Psystar's recent legal woes keep proving the company's insanity. New documents show that these guys planned to sell at least 1.45 million Mac clones by 2011. How many did they actually sell in the past year? 768.The best part is those are conservative estimates. According to Psystar's aggressive predictions (divulged...

Psystar's recent legal woes keep proving the company's insanity. New documents show that these guys planned to sell at least 1.45 million Mac clones by 2011. How many did they actually sell in the past year? 768.The best part is those are conservative estimates. According to Psystar's aggressive predictions (divulged...

Sales are only slightly stronger this year compared with a year ago, according to a survey.

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Technology icon Apple (AAPL) personifies the "N" in CAN SLIM. The company has rolled out a steady stream of innovative, new products over the years. Its eye-pleasing Mac computers accounted for nearly half of all U.S. computer sales in October, noted Betanews. Its iPod devices are the gold standard among portable music players. And since its introduction more than two years ago, iPhone smart phones have sold nearly 21 million units worldwide.

Apple's iPhone will be released for the first time in South Korea this Saturday and is available from KT Corporation, the country's second largest mobile carrier. The iPhone will be offered in three different models, with a price range of $342 to free, depending on the service plan chosen.

Apple's Mac Mini could really have become the "most important Mac", as Steve Jobs once called it. Seb Janacek explains what happened instead. As a Mac user it's not often I gaze admiringly at the product pages on Dell's website but this week was a notable exception. The object of...

Apple's Mac Mini could really have become the "most important Mac", as Steve Jobs once called it. Seb Janacek explains what happened instead. As a Mac user it's not often I gaze admiringly at the product pages on Dell's website but this week was a notable exception. The object of...

As Lenovo steps back into the mobile business, it's becoming clear that Android will democratize the hardware for mobile phones allowing the PC makers (both Dell and Acer are using it) to make a compelling handsets and put the hurt on traditional handset makers.

Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone will hit the South Korean market on Saturday, a market which is dominated by competitive domestic manufacturers Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. (NYSE: LPL). They together hold over 80 per cent of the total domestic market of about 47 million handsets.

Though touted as the world’s most sophisticated cell phone market, South Koreans pay the highest prices in the world for cell phones and among the highest for wireless service. The average selling price for Samsung and LG phones is nearly twice as much in South Korea as it is outside the country. The introduction of Apple iphones is going to create a price war that will be good for the domestic consumer in the long run.

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Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) started its annual Black Friday sales with $101 discounts on MacBook Pros and iMacs. But this is nothing compared to the discounts being offered by its authorized resellers that are offering as much as $300 off on MacBook Pros and $180 off on iMacs. Appleinsider gives details on best prices of Macs and iPods.

MacBooks

Micro Center is offering for in-store pickup the best Mac systems deal for Black Friday, Apple’s spanking new 2.26GHz 13.3” white MacBook for $799.99 where there is a strict limit of one per customer only. This is after the Visa Prepaid card $200 mail in rebate.

Apart from the mail in rebate, Amazon.com offers this for $884.98 with an option of Saturday delivery. MacConnection offers the lowest price at $849.99.

MacBook Pros

MacConnection offers $150 off on the 2.26GHz 13” MacBook Pro, $200 on 2.53 GHz 13” MacBook Pro and $300 on the 2.80GHz 15” MacBook Pro and 2.80GHz 17” MacBook Pro.

iMacs

On iMacs, MacConnection has $150 off on the 3.06 Ghz Dual 21” iMac and 3.06GHz Dual 21” ATI iMac, $170 on the 3.06Ghz Dual 27” Mac and $180 on 2.66GHz Quad 27” iMac.

According to numbers presented by the National Retail Federation, U.S. holiday retail sales from brick-and-mortar outfits will be down 1% this year. On the other hand, comScore (SCOR) expects online retail sales to be up 3% in November and December. The online retail segment is still a very small portion of the ...

Internet fax to email service provider j2 Global Communications Inc. (JCOM) has announced that its flagship eFax line of products will now be available in 3,500 cities across 46 countries. This indicates a growth of around 72% in the last three years. j2 Global delivers integrated communications services through its unique digital facsimile and voice messaging systems.

Individuals and corporates are now increasingly utilizing digital faxing services to reduce costs and improve security. This helps j2Global’s corporate fax system to flourish during the economic downturn. Digital facsimile system is widely used by financial services, insurance, and real estate companies throughout the world. Large enterprises are now focused on reducing hardware footprints and operating expenses. The company commands approximately 30% of the world digital faxing system, well ahead of its close rivals Captaris Inc. (CAPA), EasyLink Services Int. Corp. (ESIC), and Premiere Global Services Inc. (PGI).

j2 Global’s virtual PBX called “Onebox" will now provide mobile application support for the Research In Motion’s (RIMM) Blackberry and Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone platforms. Both of these platforms have extended the functionality of the web-based Onebox interface for mobile users adding message center access, voicemail display/playback, voice-to-text transcription display and Click-to-Call via SpeedDial list or phone-based contact lists.

We believe management is effectively executing the company’s businesses especially in a sluggish economic environment. j2 Global’s business is extremely sensitive to overall macroeconomic factors, particularly weakness in credit markets. The company has a vast majority of credit-sensitive customers from lending and mortgage industries and other financial institutions. According to our view, the company’s strong financial position and diversified products/services pipeline, in synergy with the long-term growth prospects for outsourced value-added messaging services, may drive valuation levels higher in the near future.

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Apple has unveiled its Black Friday sales, and the deals are similar to those the company offered last year - $101 off the iMac and MacBook Pro, as well as savings on iPods and Apple TV. Though many retailers are running their Black Friday deals into the weekend, Apple's sales...

Apple has unveiled its Black Friday sales, and the deals are similar to those the company offered last year - $101 off the iMac and MacBook Pro, as well as savings on iPods and Apple TV. Though many retailers are running their Black Friday deals into the weekend, Apple's sales...