Holy crap, Apple made a lot of money this quarter: $9.6 billion in revenues for $1.58 billion in profits. Or, in English, the most bank ever in Apple history. Contributing to that massive pile of loot were 2.3 million Macs, 22.1 million iPods and 2.14 million iPhones—just in the last three months, all of which broke past records. We’re in the conference call that’s supposed to start um, now, so we’ll be updating as it rolls with anything juicy.
Best Quarterly Revenue & Earnings in Apple History
Mac, iPod & iPhone Sales Break Previous Records
CUPERTINO, California–January 22, 2008–Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 first quarter ended December 29, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.1 billion and net quarterly profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 per diluted […]

Original post by matt buchanan

Adam of Lifehacker points us to this Voice Dial application for the iPhone, which allows you to record voice samples for any contact on your address book and bring it up just by talking. You can activate voice dialing with the two-press home button trick introduced in iPhone 1.1.1, but you can even put tags on actions like checking your websites, opening email or doing some Google Mapping. Voice dialing is one of the iPhone’s missing features we lamented about in the iPhone Book we wrote, but Voice Dial (even if it costs $33) goes a long way to patching it up. [Makayama via Lifehacker]

Original post by Jason Chen

The Olympus SP-570 10-megapixel camera isn’t a DSLR, but it’s got fairly pro-level features, which means it’s perfect for the Gizmodo reader who’s just getting into photography. There’s a 20x zoom (520mm focal length equivalent), a macro-mode (26mm focal length equivalent) that allows you to shoot at up to 0.39 inches away, and wide angle capabilities. In addition to that, there’s dual image stabilization, 15fps sequential shooting and VGA movies at 30fps. Available in March for $500. [Electronista via Dpreview]

Original post by Jason Chen

In addition to providing a unique looking home lighting solution, these Moonlight globes double as speakers that can deliver sound in one of three output levels: 120 watts, 150 watts and 200 watts. The speakers can also project that sound in a 360-degree dispersion pattern—providing clear audio no matter were you might be standing.
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You can even utilize the globes outdoors (or in a pool apparently) thanks to a weatherproof, shatterproof polyethylene plastic shell that can withstand just about anything you can throw at it. Plus, if you want a different look, all you need to do is change the color via a wireless LED bulb. Moonlight Globes are available in three different sizes and can be purchased through the website on request. [Product Page via Freshome via Technabob]

Original post by Sean Fallon

The only complaint we have with the Optimus Maximus display-changing OLED keyboard is its price, which is why this news of United Keys and Foxconn teaming up to build their own keyboards is exciting.
Foxconn, if you remember, manufactures many of Apple’s iPods while at the same time breaking Chinese labor laws—which to us screams low, low prices. The team-up will bear fruit “as early as summer,” bringing keyboards with OLED keys like the one pictured. It’s still unclear which name brand company will be contracting Foxconn and United Keys for their technology, but our guess is that all the major keyboard manufacturers (Microsoft, Logitech, Apple and Razor) will get in on their party. Well, maybe not Apple. Either way, expect a keyboard that’s slightly less than $1500.

Original post by Jason Chen

If news of the Israeli military developing a robotic defense system that’s completely AI and human-independent doesn’t scare you, you haven’t watched as many Terminator movies as we have. Their system, which defends against attacks that would “exceed physiological limits of human command,” is described thusly.
…supremely oriented, highly intuitive virtual coach-cum-battle manager whose primary mission would support system operators and commanders during engagements. As such, the super system would help Israeli air defenders pick the optimum timing, sequence and targets for specific interceptors.
The good news, which luckily we read right before crapping ourselves for the third time today, is that the developers aren’t focusing entirely on making it autonomous, but a sort of hybrid.

“Our approach cannot be based exclusively on man-in-the-loop, nor can it rely only on the opposite. Rather, we need to build an operational concept and a system that is flexible and situationally dependent,” Milo said.
In the […]

Original post by Jason Chen

Do people often walk in on your copulation sessions? Just hang a Sex in Progress Light outside your door, fire it up whenever you’re meat spelunking and no one will ever “accidentally” bother you again. And as our own Sean Fallon says, if there’s ever a “Masturbation in Progress” sign, he’ll let everyone know. [Baronbob via Nerd Approved]

Original post by Jason Chen

So, you want to take more professional-looking pictures. You know who takes a lot of professional pictures? Earl Miller, Penthouse Magazine’s most published photographer. He seemed an appropriate enough person to ask for some advice, so we asked him to give us some tips for shooting pictures that’ll make both aspiring pornographers and regular-old photographers take better snaps. He delivered to us five tried-and-true pointers on how to get the most out of your camera — and your burgeoning career, if that’s what you’re looking for. So gather up your leopard-print throw pillows, faux-roman columns, flea market art and a willing model and get ready to become a professional letch. It’s your destiny.
“Know your camera, whether digital or film. Shoot at 125 of a second to freeze motion and at an f-stop of at least 5.6 for a greater depth of field [The f-stop determines how much light is let […]

Original post by Adam Frucci

Remember that completely arbitrary rule by Microsoft limiting virtualization (which lets you run Windows concurrently with OS X on a Mac) to only the more expensive versions of Vista? It’s now gone.
Microsoft’s relaxed their ruling, which was previously justified by saying that virtualization wasn’t mature enough for consumer adoption, which allowed them to clamp down on only the supposedly more pro or business SKUs of Vista. Combine this with the news of 64-bit Vista support yesterday and this is a good week for people who want to run Windows on Macs. [Ars Technica]

Original post by Jason Chen

In case you still cared about the Ferrari crashing, money embezzling, portable gaming device making Gizmondo exec, Stefan “Fat Stefan” Eriksson has just been set free from jail. If you’re worried that he’ll be back up to his old ways, driving around roads tearing cars in half, he’s now awaiting transport to either Sweden or Germany, because he’s no longer welcome in the US. Kinda like his Gizmondo gadget, we’d say. [The Local via Jalopnik]

Original post by Jason Chen