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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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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 …
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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Brad Stone / Bits:
Comcast: We're Delaying, Not Blocking, BitTorrent Traffic — Last week, the folks at cable giant Comcast asked for more time to give a nuanced response to a report that the company was blocking some peer-to-peer traffic on its network. The public relations staff at the Philadelphia company …
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 …
Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
ProQuo aims to benefit from stopping junk mail — Surprisingly enough, in this day of blast emails and spammers, snail mail marketers are still a thriving breed. ProQuo is a startup, launching tomorrow, that hopes to help consumers curb their physical junk mail.
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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.
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Coming soon: Get a Windows Live ID from your phone — An announcement coming at CTIA in San Francisco this week will unveil plans to offer the ability to sign up for a Windows Live ID from your phone, simply and securely. Why is this important? This from Phil Holden from Windows Mobile:
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters:New Microsoft Software Takes Aims at RIM Customers
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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.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
MySpace Got Game... Casual Game That Is! — First it was music, then web video, and now it is time for MySpace to turn the attention of its 100-million plus members to casual games. The company has signed a deal with Oberon Media, and two companies will create a new casual gaming channel on MySpace.
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 …
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