With “Valentine’s Day around the corner” Marc Saltzman (usatoday.com) tells us that “it pulled on my heart strings enough to report that Apple has added a pink iPod nano to its line-up, just in time for you to buy it for your sweetie.” The new 8GB iPod nano “costs $199 and includes free engraving on the back and free shipping when purchased at Apple.com’s web store.”
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Tickled pink over new iPod nano
26.01.2008Linux Kernel 2.6.24 Released
26.01.2008LinuxFan writes “Linus Torvalds has released the 2.6.24 Linux Kernel, noting that he and most of the other key Linux developers will be flying to a conference in Australia for the next week. As the whole team will be down under while the kernel is being tested by the masses, Linus added, “Let’s hope it’s a good one”. What’s new in the latest release includes an optimized CFQ scheduler, numerous new wireless drivers, tickless kernel support for the x86-64 and PPC architectures, and much more. Time to download and start compiling.”
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26.01.2008Doing extreme business on the Mac
26.01.2008“It’s easy to ride, it’s exciting, and it’s dynamic.” That’s Frank Aguilar, waxing enthusiastic about Snowcycle, the snow-shredding board bike his company designed on a Mac. In fact, the Mac performs a pivotal role at the company. Slopecycle depends on virtually every phase of its business, including accounting, marketing, scheduling graphic design, and both audio and video production using Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro. “Most of us have never had any formal video training, but Final Cut Pro is so straightforward and powerful that we didn’t really need it,” says Aguilar.
Apple adds pink iPod nano
26.01.2008Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a gorgeous new pink iPod nano joins the lineup of the world’s most popular music player. The much-requested pink iPod nano features a stunning two-inch display for watching music videos, TV shows, or movies rented using the brand new iTunes Movie Rentals. Available immediately in an 8GB model for $199, the pink iPod nano can play up to 24 hours of audio or 5 hours of video on a single charge. In addition to pink, 8GB iPod nano models also come in silver, black, blue, green and a (PRODUCT) RED special edition.
Apple reports best quarterly revenue and earnings in its history
26.01.2008Announcing financial results for its fiscal 2008 first quarter, which ended December 29, 2007, Apple today posted revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.1 billion and net quarterly profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. In attaining its highest revenue and earnings in company history, Apple shipped 2,319,000 Macs, a 44% unit growth and 47% revenue growth over the year ago quarter; sold 22,121,000 iPods, representing five percent unit growth and 17 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter; and sold 2,315,000 iPhones in the quarter.
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26.01.2008Work Progressing on Army’s Future Combat Systems
26.01.2008El_Oscuro brings us a Washington Post update on the progress of Future Combat Systems, the U.S. Army’s Linux-based operating environment that has been under development for several years. The project, which currently surpasses 63 million lines of code, has received criticism for having a scope greater than that which the Army can manage. Since the program’s inception, integration of commercial applications has increased the amount of code, but has also saved the developers time and money. “Boeing and the Army said they chose not to use Microsoft’s proprietary software because they didn’t want to be beholden to the company. Instead, they chose to develop a Linux-based operating system based on publicly available code. Boeing’s Schoen said that it is designing software so that if soldiers lose their connection, the software will automatically “heal itself,” retrieving the information within seconds without rebooting.”
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Apple posts 2008 proxy statement online
26.01.2008Apple today made its 2008 proxy statements available online at www.apple.com/investor. The move, complying with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Notice and Access rule, allows Apple to significantly reduce the environmental impact of producing and delivering printed materials.