jeff carlson (~90 words)apple reports $472 million q3-2006 profit -- apple continued its succession of profitable quarters by announcing a $472 million profit for the third financial quarter of 2006, based on revenues of $4.37 billion. those rosy numbers arrive thanks to sales of 1,327,000 macintosh computers (compared to 1.1 million last quarter, and up 12 percent over the year-ago quarter), and 8,111,000 ipods (which is slightly down from the 8.5 million ipods shipped last quarter, but 32 percent better than a year ago). [jlc]...
