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Apple earned a massive profit of US$419,528 per employee in the past 12 months (not, of course, that most make anywhere close to that), handily beating Google, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Dell and other tech firms, reports “pingdom” (http://macte.ch/rgGKV), a site that covers “the uptime monitoring needs of 90% of the companies in the world.”

Flexibits has introduced Fantastical, a flexible calendar application for Mac that lets you create, view, and search their events.

Using a natural language engine, Fantastical is “expressive,” allowing users enter event text in their own style. For example, enter a sentence such as “Lunch with John at 123 Main Street on Tuesday” and Fantastical will translate the sentence into an event and add it to their calendar.

A second U.S. Senate hearing over location privacy has been scheduled with Apple and Google reps participating. The goal is to “highlight how well companies notify their customers about when and how their whereabouts are stored and transmitted,” reports “CNET” (http://macte.ch/KT8Pi).