tablets

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…

Microsoft is getting a bit of black eye in the press due to its about face on the Ambitious Windows 8 platform change. While the unit numbers match up well against Windows 7, there has already been quite a bit of noise about how steep the…

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…

I have been meaning to write a blurb about Amazon ever since I saw a great article on the benefits of Amazon's low-price strategy a month or so ago. But a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about huge price cuts on Amazon's…

An investment in Microsoft has been dead money for quite a while now. The stock has traded in a pretty narrow range between $22 and $32 except in late 2007 and 2008 during the financial crisis when it spiked and then plunged. The stock does…

Editor's note: The daily post will not appear as regularly over the next week due to Edward's schedule. In addition, Edward may not post weekly or member posts during this time, However, he will try to get as much content out as he can…

Amazon's announcement yesterday was a very big deal. Here's my daily today. It's on Amazon.  I am doing this in two parts with tech articles in this one because I meant to post this part yesterday but I wasn't able to post after 2PM. The…

This weekly newsletter is a gold-level post and follows up on my prediction early last month about 2012 being a period of margin compression in US companies, threatening the rally in stocks and mandating a rotation in investment style or…

Walt Mossberg takes a look at Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet. How does it stack up against the iPad and the new Nook Color?

In the video below, Walt Mossberg reviews the iPad2 for the Wall Street Journal. He likes what he sees. He says, as far as tablet's go, it's "the one to beat" for 2011. Enjoy.