Archive | October 19th, 2009
Apple delivers stellar earnings yet again, sells over 3 million Macs, 7.4 million iPhones
Apple today released its earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2009, and it smashed through analyst expectations, delivering earnings of $1.82 per dilluted share on revenue of $9.87 billion. During the same quarter a year ago, Apple reported earnings of $1.26 a dilluted share. The consensus on Wall Street was $1.42 a share on [...]
Continue reading...Did Kevin Rose spill the beans on the Apple tablet, or lack thereof?
19. October 2009
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose’s track record regarding Apple rumors is spotty. Sometimes he’s way off base and sometimes he’s right on the money (i.e re: cut, copy, and paste on the iPhone). That being the case, take this with a huge grain of salt. This past weekend, the digg founder was out enjoying a few libations [...]
Continue reading...Adobe’s Photoshop.com iPhone app nets 1 million downloads in just a few days
19. October 2009
Last week, Adobe released its Photoshop.com Mobile app for the iPhone. The app, naturally, is a striped down version of Adobe’s popular Photoshop editing program and so far it’s off to a more than impressive start. John Nack, writing for Adobe, writes that the app has already been downloaded over 1 million times in less than 2 [...]
Continue reading...Flip4Mac updated for Snow Leopard
19. October 2009
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Flip4Mac WMV is a great plugin for the Mac which lets users stream and view Windows Media files via a web browser or from within Quicktime. The plugin is a must-have for Mac users because, let’s face it, we still live in a Windows world and sometimes you just can’t get around sites that exclusively offer [...]
Continue reading...Looking ahead to Apple’s earnings conference call
19. October 2009
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Later today, Apple will release its earnings for the quarter gone by and the consensus on Wall St. is that Apple release earnings of $1.42 a share on revenue of $9.2 billion. Here are many analysts are predicting: Mike Abramsky/RBC Capital, $1.47 EPS, 7.5 million iPhones sold and 2.9 million Macs Tony Sacconaghi/Berstein Research, $1.47 [...]
Continue reading...Early Motorola Droid hands-on impresses
19. October 2009
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The ninja like folks over at the Boy Genius Report have gotten their hands on the Motorola Droid – you know, the phone that does what the iPhone iDoesn’t – and their initial impressions are overwhelmingly positive. The screen is reportedly huge and awesome, and more importantly, the device is a screamer, sporting a TI [...]
Continue reading...Verizon takes on the iPhone in new commercial, and fails
19. October 2009
About two weeks ago, Verizon launched a commercial which took a not so subtle jab at AT&T by misappropriating Apple’s famous iPhone tagline, “There’s an app for that”, and replacing it with “There’s a map for that”. Now, Verizon is back for more and this time it has the upcoming, and Android powered, Motorola Droid [...]
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19. October 2009
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