After Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster surprised the investing community on Monday by raising Apple’s target price from US$52 a share to $100 per share, the markets reacted by shoving Apple’s stock up more than 11%. In very heavy volume of 45.9 million shares trading hands, AAPL closed Monday at 61.35, higher by 6.18 (+11.20%),…

The majority of eighth graders in Maine who received iBooks across the state as part of a new laptop initiative last year have had to go without them this year, as only a quarter of high schools in the state could afford to extend the program to their schools. As the Morning Sentinel reports, however,…

Junk e-mail, more commonly know as spam, clogs inboxes world wide, and wastes millions in thus far vain attempt to curb nuisance. It is likely that no one knows this more than Microsoft chairman Bill Gates: According to the Associated Press, Bill Gates gets millions of spams daily, 4 million to be exact. Steve Ballmer,…

Bloomberg reported late on Wednesday that Apple’s stock will be removed from the Tokyo Stock Exchange on December 25th of this year. Trading at the exchange for AAPL has averaged a mere 1,340 shares per day in 2004, a tiny fraction of the 7.74 million shares per day that trade on the NASDAQ, the US…

It’s early evening on October 12, 2010.  The air has that crisp hydrocarbon laced bite to it that makes you feel both lazy and invigorated at the same time. The sun has just set, and though the chill in the air requires a jacket or sweater, it is still warm enough for you to enjoy…

Creative Technology will spend US$100 million next year to market its portable media devices in a worldwide campaign to grab market share from Apple Computer and its popular iPod player. Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo is quoting by the Reuters news agency as saying, “the MP3 war has started and I am the one who…

The buying and selling of stock options just doesn’t stop for Apple’s executives who are taking advantage of the company stock now sitting in the range of record highs. Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, made an additional US$4.2 million in stock option sales last Thursday, for a total of $8,036,714.10…

Apple won Billboard’s 2004 Digital Entertainment Award for Brand of the Year, while CEO Steve Jobs was named Visionary of the Year. Apple’s iTunes Music Store lost out to Real Networks’ Rhapsody for Best Downloadable or Subscription Music Service, however, and Apple was also edged out by XM Satellite Radio for Innovator of the Year.…

At a certain point, usually after the night terrors start, I realize I absolutely have to write a column about Some Great Topic. And when I haven’t been creative enough to think of Some Great Topic, rather than deal with night terrors, I like to go with Stuff That Crossed My Mind. Item Number One:…

Safari users number less than one percent of the U.S. Web browsing populace, according to a new online study, but Microsoft’s dominance has slipped recently, as Internet Explorer users fell to 92.86 percent of the market. Internet Explorer’s decline, from 95.48 percent in June, is primarily due to the Mozilla and Firefox browsers, which saw…