Apple’s revenue grew 43 per cent for its fiscal second quarter ended March 29. Apple said its gross margin, a raw measure of the company’s profitability, declined to 32.9 per cent from 35.1 per cent a year ago. APPLE’s iPhone and iPod indeed gets most of the limelight, but it is company’s old Macintosh computer business that defied a broad slowdown in consumer spending to deliver... 

LAS VEGAS - While Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) wants to expand beyond business customers, it remains to be seen if the mix of improvements to its Windows Mobile operating system will be able to get the job done. The Redmond, Wash., software giant has pushed hard to get its foot in the mobile door through its operating system, and now wants to bust it open. At the CTIA Wireless trade show on Wednesday, it...