Daniel Eran Dilger
Akihabara News reported today that “NTT DoCoMo will launch in Japan next month the ConnectMail service which will allow you to receive and send @mac.com email as well as the usual @docomo.ne.jp.”

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Daniel Eran Dilger
In a conference call reporting earnings for Apple’s fiscal Q1, the quarter ending in December, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer announced he was “very pleased to report the best quarter ever” for the company, with revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, resulting in $1.76 per diluted share.

That’s an increase of over $2 billion from the same quarter last year, when Apple reported revenue of $7.1 billion and net quarterly profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share.

The company reported a gross margin of 34.7 percent, up from 31.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 45 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Continues: AppleInsider | Best quarter ever: a closer look at Apple’s record Q108 earnings

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Daniel Eran Dilger
According to Dan Frommer of Silicon Alley Insider, the Era of the iPod is over. That dramatic conclusion comes from the limited new iPod unit sales increase year over year in the December quarter; this year, Apple sold just five percent more iPods that it did last winter. However, reality isn’t quite so simple, and there’s no reason to buy into the professional panic being advanced by the usual suspects.

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