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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).

Zengobi has announced the availability of Curio Core — a personal, app-sized edition of their high-end Curio 7 Professional digital notebook application — at the Mac App Store. It costs US39.99 and requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 or higher.

The Core edition delivers “one of the most amazingly intuitive integrated environments for freeform information gathering, brainstorming, and creative exploration to an even broader audience,” says George Browning, founder of Zengobi. Features include:

° The ability to place “anything anywhere” in idea spaces with texture, notepaper, and grid styles;