Apple has just released their financial results for Q1 2012. How does this sound: Revenue – $46.33 billion USD Profit – $13.1 billion USD Apple now has $97.6 billion USD in cash 15 million iPads sold last quarter, 55 million in total. 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, more than any other smartphone manufacturer. Apple [...]
Full Story »Apple Q1 2012 Financial Results
Apple iBooks 2 – Education
Apple has just announced that they will be releasing iBooks 2. iBooks is an official iOS application made by Apple currently available on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices for reading e-books. Now Apple is building iBooks 2 which will primarily be used for educational purposes in Schools and Universities. So Apple’s aim here [...]
Full Story »Facebook Mobile Ads
There is speculation that Facebook may be looking to introduce some form of ads into the mobile version of their site early next year. Currently Google and Apple lead the way in mobile display advertising, with smaller stakes to Millennial Media, Yahoo and Microsoft. With Facebook’s huge reach and high mobile usage (around 350 million [...]
Full Story »Instagram – iPhone App of the Year
Apple iTunes has released their yearly figures of the most popular applications sold and downloaded through iTunes. Apple also released their own favourite iPhone application picked by the Apple team, which this year is photo app Instagram. This is a great feat by Instagram as their iPhone app is just getting more and more popular. [...]
Full Story »iOS5 Bug – SOS Only
If you have upgraded your iPhone to iOS5 you may notice occasionally your network coverage says SOS Only. This seems to be a bug affecting iOS5 users. I’ve tested this and it seems you can still make calls and send text messages, but the error is confusing as you may often think you have no [...]
Full Story »Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
One of my favourite tech interviews I’ve ever watched has to be between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the AllThingsDigital conference in 2007. Steve and Bill had been competitors, business partners and friends over a 30 year period when Microsoft and Apple were first started as companies. Watching this interview gives you great insight [...]
Full Story »Apple Q4 Revenue 2011
Apple has just announced their 2011 Q4 revenue and earnings figures. They are big! CEO Tim Cook again thanked everyone for the support since Steve Jobs passing – “We’ll continue his amazing work”. Here is the main points of interest: – Revenue $28.27 billion USD – 17.07 million iPhones sold – 11.12 million iPads sold [...]
Full Story »Google Plus hits 40 Million Users
Google has just announced their Q3 Financial Results, and Larry Page CEO of Google has said that their social network, Google Plus has now reached 40 million users worldwide. Other interesting figures released by Google include: – Revenue for Q3 2011, $9.72 billion USD – up 33% – Net Income for Q3 2011, $2.73 billion [...]
Full Story »Get ready for iOS5 tomorrow
We previously wrote about how Apple is releasing a major OS upgrade – iOS5, with a number of new features. It should be released sometime tonight so come tomorrow morning Australia time you should be able to install iOS5 on your compatable device. Check our previous article on iOS5 to see if you have a [...]
Full Story »Who Gets iOS5?
After Apple’s big event announcing the iPhone 4S many have been wondering which Apple devices will get the new iOS5 operating system. This is the most significant OS update by Apple with a number of new features and functionality – all up there is around 200 new features. The following devices will be able to [...]
Full Story »Steve Jobs Dead RIP
Steve Jobs has died today, aged 56. Steve was an innovative genius: iPod iPhone iPad AppStore all these innovations were lead by Mr Jobs and have turned Apple into one of the most valuable and profitable companies in the world Wikileaks (on their Twitter page) is coming out with some pretty big claims that Steve [...]
Full Story »Steve Jobs quits as Apple CEO
It has been reported that Steve Jobs has quit as Apple CEO. It seems many national and international news sources are also reporting the news of Steve Jobs’ resignation. Apple have reported that COO Tim Cook will replace Steve Jobs as CEO. Steve Jobs has said when he can no longer fulfill his duties of [...]
Full Story »Apple App Store hits 500,000 Applications
There are several reports floating around that the Apple iOS App Store has now approved over 500,000 Applications for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. This is a great milestone by Apple but I am going to come forward and say the quality of applications does seem to be degrading. Now when sifting through the [...]
Full Story »How ‘green’ is the iPhone? [Infograph]
So there have been over 100 Million Apple iPhones sold now, and with the continued popularity of the iPhone 4, and soon (rumored) to be iPhone 5, how green and environmentally friendly are they? Well I’ve always got mine on the charger for some reason! Here is a neat infograph put together by Geekaphone showing [...]
Full Story »Apple releases iOS update version 4.3.2
Apple has just released iOS update 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users (3rd and 4th gen). Unfortunately over the last couple iOS updates regular iPhone 3G users have not been getting any further features or enhancements and because of older hardware technology it seems they won’t get any useful upgrades moving forward either. [...]
Full Story »Facebook upgrades iPhone app, version 3.4
Facebook has just released an update of their iOS application (version 3.4) into the Apple App Store. There are several updates to the app worth noting: – You can now ‘unfriend’ people via your iPhone app – Facebook places now has an upgraded Map view – Users are now able to check into ‘events’ rather [...]
Full Story »






My name is David Cowling and I am the Founder and Chief Editor of Social Media News AUS. I am based in Surry Hills, Sydney - and enjoy commenting on the Social Media landscape in Australia and also major developments worldwide. Feel free to get in 




