Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter ending January 24, 2011. In the conference call, Apple posted record revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share…
Apple’s market cap has been growing quite a bit over the past couple of years—everyone knows this—and it has been neck-and-neck with Exxon Mobil, and the world’s most valuable technology company. Still, by hitting a record-high market cap of $400 billion yesterday, Apple is worth more than some countries…
At its education event, Apple made significant updates to a number of their education products. iBooks has been updated to version 2, and includes support for textbooks, while iTunes U is now its own iPad app. The biggest news (we think) is the new iBooks Author app for the Mac. Not only is it free, but enables anyone to create rich content…
After about a year and a half, AT&T is going to change its iPhone and iPad data plans again. Previously, the plans consisted 200MB for $15, 2GB for $25, or 4GB for $45 w/tethering. Users who had the long-discontinued unlimited for $30 plan have recently been experiencing throttling if they go over 2GB of data per month. The new plans are only slight increases, in both prices and allotments…
Eric & Matt catch up on news that happened over the break, including the knighting of Jonathan Ive, Apple’s education event, Target and other retailers, first cell phones, Raspberry Pi, iPad rumors, and much more…
We’ve had pretty good reliability on our site—we’ve only had some downtime due to server upgrades or major relaunches, but we’re shutting things down on Wednesday, January 18 to protest SOPA and PIPA, two bills that are designed to stop Internet piracy (good), but have a lot of other implications, including censorship (bad)…
I came across a discussion this weekend that got me thinking about something that hasn’t gotten much coverage in the past 4 1/2 years—the iPhone’s silent switch is a unique piece of hardware. This was kicked off by a story about a man whose iPhone went off at a New York Philharmonic concert, only his phone was silenced. As it turns out, it was an alarm, not a phone call…
