Despite the economic downturn, Apple is still doing pretty well for itself. Their Q4 earnings call today revealed that the company sold about 6.9 million iPhones. Want a bit of a comparison? Apple only sold 1.1 million iPhones in Q4 of 2007. That's a substantial increase. Jobs, not to be one ...

There's been a lot of good news for Apple lately. Now that they're the third most popular mobile phone manufacturer in the world and have outsold RIM (by a lot) they're feeling pretty good. And to top it off, the App Store is still raking in the sales.   It turns ...

“After months of reviewing Windows desktops and laptops,“ exudes Josh Quittner (time.com), “I put the new $1,600 MacBook through its paces — and it was like returning from a backward country where nothing works only to find your homeland is even better than you remembered.”

They’re back. Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer), Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), and the rest of the shipwrecked Central Park crew reprise their roles in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. The new Dreamworks animated film opens next week on November 7. Enjoy.

As Joe Hutsko (greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com) reports, a new application on the App Store — greenMeter — can help you lower your “car‘s impact on the environment” by tapping “into the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer to gauge the car’s rate of forward acceleration, which in turn informs a series of real-time vehicle readings like fuel efficiency (miles per gallon) and carbon footprint.”