Apple Has Another Blowout Quarter with $13B in Profit

From DailyTech: It's beginning to become a broken record when reporting on Apple's quarterly earnings, but the boys from Cupertino have done it again. Apple today announced its earnings for fiscal Q1 2012 and the results are as usual very impressive.

The company reported net profit...

Apple's iPhone Outsells All Android Phones Combined at Verizon

From DailyTech: Maybe Sprint Nextel Corp.'s (S) bold iPhone gamble wasn't such a bad idea after all. At a time when many predicted Apple, Inc. (AAPL) to be fading in the smartphone race after getting outsold by Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KS:005930) slick Android handsets...

Nvidia Lowers Revenue Expectations Due to Hard Drives Shortages

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. on Wednesday announced that it expects revenue for the fourth quarter ending January 29, 2012, to be lower than the company's previous outlook provided back in October. The developer of multimedia chips blames shortages of hard disk drives as well as...

WD's Shipments Drop 42% Due to Severe Flooding in Thailand

From X-bit Labs: Although Western Digital had to face hundreds of millions of dollars charges relative to Thailand flooding, the company remained profitable. Moreover, due to increased pricing of hard disk drives, its sales only dropped 19% amid 42% decline in unit shipments of HDDs...

Twitter acquires antimalware company Dasient

From InfoWorld: Twitter has acquired Internet security firm Dasient, the Sunnyvale, California startup said on its blog on Monday.

Dasient, which describes itself as a cloud-based Web antimalware technology company, introduced in 2010 a service to protect advertisement networks and...

New iOS Jailbreak Attracts Nearly 1 Million Users

From PC World: About one million people have jailbroken their iPad 2 and iPhone 4S devices since Friday thanks to a recently released untethered jailbreak. The jailbreak is designed for iOS devices with Apple's dual-core A5 chip and running iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1. More than 950,000 A5...

Motorola Droid Razr Maxx hitting Verizon on January 26

From CNET News.com: Verizon just made the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx ship date official. Enhanced with a big battery designed for maximum endurance, Android fans can scoop up the pricey $299.99 superphone in stores on January 26th.

First unveiled at CES last month, the Droid Razr Maxx...

Arctic Cooling Reportedly Plans to Sue AMD for Fusion Trademark

From X-bit Labs: Arctic Cooling, a well-known supplier of power supply units (PSUs), cooling systems and other PC accessories, has reportedly decided to sue Advanced Micro Devices in a bid to prohibit the chip company from using Fusion name to describe its chips that integrate x86...

Intel Acquires InfiniBand Technology from QLogic

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with QLogic to acquire the product lines of and certain assets related to its InfiniBand business. A significant number of the employees associated with this business are expected to accept...

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