by Kenny Hemphill
on 22 April 2011
in News
Apple’s environmental credentials have again been called into question after the company was listed by Greenpeace as the least environmentally-friendly cloud computing businesses.
In a report entitled ‘How Dirty is your Data?’, Greenpeace listed major Internet businesses which rely on data centres to provide cloud computing services. Firms such as Akami, Amazon, Facebook, and Google were ranked according to the amount of energy their data centres consume and the proportion of that consumption which is generated from coal and nuclear sources.
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by Kenny Hemphill
on 21 April 2011
in News
Apple has announced that it made $5.99 billion in its fiscal second quarter, which ended on 26 March. That’s an increase of 95% on the previous year. It recorded record revenue for the quarter, of $24.67 billion, an increase of 83% on the previous year.
Contributing to the record figures were Mac sales of 3.76 million, up 28% year-on-year, and iPhone sales of 18.65 million, more than double the sales of a year ago. iPad sales were 4.7m for the quarter, down on the previous quarter due to difficulties supplying enough iPad 2 units to meet demand. iPod sales were 17% down on last year, at just over nine million.
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