Apple smashes Q1 earnings estimates with mind-boggling results

by Kenny Hemphill on January 25, 2012 in News

Apple has announced that it made $46.33 billion in revenue for its fiscal first quarter, which ended on 31 December. That’s a 77% increase on the previous year. Net profit for the quarter was $13.06 billion, which equates to $13.87 per diluted share. That’s a 131% increase on Q1 2011. Gross margin increased from 38.5% [...]

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Apple UK prices most expensive in Western Europe says Idealo

by Kenny Hemphill on January 24, 2012 in News

The price of Apple products in the UK is higher than anywhere else in Western Europe, when VAT is excluded, according to a report from price comparison company, Idealo. Idealo compared the prices of five Apple products; an iMac, iPad 2; iPod touch; MacBook Air; and MacBook Pro. It priced each of the five on [...]

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Apple launches iBooks 2 with interactive textbooks

by Kenny Hemphill on January 19, 2012 in News
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Apple announced a new version of iBooks today with support for interactive textbooks, and a Mac application for authoring them. Textbooks in iBooks 2 behave like apps and can be updated in the same way. They will be priced at $14.99. UK details have yet to be announced. Publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson [...]

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It’s the Internet, Jim but not as we know it

by Kenny Hemphill on January 18, 2012 in News

Sites across the web went ‘dark’ today in protest at the Protect-IP and Stop Online Piracy bills, currently being debated by US legislators. Wikipedia, Mozilla, WordPress.org, and O’Reilly were among those who choose to close for a day. In addition, the Internet Archive shut down for 12 hours.

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Apple offers cash for old Macs in UK re-use and recycling scheme

by Kenny Hemphill on January 17, 2012 in News

Apple has extended its re-use and recycling programme for unwanted equipment to Europe. The scheme allows you to send an old Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPad to Dataserv, the company Apple is using to run the scheme, and receive cash in return. According to Apple’s recycling web page, Dataserv ‘will estimate the fair market value [...]

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White House signals opposition to SOPA and Protect-IP

by Kenny Hemphill on January 16, 2012 in News

The White House has given its clearest signal yet that President Obama would not sign either of the two anti-piracy bills currently making their way through the US legislative process. In a blog post over the weekend, the White House wrote that Obama will not ‘support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, [...]

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