Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2004 fourth quarter ended September 25, 2004. For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $106 million, or $.26 per diluted share. These results compare to a net profit of $44 million, or $.12 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $2.35 billion, up 37 percent from the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 27.0 percent, up from 26.6 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 37 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

“We are thrilled to report our highest fourth quarter revenue in nine years,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We shipped over 2 million iPods, our Retail store revenue grew 95 percent year-over-year, and the new iMac G5 has received phenomenal reviews and is off to a great start.”

SnapStream Media - Beyond TV

SnapStream Media released the latest version of their "Beyond TV" product last Friday. Version 3.5 adds many new features including the ability to stream live mpeg content over a LAN to another system. This works great if you have a dedicated server setup (i.e. PVR) and would like to connect to that system from a home theater pc (HTPC) for viewing on a large screen. Another major feature is the ability to support multiple encoder cards.

CallerID Sentry

CallerID Sentry

CallerID Sentry is a great application which you can use along with callerid and an HTPC or wireless notebook to display callerid information on your computer. It's the perfect compliment to a front projection set up as it will display the information while watching a movie or game and then you can decide if you want to answer the phone :)