0 iPhone sales push Apple revenue up almost 50 percent

Thanks in part to the increasing momentum of the iPhone, Apple has bested Wall Street's predictions again, this time for its second quarter 2010 earnings.

Apple on Tuesday reported revenue of $13.5 billion and profits of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 earnings per share. That's a 49-percent increase from the $9.08 billion in revenue reported in the same quarter a year ago.

Analysts had been expecting revenue between $11.2 billion and $13.25 billion, and earnings per share between $1.93 and $2.72.

Mac and iPhone sales were up, by 33 and 131 percent, respectively: Apple says it sold 2.9 million Macs, 8.75 million iPhones, and 10.89 million iPods during the quarter. The surprise is that iPod sales did as well as they did, declining only 1 percent from the second quarter of 2009. On a call with analysts, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said this was due to growing sales of the iPod Touch, which grew 63 percent from the same quarter a year ago. The high price tag of the touch-screen iPod pushed the category's overall revenue up 12 percent.

In a press release accompanying the earnings, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is quoted as saying this is the "best non-holiday quarter ever," and makes reference to "several more extraordinary products in the pipeline for this year."

We can easily assume he's speaking of the next-generation iPhone, which the public got a glimpse of yesterday thanks to Gizmodo's posting pictures of a prototype iPhone 4G that apparently was lost by an Apple employee last month.

Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook later appeared to confirm new iPhone hardware on the call with analysts. In answering a question about how Apple uses innovation to drive sales of the iPhone, he mentioned iPhone OS 4.0 for "the new iPhone coming this summer." And as if that weren't enough, when discussing factors that will impact the next quarter's results, Oppenheimer listed a number of things including "a future product transition."

The currently available iPhone models saw increased sales in every geographic region for Apple for the quarter, helped in part by adding eight new carriers to reach a total of 151 worldwide. Including hardware, accessories, and payments from carriers, Apple made $5.3 billion off of its smartphone.

Growth of the iPhone in Asia Pacific and China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) was "staggering" to Apple, according to Cook. Asia Pacific was up 474 percent, Japan 183 percent, Europe 133 percent. But China is a relatively new market for Apple, and Cook said revenue from the region for the past six months was $1.3 billion, a increase of 200 percent.

Apple sounds eager to capitalize on the iPhone's growing popularity in China. It's planning two new stores for Shanghai this summer, and a total of 25 for the greater China region by the end of fiscal year 2011, according to Oppenheimer.

While none of the analysts asked directly about the "lost" iPhone 4G, several tried a few different ways to figure out how the iPad will impact Apple's bottom line next quarter. Since the iPad didn't hit stores until after the second quarter ended, many asked Cook and Oppenheimer what insights they had gained in the first few weeks of sales.

They didn't have a lot to add, saying that it was still to early to glean much. Cook did, however, explain why iPad international sales were pushed back. "Demand in the U.S. was much, much stronger than we predicted," he said. "So we had to push out the international launch."

Regarding possible new carrier partners in the U.S., Cook reiterated Apple's position he laid out during last quarter's earnings call. He didn't attribute a significant amount of the 131 percent growth in iPhone sales to the eight new iPhone wireless carriers added during the quarter.

"Over past year we've moved a number of markets from exclusive to nonexclusive. In each case we've done that, we've seen unit growth accelerate and market share improve," he said. "But that doesn't mean we view that formula works in every single case. That's our learning so far, but we think very carefully at the country level to conclude what's in our best interest." Translation: he's not giving any hints about whether Verizon will be getting the iPhone in the U.S.

Apple guided typically conservatively for the next quarter, saying it expects third-quarter 2010 revenues to be between $13 billion and $13.4 billion, and earnings per share between $2.28 and $2.39.

Some additional numbers:

• iTunes Store sales for the quarter hit $1.1 billion.
• Apple retail stores pulled in $1.68 billion, or about $5.9 million per store. (There were 284 stores open during the second quarter.) Those stores sold 606,000 Macs, and half of those were to new Mac users, according to Oppenheimer.
• 47 million people filed through the doors of Apple Stores worldwide, which is 20 percent better than the same quarter a year ago.
• The company continues to add to its pile of cash: It now has $41.7 billion, adding $1.9 billion since the end of the first quarter of 2010.

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9 How Firewalls Work in Pc

There are mean people out there that want very badly to get into your system or network. Maybe they want to steal information, to simply cause as much destruction as possible, or to use your system for their own uses. If you're online a lot or have a broadband connection, the attempts to enter your system may be relentless.

I feel that there are three main areas of defense against these threats: Antivirus (of course), Firewall, and Spyware removal. With some programs being more important than others, but none being without importance. What I would like to do is give all of our readers at least a good concept of what

these Firewalls and Anti-virus programs do to protect your system. I'm going to attempt to highlight the functions of these utilities and even some good practices that you can implement.

This week I'll be discussing the first line of defense between you and the Internet firewall. A firewall isn't going to stop you from getting a lot of viruses out there, unless it's the kind of viruses that proactively scans systems for open ports like the 32.Sasser that has recently stepped onto the virus scene. Where firewalls really come into play is in the area of Internet or Network access.

There are two basic types of firewalls: hardware and software.

A common hardware firewall is a routers. In a small network it sits inbetween your PC and modem. These firewalls feature the ability to hide your PC from others on the Internet by assigning you private IP addresses through a process called NAT (Network Address Translation) or DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol).

I may have lost some people there who are not familiar with IP addressing. This can get confusing rather quickly. To put it simpler: a router will take the Internet address that your ISP has doled out to you and give the PCs the are connected to the router a generic private IP address (not valid for the internet). The other primary job is to close ports (these are numbers that are associated with certain jobs, for example most email clients and servers use SMTP port 25 and POP3 port#110) ports can be a vulnerability as seen in the past and a hacker can have an easy time getting into your PC with ports wide open to the world. When hackers try to scan your network for known vulnerable ports the Firewall simply drops the packets because they contain data that no PC on the network requested.

Software firewalls are a little bit different and they have good points and bad points. First let me start by saying that it is always better to have a firewall then not to. The main difference between the two styles of firewalls is that one is an external device that runs on it's own hardware. The software firewall is an application that runs on your PC. This is the one down side I believe because it's one more application running on your PC while you're trying to surf the web and can cause resource overhead and slow things down in older PCs. In concept the firewalls really are the same, except that one of the biggest differences is a software firewall doesn't have any address translation services (i.e. NAT or DCHP).

Software firewalls do have some really great features however. For instance, a software firewall is great for someone who is new to this area of PCs and wants to learn more. I say this because most of these firewalls have a reasonably easy to understand interface different from the more "Techie" looking router interfaces.

Software firewalls also have a feature for Internet access that I think is very informative, for example in most of the software firewalls I have come across when a program tries to access the internet the firewall will pop up and ask you if you want this action to be allowed every time, prompt every time, or deny Internet access to the program. Most software firewalls will also notify you when someone from outside is hitting your firewall and a lot of times you get the IP address of the party on the other end of the actions. Both of these features can be used to further protect your PC, in some cases you might even be able catch a hacker trying to get into your PC by getting their IP address and then asking there ISP what this IP address is doing pinging your IP address.

I've actually helped one of customers do this they called me up and said that there firewall kept making noises and popping up with windows saying that there was some activity on here firewall. She said that this had been going on for a couple of days. Well we opened up the interface and looked at the log describing what the activity was and from whom it originated. There were a bunch of pings hitting her firewall, but the software gave us the IP address, and from there we opened up a command line and pinged the IP address back and it came up with their ISP's domain name. She called that ISP and talked to them about this address and what has been going on. I wouldn't be surprised if he was kicked from his Internet service.

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6 Some Computer repair tips

Hello,, any problem with your system ???? Your system must be running slow because of certain problems. These problems, sometimes minor sometimes major hampers the performance of the computer and may even result into: Video Failure

• Motherboard failure
• Hard Drive Failure
• Video failure

Your first reaction matters a lot. So don’t panic and take out your computer manual to do the computer repair.

In my opinion every user, despite he is making personal use of computer, business use or on large scale in the enterprise format, must have the basic skill of computer repair on the first-aid basis.

Let’s take the above mentioned issue, one by one and perform the computer repair task.

No power supply

Listen, the breeze of computer fan if you have good listening ability. If you find it silent, that means there is power failure. Do the following:

• Confirm liveliness of power source
• Ensure power voltage is appropriate
• Closely examine, the 20-24 pin main power connecter and other associated power connecter
• Notice the on screen message provided monitor well connected
• Notice the current demand of your graphic card; it may not be compatible with PCI Express slot
• Notice the Beep codes

You would be able to repair the computer with the hints from above observation.

Note: To avoid power supply failure try to use consistent voltage source.

Video Failure

Make the following observation:

• Proper power connectivity of monitor
• Ensure proper brightness and contrast setting
• Screen message e.g. includes "power" in it, like: "attach graphics card power", "no power to video adapter", etc
• Listen the beep while you turn on (8 Beep)
• Video Connector Pin out

Chances of graphic card damage are very rare. But if they are not compatible with the mother board then they need to be replaced. Frequent problem arises due to break or torn off of your adapter pin.

Motherboard failure

This is a critical aspect of computer repair, observe the following:

• On screen message like "No Video Signal" or anything else
• Check the packing of RAM and Processor
• Any burnt smell
• BIOS Settings
• Beep (5 beep point toward motherboard or CPU problems)

According to above observation do the computers repair in accordance with the manual book?

General issue is related with the heat sink of the processor which may fail. Make sure that you have put enough ventilation for your processor. If required, apply thermal grease from reputed brand.

Premium support services are available to assist you in computer repair. In case of doubt, you just need to dial the contact number or visit the website for online solution.

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