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Apple beats Street estimates; 16M iPhones, 7M iPads sold in Q1

by Steven Sande (Jan 18th, 2011)

This just in: Apple's financials for the first fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2010 are in, and Apple easily beat the Street. Revenue for the first quarter rose to $26.7 billion, with earnings per share at $6.43. Apple's gross margin, which is always quite high, was at 38.5%. Wall Street ...

How to guard yourself and your Mac from Firesheep and Wi-Fi snooping

by TJ Luoma (Oct 26th, 2010)

The prevalence of free/cheap and open Wi-Fi networks in coffee shops, airports, offices and hotels is a great boon to the traveling Mac or iPad user; it makes connectivity and remote work much easier than it used to be. Unfortunately, since most of those networks don't employ WEP or WPA passwords to ...