[at TheStreet] - Lawyers for Samsung offer Apple a patent dispute deal that would allow Samsung to launch the Galaxy Tab 10.1 device in Australia, says a report.

RealMoney contributor Dan Fitzpatrick explains why he has changed his mind on Apple, a stock he previously considered ‘dead money.’ 2010 09 26 09:00

Originally posted 2010-09-26 14:09:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Originally posted 2010-12-10 09:12:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

[at The Wall Street Journal] - Samsung Offers Deal to Apple Lawyers for Samsung Electronics on Friday offered Apple a deal on a patent dispute over the two companies’ tablet computers that could allow the Korean company to launch its Galaxy Tab 10.1 device in Australia.

[Reuters] - The rock-bottom price of the new Kindle Fire tablet computer is raising questions about Amazon.com Inc’s ability to keep up with demand and the device’s effect on the company’s already razor-thin profit margins.

[at The Wall Street Journal] - Ellison Takes New Swings at H-P Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has passed up few chances to tweak rival Hewlett-Packard. But the verbal potshots this week concerning H-P’s $10.3 billion acquisition of Autonomy Corp. reached a new level.

I’ve gotten this link sent to me by about five people, mostly non-traders, non-professional money managers and with more than 1 million views on YouTube, it’s clearly gotten some traction among the masses. Lots of people seem to think this one random dude that one random TV station put on for one random interview on one random day is somehow “THE TRUTH”. As if this dude in the video knows something that you don’t. He doesn’t.

[at San Francisco Chronicle] - Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire is poised to help Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos lure bargain tablet-computer shoppers. It’s unlikely to dislodge Apple from its perch at the top of the market.

U.S. stocks Thursday end a choppy trading session with gains for two of three benchmark indexes, led by the blue-chips, as better U.S. economic data and Germany’s vote to expand its rescue fund bolstered sentiment.

Here’s what I was thinking about this morning when I wasn’t speaking to the Ruidoso Middle School gifted class about how the reason there is no grass on their playground is because the Republican/Democrat Regime spent $12 trillion bailing out Wall Street and now has to cut trillions everywhere they can to pay for it. Not joking, it’s correlated. Anyway, here are today’s links.