Today should be a momentous day for Research in Motion and Verizon as the two unleash the new BlackBerry Storm on the market. It's a slick, touch screen BlackBerry that could offer Apple's iPhone its first real competition.     Read More

Dell's bottom-line beat during the third quarter is raising a lot of eyebrows; almost as much as the company's dismal revenue number. So what's going on?    Read More

My call went out last week to get a dialogue going for gadgets, gizmos and electronic doo-dads that are topping your list, ahead of the big holiday shopping season, and companies have been responding.    Read More

It's a big day for Netflix with the service going live on Microsoft's Xbox 360 platform. But there's one big thing lacking and you can thank the heated rivalry between Sony and Microsoft for it and I'm getting an earful from some of you.    Read More

Another day, another 20 percent wiped away from Yahoo shares, and just when you thought things had a chance of getting rosier now that CEO Jerry Yang has stepped aside.    Read More

Yang and Board finally manned up and made the tough choice for him to step out from day-to-day control of the company he helped create, and they helped drive into the ground together because of short-sightedness, hubris, and delusions of grandeur. I won't say greed.    Read More

Just a quickie mention that caught my eye: during times of recession, it seems consumer spending, holiday cheer and even available holiday party dates are in short supply.   Read More

No one knows for sure what the holiday shopping season will bring Apple, but it's looking increasingly like some good times. I've spent some time talking about this on the air: the anecdotal scenarios I'm tracking from one Apple store to the next. Well, anecdotal now meets market research in the form of new data from Piper Jaffray.   Read More

Intel had planned to hold its mid-quarter update on December 4, but a few days ago, when it became clear that "orders just died," as one Intel source told me last night, the company knew it had to say something.    Read More

Just last week, JD Power made headlines when it released a study showing that Apple's iPhone was the top mobile device among business users. It was a surprise since Apple was clearly trying to create a consumer-oriented smart phone to fill the gap created by the business-centric BlackBerry from Research in Motion.    Read More