Apple sells 27 million iPhones but misses profit forecast

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	Apple sells 27 million iPhones but misses profit forecast Apple sold 27 million iPhones and 14 million iPads in the last quarter of 2012, swelling its revenue by 27 percent, but its profits fell short of what analysts had been expecting. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue iPad Mini stock dwindles, supplies to remain tight Apple opens new store in Palo Alto With post-PC era comes real OS competition Casino royale: Apple, Samsung betting on a post-PC world Opposition to Google's Safari privacy settlement to be heard next month McAfee Shows Security Flaws of Smartphones (Especially Android Devices) Google cancels Monday Android event because of storm iPhone sales boom but iPad disappoints Wall Street Apple increases App Store prices in Europe SAP aims to be the Apple of enterprise mobility WEBCAST: Riverbed Virtualize Your ADI: Are You Ready to Unbox? Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT Traditional application delivery controller (ADC) architectures focus on load balancing and lack the efficiency required in today's IT environment. Join Kavitha Mariappan, Product Marketing Director at Riverbed Technology, to discuss the benefits of an updated ADC. Learn more. iPad Mini stock dwindles, supplies to remain tight Apple kick-started pre-orders of the iPad Mini early today, and within hours, sold out the white model in all three Wi-Fi configurations. Read More Apple opens new store in Palo Alto Apple's newest store, in the heart of Silicon Valley, opened on Saturday, October 27, 2012, to cheers, clapping and a queue of several hundred people. Read More With post-PC era comes real OS competition Which OS the IT staff at United will use is a question that will be answered in time, but the mere fact that it can investigate all three client device operating systems is a major change for corporate IT. Read More Casino royale: Apple, Samsung betting on a post-PC world Apple and Samsung continue to be locked in conflict, with Samsung winning one round in the Dutch court while the ITC declares in favor of Apple in another. The importance of what's at stake cannot be underestimated: the post-PC age is upon us, and the old guard of PC manufacturers are tottering -- even HP is worried, refusing to allow its staff to bring their own devices to work in case they choose non-HP gadgets. Read More Opposition to Google's Safari privacy settlement to be heard next month A San Francisco court will hear arguments next month against a proposed US$22.5 million privacy settlement between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, over Google's use of cookies to track the Web movements of users running Apple's Safari browser. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Improving Governance, Risk and Compliance In this webcast you'll learn how your organization can become more responsive to financial market challenges while reassuring decision makers the accuracy of execution. Register Now McAfee Shows Security Flaws of Smartphones (Especially Android Devices) Smartphone security, or the lack of it, is downright scary. At this week's McAfee Focus event, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle discovered just how easy it is to hack into someone else's device. Even if you secure corporate phones, employees' personal phones pose a significant risk. Read More Google cancels Monday Android event because of storm Sorry, Android fans, looks like you'll have to wait a little longer to hear more about the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10. Google has cancelled its Monday morning event in New York City because of safety concerns related to Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to hit the island in the next few days. Read More iPhone sales boom but iPad disappoints Wall Street Apple on Thursday announced record revenue on the back of booming iPhone sales, but for the second quarter in a row iPad sales came up short of Wall Street's expectations. Read More Apple increases App Store prices in Europe Apple has increased the prices of apps sold through its iTunes App Store in Europe because of exchange rate changes, it said on Friday. The minimum price for an app in the Euro zone rose to $1.15. Read More SAP aims to be the Apple of enterprise mobility A home improvement retail chain can use an app running on an iPad to help design a customer's home, check inventory for the products, give a cost estimate to the customer, and take orders. Read More
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