During the investor conference call over Apple’s December fiscal first quarter conference, analysts kept pressing executives about whether the Cupertino company is the bellwether for the consumer spending. But Apple’s value proposition is different than the rest and so is its customer base, making it tough to be the economic test case.
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Jan22
Is Apple a barometer of the consumer economy?
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan22
Are utilities too well connected?
On Saturday the Washington Post reported on the CIA’s divulgence of information relating to cyber attacks on utility companies (electricity, oil, gas and water) outside of the US. The CIA’s comments were obviously meant to alert service providers to an increasingly serious threat that in at least one case has…
Filed in: Security
Jan22
iPod Touch: ‘Mainstream Wi-Fi Mobile Platform’
During Apple’s conference call today, Apple executives described the iPod touch as a potentially the “first mainstream Wi-Fi mobile platform, running all kinds of mobile applications”.
This is the first time that Apple has referred to …
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan22
Apple 1Q 2008 Results: Record $1.58 Billion Profit
Apple posted revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per diluted share during the 1Q 2008 (ending December 29th). These results compare to revenue of $7.1 billion and net quarterly profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 pe…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan22
New Mac OS X 10.5.2 Seed (9C20), Due Friday?
Less than a week after the last release (9C16), Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS X 10.5.2 to developers today. The latest seed (9C20) lists no known issues. They’ve also separated the graphics drivers out into a separate update called Leopa…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan22
Norton Internet Security 2008: The Right Tool for the Job?
The Job Windows computers require protection from a wide variety of common viruses and spyware programs, not too mention unwanted intrusions. Novice users are particularly vulnerable to system infections and identity theft. A single software suite is required that can address all these issues. The Tool …
Filed in: Security
Jan22
Microsoft’s $235 million PIL is not so bitter
Microsoft announced this week that it is committing $235.5 million to its Partners in Learning (PIL) initiative over the next five years, bringing its total PIL investment to nearly $500 million. What’s not in Microsoft’s press release is the fact that a a big reason the Redmondians are investing in PIL is because developing nations are making education and job-training programs a requirement for doing business.
Filed in: Microsoft
Jan22
New Google Gadget for Digg as part of update
Valleywag reported that Digg went offline today to make changes — but then later updated their article to say nothing major changed between the previous version, and the “new” one. Well, there is at least one change that came out of the updates — and that’s a new Google Gadget for iGoogle.
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Filed in: Google
Jan22
How to avoid a potential problem with disappearing hyperlinks in PowerPoint 2007
PowerPoint controls the way a hyperlink looks, but it’s easy to work around that limitation by covering the text you want to hyperlink with an AutoShape, adding the hyperlink to the AutoShape and then making the AutoShape disappear. The original text that you meant to hyperlink is all the user…
Filed in: Software
Jan22
Google exec joins Ask.com
Cesar Mascaraque, an executive at Google, has left the company to work for Ask.com as European managing director. His reason? “Ask.com is the fastest growing search engine”. Really? Over the last two months at least, Ask has been losing ground according to Hitwise. In fact, Google is the only one […]
Filed in: Google
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