lolliman Posted July 19, 2011 Author Report Posted July 19, 2011 [quote author=ceylon subbarao link=topic=214133.msg2629601#msg2629601 date=1311109310]nijam ga neku siggu sharam ledhu bey........... };_ };_ };_ };_ };_ };_[/quote]
lolliman Posted July 19, 2011 Author Report Posted July 19, 2011 [quote author=ChittiNaidu link=topic=214215.msg2629925#msg2629925 date=1311113357][img]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/07/2011-07-19-appleearnings.jpg[/img]If you've been waiting for Apple's earnings to come in shy of analyst estimates, you're about to be disappointed yet again. Cupertino just reported its best quarter ever, with earnings of $7.79 per share, revenue totaling $28.57 billion, and a net profit of $7.31 billion. We know you're probably more interested in sales figures, however, and as you might expect, Apple's continued to ship iPhones and iPads at a steady pace, with 20.34 million smartphones and 9.25 million tablets sold last quarter. It's also shipped 3.95 million Macs -- a 14 percent jump over Q3 2010's numbers. Fewer iPods made it out the door this quarter, however, totaling 7.54 million compared to the 9.41 million Apple sold in Q3 2010. As always, the company seems to be mum on future product announcements, though we wouldn't be surprised to see new MacBook Air and Lion sales figures factoring into next quarter's results. Meanwhile, rumors are stirring in Silicon Valley that Apple's board has begun looking for possible replacements for CEO Steve Jobs, following a Wall Street Journal article by Yukari Iwatani Kane, who has a history of being eerily accurate with Apple rumors. This news hasn't had an effect on Apple's stock price, however, which topped $400 per share during after-hours trading today.[/quote]
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lolliman Posted July 19, 2011 Author Report Posted July 19, 2011 [quote author=ChittiNaidu link=topic=214222.msg2629991#msg2629991 date=1311113838]Hot on the heels of Apple’s stellar earnings release comes some more big news: the next version of its Mac operating system, OS X Lion, is coming tomorrow. The announcement was made (rather nonchalantly) by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer during the earnings call, which is currently ongoing (you can find our notes from the call here.Lion’s imminent arrival doesn’t come as a surprise — Apple had previously announced that it was coming in July, and many of the rumor sites pegged the launch date as Wednesday (there are also many rumors that the OS will be launching alongside updated Macbook Airs and Mac Minis, and possibly displays updated with Thunderbolt support).Lion is shipping with a low, $29 pricetag — thought it isn’t technically shipping, at least as far as physical boxes are concerned. Instead, Apple will be distributing the update as a download via the Mac App Store, weighing in at around 4 gigabytes.[/quote]
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lolliman Posted July 19, 2011 Author Report Posted July 19, 2011 [quote author=ChittiNaidu link=topic=214110.msg2627976#msg2627976 date=1311097607]I’m in Mumbai. A few days ago, homemade bombs killed nineteen(1) people only blocks away from the Internet cafe in which I’m writing this, the latest in an eighteen-year string of terrorist attacks on India’s busy commercial capital. And how have the authorities reacted? With sheer idiocy. Today, highway signs advised Mumbai’s population: PLS. AVOID GOING TO CROWDED AREAS – which, in this densely packed city of thirty-one million people, is a bit like telling fish: PLS. TRY NOT TO GET WET.In related news, last week the Times of India reported that the Indian government would show “no leniency in monitoring social media sites.” Telecom minister Sachin Pilot, who last year demanded that Research In Motion allow the Indian government to eavesdrop on all BlackBerry communications within the country, is now targeting Skype and Google. His justification? “We can’t afford to take chances with national security.”It’s an open question, and probably a moot point, whether Mr. Pilot really is that dense.It’s an open question, and probably a moot point, whether Mr. Pilot really is that dense. RIM is providing some access, but can’t provide the encryption keys for BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers, because it doesn’t have them. India keeps demanding them nonetheless. Skype is a peer-to-peer service with no central nexus to tap into. And even if RIM does start collecting customers’ encryption keys, and Skype is re-architected to permit wiretaps—not entirely out of the question now that Microsoft owns them—smart terrorists will simply encrypt their conversations themselves, using any of a panoply of tools.I don’t mean to pick on India in particular; I just happen to be here now. Authorities everywhere are just as dumb. The US government has made exactly the same demand: they more or less want all Internet communications redesigned so they can wiretap them. Because eavesdropping on POTS was easy, governments came to treat the ability to listen to any long-distance conversation as a divine right; and now that encrypted digital communications have taken it away from them, they have reacted with all the maturity and thoughtfulness of a child whose toy has been taken away. To cope, they want to build the tools and infrastructure of a police state(2), at enormous expense—and even if they succeed, that will still only help them catch the stupid terrorists.Which is admittedly a worthwhile goal. Most terrorists are stupid: eg the shoe bomber, and the underwear bomber. But surely there are better ways to catch these morons than building a vastly expensive and dehumanizing panoptican surveillance state. My fear is that the authorities devoted to catching terrorists are, by and large, almost as dumb as their quarry. Do you think of the famed and feared NSA as a temple of brilliant acumen? Guess again: they recently wasted $1.2 billion on a boondoggle software system, before finally killing the project, and then thought it would be a good idea to pursue/prosecute the whistleblower who they should have promoted.If intercept facilities are built into communications media, they will be used—and not necessarily lawfully. Last year Chinese hackers used Gmail’s backdoor access system, built because the US government demanded it, to access dissidents’ accounts. Even as governments everywhere clamor for the ability to hack into phone conversations, News International, and the entire British government, is reeling from the repercussions of illegal phone hacking.You see the same thing with photography; tinpot dictators in the UK tried to effectively ban photography of police officers, or even pictures of public —a man was even jailed for photographing a sewer grating—and even though the suggested ban on cameras in New York’s subway was eventually kiboshed by cooler heads, people have been (wrongfully) arrested for just that. Meanwhile, tiny undetectable cameras get cheaper and cheaper. Again, the authorities so-called anti-terrorism measures will at best only catch the very stupid; meanwhile, they provide tools and excuses to harass, restrict, and inconvenience the innocent. Security guru Bruce Schneier calls most of what the TSA does “security theater“; well, tese attempts are nothing but the same thing on a larger and even more disturbing scale: national security theater.The fundamental problem is that the people in charge of public security, whether in India, the USA, or the UK, tend to be either technically ignorant or more desperate to look like they’re accomplishing something meaningful than to actually do so, or both. But security theater doesn’t keep anyone safe. In fact, in the long run, it endangers everyone. The oh-so-dangerous twin genies of strong cryptography and surreptitious photography are long since out of the bottle, and all the futile demands and legislation in the world won’t stuff them back in. But it seems that governments around the world would rather live in furious denial than deal with that fact.(1) Twenty, if you count the guy who died while being interrogated by the police.(2) Of course, the police are less likely to have a problem with a police state.[/quote]
lolliman Posted July 19, 2011 Author Report Posted July 19, 2011 [quote author=lover link=topic=213983.msg2626128#msg2626128 date=1311077262][url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs8rlNfKBdM&feature=related#]Gen Musharraf's reply to Indian journalist's idiotic question[/url] CITI_c$y CITI_c$y CITI_c$y CITI_c$y CITI_c$y CITI_c$y CITI_c$y CITI_c$y Ammugif Ammugif Ammugif Ammugif Ammugif[/quote]
lolliman Posted July 19, 2011 Author Report Posted July 19, 2011 [quote author=ChittiNaidu link=topic=214223.msg2630007#msg2630007 date=1311113973]Yahoo just reported second quarter earnings today. The company reported that GAAP revenue(excluding traffic acquisition costs) was $1.08 billion for the second quarter of 2011, a 5 percent decrease from the second quarter of 2010. Yahoo says that this decrease was primarily due to the change in revenue from the Search Agreement and the associated revenue share with Microsoft.But net earnings per diluted share increased 18 percent to $0.18 in the second quarter of 2011, compared to $0.15 in the second quarter of 2010. Net Income came in at $237 million, which is up 11 percent from the same quarter in 2010. Analysts expected $0.18 per share and $1.1 billion in revenue in the second quarter.Revenue of $1.2 billion for the second quarter, down 23 percent from $1.6 billion in the second quarter of 2010. Yahoo says that this decrease was primarily due to the change in revenue from the Search Agreement and the associated revenue share with Microsoft. Income from operations increased 9 percent to $191 million in the second quarter of 2011, compared to $175 million in the second quarter of 2010.Excluding the impact of Microsoft revenue share, the impact of the divestiture of HotJobs, broadband deferred revenue amortization, and certain fee rate reductions, revenue for the second quarter of 2011 decreased 9 percent compared to the second quarter of 2010.From the release: Yahoo’s results for the second quarter of 2011 reflect $55 million in search operating cost reimbursements and $12 million in transition cost reimbursements from Microsoft under the Search Agreement, which amounts are equal to the search operating costs and the transition costs incurred by Yahoo! in the second quarter. Transition cost reimbursements are subject to a $150 million cap, and through the second quarter aggregate transition costs of $146 million had been incurred.Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said this in a statement: “For the quarter, earnings per share was up by 18% year over year. We made clear progress in search, and saw strong growth in engagement on our media properties…We experienced softness in display revenue in the second half of the quarter due to comprehensive changes we have made in our sales organization to position ourselves for more rapid display growth in the future.”Other notes from the earnings release:Display revenue ex-TAC increased 5 percent to $467 million, compared to $445 million for the second quarter of 2010. Search revenue ex-TAC was $371 million, a 15 percent decrease compared to $438 million for the second quarter of 2010. Cash flow from operating activities for the second quarter of 2011 was $331 million, a 5 percent decrease compared to $347 million for the same period of 2010. Free cash flow was $96 million for the second quarter of 2011, a 25 percent decrease compared to $127 million for the same period of 2010.[/quote]
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