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Apple made record profits and record revenues in the run-up to Christmas as shoppers bought more Macs, iPhones, and iPads than analysts predicted.
The company said that in the three months to 25 December, net profit was $6bn (£3.7bn) on revenues of $26.74bn.
Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, said in a statement: “We had a phenomenal holiday quarter.”
There was no further mention of his health problems following Monday’s news that Mr Jobs is taking medical leave.
While he is continuing as chief executive and will be involved in any major decisions, day-to-day running has passed to chief operating officer Tim Cook.
Apple’s first-quarter profit is a 71% jump on the same period last year.
Daniel Ernst, analyst at Hudson Square Research, said: “Apple blew away earnings expectations, again. It seems to be a recurring event for these guys.
“It was across the board, top to bottom, another great quarter,” he said.
The company sold 4.13 million Macs during the quarter, a 23% rise year-on-year, and 16.24 million iPhones, a leap of 86%.
iPod sales fell 7% to 19.45 million units. Apple sold 7.33 million iPads.
Shares in the company, which had fallen during the day, rose 4% in after-hours trading to about $354.
Courtesy of bbc.co.uk
Mark Warren
www.nemark.co.uk
T-Mobile has clarified its policy on mobile data use after anger from its customers.
The company initially said that it would slash the amount of data all of its customers could use to 500 MB.
For Android handset owners, previously allocated 3GB per month, the drop would have been more than 80%.
But the company has now said that the changes would be introduced from 1 February, “to new and upgrading customers only”.
“There will be no change to the data packages for existing customers for the duration of their contract and we apologise for any confusion caused,” said Lysa Hard, VP for T-Mobile UK.
On 10 January, the firm said that it would reduce the monthly allowance for most people from 1GB (gigabyte) to 500 MB (megabytes).
The company said the move was necessary to provide “a better experience for all our customers who use internet on their phone”.
But many were not happy.
“Given that data allowance was a driving force in choosing T-Mobile over competitors last year, this is a huge blow,” disgruntled T-Mobile customer Steve Anderson told the BBC after the policy was announced.
The caps followed similar moves by mobile operators including Vodafone and O2 in the summer of 2010.
Having initially followed suit, Three decided to scrap its data caps completely in December 2010.
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Mark Warren
www.nemark.co.uk
Low-cost computers are to be offered as part of a government scheme to encourage millions of people in the UK to get online for the first time.
Prices will start at £98 for a refurbished PC, with subsidised net connections available for £9 a month.
The 12-month trial is part of the Race Online 2012 scheme, which aims to reach out to the 9.2 million adults in the UK who are currently offline.
Distributor Remploy hopes to sell 8,000 machines in the next 12 months.
“Motivation and inspiration are still two of the biggest barriers [to using the internet], but clearly perception of price is another big deal for people,” Martha Lane Fox, the UK’s digital champion, told the Financial Times. “A good price point is certainly part of what helps people get online.”
Web barrier
Race Online 2012, which aims to “make the UK the first nation in the world where everyone can use the web”, estimates that of the more than nine million adults in the UK who are currently not online, four million are socially and economically disadvantaged.
The cheap computers will run open-source software, such as Linux, and will include a flat-screen monitor, keyboard, mouse, warranty, dedicated telephone helpline and delivery.
The packages will be sold through 60 UK online centres which offer IT training and Remploy, an organisation that specialises in helping disabled and disadvantaged people find work and which runs the computer recycling scheme e-cycle.
Race Online 2012 has also negotiated cheap internet packages using a mobile dongle, costing £9 a month or £18 for three months, to help people access the web.
Its research suggests that going online can save people around £560 a year and that thousands of jobs are offered exclusively online.
But the cost of owning and running a computer and net connection is often seen as a barrier for many people.
As a result, there have been several previous government-sponsored initiatives that offered cheap PCs.
The £300m Home Access Scheme began to distribute free laptops to pupils from poor backgrounds in January 2010. It was scrapped by the coalition government eight months later.
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Mark Warren
www.nemark.co.uk
Apple boss Steve Jobs has announced that he is to take “medical leave” from the company.
In an e-mail to employees he said he was taking the break to focus on his health.
He said he would continue as chief executive of Apple and be involved in any major decisions. Day-to-day running of the company will pass to Tim Cook.
In late 2008 to mid-2009 Mr Jobs was absent from Apple for six months to have a liver transplant.
It was part of the series of treatments he has undergone for pancreatic cancer. He was first diagnosed as suffering from the cancer in 2004 and underwent surgery later that year to remove a tumour from his pancreas.
In his e-mail Mr Jobs said he would be back at work as soon as he can.
“At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company,” he said in an e-mail.
“I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple’s day to day operations.”
Mr Cook is currently the firm’s chief operating officer. He has run the company day-to-day before now during previous times when Mr Jobs has been dealing with his health problems.
The announcement was made on a public holiday in the US when there is no trading in company stocks and shares.
However, Apple shares closed down 6.4% on the Frankfurt stock exchange. Year-on-year, they are up 79% and over 24 months up 328%.
The news comes ahead of Apple’s first quarter results, due on 18 January.
Mr Jobs is an iconic presence at Apple and is widely credited as the architect of its current run of success based around products such as the iPad and iPhone.
The absence comes as Apple is rumoured to be preparing to launch the second version of its iPad – the successor to the tablet computer it launched in 2010.
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Mark Warren
www.nemark.co.uk
Microsoft must think beyond the PC if it is to weather the changes due to hit in the next five years.
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Apple is cashing in on the popularity of its iPhone and iPad to boost demand for its oldest product, the Macintosh. The company announced that its popular app store for the iPhone and the iPad
would soon be coming to its laptops.
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Microsoft Office 365, cloud computing is here now, well next year actually!
Attacks on computer networks are among the biggest emerging threats to the UK, the government has said in its new national security strategy.
The report highlights cyber crime, alongside terrorism and a flu pandemic, among the key dangers to UK security
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Lets hope when they become mainstream they look a little nicer than this!
Google is developing – and has extensively tested – technology to build an autonomously self-driving car, Google said on Saturday.
Moreover, Google engineers have already driven a fleet of them around the San Francisco Bay Area, to the tune of over 140,000 miles, Google said in a blog post.
Google said that the cars “just drove from our Mountain View campus to our Santa Monica office and on to Hollywood Boulevard,” Sebastian Thrun, a distinguished Google software engineer, said in the blog post. “They’ve driven down Lombard Street, crossed the Golden Gate bridge, navigated the Pacific Coast Highway, and even made it all the way around Lake Tahoe.”
Although described as being in the “experimental stage,” Google said it hoped that its technology would be used to develop the self-driving cars of tomorrow, cutting the lives lost in auto accidents – 1.2 million, according to the World Health Organization, by as much as half.
The cars themselves leverage technology used in tests sponsored by DARPA, which has sponsored competitions to develop an autonomous car that can self-navigate off road and on city streets. In 2006, the agency tested city driving, and, in 2007, involved negotiating a “city” on an abandoned airbase. Google said that it had hired several members of those teams, including: Chris Urmson, the technical team leader of the CMU team that won the 2007 Urban Challenge; Mike Montemerlo, the software lead for the Stanford team that won the 2005 Grand Challenge; and Anthony Levandowski, who built the world’s first autonomous motorcycle that participated in a DARPA Grand Challenge.
To reassure Bay Area drivers suddenly nervous about sharing the road with a self-driving car, Google said that the cars were always manned, and could be taken over in an instant by a driver. Google did not say how many times this had occurred.
“We always have a trained safety driver behind the wheel who can take over as easily as one disengages cruise control,” Thrun wrote. “And we also have a trained software operator in the passenger seat to monitor the software. Any test begins by sending out a driver in a conventionally driven car to map the route and road conditions. By mapping features like lane markers and traffic signs, the software in the car becomes familiar with the environment and its characteristics in advance.”
Local police were also briefed, Google said.
article courtesy of http://www.extremetech.com/
Mark Warren
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