NewsBits – record earnings, Trojans and pirates, flying with the iPod

Posted on 25 January, 2009 by Jimmy Liew

A quick catchup on some news that pops up from my RSS feeds.

Apple reports record revenue of US$10.17 billion and record net quarterly profit of US$1.61 billion

There was general good news at the latest quarterly earnings call from Apple, with recording quarterly revenue and profit. There was a nice percent unit growth for Macintosh sales compared to a year-ago quarter, three percent growth for iPod sales and not surprisingly 88 percent growth for iPhone units sold over the same quarter last year.

Compared these results to what Nokia is reporting – 69 percent drop in profit and and Sony’s first ever US$3 billion loss, there is much for Apple fans to cheer about in this current times.

Also read MacDailyNews top 20 highlights from the conference call for more details.

Pirated copies of iWork’09 may contain Trojan

Intego raised an alert of a Trojan that is hiding within pirated copies of iWork’09 that is being shared via BitTorent and other Warez site. So if went to such sites and did download the iWork’09 do take note. The Trojan acts as a remote access to your Macintosh for malicious use by others.

Moral of the story – pay for the real stuff, or you might get more than you expected.

To deactivate and remove the Trojan, do follow these steps (taken from Macrumors) or download a tool to remove it from MacScan.

1. (open Terminal.app)
2. sudo su (enter password)
3. rm -r /System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices
4. rm /private/tmp/.iWorkServices
5. rm /usr/bin/iWorkServices
6. rm -r /Library/Receipts/iWorkServices.pkg
7. killall -9 iWorkServices

Singapore Airlines introduces iPod/iPhone connectivity in all A330 seats

Making flying more enjoyable, Singapore Airlines has included a panel on all classes of its A330 seats that has iPod/iPhone connectivity facility, USB port and AV input. But looking at the photo (click to see enlarged photo), can anyone let me know is that something you can plug your iPod/iPhone to? Or does one plug into the USB port? If the latter, it means you can charge your iPhone/iPod via the USB port, allowing you to have it fully charged when you step out of the plane.

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