Stephen Baker  says Apple should drop the price of MacBook to below $800. This is what happens when you compete on price (because there’s always someone to undercut you): Dell cuts workers in NC, worldwide, details scarce. Is that so hard to understand? Remember, Stephen Baker, once you go l...

Techdirt: Microsoft has been pushing hard to get Microsoft resellers to pay up for licenses they sold to companies. The problem is that thousands of those underlying companies have gone bankrupt — but Microsoft insists the resellers still need to pay. Their response has been to stop selling Mi...

I know small ass company in the bay area that threw up a site and had 100,000 downloads in a matter of days (4 to be exact). Microsoft executives have said that their problem isn’t as much a lack of Windows Mobile apps, but rather a lack of a centralized place to find them. Wounded brand, apat...

Because firms are awash in money after laying off everybody and business is booming: “With the potential release of Windows 7 in either 3Q or 4Q of this year,� he writes in a report to clients issued Thursday morning, “we believe we could finally have a Windows operating system worth upgrading...

Why does every analyst inevitably recommend price cut as the only way to compete? Despite a tottering economy and slowing Mac sales, Apple only cut the entry-level price of its Mac Pro workstation, leaving the prices of Mac Minis and iMacs untouched. With most PC makers slashing prices or embracing ...

BW asks: Can Microsoft Give Apple A Run For The Money In Touch Computing? If it means creating ungodly expensive and useless hardware that will be thrown out in a few years because no one wants them, yes, Microsoft will win. Apple will not compete with Microsoft Surface or trying to introduce “...

Cue up the Survivor theme song. And they come out swingin’: Def Leppard got half the equation right. Times are hard, people want to be entertained, and they want a lot of value for their money. So the band is touring with both Poison and Cheap Trick (the latter slumming for the summer, apparen...

I suppose it really couldn’t get worse than getting laid-off: In a letter this weekend, Microsoft (MSFT) is telling some of its laid off employees it overpaid their severance. Won’t they please write out a check payable to “Microsoft Corporation” and send some of it back? Har...

Apple still has “ideas” for Mac netbook, says analyst: An analyst who met with Apple recently believes the company has “ideas” about producing a Mac netbook, an ultra portable laptop computer. No fucking kidding. Steve Jobs said that he has ideas about “netbooks” ...

Valleywag: “Steve Jobs has started writing a book,” a plugged-in tipster tells me. It’s the barest of rumors, but the book industry is already eagerly anticipating the Apple CEO’s autobiography. I call bullshit. Why not pass the time writing a memoir? Because he is an intens...