Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter, which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. “We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads, and Macs,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline.”

Apple today announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, engaging, and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users gorgeous, full-screen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, and unrivaled navigation. Leading education services companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson will deliver educational titles on the iBookstore, with most priced at $14.99 or less. And with the new iBooks Author, anyone with a Mac can create iBooks textbooks and publish them to Apple’s iBookstore. Starting today, iBooks 2 is available free from the App Store and iBooks Author is available free from the Mac App Store

Apple today announced an all-new iTunes U app, giving educators and students everything they need on their iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch to teach and take entire courses. The all-new iTunes U app lets teachers create and manage courses — including essential components such as lectures, assignments, books, quizzes, and syllabuses — and offer them to millions of iOS users around the world. The app also gives iOS users access to the world’s largest catalog of free educational content from top universities including Cambridge, Duke, Harvard, Oxford and Stanford. And starting today, any K-12 school district can offer full courses through the iTunes U app.

Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis continues her exploration of HTML5 and video on the web.  She demonstrates how to provide Flash as an alternative to HTML5 in order to serve content to users with older browsers.

Join developer and trainer Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis as she explains the ins and outs of embedding video on the web:  which video formats work in each browser, and how to implement your video so that all modern browsers can access it.

W3Conversions' Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis lays down the ground rules for video and HTML5 in a four-part series. First, she provides a crash course on how to think about HTML5 when delivering video and dynamic content for the web.

Muse (codename) enables designers to create websites as easily as creating a layout for print. Design and publish original HTML pages using the latest web standards, and without writing code. Muse beta 5.0.2 addresses issues raised by customers plus several performance enhancements and is now available to download. Learn More About Muse Download Muse Discuss [...]

Course Companion for Adobe® Captivate® 5.5 is designed to address the need of educators and learning service providers to ascertain whether or not the learning content is well accepted by the respective community. It provides deep insight into the responses to learning content and helps you understand user behavior while they take courses. This technology [...]

Adobe AIR 3.2 beta 4 is now available for download.  Adds new features for out-of-browser applications across platforms. Learn More About AIR 3.2 beta 4 Download AIR 3.2 beta 4 Discuss AIR 3.2 features Report bugs and feature requests

You can now edit the default language for app metadata any time. If you have multiple apps, you have the added flexibility of managing metadata localizations for each individual app. Any localizations you add will be displayed automatically based on customers’ OS or iOS language settings. Otherwise, the default language you select will be displayed to all customers. Learn more in the latest iTunes Connect Developer Guide.

iTunes Connect will be temporarily shut down December 22-29 for the winter holidays. During this time, access to iTunes Connect and the delivery of apps and updates will be unavailable. You should not schedule pricing changes that would take effect during the shutdown, as these changes will not be reflected in the App Store and the app will become unavailable for purchase. In addition, releases scheduled between these dates will not go live until after the shutdown.

iOS 5.0.1 is now available to iOS users worldwide. Be sure to read the iOS Data Storage Guidelines to understand the latest on managing data with iCloud storage.