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Reporting results for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2009, Apple sales and profits continue to defy a moribund economy, and for the first time in the company’s history ten million Macs have been sold in a fiscal year.

Apple has been reaching out to book publishers with a “very attractive proposal for distributing their books.” The revenue split on the table is said to 30% for Apple, 70% for the publisher,

If you have some shopping to do, there are stores open New Year's Day 2010, including Walmart, Best Buy and Target.

This is true even though all federal, state, county and municipal offices are closed today, Jan. 1, 2010, due to the holiday.

In another retail announcement, Verizon Wireless said it teamed with regional appliance/electronics chain P.C. Richard and Son to open carrier-operated stores-within-a-store in the chain’s more than 30 New York/New Jersey metro area stores.

In the P.C. Richard stores, the Verizon kiosks will carry the carrier’s new Verizon Hub, a VoIP multimedia home phone that integrates with select Verizon Wireless services.

Nokia today announced that the N900 will be available in Vodafone UK stores from 7th January 2010, and from Carphone Warehouse stores as of 26 December 2009.

Apple has authorised Bharti Airtel to ‘unlock’ its 3G iPhones, launched earlier, enabling the Indian company to sell it through their stores to any user, not necessarily only an Airtel subscriber.

When we reviewed the previous Mac mini iteration, we lamented the 11 months it took Apple to release that update—a period so lengthy that many people wondered if Apple would discontinue the line. So you can imagine the speculation that’s occurred in the 19 months since. Last week, Apple finally gave the company’s least-expensive computer another refresh, and that update brought the Mac mini line its most significant upgrades yet.

Now that Halloween is officially over, stores will be getting ready for the big holiday shopping season. And it's not just stores! People are already searching for Black Fridays deals so I thought I'd put together an easy list of the great sites on the net to find the best Black Friday Deals for 2009.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed the acquisition but did not disclose the terms of the deal or what the company intends to do with the 4-year-old Lala