Apple posts record breaking quarterly revenue of $51.5 billion (US) and quarterly net profit of $11.1 billion

Apple's CEO TIm Cook and Chief Design Officer Jony Ive - Photo by Gadjo Cardenas SevillaApple just announced its record breaking quarterly revenue of $51.5 billion (US) and quarterly net profit of $11.1 billion. Backed by the strong iPhone 6S sales (including sales in China), sustained Mac sales and undeclared sales of the Apple Watch, Apple continues to ride high in terms of devices, services and ecosystems.

Apple started their earnings call with news that they had a quarterly revenue of $51.5 billion (US) and quarterly net profit of $11.1 billion (US), or $1.96 (US) per diluted share. This is despite weakened economies in many countries.

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TomTom launches Spark fitness wearable with music, GPS and 24/7 tracking

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Toronto - TomTom launched its 4th generation fitness wearable in North America today with an event in downtown Toronto. The TomTom Spark is the latest sports and fitness tracker since TomTom collaborated with Nike + Sportwatch GPS years ago before the deluge of fitness trackers hit the market.

While it can be paired with a smartphone or a PC for tracking stats, the strength of the TomTom Spark is that it can run fully independent of wired and cumbersome smartphones. Runners, for example, can use the Spark to measure their runs via GPS, track their heart rate with the built-in heart rate monitor and play up to 500 songs streamed to a Bluetooth headset.

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Steve Jobs 'biopic' fails at box office

Despite a lot of early hype and buzz, the Aaron Sorkin penned and Danny Boyle directed Steve Jobs biopic, which opened last weekend, bombed at the box office early on.

 The movie, which stars Michael Fassbender as the titular character and Apple Inc's iconic founder, earned a paltry US $ 7.3 million, which is just a bit more than Ashton Kutcher's execrable Jobs movie from 2013, which made US $ 6.7 million on its opening weekend.

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BlackBerry Priv stock apps show up on Google Play before launch

BlackBerry’s getting ready for the launch of its new Priv smartphone. Some of the stock apps for the new phone have showed up on Google Play Store ahead of the full launch of the phone. The six apps already up include: BlackBerry Launcher, BlackBerry Keyboard, BlackBerry Services, BlackBerry Password Keeper, BlackBerry Camera, and DTEK by BlackBerry.

None of the apps are downloadable at the moment but having the apps broken out of the system means BlackBerry is free to issue updates when they need to instead of having to wait for device updates. And this could also mean that they can make these apps available to other Android devices as well in the future.

Source: CrackBerry