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Steve Jobs Steps down as CEO of Apple

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Steve Jobs has stepped down as the CEO of Apple and has named Tim Cook former COO, as his successor of choice.

Jobs said in an open letter:
“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come,” he said. (more…)

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Google+ comes to iPhone

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Google has been making waves in the social networking pool lately with the testing phase of Google+. Up until now it was only available on Android handsets, mobile sites and the usual desktop.

As the title says, Google has released the app for the iPhone. It looks the same as the Android version. It seems that there are still a few bugs that need to be worked out, with some crashing reported on the iPhone. I’ve had the Android version running on my Nexus S for 3 weeks and I haven’t experienced any problems at all. This will probably expand the Google+ user base quite a bit.

Let’s see what the user stats look like in a couple more weeks… (more…)

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Apple posting record high earnings

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I’m not much of an Apple fan but I have to admit that they manage to run a pretty good marketing campaign. Over the last 90 days they’ve sold 20.34 million iPhones, 9.25 million iPads, 3.95 million Macs, and 7.54 million iPods, that is pretty impressive. That’s a 142% increase in iPhone sales over last year the same quarter, iPad sales are up 183% over last year same quarter, Mac sales are up 14% over the same period and iPod sales are up 20% also over the same quarter.

“We’re thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent and profits up 125 percent,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Right now, we’re very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall.”

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