Apple reported fourth quarter revenue of $20.34 billion on Monday, significantly higher than 4Q revenues of $12.21 billion reported for last year. The big sale item was the iPhone, with the number of units sold increasing 91 percent from last year. The one disappointment was the iPad, which sold 4.19 million units, though Apple had hoped to sell over 5 million.
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Facebook is coming under fire after the Wall Street Journal reported that the users of popular apps are having their personal information sold to at least 25 advertising firms and internet tracking companies. According to the report, even users who have switched to the social networking site’s strictest privacy settings.
Lazarus Reavallez, 16, and Kliefert Guiang, 17, were arraigned before a judge on Friday on a single count of arson. Police suspect that the two minors are responsible for the fire that destroyed much of Trace Elementary School this summer, causing millions of dollars in damages. Though the two boys are minors, District Attorney Dolores Carr decided to arraign them as adults.
One week after Republican superstar Sarah Palin dropped by San Jose to drum up support for Republican candidates, Bill Clinton appeared before a crowd of 5,000 people at SJSU on Saturday to win support for Democratic candidates Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom. He called on the audience to use social networking to help bring voters to the polls.
Sarah Palin was in San Jose for three events Thursday but neither Meg Whitman nor Cary Fiorina showed up. While Palin endorsed Fiorina, recent polling shows that 58 percent of registered voters and two-thirds of independent voters do not look favorably at Palin and would be less inclined to vote for a candidate endorsed by her.
John Steinbeck’s son, Thomas Steinbeck, honored filmmaker Michael Moore with the Steinbeck Center Award.The award is presented annually to “writers and artists whose work embodies the spirit of Steinbeck’s values and belief in the dignity of the powerless and exploited.” At the event, Steinbeck commented that his father was “the Michael Moore of his time.”
Who can forget Tommie Smith, the SJSU student who played wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals and was the first person to break the 20 second barrier for the 200 meter dash in the 1968 Olympics? Smith is best remembered for that race, but even more for the Olympic medal ceremony that followed. Both he and teammate John Carlos raised clench, gloved fists in a Black Power salute, that remains an iconic image of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Now he is auctioning off his gold medal.
About 3,000 people attended the Green Drive Expo this weekend in Richmond, amid questions about how green the cars are. At the center of the discussion was the Chevy Volt, which promises 280 mpg, but actually gets closer to 40 mpg under normal driving conditions. According to Scott Oldham of Edmunds.com, GM “lied to the world” about its new car.
San Jose was excited when the news of a $50 million public safety telecommunications project to create a broadband network linking police, firefighters, and rescue workers throughout the Bay Area in the event of a major emergency. Now the city and county are saying that there may have been improprieties and conflicts of interest in the selection of a provider and its exclusion from the project’s initial stage.
All eyes are on Menlo Park firm Geron as it prepares to run its first test on a human patient, using embryonic stem cells. Geron is taking advantage of a window in legislation regarding the controversial treatment, which uses which cells harvested from human embryos, usually collected after failed in-vitro fertilization attempts. Geron is, so far, the only company in the U.S. licensed by the FDA to test the cells on humans.
