Year: 2010

AT&T activates 2.7 million iPhones during first fiscal quarter

AT&T (http://www.att.com) has reported strong first-quarter results. The company activated 2.7 million iPhones during the period — that’s 1.1 million more than it did a year ago.

For the quarter that ended March 31, AT&T’s consolidated revenues totaled US$30.6 billion, up $78 million, or 0.3% versus the year-earlier quarter; operating expenses were $24.6 billion versus $24.8 billion; operating income was $6.0 billion, up from $5.7 billion in the first quarter of 2009; and AT&T’s operating income margin was 19.6%, up from 18.8 percent in the year-earlier quarter.

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Study: AppRiver’s Akamai-optimized Microsoft Exchange Service improves mobile email performance

AppRiver (http://www.appriver.com), a provider of e-mail messaging and Web security solutions, has reported results of a performance evaluation using the mobile performance monitoring testing solutions from Compuware Gomez. 

The Gomez data showed a link between the AppRiver-Akamai relationship and AppRiver’s ability to provide businesses with fast, reliable hosted Microsoft Exchange. In particular, the results demonstrated that AppRiver’s Akamai-enabled Hosted Exchange service can improve mobile e-mail performance by up to 50%.

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DaisyDisk 1.5.2 for Mac OS X scans disks for unneeded files

The DaisyDisk Team has released DaisyDisk 1.5.2 (http://www.daisydiskapp.com), an update to their scanning/mapping system utility for Mac OS X. The upgrade provides 64-bit support on Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”), improved scanning speed, and an optimized memory footprint.

In DaisyDisk, disk contents are displayed as an interactive sunburst map, revealing large files that may no longer be necessary. The sunburst map provides a color-coded overview of disk usage, and can be navigated to preview deeper levels of data.

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iWebTemplate announces five new iPhone/iPod touch templates

iWebTemplate (http://www.iwebtemplate.com) has announced five new iWeb iPhone/iPod touch templates for iWeb, Apple’s web construction application. The templates are designed for constructing resolution specific web sites to be viewed with iPhone and iPod touch devices.

They feature customizable themes and will work equally with other mobile devices. And they’re resolution specific.

The templates work with Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher and iWeb 2 and 3 (iLife 08/09). iWeb iPhone templates are available for US$10 each.

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