Ding entertainment iPhone App chosen as Apple
Staff Pick

Software Ops LLC has announced that their fun entertainment app, Ding has been selected by Apple as a staff pick and featured on the front page of the App Store. Apple chooses certain applications to feature on the front page of the iTunes store each week. It helps promote the developer's products and shows that Apple's employees really do look over the applications and vote on their favorites. Ding was built with the intention of giving a service bell its own personality.

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Analyst: Apple Beats Nokia as Worlds Most
Profitable Handset-Maker in Last Quarter

Sarah Reedy:

Nokia may still claim the largest global market share, but Apple has overtaken it as the world?s most profitable handset vendor in the third quarter of 2009, according to Strategy Analytics. The one-handset wonder pushed Nokia into the no. 2 slot, as Nokia?s margins were hit hard by both the economic downturn and a stagnant presence in the U.S.

The firm estimates that Apple?s iPhone operating profit came in at $1.6 billion in Q3, while Nokia recorded only $1.1 billion in operating profit.

Now seems like a good time to recall the words of former Palm CEO Ed Colligan, a mere three years ago:

Responding to questions from New York Times correspondent John Markoff at a Churchill Club breakfast gathering Thursday morning, Colligan laughed off the idea that any company ? including the wildly popular Apple Computer ? could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.

?We?ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,? he said. ?PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They?re not going to just walk in.?

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