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Apple makes $46 billion in revenue, $13 billion in profit, sells 37 million iPhones and 15 million iPads

Thu, 2012-04-26 09:47 - By

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Apple has released its second quarter financial numbers revealing a huge year-over-year increase of iPhone sales, iPad and Mac sales. iPhone sales grew 88% compared to the same period last year, while iPad sales increased 188% and Mac sales by 7%. However, iPod sales plunged by 15% over last year’s quarter. According to Apple, the iPad holds a dominating 70% of the MP3 market share.

Steve Jobs responsible for Adobe Flash Player demise?

Sat, 2011-11-12 14:38 - By

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Digital Media, Media Business, Media, Adobe, apple, cnn.com, Flash Player, Mac, photoshop, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

Since Adobe announced it would no longer develop Flash Player for mobile devices on Wednesday, many have been wondering if Steve Jobs' objection to its use had something to do with its demise. According to Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs said Flash was "a spaghetti-ball piece of technology that has lousy performance and really bad security problems".

Al Jazeera English provides more content to consumers using Pulse visual reader app

Sun, 2011-08-21 17:00 - By

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Broadcasting News, Digital Media, Media, Aksha Kothari, Al Jazeera, android smartphones, Apple Design Award for excellence, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Pulse, RapidTVNews, Yahoo!

Consumers with the new Pulse visual news reader app, can now read reports from Al Jazeera English by over five million iPad, iPhone, and Android smartphones and tablets. Al Jazeera English Front Page, Opinion, and Features are among the content now available to consumers via Pulse.

Google+ allows users to upload address books

Wed, 2011-07-20 08:12 - By

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Digital Media, Electronics & Technology, Facebook, Gmail, Google+, LinkedIn, Mac, Outlook, TechCrunch.com, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo

There’s now an option for Google+ users to upload address books to find and invite more friends to join the company’s brand new social networking service. As Vic Gundotra added shortly thereafter, this is a fairly big deal.