• OS X 10.7 Lion Is Available Now! Download It from the Mac App Store!

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    Apple’s OS X 10.7 Lion just hit the Mac App Store!! Download it right now

    OS X Lion is the next major release of OS X, the world’s most advanced desktop operating system. It includes over 250 new features that will transform how you interact with your Mac. Tap, swipe, and scroll your way through your apps using fluid Multi-Touch gestures that make everything you do feel more natural and direct. Full-screen apps take advantage of every pixel of your display — perfect for reading email, surfing the web, or browsing photos. Launchpad gives you instant access to all the apps on your Mac in a stunning new layout where you can quickly find any app and open it with a single click. And Mission Control brings together Exposé, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and Spaces in one unified experience. With a gesture, your desktop zooms out, displaying a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac and making it easy to navigate anywhere with a click.

    The $29.99 download is 3.5GB. OS X Lion 10.7 is the first version of OS X to be distributed exclusively through the Mac App Store, so you’ll have to be upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to install the update. A license to run OS X Lion costs $29.99, which can run on multiple machines, as long as they are connected to the same Apple ID.

  • Apple Smashes Q3 Earnings Estimates with Record Revenues and Sales

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    Apple has just posted their Q3 2011 financial results. The company posted revenue of $28.57 billion, with 9.25 million iPads, 20.34 million iPhones and 3.95 million Macs sold. Wall Street estimate was earnings of $5.80 per share and revenue of $24.92 billion.

    CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2011—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter ended June 25, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $15.70 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 41.7 percent compared to 39.1 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

    The Company sold 20.34 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 142 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.25 million iPads during the quarter, a 183 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 3.95 million Macs during the quarter, a 14 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.54 million iPods, a 20 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

    In Q2 2011, the company posted revenue of $24.67 billion with 4.69 million iPads, 18.65 million iPhones and 4.69 million Macs sold.

    Apple will provide a live audio feed of its Q3 2011 conference call at 2:00 PM Pacific.

  • Official Google+ App for iPhone Now Available

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    Google has just released the official Google+ app for iPhone on the App Store. The app is free and available here,

    Here is the official Description:

    Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most. And no matter where you are, the stream lets you stay in the loop about what your friends are sharing and where they’re checking in.

    Features:
    * Circles let you share the right things with just the right people.
    * Stream is where you can get updates from your circles or see what people are saying about things nearby.
    * Huddle is super-fast group messaging for everyone in your circles.

    Google+ is only available for users 13 and older.

  • Apple Product Design Infographic: 35 Years of Consumer Electronics

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    Artist Mike Vasilev has created an infographic for Mashable that highlights the major Apple product releases and design changes from 1976 through 2011