Despite missing Wall Street's expectations during the third quarter of 2011, Apple made quite unexpected and almost impossible projections for the holiday seasons. All eyes were on Tim Cook and company with questions in mind whether Apple could deliver. Well, the results are out and it is a monster blowout.
The new firmware has been launched to deliver better performances and fix reported bugs for all iOS devices.
Apple Inc's quarterly results blew past Wall Street's expectations after U.S. consumers snapped up near-unprecedented numbers of iPhones and iPads, sending its shares up 8 percent into record territory.
The magic of Steve Jobs may be absent in his successor Tim Cook but Cook's leadership is working well in Apple. On Tuesday, the tech giant has announced that its net profit has more than doubled to $13.06 billion in the fiscal first quarter. The Holiday sale of 37 million units of iPhone and 15.4 million units of iPad sale were seen as the biggest contribution towards the outstanding profit in the holiday quarter. No wonder, iPhone and iPad account for 72% of Apple's total revenue.
There's a good news for the jailbreak community - a few hours ago, the hackers dream team released the Linux version of GreenPois0n Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreaking tool, besides updating Absinthe to v0.3 for Windows and Mac users.
That the likes of George Clooney and Brad Pitt have received Oscar nominations for the Best Actor in a Leading Role trophy at the 84th Annual Academy Awards is no surprise. The surprise of the category is Mexican actor Demian Bichir. The 48-year-old actor has been acting since he was 14.
After Megaupload's entire service was shut down and its founders arrested, a new report has emerged, which details a new Megaupload venture called Megabox that would've given music artists more money than and leverage against the Recording Industry Association of America.
Jailbreak for Linux has also been released.
Apple's iBooks 2 for iPad has been downloaded 350,000 times in its first 3 days. There's a reason why users are downloading this app at such a high rate: The education industry has been needed this app for a long time.
Miley Cyrus has released a cover of Bob Dylan's You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, featuring Johnzo West. The song is part of a new tribute album, Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International, which will be available in stores and online Tuesday. Watch the video here.
Apple, which reported its first $100 billion year for the period ended in September, is expected to report its most profitable-ever first quarter Tuesday. Consumers rushed to the company's 361 stores, as well as wireless carriers, for the new iPhone 4S.
While New York technology jobs increase in 2012, America's middle class will be shrinking.
Lana Del Rey caused a headline blitz after her horribly-reviewed Saturday Night Live performance. Criticism and critiques flew after she croaked out some shaky octaves on SNL, right before her major-label album debut, Born to Die, on Jan. 31.
The launch of the iBooks 2 app further substantiates expectations that Apple may put a quad-core chipset in the iPad 3, which is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2012.
Can't remember the lyrics to your favorite songs? A new iPhone app might help.
After global protests on Wednesday which saw darkened Websites like Wikipedia and BoingBoing and a “virtual” strike by Google, on Friday SOPA, a creature of the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the Senate, were essentially smothered.
The prospect that MS Windows Phone will beat Apple's iPhone in year 2015 has emerged. According to industry research firm IHS iSuppli, Windows Phone will increase its market share of smartphone operating system up to 16.7 % in 2015. Though Windows Phone has only 1.9% market share in year 2011, it will increase its market share gradually to 9% in 2012, 15.3% in 2013, 16.1% in 2014 and 16.7% in 2015.
Siri, the virtual intelligent assistant exclusive to iPhone 4S, will be improved and packed into most future Apple devices, if not all. Predictably, the voice-controlled technology might become a core part of the Apple brand.
Redns0w 0.9.10 b1 team has jailbroken 5.0.1 untethered.
Apple unveiled iBooks 2 on Thursday, a sequel to its popular book and PDF reading application that now accommodates textbooks on the iPad. Here, we provide a guide to what you'll find in the new free app, and explain why iBooks 2 really is the future of textbooks.
Apple unveiled three new pieces of education software on Thursday -- iBooks 2, iBooks Author and iTunes U -- to collectively kill the school textbook once and for all. Despite this brilliant move, the hardware restrictions of the iPad 2 hold back the power of the iBooks software. This will change with the iPad 3.
The latest news of iOS 5 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (A5 devices) from the hacker community has left everyone excited. Dream team member MuscleNerd on iPhone Dev-Team's blog said, Corona A5 jailbreak nearly ready to pop!
