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Downtime-Our Apology and Explanation

macjeff — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:12:58 +0000

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Last week I posted an article about Apple Stock and how the “Pros” got it wrong. Well something started a huge conversation. This caused the article to attract lots of people. They all commented at the same time which crashed the database. Since the database was writing during this process it corrupted. We have repaired [...]

Apple Shares Hit All Time Intraday High

macjeff — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:48:10 +0000

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Although they are only up $28 now, they were up as much as $34.14 for an all time high of $454.45. Apple has cash in the bank equal to approx $108 a share. Time for $100 dividend for share (we wish!!).

AAPL Trading Halted Briefly After Apple Stuns Wall Street

macjeff — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:31:15 +0000

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Apple stunned traders with blow away record earnings. Apple says they need to do something with their cash after reporting “revenue of about $32.5 billion” and “diluted earnings per share of about $8.50. Most of the revenue was due to iPhone 4s record sales as well as an increase in Mac sales.

Apple Releases iTunes 10.6.3 and iBook Author- We called it!!!

macjeff — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:51:24 +0000

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Today Apple released iTunes 10.6.3. We reported a couple days ago that we strongly felt that textbooks were coming for students on iTunes. We were correct, but in addition Apple released a product called iBook Author which allows you to create real iBooks. This is a dream for authors, teachers, employers, etc. but a nightmare [...]

Apple Event January 19- Our Take on it.

macjeff — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:32:06 +0000

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Since the subject is education, we feel that Apple may surprise us with an updated MacBook or something like that, but most likely it will be some announcement concerning Text Books on iTunes. This Christmas, Kindle Fire sales were up because Amazon put college text books on kindle. That saves students incredible amounts of [...]

iOS 5.1 beta 3 Brings Back Missing iOS Feature

macjeff — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:12:10 +0000

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Yesterday, Apple released (to developers) beta 3 of iOS 5.1. On the iPhone 4s there is a new feature which allows you to turn off 3G and run only on Edge. That was a feature of the iPhone 4 that never appeared on the 4S. Recently I was on a ski trip and there were [...]

Happy New Year!!!

macjeff — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:47:18 +0000

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We wish you and your family a happy 2012. We look forward to a year of new announcements from Apple, but more importantly we wish you the best of everything in 2012.

Apple Opens Back Up

macjeff — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:42:43 +0000

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iTunes Connect is open again which means that new apps and updates are coming back into the app store. It was pretty nice not to have to run updates every day on my iDevices!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

macjeff — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:25:16 +0000

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Merry Christmas to you and your family from all of us at Mid Atlantic Consulting, Inc. and HotMacNews.com. May you have a safe and happy holiday.

HotMacNews2 Version 2.9.1 on App Store in Time For Christmas

macjeff — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:17:42 +0000

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Upgrade now for free. Fixes some bugs in 2.9 (sorry). Thanks to Arthur Cadeaux for discovering one of our registration bugs and many other emails from users.