Year: 2010

Analyst keen on iPhone, iPad, iPod shipment levels

In a note to clients — as reported by “Barron’s (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/09/30/apple-stifel-repeats-buy-rating-ups-tgt-to-360-from-350/?mod=yahoobarrons), Stifel Nicolas analyst Doug Reid today repeats his Buy rating on Apple, boosting his price target on the stock to $360, from $350. He gave three reasons for the higher estimates and target:

° Checks find iPad and iPod shipments are tracking ahead of prior estimates.

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MacFlux web site creation tool revved to version 3

Macware has released MacFlux 3 (http://www.macwareinc.com/products/MacFlux/overview.html), an update of the web site creation tool for Mac OS X. It’s an Universal Binary product so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

MacFlux provides the tools to create and publish your own web site the same day you start using it: pre-designed website templates, a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface, simple palettes for style changes, and an editing interface that shows the website the way it would be displayed on the Internet. Professional web designers can even drill down to the source code.

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Study: GPS, Accelerometers, gyroscopes coming to more smartphones

ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com) anticipates that the sensor-driven user interface (UI) will be an emergent theme in the next wave of mobile UI innovation — turning objects, locations, and people into networked, interactive elements.

By 2013, 85% of smartphones will ship with GPS, over 50% will ship with accelerometers, and almost 50% will have gyroscopes, says the research group.

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