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Sure, everyone knows that the iPhone and iTouch are great for storing all your favorite tunes, flicks and pics—but who knew they could also save your life?
With the iMedjet app developed by MedjetAssist, the nation’s leading medical emergency evacuation membership program, iPhone and iTouch users can travel with emergency medical care always at their fingertips. The iMedjet app, which is available for free download from iTunes, includes:
• First Aid for Travelers: Includes technical illustrations and tips on what to do in the event of various medical emergencies; content provided by A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness and Travel Medicine (3rd Edition), published by Adventure Medical Kits.
• Mobile Medical Information Storage: Access for both the user and doctors and EMTs in case of emergency.
• Mobile Medjet: Allows Medjet members to store membership info and get one-touch access to Medjet.com and emergency contacts; non-members can use the app to enroll in Medjet membership.
Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs announced that the company’s annual revenues are now beyond $50 billion, but indicated that even more is in the pipeline to get excited about.
“If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it’s surprising that Apple is now a $50+ billion company,” Jobs said. “The new products we are planning to release this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product that we’re really excited about.”
Apple sold 3.36 million Macs, including more than 2.1 million notebooks. That represented 33% growth in Mac sales, compared to an industry-wide 17% growth in PCs reported by IDG. Desktop sales reached 70% growth year over year thanks to the popular new iMac models. Apple’s CFO Tim Cook detailed even greater growth rates in Mac sales internationally.
It also sold 21 million iPods and 8.74 million iPhones, a record number of new mobile devices for the company. Apple retained roughly 70% market share in the global MP3 market with iPods; growth in the iPod touch reached 55%, while iPhones amounted to a 100% increase in sales over the previous quarter, comparing very favorably to Canalys’ data showing industry smartphone growth at around 30%.
Apple currently has $40 Billion in cash and grew by $5 Billion from the last quarter alone. This cash is one big reason that Apple has a $180 Billion market value according to Steve Jobs. It also gives Apple more cash than Microsoft and makes Apple one of the richest companies in the world.
Apple has big plans to announce later this week, many expect the announcement to include the Apple tablet that has been rumored for many years.
Bill Gates joined Twitter today and became one of the hottest topics in the world of social media. Once it was confirmed by thenextweb.com, it was only a matter of time before Bill Gates started adding followers to his Twitter account. In fact, it took less then 8 hours for founder of Microsoft to collect no less than 100,000 followers.
It’s not yet clear what Mr. Gates will be using twitter for, but I’m sure we’ll find out in the near future. Perhaps the bigger question is, what kind of phone is Bill Gates using to Twitter?? An iPhone…..?
You can follow Bill Gates @billgates
The world’s largest chipmaker shot 
past the earning estimates from Wall Steet last week. The publicly-traded company reported a net income of $2.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009, up an amazing 875 percent from its $234 million earnings in the fourth quarter of 2008. This more than beat Wall Street expectations.
Since we are not stock brokers or investment bankers, we won’t go into details about the financial numbers, but we do want to point out a few key facts:
- Revenues in Q4 2009 rose to $10.6 billion, a climb of 28 percent from $8.3 billion last year.
- However, if you look at the big picture, Intel had a better 2008 than 2009. 2009 revenues were $35.1 billion, while 2008 revenues reached $37.6 billion. That’s a 7 percent difference
- Intel predicts revenues of approximately $9.7 billion in Q1 2010, above Wall Street estimates.
Intel’s Q4 report is one of the first to come out this year, but it won’t be the last. If Intel’s numbers are any indication though, we’re nearing the light at the end of the tunnel.
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