Friday, April 22, 2011

iPhone sales double in 2011 113% rise


The sales of iphones has nearly doubled Apple's profits in the first 3 months of 2011.

Net income for the three months to March jumped 85% on the same period a year ago, with iPhone sales of 18.65m - a rise of 113%.

Apple reported quarterly net profits of $5.99bn (£3.6bn), 95% up on the $3bn it made a year ago. Revenue was $24.67bn, a rise of 83%.

However, iPad sales have been below expectations, selling only 4.69m in the first quarter, and iPod sales also fell by 17%.

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said in a statement: "With quarterly revenue growth of 83% and profit growth of 95% we're firing on all cylinders."

Mr Jobs, who went on medical leave in January with an undisclosed illness, continued: "We will continue to innovate on all fronts throughout the remainder of the year."

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

University of Nottingham saves £60k a year through VoIP migration

Kathleen Hall email Tuesday 05 April 2011 17:06 The University of Nottingham is saving up to £60,000 a year after moving to a voice over IP (VoIP) system. Following its recent installation of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) telephony system, the university signed a deal with Node4 to migrate its existing 11,000 analogue telephone users over to the SIP system over a number of years. Anthony Tunley, telecoms group leader at the University of Nottingham, says the university has cut call costs by 50% by connecting its SIP telephone system to Node4. "We realised we needed to cut costs and migrate to VoIP," he said. But Tunley says that figure is likely to increase considerably as it works towards full migration over the next few years, as it has so far only migrated 10% of its telephone system. The new system also enables the university to address the need to provide telephony to schools in remote regions such as Lincoln and Boston.

University of Nottingham saves £60k a year through VoIP migration

Kathleen Hall email Tuesday 05 April 2011 17:06 The University of Nottingham is saving up to £60,000 a year after moving to a voice over IP (VoIP) system. Following its recent installation of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) telephony system, the university signed a deal with Node4 to migrate its existing 11,000 analogue telephone users over to the SIP system over a number of years. Anthony Tunley, telecoms group leader at the University of Nottingham, says the university has cut call costs by 50% by connecting its SIP telephone system to Node4. "We realised we needed to cut costs and migrate to VoIP," he said. But Tunley says that figure is likely to increase considerably as it works towards full migration over the next few years, as it has so far only migrated 10% of its telephone system. The new system also enables the university to address the need to provide telephony to schools in remote regions such as Lincoln and Boston.

Apple dodges $625m patent infringement damages award

A US District Court judge in Texas has thrown out what would have been a record $625.5m damages award against Apple in a patent infringement case involving a document management and display system. Judge Leonard Davis overturned the jury's finding against Apple in the case filed by a company called Mirror Worlds in March 2008. Mirror Worlds said several features in Apple's Mac computers, iPhones and iPods infringed patents held by the company. The technologies at issue were Cover Flow, which lets users flip through album covers and other content; Time Machine, which performs automatic backups; and Spotlight, which is software for searching computer hard drives, according to Australian reports. In October last year, a jury found Apple had infringed three patents and awarded $208.5m in damages for each patent. But Apple asked the court to postpone the award, saying there were several issues to be addressed, including the way the damages were calculated. Judge Davis vacated the damages award, saying that, apart from the sufficiency of evidence regarding infringement, there was insufficient evidence to support the jury's $208.5m damages award.