Apple ends fiscal 2010 up 57.6%

Up 18.5% in September alone. Comes within spitting distance of $300

Shareholders who stuck with Apple (AAPL) in fiscal 2010 -- which ends on Saturday -- were well rewarded. The stock closed Friday at $292.32, up 1.18% for the day, 5.7% for the week, 18.9% for the month and 57.6% for the year.

At about 9:45 a.m. it hit $293.53, an all time high and only $6.47 away from that $300 price MORE

T-Mobile opens orders for pure Android experience

For those of us who want a pure experience, the way Google intended, we now have an(other) option.

Mmmm...pure unadulterated Android

Like most people, I hate those skins that manufacturers put on top of Android to try to differentiate their product. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer phones are coming out without some sort of manufacturer overlay to dilute that experience.

Thankfully, T-Mobile, the carrier that originally took a chance with Android, offering the MORE

What if Verizon never gets an iPhone?

An analyst examines the impact on iPhone shipments and on Apple's share price

In the wake of Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg's remarks Thursday -- which seemed to pour cold water on rumors of the imminent release of a Verizon iPhone -- RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky takes a look at the implications in a note to clients issued Friday.

He begins by saying he is not surprised Apple (AAPL) and Verizon (VZ) may MORE

Today in Tech: News around the Web

A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.

"Americans are somewhat self-absorbed." -- Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on whether  U.S. citizens would notice the company's cheaper Canadian pricing. (Gizmodo)

How Apple is sucking the profit out of the mobile phone business

The iPhone's growing share of the spoils could spell bad news for Google's partners

Source: Asymco

On Tuesday we posted a pair of pie charts that showed Apple (AAPL) selling 3% of the world's mobile phones in the first half of 2010 and taking 39% of the industry's profits. (See Apple's outrageous share of the mobile industry's profits.)

Asymco's Horace Dediu, however, did us one better. He published the graph MORE

Is user data safe in the cloud?

Thousands of websites and millions of pieces of private data are increasingly in one big cloud, where some of the old rules of data security are out the window.

Image by Kevin Krejci via Flickr

With the rise of cloud computing companies, and the ferocity with which tech's biggest companies are snatching those firms up, it's no secret that a good chunk of our user data is already stored in the MORE

The incredibly untrue adventures of Mark Zuckerberg

Aaron Sorkin's new film The Social Network may be a work of fiction, but it will become Facebook's creation myth. That's not entirely a bad thing.

Before the 500 million friends

I've known Mark Zuckerberg for a long time. We first spoke in the fall of 2005, just after his summer sublet had run out in Palo Alto, when he'd taken a semester off from Harvard and was crashing at MORE

Google Checkout becomes important again for Chrome Store

Google's monetary exchange service, temporary sidelined, is poised to make a comeback as the exchange for the Chrome Web Store.

Google's Chrome project(s) are about getting people to do things on the web in a browser (as opposed to say an app).  One of the bigger aspects of this strategy is Google's intent to create a kind of App Store for Web developers, which allows them to both make some money MORE

Logitech Revue GoogleTV keyboard: Too big

A huge keyboard from a company that already makes great portable media center keyboards.

Digital Trends got their hands on an early Logitech Revue GoogleTV last week.  Overall, they loved it, saying:

Let's face it: You don't buy a Swiss Army knife because it has a corkscrew. You buy it because it has everything, and a few of those things just can't be found in most other places. The cloud revolution is well MORE

A peek at Samsung's 7-inch Galaxy Tab

It you can't get enough of Samsung's Android 2.2-powered Galaxy Tab, here's almost 10 minutes worth of video of the mini tablet in action.

You may want to mute the soundtrack to this video.

Good news for Europeans: It looks like the first Galaxy Tabs are hitting High Street for £587.49 on October 22nd.  iPads with 3G start at £529.00 in the UK but are without cameras.

If, for some reason, the seven inch MORE