The Apple Beat: Earnings are High and Education and Enterprise are wide open for Apple

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple is riding high on it's latest revenue earnings numbers.  Apple announced a record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share for Q4 2011.

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Corporate tablets from Cisco and Lenovo look to change things in enterprise

Lenovo's recently revealed ThinkPad Tablet and Cisco's little known Cius tablet have their work cut out for them. These are two enterprise grade Android tablets that have no consumer aspirations and will be offered directly to corporate buyers for corporate uses. Lenovo is leveraging the famed ThinkPad name and goes back to the brand's roots since the very first ThinkPad was, you guessed it, a tablet PC.  Cisco's got the Cius geared gor business grade users (see below) and they even have their own developer community for Cius specific apps.

Pricing and avalabilty for both have not yet been revealed but we're betting they will be more expensive that the current crop of consumer tablets slugging it out in the market today.