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Apple to ship 86.4 million iPhones in 2011, blow past Nokia – 9to5 Mac report

We knew in July that Apple had passed the imploding Nokia for the global smartphone unit lead by manufacturer. However, today Digitimes forecasts that by year end Apple will have sold 86.4 million iPhones by year which will easily best Nokia’s once insurmountable lead (Nokia had over double Apple’s share just last year). Apple’s smartphone [...]

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Amazon To Sell 5 Million Tablets

Forrester Researcher analyst has predicted retail giant Amazon could sell as many as five million tablets by the end of the year. According to various reports, Amazon is working on a new tablet computer to accompany its current range of Kindle eReaders. Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps has told Reuters that Amazon can compete with [...]

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Prices on Apple’s iTunes App Store in Australia have been slashed

Taking into account the recent surge in the Australian dollar. Apple Australia confirmed today that for Australia and some other countries, pricing on apps – but not music, books or movies – had been adjusted “due to changes in foreign exchange rates and local tax laws”. Federal Labor MP Ed Husic, who has criticised Apple [...]

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iApps MD named one of the Coast’s most influential people

Rick Hoy develops Apps. If you do not know what an app is, don’t worry. There is an app for that. When Sunshine Coast Apple authorised reseller Crunch Computers joined forces with application creator iApps last year, it was a sign of the times. If you do not have an easily downloadable program for an [...]

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Apple’s WWDC has begun – with some huge statements

Apple has kicked off its highly anticipated San Francisco developer conference with a Stevenote. As we’re learning more about iOS 5, Lion and iCloud and fastening our seatbelt for a possible “one more thing”, other details emerge as Jobs & Co. provide us with some updates related to Apple’s business metrics. Here are your key [...]

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Apple’s Q2 2011 profits

Apple just released their financial results for Q2 2011 that ended on March 26th, 2011. The Q2 revenue is $24.67 billion with a net profit of $5.99 billion. “These results compare to revenue of $13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was [...]

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