Gee whillikers. After hours on Monday Apple, the PC company people love to love, started behaving like Google. While its Q4 conference call was in progress its stock price went up almost $13 to over $187, a personal best, a position it then failed to hold. Even if it pulled in its December gross margin and had doubts Mac could outdo itself, September was a scorcher and December promises to be better still, it said, projecting earnings of a whopping $1.42 a share on revenues of $9.2 billion, better than the $1.30 on $8.7 billion that the Street has been imagining.
There’s a really interesting (free) article by Amol Sharma in the Wall Street Journal about Google’s expected cellphone software, and whether Google will be able to do the necessary deals with the mobile carriers. In addition to providing core Google apps (search, maps, YouTube, etc.), the rumor is that the Google mobile operating system will be open to developers who want to use the phone’s services, such as GPS data.
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CommVault (NASDAQ:CVLT) today announced its financial results for the second fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2007. N. Robert Hammer, CommVault ’ s Read more at VMblog.com.
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Standards devised by one tech company whose main purpose is to undermine another tech company, usually don’t work. In this case it’s Google trying to undermine Facebook. And I don’t think it’s going to work. What would be exciting and uplifting, a real game-changer — Internet companies giving users full control of their data.
McAfee, Inc. today announced a virtual machine trial of the McAfee Secure Internet Gateway appliance. The free 30-day software trial is designed to… Read more at VMblog.com.
Evergrid, Inc., a provider of global data center automation software, today announced that current board member, Fred van den Bosch, will become the… Read more at VMblog.com.
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