Apple sells every iPad, profits jump 125 percent

Apple posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion, selling every iPad it could make.

The profit by the world's most valuable tech company also jumped more than 125 percent to $7.31 billion. "We sold every iPad we could make,'' claimed Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer.

The Cupertino-based technology giant reported more than a two-fold jump in sales of iPhones and iPads over the same period last year.

According to Apple, it sold 20.34 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 142 percent growth over the year-ago quarter.
The quarterly sales of iPads at 9.25 million also showed a 183 percent jump over the same quarter last year.

The Mac was still selling very well, reporting sales of 3.95 million during the quarter - up 14 percent over the same period last year.
At 7.54 million, the sales for iPods were also up 20 percent over the same period last year.

"We're thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent and profits up 125 percent,'' said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

"Right now, we're very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall,'' Jobs added.

Oppenheimer added, "We are extremely pleased with our performance which drove quarterly cash flow from operations of $11.1 billion, an increase of 131 percent year-over-year.

"Looking ahead to the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, we expect revenue of about $25 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $5.50.''

China, Latin America and the Middle East accounted for much of growth posted by Apple. In fact, Apple sales in China recorded a 250 percent jump since last year.

During the quarter, Apple added 15 more countries to its fast expanding market beyond North America. It also added 42 carriers globally during the quarter. Currently, Apple also runs more than 300 stores worldwide.

Apple stock, already at its 52-week high, jumped about five percent before the results were announced. It closed more than three percent.

Most searched Indian CEOs

The top Indian CEOs are counted in one of the richest people in the world. They have created their own masterpiece impression which influences many people as they have gained great prestige and listed as most influential people in the world. People have been giving huge interest by browsing information news about them. Here are few famous CEOs listed who have been topping in web search interest in Google.

1. Mukesh D Ambani

The Chairman and Managing Director of India's largest private sector enterprise 'reliance industries limited' was born in April 19th 1957. He tops for being most searched on internet. Mukesh did his bachelor degree in chemical engineering from university of Bombay and his masters in business administration from Stanford University, USA. He led the 51 new, world class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies. He is rated 43 percent in the web search interest.

2.Ratan Tata

This bachelor is the chairman of the Tata Group; he is the India's most respected conglomerate. He took over as group chairman from the legendary JRD Tata in 1991. Tata develop

ed the first entirely Indian passenger car Tata Indica and the Nano car which is the world's cheapest car. He holds a degree in Architecture and also has done his advance management from Havard Business School in 1974-1975. He was also honored with one of the India's prestigious awards like Padma Bhushan and civilian awards. He is rated 28 percent in the web search interest.

3. Anil D Ambani

The fourth richest Indian today is worth about $13.5 billion and is the chairman of Reliance communications, Reliance capital, Reliance Energy and Reliance Natural Resources Limite

d. He directed the RIL's effort to raise $2 billion from global markets. He runs the Mumbai marathon regularly as he is a fitness freak. He has done his bachelor's in science from university of Bombay and his matters in business from the Wharton school at the University of Pennsylvania. He is rated 26 percent for being most searched on Google.

4. Azim H Premji

The chairman of Wipro Technologies is counted in one of the richest Indians. He is one of the great people in the software industry and is an icon among the great Indian busi

nessmen. Azim Premji diversified Wipro software and technologies became one of the most prestigious software companies in India. He diversified the oil company into a software company. The 70 million oil company after becoming an IT industry made a turnover of about $2.4 billion with the employee strength of 57,000. He has been regularly featured in the Forbes magazine list of richest people and also was listed in the 100 most influential people in the world by times magazine. In the year 2005 he was honored with Padma Bhushan by the government and also nation's highest civilian awards. The web search interest all over of Azim H Premji is 13 percent.

5.Lakshmi Mittal

The steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is the richest Indian in the world with the estimated wealth of $25 Billion dollar. He lives in U.K and his company is registered wit

h Netherlands but still holds the Indian citizenship. He owns the Mittal group of steel industry which is the largest steel company in the world. His greatest achievement is taking over the world's largest steel producer -The international steel group. In 25 years he made the Mittal steel company the world largest steel company. The web search interest of Lakshmi Mittal is 10 percent all over in Google.

5 things you should not share on Facebook

Social networking through Facebook has become a global trend today. We feel like sharing our feelings, pictures and latest updates with everyone through Facebook. However, it is not advisable to highlight each and every update or give the details of every moment through Facebook as sharing certain information on the social networking site can prove to be really risky for you. Here are the five details that you should never share on Facebook.

Giving password clues

Never reveal your password details. We tend to answer the different security questions, answering our bank or brokerage firm our mom's maiden name, the name of our favorite song etc. Therefore, we end up getting the same details on the information page on our Facebook profile, making it easy for the criminals to easily crack our password information.

Revealing vacation plans or details

Many foster the habit of boasting everyone that our life is so very happening and full of adventures. Sentence like countdown to Italy or vacation trip to Ha

waii, off to Goa, are often seen popping on the profile page. Sharing such details on Facebook can prove to be really dangerous as you are inviting the robbers at your place by informing them when you are out. The safest way to share your good times is to upload the pictures of your vacation trip after you come back.

Revealing your phone number or home address

You should never share your phone number or home address through Facebook as by revealing these details you may land up into trouble. If you want to

ignore certain people in your life and don't want to keep in touch with them ever again, you should never reveal your phone number on Facebook as anyone can track your contact number from there easily. Also by revealing the home address in the Facebook you can fall into the risk of physical or identity theft.

Uploading photos or videos of your kid

Everyone feels happy as well as excited at the birth of a newborn and feel like sharing their kid's pictures with the whole world .Videos and pictures of the

kids are supposed to be very personal, therefore, keeping them at home as a personal collection is the best advice for the ones who feel like updating every single detail of their kids life on a social media. By doing so, you are putting the safety of your kids at risk as these information can easily reach the wrong ones. Updates about your kid's whereabouts and location might cause you serious troubles.

Sharing financial details

Never give out or share your personal financial details openly with friends through Facebook. If you haven't done proper privacy setting on your profile, a comment t

hat may seems safe on the Facebook wall can create a big hassle as identity thieves are around to collect such information's about your banking details where you have made your life investments.

10 ways your Boss will get you to Quit

If you are among the talented ones in your office and is supposedly getting more attention than your Boss then you should be seeing a pink slip coming your way anytime. There are some good hard working employees, but sometimes their attitude or personality does not take them far in a workplace. But we have another set of employees who are exceptional and are determined to go beyond their bosses, which will end them up in making more enemies than friends. Employees who show up for work, do their duties very well, and their overall job is betted good then it is difficult for Managers, supervisors and corporate figureheads to put employees on probation or fire them if they have done nothing wrong to warrant such actions.

But how will you know that your boss wants to secretly get over you? What might be some signs that a boss gives out when he wants to get rid of his potential threat? Here are a few:

Concentrates on you for no reason:

If you have a your boss checking your minute to minute work, keeping a watch on when you come and leave office, checks who are on your chat list and who you are chit chatting with. Then you will have to gear up as he is determined to point your errors more than once. Whether big or small, making you feel guilty is what matters and he will keep repeating it until you turn out humble in your attitude or either get frustrated and leave the job. Either way a boss may reason that he or she won't have to put the person on probation and cause him or her possible feelings of resentment or fire this person. Whatever happens, the boss just wants the potential "problem" to go away.

Insults you in front of others:

Pointing out errors will never be a private affair when a boss wants to get rid of a potential employee. He always makes sure that, people in the organization g

et to know your mistakes and how incapable you are of handling the job. Your confidence tends to weaken when you are insulted in front of your colleagues and friends. However, if the employee has noticed an increase in negative statements, this is a clear sign that there is something about the employee that bothers him or her.

Deploys spies who report back to him about your actions:

So how long was she in office? Did he complete the work that I had given him? Was she chatting with a person from the other department? Wer

e they on time for work this week? Where did they go after the meeting? These are few of the questions that your boss will shoot at your spies so that he can build a very starong file against you. Records your daily actions to show how viable are you to be fired.

Ignores you and does not expect any feedback from you:

Your boss calls you for a meeting, tells you what to do and then the meeting is adjourned. Now this may not have been happening before. How

ever, if these are some sign that your boss portrays then you need to understand that he no longer cares for your inputs.

Offers lesser responsibility:

One fine morning you come to office and you find out that you are stripped of your responsibilities and maybe your team is divided without your knowledge. Then

it is a sure sign that there is something unpleasant on the horizon. After all, your boss cannot fire a person who's got a ton of important work to do, with many people underneath you. So over time, he will reduce the work given to you, reduce the people under you and eventually a new job title of which you have no clue about. Eventually you will have a hard time finding anything of real value to do all day.

Gives you impossible tasks that cannot be achieved:

If your boss cannot bend your attitude then he will pin you up with an impossible task that cannot be achieved by you, at least something t

hat cannot be achieved in the near future. Trying to prove him wrong, you end pushing yourself harder and the people around you. This could lead to a level where you get irritated, frustrated and leads you to quitting.

Are you longer in the information loop?:

You go on a business trip and when you come back, your whole working system is changed. After a day at office you realize that were not informed about any

of these changes and all that you have to do is adopt yourself to the new system. This is a huge telltale sign. Suddenly you're finding out about company news from the cleaning lady or the new girl in accounting. If you were formally in the know about all things business related, but now suffer from "the company's doing what??!" disease, the writing is probably on the wall.

Uses psychological warfare on you:

Mental peace is very important at workplace and a psychological warfare by boss will just wipe out all the tranquility you had in your job. He will make you w

ork overtime, disturb when you are on vacation, blow up things out of proportion and keep picking on you for silly problems. All of these sneaky ways are designed to stress the employee so much that it will make you start posting those resumes of yours to other employers.

Encourages you find job elsewhere:

Sometimes your bosses can be quite bold, especially after a disagreement, and say something like, "Well, if you are not happy here, why don't you just find ano

ther job?". It is a clear sign that he no longer wants you around him. Although you need to pay attention as to know how the suggestion was made since the last disagreement. If your boss is repeatedly reminding you of finding a new job then it is a complete red flag.

Impossible to get an idea approved:

Think back. A long time ago, people would give a green light for your projects faster than the traffic signals. But that's no longer the case. The boss is sud

denly silent when it comes to approval. You're being passed around for middle-manager to middle-manager. The silent treatment is a sure sign of pink-slip disease.

Top apps for Android Smartphone

Angry bird apps

Angry Bird is one of the most popular games on Android. RovioMobile's released the full version of Angry Birds apps for Android through GetJar and now it's available on the Android Market. Angry Birds was previously a paid for App on other platforms like Apple's iOS but they offered a free "Lite" edition for both Android and iOS. The game had been downloaded a million times per day on Android after it got released.

Aldiko Book Reader apps

Aldiko Book Reader allows one to read and download thousands of books right on your Android phone or tablet. You can browse huge catalogs of ebooks including best-sellers, new releases and classics (lot of them for FREE) or import your own ePub and PDF files.

Barcode Scanner apps

This app turns the Android camera into a barcode scanner. You simply scan a products UPC code and let the app go to work to find it in Google Product Search or a search on the open Web. You will be amazed at how fast it works. This is great for when you are shopping retail and you want to check the price of a product online before buying to make sure you are paying a fair price.

Google Sky Map

Google Sky Map is an amazing toll can tell your kid the name of that constellation he is pointing at. Google SkyMap lets you point your smartphone at it and get the information. This is part of a new breed of apps called 'Augmented Reality' apps that layer digital information on top of real world experiences.

Shazam apps

Shazam lets you hear a song being played at a store or on the radio and ask yourself,well if you cannot recall who is the singer, then do not have to worry if you have Shazam apps installed in your android. Just hit the button and let it listen for 15 seconds, query its database, and then return the name of artist and the song.

Global gaming spend to touch $112 Billion by 2015: Gartner

The global spending on the gaming ecosystem is expected to touch $112 billion from the current $67 billion in 2010, with major technology and business model transitions driving the growth of the industry, research firm Gartner today said.

"The worldwide spending on the gaming ecosystem (gaming hardware, software, mobile and PC games) will exceed $74 billion in 2011, up 10.4 per cent from 2010 spending of $67 billion. By 2015, spending will reach $112 billion," Gartner said in a statement.

Of this, gaming hardware and online gaming is expected to reach $27.35 billion and $28.29 billion respectively by the end of 2015, Gartner said.

Gaming software is expected to contribute $44.7 billion in 2011 and will continue to dominate the overall gaming market in the next five years ($56.5 billion at 2015) as it absorbs almost two-thirds of consumers' gaming budgets, it added.

"This large market size means that many consumers embrace gaming as a core piece of their entertainment budget and will continue to play as long as game publishers deliver compelling and fun games," Gartner Research Director Fabrizio Biscotti said.

Within the gaming software market, mobile gaming is expected to experience the largestgrowth with its share expanding from 15 per cent in 2010 to 20 per cent in 2015.

"As the popularity of smart phones and tablets continues to expand, gaming will remain a key component in the use of these devices. Although they are never used primarily for gaming, mobile games are the most downloaded application category across most application stores," Gartner Principal Research Analyst Tuong Nguyenat said.

For this reason, mobile gaming will continue to thrive as more consumers expand their use of new and innovative portable connected devices, Nguyenat added.

The ecosystem includes console makers like Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, software for devices like Xbox 360, PlayStation and Wii, handheld consoles like Game Boy Advance, Nintendo besides PC gaming software, mobile and online gaming.