IPad sales below expectations: 4.19 million units in July-September

Apple has sold in the fourth quarter of this year (July-September) iPad tablet 4.19 million, while the market expected a level close to 5 million.

Net profit of Apple rose 70% in fiscal fourth quarter, to 4.31 billion dollars from 2.53 billion dollars in the same period last year. 

Also, revenues climbed 67% to 20.3 billion dollars, for the first time you reach this level. Both indicators significantly exceeded analysts' estimates, reports Mediafax.

On the whole fiscal year October 2009 - September 2010, the company's net profit also rose by 70%, from 8.2 billion dollars to 14 billion dollars, while sales increased by 52%, from 42.9 billion dollars to 65.2 billion dollars. 

In presenting the results, chief executive, Steve Jobs, has assumed an offensive attitude, criticizing tough competitors from Google and Research In Motion Samsung and Dell, but incisive tone of "parent" Apple has limited the decline scholarship. 

Jobs has never been addressed two years investors in a conference call on financial results and stormed Monday night the main competitors of the iPhoneand iPad, focusing especially on Tablet PCs recently announced competing. 

"The harvest that seven tablets inch (diagonal screen - no), all will be dead since the launch. Producers will learn their lesson the painful tablets are too small," Jobs said, referring mainly to the gadgets advertised Samsung and Dell. 

Shares of Apple, the second largest component of the Standard & Poor's 500 index after Exxon Mobil, fell 6% in New York, the biggest decline in IT giant in 2008. 

Poor supply and production capacity has limited sales iPad, a tablet of 9.7-inch screen, at 4.19 million units in the fourth fiscal quarter (July-September), while the market expected a level close to five million . Because of production problems, and even some customers waiting weeks to receive ordered iPad. 

Analysts predict that sales will improve over the winter holiday season, if Apple exceeds the supply side bottlenecks. 

But sales have not only disappointed the market, but the profit margin achieved by the company on the iPad, 36.9%, 38.2% estimate from circulating among analysts and investors. 

The company has disappointed but not about the iPhone and Mac sales. Apple sold 14.1 million smartphones in quarter reviewed, up by 91% against the same period last year, well above market expectations. Also, the volume of PCs sold rose by 27%, from 3.9 million units for the upper margin of analysts' estimates. 

Jobs has missed the opportunity to attack the rival Canadian Research In Motion, a conference with investors noting that iPhone sales have surpassed those of BlackBerry. 

"I do not see them breathing down our neck for the foreseeable future," said Apple chief. 

Also, Jobs criticized the Android operating system for mobile phones developed by Google, it being characterized as "fragmented".

 

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Apple announced profit could double as a result of the iPad and iPhone sales in April. Apple will announce a new generation iPad?

Apple could announce the results "stunning" following the success enjoyed iPad and the next generation iPhone, writes The Telegraph.

According to the newspaper, the American company may announce Monday a profit of $ 13.4 billion for the fiscal year, double that recorded in the previous year.

Sales recorded in the fiscal year ended in September and could rise to 63.7 billion U.S. dollars, compared with those of 36.5 billion U.S. dollars recorded a year ago.

The huge increase is attributed to "the phenomenal success enjoyed by iPad" and continued domination of the iPhone.

Analysts expect Apple to report sales for the quarter ended September iPads 4.5 million, compared with previous estimates, 3.9 million.

At the end, Apple had sold about 15 million iPads, since its launch in April. In the first year of marketing the iPhone were also sold 6 million units.

Chances are that everything tomorrow to announce the second generation of the iPad, but a 7-inch version of the iPad.

 

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U.S. real estate market sits on a powder keg

On the economic crisis they are going through low interest rates and ease with which U.S. financial institutions have lent money to anyone who wanted to buy a house without checking whether they can return the loan. Within a few years, housing prices have exploded, becoming increasingly less accessible. Because the mortgage industry not to block, banks had to lower standards that customers would have to meet to qualify for a loan. So they came all sorts of exotic loans specifically designed for everyone to be able to qualify. Basically, the banks with the money you attract.

At the same time banks packaged and sold on stock exchanges all based on real estate loans. Once arrived on the stock exchange were also traded until many of the original documents were at the loan have been lost on the road.

And came the collapse of the housing market, property values began to decrease, many could not pay, others have decided they no longer deserve to pay for a house whose value has dropped dramatically, so that more loans become nonperforming. Banks have started eviction proceedings to bad debtors and recovery of the properties pledged as collateral. Problems began to emerge when it was realized that the original signed documents were unavailable. So in many cases lawyers have produced false documents to banks to replace those lost, as proven later in court.

Caught offside, four of the largest U.S. banks have stopped the expulsion order until they do the paperwork. Meanwhile prosecutors in all 50 U.S. states began to investigate the practices of banks. The stakes are huge.Banks can not expel the bad payers if they can prove in court that they are the rightful owners of property in question. Plus the falsehoods used in many cases to date fall under the penal code.

Addition: "Experts" hired by banks to handle the removal and recovery properties were bad payers barber by trade, workers at Walmart or other plants. Many lacked basic notions about how real estate works. Although they were hired as "experts" by major American banks like Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs etc.

It seems the fun is just beginning.

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SMS serious vulnerability discovered in iPhone

Apple is working hard to fix a serious vulnerability that could allow a malicious hacker to perform actions without the owner terminallui iPhone.

The attack is initiated when an attacker sends the victim SMS, SMS phone cause infection or programs to run code without permission of the mobile operator or owner.

"Malicious code may contain commands to monitor phone GPS location, turning the microphone for recording phone conversations, or the filing of a network or botnet DDoS attacks"

The good news is that Charlie Miller, who discovered he worked at Apple and did not give too many details about the vulnerability waiting for a fix from the manufacturer. A smart step because if the exploit would have come to malicious people, millions of iPhone users could have compromised cell.

Apple is working to correct the situation and there is no reason to worry too much, but considering the increasing number of terminals iPhone, future attacks could multiply as more and more and will try to find security holes

 

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First Virus for iPhone

IPhone's popularity began to be taken seriously by hackers and shy at first, but increasingly more powerful, creating viruses for these next generation mobile terminals.

The first virus known as Ikee, active and infects only phones that were "broken" (ie those whose mechanisms of protection were removed, allowing installing any software on them). 
This change phone picture wallpaper artist Rick Astley, and also displaying the message: "Ikee is never going to give you up" 

The second virus is not widespread so far, it connects to a command and control center running at 92.61.38.16 in Lithuania. 

This worm is really serious, because unlike the first iPhone virus will steal the information found on infected devices. 

To protect against both viruses, make sure you do not "break" (jailbreak) your iPhone, and if you already did, change your root password.

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53 people investigated for spying by smartphone

Romanian authorities have arrested 41 individuals in a Thursday morning to use a spyware software to track conversations with friends, wives, competitors.

Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism also arrested Oproiu Dan Nicolae, an IT specialist 30 years old who was distributing software over the Internet for $ 580. Officials said that "spyware" was available for devices with operating systems like Symbian, Windows, Blackberry, Iphone.

Buyers could get three versions of the software Light, Pro, Pro-X depending on services needed.Most of them were doctors, businessmen, engineers, even judges, MPs, private detectives, etc..

Light version have the ability to transmit all the information on that smartphone, the historian convorbilior, messages.

Diponibiliza Pro version's ability to hear ambient conversations in addition to the previous version.

Pro-X version offered the opportunity to listen to conversations in real time, read receipt messages, e-mails, turning software into a device to capture information around person bugged.

With an advertisement posted on the website neprotrivit, Oproiu was caught and arrested.Moreover, he even advertised Softpedia Forum .

 

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Norton Smartphone Security for Mobile Android Android

The latest forms of malware identify and send information to be used for illegal purposes. And the term "system" includes not only the classic PC but a mobile system such as cell phones. The Internet offers many satisfactions and discontents as well as mobile phones are no exception, computer viruses can easily enter their memory sustragand in various details without being even aware of the fact of the operations performed.

On this occasion, Android Launches Norton Smartphone Security Norton, a security program designed to provide protection of data stored on Android phones. Android Smartphone Security Norton promises detection, scanning and removal of malicious programs without impacting device performance.

As Mylookout Mobile Antivirus, a function has a function of erasing and blocking access remotely to prevent the loss of their phone. Also, when the SIM card was removed from the phone, Android Smartphone Security Norton to block device can be used with another card.

Providing permanent protection is updated weekly and updated information. Owns the property to block calls and messages from unwanted numbers set of configurations.

 

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