Brand: MacNews

Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 first quarter that ended Dec. 27, 2014. The company posted record quarterly revenue of $74.6 billion and record quarterly net profit of $18 billion, or $3.06 per diluted share.

These results compare to revenue of $57.6 billion and net profit of $13.1 billion, or $2.07 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 39.9% compared to 37.9% in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 65 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple has released Mac OS X 10.10.2 and iOS 8.1.3. Mac OS X 10.10.2 is a free download at the Mac App Store. According to Apple, the upgrade:

° Resolves an issue that may cause Wi-Fi to disconnect;

° Resolves an issue that may cause web pages to load slowly;

° Fixes an issue that caused Spotlight to load remote email content when the preference was disabled in Mail;

° Improves audio and video sync when using Bluetooth headphones;

° Adds the ability to browse iCloud Drive in Time Machine;

° Improves VoiceOver speech performance;

Oryx Digital has introduced Hyper Plan 1.0.1, its new planning solution for Mac OS X and Windows. It allows anyone to create cards with user-defined properties, such as status, priority, assigned to and budget.

The cards can then be arranged and colored according to these properties. Users can arrange cards in rows by priority, or even colored by who they have been assigned to. Hyper Plan can also arrange cards in a timeline and total numerical properties by row and column.

Western Union (www.westernunion.com), which specializes in global payment services, has announced it will offer Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile payment solution, at Western Union’s flagship locations, to provide consumers yet another way to fund global money transfers and bill payments in the United States.

HYPER has a new Kickstarter project to launch the iPin: “The World’s Smallest Laser Pointer and Wireless Presenter” for iPhone/iOS and Android. The Kickstarter project ends in 15 days time on Feb. 9.
 
HYPER says the iPin is the world’s smallest laser pointer attachment for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. As the name suggest, it’s as tiny as a pin that disappears completely into the audio jack of the iOS device with almost no protruding parts. It turns the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch into a laser pointer and wireless presenter.