Taybridge Consulting announces new partnership with Amatis Films Ltd to provide clients with video production and hosting services. Amatis is a long standing film production house with many years experience in producing, editing and directing all aspects of film production. This service provides clients with a short video clip often in an interview style. This process takes half a day and costs only £200.

Yet another screaming quarter from the boys at Infinity Circle. Yes, once again Apple exceeds even the most optimistic revenue forecasts. After the close yesterday Apple reported revenue of $28.57 billion with per-share earnings of $7.79, the market was expecting $24.9 B and $5.80 per share.

A quick calculations shows that amounts to a 34% over estimate hit.

So where did the money come from?

iPhone sales are still massive with 20.3 million for the quarter.  While the iPad sold 9 and a quarter million units during the quarter. The ramp up in production to meet the demand has been steady. A few months ago the wait was 2-3 weeks, now is it a matter of days.

The Mac line of business is also doing rather well with total units shifted 3.95 million units representing a 14% Y o Y growth.  Some potential customers may have been delaying a purchase in light of the pending release of Lion, the new Mac Operating System. The wait is over as Lion ships today.

The humble iPod line was the only category to see a decline is sales and managed to find only 7.5 million new clients.  With the continued expansion of the iPhone volumes there is less call for having a separate music player.  Sales dropped 20% Y o Y.

Read the full release at Apple website:
 

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The great beast of Redmond recently issued the latest Beta version of IE 9. It is available from the Microsoft website. We have been using it and it seems a reasonable product but still slower that using Chrome or Safari. It looks more like Google Chrome with a display of visited websites. Certainly faster that older verisons, but that is not saying a great deal.

We suggest that you download it if you want to see what Microsoft have done, but don't get that excited.

- Update - March 2011. IE 9 now on general release and seems a  very fine product. Full marks Mircosoft - Two thumbs up.