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  • Apple Q1 2013 Results: $54.5 Billion Revenue, 47.8 Million iPhones, 22.9 Million iPads, 4.1 Million Macs

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    Apple Q1 2013 Results: $54.5 Billion Revenue, 47.8 Million iPhones, 22.9 Million iPads, 4.1 Million Macs

    Apple Q1 2013 Results: $54.5 Billion Revenue, 47.8 Million iPhones, 22.9 Million iPads, 4.1 Million Macs

    Apple has just posted their Q1 2013 financial results for the quarter that ended in December 2012. The company posted revenue of $54.5 billion ($13.81 per diluted share), with 22.9 million iPads, 47.8 million iPhones and 4.1 million Macs sold. Apple sold 5.3 million iPods. The company reported quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion.

    We’re thrilled with record revenue of over $54 billion and sales of over 75 million iOS devices in a single quarter,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We’re very confident in our product pipeline as we continue to focus on innovation and making the best products in the world.”

    “We’re pleased to have generated over $23 billion in cash flow from operations during the quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “We established new all-time quarterly records for iPhone and iPad sales, significantly broadened our ecosystem, and generated Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever.

    Compared to last year’s Q1, Apple sold a record 47.8 million iPhones in the quarter, compared to 37 million in the year-ago quarter. It also sold a record 22.9 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 15.4 million in the year-ago quarter. Macs fell short of consensus estimates at 4.1 million units, down from 5.2 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 12.7 million iPods in the quarter, compared to 15.4 million in the year-ago quarter.

    Notes from the call:

    – Tim Cook: We’ve sold well over half a billion iOS devices including a staggering 10 per second in the last quarter alone.

    – 3.7 million iPhones per week, compared to 2.6 million per week year-over-year

    – iPhone sales doubled year-over-year in China

    – iPhone 5 in over 100 countries by end of December 2012, fastest iPhone rollout ever

    – The App Store is now available in 155 countries

    – 2 billion+ iMessages are sent per day

    – Apple ended the quarter with 401 stores, 150 outside US

    – Apple retail: $6.4 billion in revenue ($16 million per store)

    – Notification Center sent more than 4 trillion notifications

    – Game Center has 200 million registers users

    – iMessages has sent roughly 450 billion iMessages—or about 2 billion per day

    – App Store is at 40 billion downloads

    – Apple sold 2 million Apple TVs during the quarter

  • Quantic Dream Working on Project ‘Singularity’ For PS4

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    New Real Time Tech Demo: Kara

    New Real Time Tech Demo: Kara

    It seems like Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream are already working on the next endeavor after Beyond: Two Souls, intended for the next-gen PlayStation 4.

    Quantic Dream has registered the domain name for SingularityPS4.com. Following a similar move, the studio has done in the past, as they registered the domain names of both heavyrainPS3.com and beyondPS3.com. This indicates that Quantic Dream is indeed prepping a new title for PS4 called Singularity.

    Interestingly, going back to Kara tech demo that was shown at GDC last year, Quantic Dream’s lead David Cage said he was inspired by Ray Kurzweil‘s book The Singularity is Near. This suggests that the android Kara could be the subject of the new title in the works. Watch Kara tech demo below:

  • Microsoft’s Next-gen Console, Xbox 720 Specs Leaked

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    Xbox 720 Specs Leaked

    Xbox 720 Specs Leaked

    Microsoft‘s Next-gen console, Xbox 720, codenamed Durango, is said to be powered by an 8-core CPU clocked at 1.6 GHz and an 800-MHz graphics processor with 12 shader cores providing a performance of about 1.2 teraflops. This comes on par with specs revealed recently.

    The console will sport an 8GB DDR3 RAM with 32 MB of fast embedded SRAM. And for the first time it will be capable of reading Blu-ray discs up to 50GB at x6 read speeds. According to VGleaks, the full reported specs below:

    Durango system block diagram

    Durango system block diagram

    Full specs list:

    CPU:

    – x64 Architecture
    – 8 CPU cores running at 1.6 gigahertz (GHz)
    – each CPU thread has its own 32 KB L1 instruction cache and 32 KB L1 data cache
    – each module of four CPU cores has a 2 MB L2 cache resulting in a total of 4 MB of L2 cache
    – each core has one fully independent hardware thread with no shared execution resources
    – each hardware thread can issue two instructions per clock

    GPU:

    – custom D3D11.1 class 800-MHz graphics processor
    – 12 shader cores providing a total of 768 threads
    – each thread can perform one scalar multiplication and addition operation (MADD) per clock cycle
    – at peak performance, the GPU can effectively issue 1.2 trillion floating-point operations per second
    High-fidelity Natural User Interface (NUI) sensor is always present

    Storage and Memory:

    – 8 gigabyte (GB) of RAM DDR3 (68 GB/s)
    – 32 MB of fast embedded SRAM (ESRAM) (102 GB/s)
    – from the GPU’s perspective the bandwidths of system memory and ESRAM are parallel providing combined peak bandwidth of 170 GB/sec.
    – Hard drive is always present
    – 50 GB 6x Blu-ray Disc drive

    Networking:

    – Gigabit Ethernet
    – Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct

    Hardware Accelerators:

    – Move engines
    – Image, video, and audio codecs
    – Kinect multichannel echo cancellation (MEC) hardware
    – Cryptography engines for encryption and decryption, and hashing

  • God of War Ascension Multiplayer Beta Open to Everyone

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    God of War Ascension Multiplayer Beta Open to Everyone

    God of War Ascension Multiplayer Beta Open to Everyone

    Sony has unlocked the God of War: Ascension multiplayer beta for everyone with a US PSN account. The beta will last until Monday, January 22, 12:00am PST.

    Redeem the universal code using the US Store to get into action if you haven’t already:

    F2TA – HMNB – 762G

    Sony also announced a full-fledged God of War: Ascension demo will debut in late February offering a good portion of the game campaign.