Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and the latest edition of Mac OS X, 10.6 or Snow Leopard, does include malware protection.

On Tuesday, Apple (AAPL) reported its fiscal Q3 2009 earnings for the quarter ended June 27, 2009. Revenue was $8.34 billion with a net quarterly profit of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per diluted share. In the year-ago quarter, Apple had revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted shareGross margin was 36.3%, up from 34.8% in the year-ago quarter.

The new iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3.0 OS has brought us enough surprise, it features faster performance, a video camera, voice control, and GPS maps with compass, MMS.

Another year, another new iPhone, and another long line to wait in? Yes, it's true, but things are not quite as hysterical, panicky, crazy, however you want to call it.

The next release of the iPhone OS, version 3.0, is set to release today, according to Apple. Unfortunately, for those looking for a clue as to the time when you can go into iTunes with your iPhone and get it, the answer is: not yet.

The WWDC keynote was given today, starring Phil Schiller, SVP of Apple worldwide product marketing. Of course, what many (not all) want to hear about, the new iPhone (3GS), was saved for last, although not for "one more thing." Nope, no Steve Jobs appearance, and no stock bump via a surprise appearance, of course.

We wrote earlier about a post at a Chinese web forum reportedly from a beta tester of the new iPhone, which seemed to have reasonable (though of course unconfirmed) specs for the new device. On Tuesday, Apple iPhone Apps reported that they had been approached by a source "closely connected" to Apple’s hardware dev team claiming to have info on the next-generation iPhone’s specifications and release date.

AT&T's recent earnings numbers were down, but the iPhone itself buoyed the company's earnings. Thus, this sort of news, which has been rumored for some time, is definitely not welcome. Reports today indicate that Verizon and AT&T are discussing a version of the iPhone for that network.

Admitting what was obvious to all, Apple on Thursday acknowledged an obvious mistake: allowing an app called the "Baby Shaker" into the App Store.

Laptop Hunters ads or no, you can get Microsoft looked enviously at Apple's results yesterday. Apple is flying high; Microsoft, not so much.

AT&T had a decent, but slightly down Q1 2009, year-over-year. But the iPhone was a bright spot, and based on that, expectations were high for Apple's earnings, and the company did not disappoint.

It was rumored earlier that AT&T was working on infrastructure upgrades prior to launch of the "new" iPhone later this year. It looks like those upgrades are now confirmed.