Thursday
Jan262012

Review: Cygnett Apollo Hybrid iPhone 4S case

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Cygnett is one of our favourite new accessory makers for iOS devices. We chanced upon them at CES 2012's Showstoppers and they showed us a lot of cool stuff. The Cygnett Apollo Hybrid iPhone 4/4S case offers the protection of a polycarbonate tough case with the low profile of a form fitting rubber case.

 

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Thursday
Jan262012

Nokia's Lumia 710 Windows Phone to see daylight in February via Rogers

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

This is the most significant Windows Phone news in a while. Rogers will be offering the Nokia Lumia 710 next month for $254 outright with various pricing options for monthly plans, this is the first of three new Nokia smartphones running Windows Phone. The Lumia 800 and the LTE enabled Lumia 900 have not yet been earmarked for release in Canada.

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Tuesday
Jan242012

Apple makes US $13.06b profit, $46.33b revenue for Q1 2012

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's making money. Lots of it.

The iPhone and iPad maker posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 44.7 percent compared to 38.5 percent in the year-ago quarter.

International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

“We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline.”

Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones, 15.43 million iPads and 5.3 million Macs during the quarter, increases of 154 percent, 111 percent, and 26 percent from last year. That's 4.4 iPhones every second for 14 weeks which is staggering considering that the iPhone 4S is only now starting to be made available to some markets such as China.

“We are very happy to have generated over $17.5 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the second fiscal quarter of 2012, which will span 13 weeks, we expect revenue of about $32.5 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $8.50.” 

Sunday
Jan222012

Breaking: Co-CEO's Balsillie and Lazaridis Resign from RIM

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO's and chairs of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion have both resigned their position from the beleaguered company. Reports circulating Sunday evening stated that the co-CEO's would step down Monday and effectively be replaced by Thorsten Heins who was previously COO while  Barbara Stymiest, has replaced them as chairwoman of RIM's board. 

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