AT&T (http://www.att.com) has reported strong first-quarter results. The company activated 2.7 million iPhones during the period -- that's 1.1 million more than it did a year ago.

For the quarter that ended March 31, AT&T's consolidated revenues totaled US$30.6 billion, up $78 million, or 0.3% versus the year-earlier quarter; operating expenses were $24.6 billion versus $24.8 billion; operating income was $6.0 billion, up from $5.7 billion in the first quarter of 2009; and AT&T's operating income margin was 19.6%, up from 18.8 percent in the year-earlier quarter.

First-quarter 2010 net income attributable to AT&T totaled $2.5 billion, or $0.42 per diluted share, reflecting a previously disclosed noncash charge of $995 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, related to recently enacted changes in the tax treatment for the Medicare Part D subsidy. Excluding this charge, first-quarter earnings would...

The DaisyDisk Team has released DaisyDisk 1.5.2 (http://www.daisydiskapp.com), an update to their scanning/mapping system utility for Mac OS X. The upgrade provides 64-bit support on Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard"), improved scanning speed, and an optimized memory footprint.

In DaisyDisk, disk contents are displayed as an interactive sunburst map, revealing large files that may no longer be necessary. The sunburst map provides a color-coded overview of disk usage, and can be navigated to preview deeper levels of data.

DaisyDisk supports all kinds of drives, including Time Machine volumes, network share drives, FTP drives, USB thumbsticks, FireWire drives, CD/DVD drives and images, FUSE drives, SATA drives, IDE/ATA drives and RAID drives. When the application is launched an overview of all mounted disks is displayed, with graphical indicators of how full each is. Choosing the Scan button next...

Jumsoft (http://www.jumsoft.com) has launched a free version of Money, adapted for Apple's iPad. In addition, the company has released Money 3.5, an update of the financial management and budgeting tool for Mac OS X that includes a number of improvements including synchronization with Jumsoft Money for iPad.

Jumsoft Money for iPad has most of the features that helped the desktop Money achieve its current popularity, according to Algirdas Unguvaitis, general manager of Jumsoft. Users are able to create different types of accounts for cash, bank accounts, credit cards, and investments and to keep track of all transactions.

The Budget Monitor helps users follow a preplanned budget, while the Bills section reminds users of amounts due to be paid. Its report capability allows for analysis of past income and spending and helps users pinpoint areas for improvement.

The updated Money 3.5 features iPad...

Aspyr Media (http://www.aspyr.com) has announced the digital download release of four Star Wars titles. Knights of the Old Republic, Empire at War, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, and Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast at the GameAgent store.
What's more, the titles have received updated versions that will run on Mac OS 10.6 ("Snow Leopard"). Additionally, Aspyr has released two Star Wars compilation retail packs: the Star Wars Mac Pack which includes Kotor and Empire at War, and Jedi Gold which includes the two Jedi Knight titles.

Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast each cost US$19.99. Knights of the Old Republic and Empire at War sell for $29.99. The Star Wars Mac Pack is available for $49.99, while Jedi Gold is priced at $29.99. Aspyr is offering a limited time 20% discount on Star Wars titles when you buy The Force Unleashed from GameAgent.

Not enough? Well, Aspyr has also released a Mac version of The Secret of...

DriveSavers (http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com) is now offering iPad data recovery services for the new Apple device. DriveSavers Data Recovery Advisors are available 24/7 to help users recover files from an iPad, should data loss occur.

With the power and simplicity of the iPad, users are able to store digital photos, videos, games, e-books, address book contacts, calendar entries, notes and music. One of the biggest concerns for iPad users is losing data before it has been synchronized, says Scott Gaidano, president of DriveSavers Data Recovery. DriveSavers data recovery engineers have extensive experience performing data retrieval on Flash-based solid-state devices that have suffered common and catastrophic data loss and recover iPad, iPhone and iPod data that others might deem lost forever, he adds.  

Adobe has released final versions of Lightroom 2.7, Photoshop Camera Raw 5.7 and DNG Converter 5.7, available for immediate download on Adobe.com. The updates add raw file support for nine new popular camera models, including the Canon EOS 550D, Sony A450 and Olympus E-PL1.

Photoshop Lightroom software is a digital photography workflow solution, allowing photographers to import, process, manage and showcase images. The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in provides access within Photoshop to the raw image formats produced by many leading digital cameras. Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) format is a publicly available archival format for the raw files generated by digital cameras. 

Flash Networks (http://www.flashnetworks.com), a provider of mobile Internet solutions, has enhancements to its Harmony Web & Media Optimization solution to support HTML5, the standard used by iPad for the delivery of rich media content.

The enhanced Harmony solution optimizes video delivered via the HTML5 framework to provide smoother and faster mobile browsing for iPad users while performing data reduction to enable operators to cost-effectively manage the huge increase in data traffic, according to Merav Bahat, vice president of Marketing and Business Development at Flash Networks.
 
HTML5, an open framework designed to handle video and rich media delivery, is supported by YouTube and Vimeo, two of the largest video sharing sites, and is expected to be adopted by most video content providers in the near future, he says. HTML5 is also supported by all of the latest iPhone OS...

Beehive Software (http://www.SendFile.NET) has announced the availability of the Sendfile Secure Https file transfer system as source code. For the first time, users can develop, maintain and deliver completely custom file transfer applications using the secure file transfer source code.

The Beehive Sendfile Secure client software is available, in source, as a desktop application for Mac and Windows platforms or as a browser Java client for any platform. The secure https server runs on a variety of Linux distributions and can be ported to other Unix distributions.

On-The-Fly streaming compression makes Beehive Sendfile https secure file transfers up to 30 times faster than FTP, according to the folks at Beehive Software. It's used in secure file transfers for printing, prepress, marketing, finance and manufacturing.

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find 'em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Open Door Networks and Project A are shipping Earth Envi HD for US$1.99. The iPad-specific app, timed to arrive for the 40th Earth Day, provides access to thousands of web-based photos of planet Earth from outer space. It also includes access to month-by-month climate maps and over a decade's worth of photos and articles from NASA's Earth Observatory.

iStoryTime will be giving away select, full featured apps free for Earth Day. The stories that will be available for free this week on the Apple App Store "provide an educational way to inspire awareness and help adults and their children appreciate the environment."

Wondershare has released Wondershare DVD to iPad Converter and iPad Video Converter. The original price for DVD to iPad...

During the its fiscal 2010 second quarter that ended March 27, Apple saw its retail store chain increase revenue by 22%. That's up 38% year-over-year.

Apple had an average of 284 stores open during the quarter. The stores saw 47 million visitors in the second fiscal quarter of 2010 as compared to 39.1 million in the second fiscal quarter of 2009. The average revenue per store was $5.9 million, compared to $5.5 million in the 2009 quarter.

Apple will open 40-50 new retail stores before the end of the year. Half of them will be international stores, with locations including London, Paris and Shanghai. The latter will get two stores, and Apple plans on having 20 retail stores in China by the end of 2011.

The retail stores sold approximately 606,000 Macs. And, as always, in talking with analysts about the fiscal results, Apple Chief Financial Officer said that half of those sales are to folks who've never bought a Mac before.

In a press conference regarding its latest quarterly financials, Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said Mac sales were up 20% in America alone, representing a 26% increase in revenue.

Apple sold 2.94 million Macs during the quarter, representing a 33% unit increase over the same quarter in 2009. Worldwide Mac sales were up 3%, increasing revenue by 49%. Asia Pacific was the biggest market; Macs sales there were up 67%, garnering a revenue increase of 184%.

Overall Macs brought in $5.4 billion in revenue -- $1.7 billion from desktop sales and $2.8 billion. Desktop sales grew 40% from the second quarter of 2009 -- a 45% increase in revenue. Laptop sales grew 28% year-over-year, seeing revenue rise 17%.