Apple stock is up $9 and has broken out of the micro resistance at $438 to $440 on a day when the overall market tape is weak. The timing of Apple’s newly found strength may seem funny. Thursday evening, Samsung launched its new flagship smartphone Galaxy S IV with lots of fanfare
Samsung Galaxy S IV has been released with a great deal of fanfare. By all indications, the Galaxy S IV will be a very popular device. Here are five ways to make money from it. Get exposure to Samsung Samsung is a Korean company, and the stock
On Wednesday, I received numerous emails from investors who are mostly in cash wanting to know what to do now. It appears that the floodgates for such emails opened when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new high. A typical email also contains links to contradictory pronouncements from gurus,
Since I often take the minority view, I am used to receiving lots of hate mail. Regarding Apple, the hate mail I receive usually spikes when I write that Apple is overly dependent on subsidies from phone carriers or when I write that my research shows Apple is facing
As BlackBerry attempts to stage a comeback with BB 10, one aspect of its sales pitch is that BlackBerry is famous for its security characteristics. Now BlackBerry is losing its security aura. The timing could not be worse for BlackBerry of a security warning coming from Canada. Canada.com reports that the government department in charge of cyber security
It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Apple’s Passbook app has a new fan in Samsung. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung introduced its new Wallet app. The preliminary details show that the Wallet app imitates Passbook in several respects. Apple’s Passbook app allows users to handle mobile payments
At the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei introduced the world’s fastest smartphone. Most Americans have never heard of Huawei. Huawei is no small fry; it is a large Chinese company. Its principal business is networking and telecommunications equipment. It has overtaken Ericsson to become the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world.
The Boot to Gecko project (B2G) being developed by the Mozilla Foundation is now ready to challenge Apple and Google’s dominance of mobile devices. Mozilla Foundation is a not-for-profit entity that is the producer of the popular Firefox browser. Mozilla Foundation also has a tax-paying subsidiary called Mozilla Corporation. B2G Firefox OS B2G is
The stock market has been overbought for a while, and overbought markets can be vulnerable. Usually there is an excuse in the form of bad news that runs the overbought market down to alleviate the overbought condition. Monday was no exception. The bad news was that in Italy, Berlusconi garnered more votes than expected. He
In a major strategic move, Samsung has announced an end-to-end security solution for mobile devices for the enterprise. The solution is appropriately named KNOX. KNOX appears to be the Fort Knox of mobile security in an enterprise. The best way to understand KNOX is to break it down into two components. Platform Security