Author: dsellers

At least eight brokerages have raised their price targets on Apple after the company’s latest blow-out quarterly profit and a forecast strong third-quarter revenue, reports “Reuters” (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100421/bs_nm/us_apple_research_analysts_2).

On Tuesday Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter that ended March 27, 2010. The company posted revenue of US$13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 per diluted share.

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.

Mike Chambers, Adobe’s Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform, says in a blog (http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/04/20/on-adobe-flash-cs5-and-iphone-applications/) that Adobe is abandoning its efforts to bring Flash to the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

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.