Reuters | Samsung delays new Android model release after Jobs death

“We decided it was not the right time to announce a new product while the world was expressing tribute to Steve Jobs’ passing,” a Samsung spokesman said.

Reuters | AT&T sold 200,000 iPhones in 12 hours

AT&T sold more than 200,000 of Apple Inc’s latest iPhone in the first 12 hours and said it had seen “extraordinary demand” for a gadget unveiled a day before the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Amazon is literally enforcing their new products, giving them as much of support possible. Estimated prices of kindles are currently  around $250, well above $200 price range of Amazon Kindle. Barnes & Noble was doing….. well, in terms of business, not fine in e-reader market. Amazon was announcing their Kindle and e-book sales everyday, how amazing it grew, but B&N? Not exactly. Rather Barnes & Noble came up with Nook Color without any hesitation, resulting bombarded by iPad. Besides, they used Android in E-Reader, what a failure is that?

Now Amazon realized the market movement, they are going cheap as possible. When first Kindle came out, it was super expansive, people questioned the needs of E-Reader. Nowadays, people just get it, in stead of nice cherry wood bookshelf. If it breaks? No worry, just get another one, you no longer have to call carpenter, and pay him hundred bucks.

Barnes & Noble has to be more wise, realistic in this matter. They do not understand what it means to use E-Reader. Consumers are not willing to pay a penny in E-Reader, who would pay for paper inside books? What Barnes & Noble is seeing right now is before 2008, not after 2008. -R

Forbes | Barnes & Noble: Facing An E-Reader Price War

The new models ratchet down the going market for e-readers, a development that is going to make life a little harder for Amazon’s rivals. Barclays Capital analyst Alan Rifkin today warned that a price war looms – and that’s going to mean new pressure on the financial results at Barnes & Noble, as it cuts prices of the Nook line to stay competitive.

I believe when the first iPad was launched by Steve Jobs, every analysts were arguing Jobs must have gone out of his mind after his success in smartphone business. After all, no one believed people would buy iPad during the time of recession especially, and drove them to think “iPad will drive Apple to 2nd failure.” Believe it or not, personally I believe iPad was 3rd success for Apple and Steve Jobs.

There are two things that is very alike between all Apple products: 1. they never have best hardware and 2. but they always come up with best software. It’s debatable problem, whether Apple has best software engineer and softwares available to market, but I believe so. Mac has been revolutionary since its birth, and when Macintosh totally failed Apple and pushing it to further ahead to the death pit, Steve Jobs rescued his own company like a hero. Yes, like a hero from fairytale. He came back where he truly belongs, and claimed what he wanted, putting everything into what it supposed to be. Too much Jobs fan stories? Not so much for Apple investors or stockholders.

When first iPhone came out, there were one PC magazine journalist, -I am not planning on to mention this idiot’s name- who argued iPhone is a result of Jobs’ arrogance. He claimed, though Jobs had quite of triumph over music and mp3 player market -later renamed iPod market- Steve will not achieve that in smartphone business. He  continued, touch screen technologies are not there yet for real consumers. Result? He got fired.

Now we are looking at new revolutionary UI – voice recognition. Unlike touch screen, and despite our hopeful expectations, it’s very likely that Siri will have some flaws. Or is it not? And if does what it supposed to do then it is truly Apple’s new innovation. -R

Forbes | Apple’s Next Big Thing Already Here: Siri More Than Speech Recognition, Analyst Asserts

Siri is unique because it meshes voice recognition capabilities with both sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities and tight integration with the phone’s other software — such as its calendar and address book — and its GPS system. That allows the software to not just recognize a spoken command, but react differently based on where a user is and who the user knows, ask for clarification, and follow a long string of related commands. “Quite simply, we have not seen a demonstration of comparable AI in any other consumer system,” Cross writes.

It is clearly known by Portal 2 players that GlaDOS never likes people getting couple of pounds. Actually she just doesn’t like ‘fat.’ So…. If you either don’t like combustible lemon or gaining weight right now, drop whatever you’re doing, and start work out.

Oh and by the way, cake is so delicious. -R

Wall Street Journal gave me great insight, actually supporting one of my recent and decent thoughts on Tim Cook. When I took a glance at his keynote, well presumably I couldn’t understand a bit why does he not stand up and say “since I am healthy new CEO, I will do all the keynotes.” Because he is in new position, where once Jobs dictated, and now Jobs out of line in business after all the works he has done, -Thanks Jobs- Cook must make his own image, not just copycat Steve’s.

WSJ | Apple Must Face Rivals Without Its Guru

“Tim Cook doesn’t need to be Steve Jobs—he needs to be the best Tim Cook he can be,” said Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

The biggest problem with Tim Cook is, that he seems to be stuck in the middle of Steve Jobs and the role Apple CEO. He tries to be as much as official, formal, and yet he’s wearing jeans and shirts in Keynotes, speaking in a tone which you would use to memorize highschool english vocabs. -Oh, I hated those- And apparently, he was doing his Keynotes, not memorizing vocabs. And it is more appropriate for both Apple and Cook to have him more prepared for this.

I believe, Tim Cook needs an image of his own. He’s stuck in the middle. He should be new GURU, not just apprentice. -R

I still cannot believe he’s not with us anymore. I still have my iPhone in my hand, but not him in my iPhone. -R

A/C and heating were always controversial problem in green technology, and many of green movements, and protestors urged letting temperature to be as it be. Which I totally disagree: if we are giving up neat environment for environment, why don’t we give up foods first? Funny enough, no one is brave enough to urge we should eat less to stop poverty in Africa. Nonetheless there are people saying “we should stop using AC for earth.” And it is true, by nature, I am paying half grand bucks every month to have 74 constant in my room.

Anyway, economical, eco-friendly solution is here. I am certain every single one of you will be inetersted to here. -R

Forbes | Powering air-conditioning systems with solar energy

Heating and cooling buildings consumes a huge part of our available global energy. According to The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), buildings account for more than 50% of the world’s energy consumption, with the resulting carbon emissions substantially more than those in the transportation sector. And, a new study on energy efficiency in buildings (EEB) indicates the global building sector needs to cut energy consumption in buildings 60 percent by 2050 to help meet global climate change targets.

When I first bought my Kindle, I was well convinced by Amazon CEO Bezos interview. He said in the interview, that Kindle is very alike to iPad because it seeks Niche market. I totally agreed with it: iPad has ‘genetic deformity’ born with. Current iPad LCD screen is not Retina screen as commonly believed it is, rather just ordinary LCD screen that is used in any devices. Look at closely, you can see the lines that are dividing each pixels. How about Kindle? It doesn’t have touchscreen, poor response time, and even worse, it doesn’t have Retina Display. But It had e-ink. That’s all it mattered to me, and the readers. (or buyers)

But now look at reality, or at least give it some attentions. Amazon just launched Kindle Fire, color tablet version of Kindle. Since I am not in such of position to comment on table market, cause I’ve already own iPad, but none of android tablets, I will not comment further. But look at what they said: technology is not there yet to provide full experience for reader. Now they are declaring ‘it is time,’ but is it? LCD screen is identical to one that iPad is using, resolution is bit higher, but is it the one we wanted? -R

Yahoo, after fired Bartz, assured the investors and employees that the company is not for sale -at least for now. Yang discussed about company’s future in something called ‘memo’ to employees, and said it will take months to take such path. Board members are looking for new CEOs -for the record, I think this will give such a boost to job market- and their advisers are working out for plan.

Reuters contacted Yahoo, but was declined to comment in any matters.

“While we will move with a sense of urgency, this process will take time,” the letter said. “Months, not weeks.”

Let’s put this straight forward. Several companies, including HP, Yahoo, eBay, and etc. are seeking for new CEO just because they are in crisis. Unfortunately people are not even trying to use those products. Yahoo, one of search giant, rue the day once, and forcefully retired by new-growing search engine Google, which happened decade ago. eBay, in terms of business though they were successful, people lost such of belief in it as soon as economy was struck down. HP was losing ever since tablet and smartphone came out.

Analysts argue back and forth about HP. On one side, they may happen to succeed in transforming their business into IBM-like, which is business-only industry firm. Or on the other side, since they are one of biggest tech giant, they may be able to recruit some geniuses from other companies, or even buy some.

Reuters | HP’s board may oust CEO, hire eBay vet: source

Hewlett-Packard Co’s board convened on Wednesday to consider ousting Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker after less than a year on the job and replacing him temporarily with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a source familiar with the matter said.

Reuters | Google preparing for Senate hearing

Google’s Eric Schmidt, the online search giant’s point man for all things Washington, goes before a Senate panel this week to argue the company is not a rival-abusing bully, but in fact is struggling to stay on top.

I wrote a short article couple years ago about whether Apple is monopoly in any criteria of global business. I was obviously wrong, but accusation was regarded with respect from readers, commenting positively on “freshness” of an article. Apple inc. is a company which makes iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes, and Mac, but they have failed to make any monopoly in any market. Rather, Google was there, eating up everything they achieved.

So later on, I wrote an article whether Google is monopoly. You see, people tend to believe Apple has largest fan boys, but truth is it’s always Google. Google fan boys came in, saying “Google is justice, protecting us from vicious Apple and Microsoft” and carpet bombed the blog. -and again fan boys tend to not have so much of fire-power in online-

Google will explain the current market share, arguing they are not monopoly. Nonetheless, now the markets bow to Google, who would dare say they are? -R

Forbes | These 5 Stocks Will Benefit From Windows 8

What is the reason behind this? Windows 8 will now run on ARM-based (NASDAQ: ARMH) chips, as opposed to just Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) chips. This is a huge design win for ARM-based chips, such as Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), NVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), Qualcomm (NASDQ: QCOM) and others which have historically been shut out of the PC market. No more.

So basically what Raznick’s suggestion is, buy hardware industry stocks. Makes sense, but then will it benefit investors? That’s the question. -R

Reuters | Verizon says storms, strike cost it up to $250 million

Verizon Communications (VZ.N) faces a bill of up to $250 million due to its labor strike and recent storms, which will also slow down customer additions for the next few months.

It’s not so big surprise Verizon is struggling from property damage. Strike is something different, but then storm hit east coast was horrible enough to give major damages to phone lines and networks.