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Palm's Centro continues to sell well, but it's going to be a long time before the company's business gets back in the black.

Palm reported its financial results for its fiscal third quarter Thursday. Let's get the good news out of the way first: the Centro lifted Palm to its best smartphone quarter in its history, with 833,000 units on a "sell-through" basis, meaning phones that were actually purchased by people, not retailers.

The problem is that at $99, the Centro doesn't generate a lot of revenue or profit on those unit … Read more

Apple CEO Steve Jobs fielded several wide-ranging questions from Apple shareholders Tuesday at the company's annual meeting, covering ground from the iPhone to the plans for a post-Jobs Apple.

For the most part, Apple's shareholder meeting is just as boring as anyone's. This year was a little more interesting, as a non-binding shareholder proposal was approved advocating that the board of directors give shareholders input into executive compensation. But the most compelling part of the meeting was the hour or so in which Jobs, COO Tim Cook, and CFO Peter Oppenheimer fielded questions from a wide range … Read more

Updated March 5 at 5:40 p.m. PT to clarify paragraph on Intel's flash business.

Intel's profits will fade a bit in the first quarter as the company bears the brunt of falling flash memory prices.

The company announced late on Monday that it was reducing its expectations for gross margin from 56 percent to 54 percent "due to lower than expected prices for NAND flash memory chips." In a way, it's a narrowing of Intel's forecast, since the previous expectations came with a "plus or minus a couple of points" … Read more

Smartphone customers keep flocking to the BlackBerry, and there are signs that it's not just harried executives signing up for service.

Research In Motion announced Thursday that it expects to have added 15 percent to 20 percent more subscribers than it initially forecast for its fourth fiscal quarter, which ends next week. The company originally thought it would add a net total of 1.82 million subscribers during the period, but strong holiday sales and the absence of a usual seasonal drop-off are credited with the surge.

Long the smartphone of choice for the U.S. businessperson, the BlackBerry … Read more

It's not going to be a happy holiday season for Palm employees.

The company issued a statement after the close of the market Thursday warning that revenue for its second fiscal quarter would be about $30 million less than it had predicted. In addition, its gross margin is expected to be about four points lower. It's just the latest item of bad news from a company that can't wait for 2007 to end.

The reasons? Palm failed to qualify "a product that the company had previously expected to have certified within the quarter," it said … Read more

UPDATED 3:42 p.m.--Added a few more details, numbers, and statements from Apple executives from the conference call.

Apple reported another stellar quarter Monday, exceeding estimates in just about every facet of its business.

For the company's fourth fiscal quarter, which ended September 29, the company reported revenue of $6.22 billion and profit of $904 million, or $1.01 in earnings per share. Wall Street analysts had expected Apple to report revenue of $6.1 billion and earnings per share of 86 cents, according to estimates compiled by Thomson Financial.

Apple has now sold 1.39 … Read more

I often talk about blended results and refer to Google universal results. It has become an important tenet of SEO, yet its exact impact continues to be defined. A great example of Google universal and blended search results can be found in reference to one of my recent posts here. Last week I addressed progressive enhancement with regard SEO, and as a result of Google's addition of news and blog items in their results, that posting landed on page one of for the ultra-competitive search phrase "seo."

More than likely, Google applies a greater focus on freshness … Read more

Those of you who haven't yet installed a link scanning or Web site rating program for your Firefox or IE-based browser should hop to it--and consider using LinkScanner Lite when you do.

I've been using LinkScanner Lite and McAfee Site Adviser on both Firefox and IE browsers. Overkill? No way. Each program serves the greater goal of alerting you to dangerous links but differ in their approaches.… Read more