of chatter about the market's lower low on 3/9 has many people missing what might be a much more significant picture.  Many stocks did not participate in the decline earlier this year, and as a result have undergone huge rallies off their lows.   As an example, below we high ... ... Read more

On Friday Twitter was abuzz about GoodMail's new CertifiedVideo service. For those who missed my post on Why I Invested in GoodMail , GoodMail shifts the onus and cost of email security from individuals like us to the commercial senders who have the budget and motivation to pay for authentication ... Read more

Dell (DELL) has a problem, or a series of problems. Its share of the PC and server businesses is under pressure from IBM (IBM), HP (HPQ), IBM (IBM), Sun (JAVA), Hitachi, and other companies based in China and Taiwan. If IBM buys Sun, it ends up with a much larger piece of the server market ... Read more

Nintendo already has a significant lead in the game console business. Its Wii routinely outsells the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (SNE) PS3. The Japanese company seems to think its advantage is not enough. It is about to introduce another product  to improve its market share to maintain ... Read more

There has been an interesting ride in the solar sector that was almost identical to what was seen in the tech bubble days in 1999 and 2000.  Just like the tech bubble, the solar bubble burst.  But there is still demand from customers to install solar panels on the roofs of their home or th ... Read more

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has just posted very disappointing earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter, as we expected.  The PC-giant reported $0.18 EPS vs. $0.26 estimates and a 16% drop in revenue of $13.4 billion vs. $14.18 billion estimates.  While there is not formal guidance, its  o ... Read more