Apple

The new flagship phone for Motorola, Google's mobile hardware subsidiary, the Moto X has grabbed the tech industry's attention. It is made in the US and comes with a lot of flashy customization features. I think the phone is a bit…

Yesterday I wrote up a review of Apple's earnings. And while the earnings are declining, Apple is still in pole position in the mobile space. Nonetheless, Google's product unveiling yesterday was huge because the various products in…

Late in January, I predicted why earnings contractions were coming for Apple in 2013. And since that time, Apple has indeed shown back-to-back quarters of earnings decline, with the announced earnings yesterday much lower than in the…

Real quick here - I wrote you on Friday about T-Mobile USA's moves to unbundle handset subsidies and to reduce pricing. Apparently this is having an impact as all the major carriers have now reacted. Sprint has lowered its unlimited…

In the wake of the NSA spying scandal, I have been moving my data away from large US vendors and increasing my computer security. Both of these issues needed to be addressed but the NSA spying scandal has made them relevant for me - and I…

One of the striking aspects of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Apple's aggressive tax-avoidance strategies is the way the Senators bent over backwards to declare Apple love even as they poked and prodded at…

Gartner's latest market share results are in and they show Google's Android operating system gaining significant market share in Q1 2013 to nearly 75%. That is a jump of almost 20% in just one year.

Today's daily commentary is going to be on technology. Over the past few years, I have been writing here at Credit Writedowns that we are in the midst of a massive platform shift in technology toward a mobile-centric world. As Michael…

Amazon, Apple, and Samsung, three of the biggest names in the technology space, have reported this week. In all three cases, there were gaps in the earnings reports and the earnings outlooks. For me, however, Samsung's report was the best…

What I am seeing is a second great wave of consolidation in the industry. And by that I mean that every large company is getting into the traditional space of every other large company. Let's go down a sample list of some of the changes…