Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 second quarter ended March 31, 2007: The Company posted revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.36 billion and net quarterly profit of $410 million, or $.47 per diluted share, in […]

Samsung has introduced a new “jumbo shrimp” hard drive, the 120 GB 1.8-inch SpinPoint N2. The tiny drive¬†brings the first 120GB capacity to portable handheld devices, which could lead to the highest-capacity iPods ever. Specs: The N2 spins at 3,600rpm or 4,200rpm 15-ms average seek sub-1W power consumption Production of the 1.8-drive begins in July. […]

At the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters show, ComVu Media demonstrated live video transmitting at 30 fps at 640 x 480 resolution from a mobile phone over a wireless data network.¬† ComVu used its PocketCaster software to broadcast full screen video from a Nokia N95 multimedia device, transmitting over HSDPA data connection.¬†Anyone using a Nokia […]

Federal securities regulators said yesterday that they do not plan to bring civil charges against Apple over its stock-option backdating scandal. Yesterday, former Apple Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), pinning the blame on Jobs for the scandal in the process. “Steve Jobs dodged a bullet,” said Mark […]

It looks like the Apple stock-option scandal is heating up.¬†Former Apple CFO Fred Anderson has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission.¬†In doing so, though, he pinned the blame on Apple CEO Steve Jobs.¬†¬† “With respect to today‚Äôs announced settlement by the SEC of its complaint against him, Fred is pleased to put this matter […]

AT&T plans to market the iPhone, an innovative mobile phone that incorporates iPod features and Web capabilities, to business users in addition to consumers, despite the fact that Apple’s mobile phone is expected to be a relatively closed system. The company has decided that the iPhone will appeal to business users and is now working […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project (FUP) today dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave New Films (BNF) against Viacom, citing Viacom’s willingness to take steps to protect the free speech rights of those who post videos to YouTube and similar video sharing sites. […]

Commoncraft has published a short video introduction to RSS and its benefits: Click To Play RSS is a key element in blogging, podcasting and video podcasting.

Blog and podcast pioneer Dave Winer has an interesting take on the future of news: He describes a hypothetical news service where it’s easy to customize the content so that you get the news and information that you’re interested in. By selecting or deselecting checkboxes, you’d determine what news would show up on the page. […]

Apple’s recently announced that they would sell unencrypted audio files from EMI artists in a higher-quality digital audio format – 256 kbps AAC encoding, compared to 128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM. The higher quality will come at a premium, though, as Apple plans to charge about 30% more for the higher quality tracks. The […]