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Whoa! Nintendo lost $575 million bucks! Remember when it was hard to find the Nintendo Wii? Or when the handheld Nintendo DS was the handheld game to have. That was years ago, believe it or not. In the meantime, the gaming system has been under pressure by the more powerful Microsoft XBOX 360 and Sony PS3, while the handheld is losing ground to the iPhone and Android phones - tablets, too.
Nintendo is promising Wii U in the Fall, while Microsoft is planning the next generation of the XBOX in 2013.
$575 million dollars . Yikes.
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I read that ATT lost well over 600K DSL subscribers in the 4th quarter of 2011. Now, in 2011 I switched from ATT DSL to ATT U-verse. But it seems that not all of the folks leaving DSL went to U-verse. ATT actually lost customers to cable internet.
People are craving bandwidth for streaming movies, playing games, and surfing the web. All our iPads and Androids consume bandwidth to download music and web content. DSL is just too slow.
I was surprised that more folks weren't signing up for U-verse. But not all homes have fiber to the house, and that sends them to the cable companies to get the bandwidth they need.
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All I heard in President Obama’s State of the Union was “raise taxes” and blah, blah, blah.
You?
Seriously! It sounds noble and altruistic to go after those evil people who make money. But it’s THEIR money. They worked hard. They earned it. They’re even following the current tax laws in the tax code, and paying what they owe to the government. If they feel under taxed and want to contribute additional money to the Treasury, this rich folks are free to write a check! I’m looking at you, Warren Buffett.
When you add up the federal tax rate, the state tax rate, the local tax rate (in some cities), the payroll tax (Social Security and Medicare – and double it for the self-employed), many of The Rich are already paying over 50% in taxes.
Over 50% in taxes. That’s not enough?
I didn’t even include sales taxes, and everything else from taxes to fees on our homes, utility bills, cell phone bills, etc…
We’re all taxed enough, Mr. President.
$AAPL – Apple is known for sandbagging their estimates and killing on the numbers. But Chinese fighting for iPhone 4s phones can’t be wrong. Everyone wants an iPhone.
No exceptions.
Apple has the formula of delivering the must-have phone of the year once a year, and is now rolling the phones out world-wide.
It’s raining money.
