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Verizon tops Q3 profit estimate, but it's all about the dividend

Posted Oct 27th 2009 5:00PM by Steven Mallas (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), AT and T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ)

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) issued Q3 data on Monday. According to the press release, the telecommunications entity made, on an adjusted basis, 60 cents per share. Disappointing, since that's six pennies less than last year's comparable number. However, it was a penny ahead of analyst expectations, according to Reuters.

Of course, when discussing Verizon, what tends to receive focus is cash flow. As we all know, the company is a famous dividend play. Many investors consider this angle to be not only valuable, but an added safety element as well.

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Smartphone apps to spike, newspapers to miss it (again)

Posted Sep 23rd 2009 12:40PM by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Research in Motion (RIMM), Smartphones, Technology

By 2013, more than $4 billion will be spent on smartphone applications, according to a new study by the Yankee Group ... and the estimate is said to be conservative. With the average owner of one of these devices downloading around 20 applications a year, it's obvious that this market is getting ready to pop. Currently, only $343 million is spent in this space.

An increase in the number of smartphone applications available -- for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, Reasearch in Motion's (NASDAQ: RIMM) Blackberry, and Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android -- and rising prices for these applications will push the total size of this market higher.

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T-Mobile stops taking pre-orders for the Google G1 phone?

Posted Oct 1st 2008 1:05PM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Consumer experience, Google (GOOG)

When T-Mobile USA and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the Google-powered G1 smartphone last week, little did the fourth-largest wireless provider in the U.S. know that it would have to turn customers away.

Anxious customers who want to sign up for the new phone when it's released on October 22nd are apparently getting this message on T-Mobile's website: "Sorry! Due to the overwhelming popularity of the new T-Mobile G1, upgrades are temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." This news is according to the Android Guys blog, which guesses that the Google G1 sold out in four days.

T-Mobile has neither confirmed nor denied that the Google G1 sold out, nor has it released initial sales figures for the still-unreleased smartphone. The G1 is a clear competitor to the Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 3G and to the various BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones. It's also poised to become a huge seller for T-Mobile as more and more touchscreen competitors try to steal some of Apple's thunder.

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Motorola ramps up Android team to 350 employees

Posted Sep 30th 2008 3:20PM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Products and services, Google (GOOG), Motorola (MOT)

Motorola Corp. (NYSE: MOT) is apparently planning on a rather large piece of its wireless business being wrapped around Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system. The wireless company already has 50 employees working on Android development and will be boosting that number to 350 before long. Since Motorola is one of the larger members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the open-source software movement meant to support all things Android, this comes as no surprise.

Perhaps Motorola wants some revenue from software development for the mobile space instead of selling profit-challenged hardware? The company has had a rough time of things recently, but after spinning off its handset division soon, Motorola wireless hardware and software may be on the path to re-inventing themselves.

But can Google's vaunted wireless platform challenge the entrenched iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian space? Together, those three platforms control a huge swath of the smartphone market. Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), which now owns all of Symbian, has the lion's share of smartphone software sales globally. The newer iPhone 3G has launched in dozens of countries and continues to sell very well. Let's not count out Windows Mobile. Even Google may find it hard to take large pieces of market share away from these players. But at least Motorola is only placing a small bet here on Android's success. Three hundred fifty employees isn't too many, is it?

Google Android phone here next month?

Posted Aug 14th 2008 1:32PM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Rumors, Launches, Google (GOOG)

Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been touting its Android mobile operating system platform for over a year. Still without a product to showcase its efforts, many are beginning to wonder if Google has classified Android as "vaporware." Even though the company is itself not making a single piece of hardware, a mobile handset is the product the customer will use. So, Google, where is it?

Apple, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 3G, which admittedly has a few issues, but is still selling like hotcakes, is stealing any thunder Android would have created. T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest mobile operator in the U.S., may have an Android phone on the market sometime in September, according to TMoNews. Still, is it too late for Android to make a huge splash in the mobile pool?

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Google's Android makes no appearance at CES in Las Vegas

Posted Jan 10th 2008 2:38PM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Products and services, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL)

Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)'s Android was really set up to be displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. After such a high-profile and hyped introduction this past fall, it would have been very Apple-esque (as in, releasing products right after announcing them at Macworld) of Google to facilitate some kind of hardware product introduction for this month's CES in Las Vegas. But Google's in the software business, not the hardware business.

What Android product did show up at CES this week, then? Asian electronics manufacturer Wistron NeWeb was the sole supplier of any Android pre-release hardware product. The GW4 model, which reminded some of the ubiquitous BlackBerry handset, was on display this week sporting some common features from today's wireless handset manufacturing universe.

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