Category: 707: [UPDATE: Now With More Apple Financials!]

Here’s a little Bears/Packers history to show you the depth of the rivalry of these teams. The two teams have been playing each other since 1921 and have only once before faced each other in a championship game. In 1941, the Bears beat the Packers 33-14 to win the Western Division championship. The Bears went…

*Start Soapbox* While the US House of Representatives voted this week to repeal the health care reform law, Vermont legislators heard on Wednesday from Dr. William Hsiao, Professor of Economics at Harvard and the designer of the much acclaimed Taiwanese health care system. Dr. Hsiao and his team of 20 experts were asked by the…

Apple released their financial results for the holiday quarter (Oct-Dec), and once again, they posted both record revenues and record profits. The company had $26.74 billion of revenue for the three months, which is over $11 billion more sales than the same period last year. Their profits were also up as Apple made $6 billion…

As of this morning, the App Store is just 20,000,000 shy of its ten billionth download, and that folks, is a lot of “*Angry Birds.*”:http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=19XpSnZWhPI&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fangry-birds%2Fid343200656%3Fmt%3D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30 If a cool twenty mil seems like a large number of remaining downloads, get this: according to Apple, 350 apps are being downloaded every second! Considering the store is just…

The brand new Mac App Store is a great way to discover and install fresh applications for your Mac. Though millions of MAS apps have already found their way into the docks, stacks, and folders of many OS X users, not all apps are winners. If you download a clunker, and decide that it’s not…

This past Monday, Steve Jobs announced a second medical leave of absence from Apple. In a companywide email published on the company’s “*PR page*”http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/01/17advisory.html Jobs announced the following: __Team,__ __At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as…

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_Dear Friends,_ The deep freeze is heading our way as low temps for Saturday and Sunday night may reach as low as -30 F. While those are dangerously low temperatures, I actually enjoy the noises and crisp (and I do mean CRISP) fresh air. Just walking to the car, the crunching of the snow makes…