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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results — Quarterly Mac Sales Set New Record — Quarterly iPhone Sales Exceed One Million — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $6.22 billion …
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Welcome to the audio webcast of Apple's conference call discussing Q4 - 2007 financial results. To listen to the conference call, click on the button below. — 2pm PT/5pm ET — This transmission is the property of Apple and protected by U.S. copyright law and international treaties.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple clears Mac, iPhone shipment hurdles; Earnings shine; Outlook strong — Apple capped a strong fiscal fourth quarter and 2007 amid strong Mac shipments. The company reported Monday fourth quarter earnings of $904 million, or $1.01 a share, on revenue of $6.22 billion. That sum easily topped estimates.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Apple Profit Up 67%, Aided by Record Mac Sales — Apple's earnings report today leapt ahead of analysts' already optimistic expectations. The company posted record Macintosh sales numbers for its fiscal fourth quarter, showing that the company is climbing into the league …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Earnings: Apple Q4 Revs Jump 28 Percent; Earnings Up 67 Percent …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
NBC Confirms Pulling YouTube Content for Hulu — A representative from NBC Universal called us today and let us know that the network did indeed remove its channel from YouTube over the weekend in preparation for the launch of its own online video portal, Hulu.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Firestorm 2.0 - Using Social Media Services to Track The California Fires — Today my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the fires in California. The pictures show a scene straight out of a war movie. I thought it would be interesting to look at how the popular social media services …
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Quincy Pince-Nez / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple Now Worth more than IBM — After the good news today Apple's stock price is going up, up, up into the $186 range - putting its market cap($161 Billion) above IBM ($156.45 Billion) for the first time in history. — Not bad Apple. Not bad.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
The Vista wow becomes a whisper — I wasn't a big fan of the "Wow" campaign around Windows Vista. But its newest incarnation — "100 Reasons Why Everyone's So Speechless" — might be even worse. — The new site (which Microsoft officials just told me has been on the Web since January …
Karl / DSLreports:
Verizon Hints At FiOS Announcement Tomorrow - 'Groundbreaking' service to be unveiled... Verizon just dropped a media advisory into our inbox, stating that the company would be unveiling a "groundbreaking" new FiOS Internet service tomorrow afternoon.
Erika Brown / Forbes:
Bikinis And Bums On Cue — Here's a story line that M.C. Escher could appreciate: Four fresh-out-of-college girls share an apartment in Los Angeles and star in a reality show filmed by a guy who is their friend. Except—this isn't a reality show. All the dialogue is scripted.
Leslie Katz / CNET News.com:
Is your date a player? Send a text and find out — You get asked out at a party, but you can't help but wonder if the guy is actually the stable, reliable charmer he appears to be. A new SMS and Web-based service called PlayerBlock lets you sneak off with your cell phone …
David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
Does new iPhone ad pass the sniff test? — Life is good at Apple these days. Around 1.39 million iPhones sold. Soaring earnings. A new OS on the way. The Mac is gaining ground on the rest of the PC industry. The company can do no wrong. But that hasn't stopped a handful of critics …
Victoria Ho / CNET News.com:
China accused of rerouting search traffic to Baidu — Reports have surfaced that China is redirecting traffic from foreign search engines operated by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to homegrown Baidu.com. — According to various reports online, some online users in China attempting to access Google.com …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Bridgestone shows off ultrathin, full-color e-paper — Just last year Bridgestone was feelin' pretty good about itself for unveiling the "world's thinnest" sheet of two-color e-paper. These days, the outfit is busy showing off a new version that measures in at just .29-millimeters thick …
