While final root cause analysis is in progress, this issue appears to be due to a time calculation that was incorrect for the leap year.
This comes even though Apple reported 17.6% annual revenue growth, or 27% when factoring in that last year had an extra week to account for the leap year.
The town calls itself the "Leap Year Capital of the World" and expects 100 or more people with Feb. 29 birthdays to attend its quadrennial Leap Year Day celebration, says Jerry Brown, a pastor and store manager there.
Airlines have posted an average 6.3% increase in the number of February passengers during leap year because of the extra day, based on the past eight years' data from the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
This improvement was despite there being one less trading day in the period compared with last year, which was a leap year, and Easter falling outside the quarter this year, the company said.
In 1996, computers at a New Zealand aluminum-smelting plant failed to process the 366th day in leap year.
The 23-year-old honey from Holland made a long-legged leap up the charts from her second-to-last position last year.
The total is expected to nearly double next year, leap-frogging Indonesia for the title of second largest market.
Comcast's wide-ranging On Demand movie lineup features new release films such as: Nine, Leap Year, The Blind Side, Crazy Heart, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, Precious and Twilight: New Moon as well as classics like Casablanca, The Exorcist, The Godfather and The Blues Brothers.
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The big story this quarter is mobile ads, which the company said accounted for 23% of its ad revenue, a huge leap from the third quarter of last year when it was just 14%.
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Unless Congress and the White House take action, the dividend rate will leap to 43.4% next year for investors in the top federal tax bracket the same rate that would apply to most bonds.
It requires no manual adjustment before March 1, 2100, since century years are an exception to the four-year cycle governing leap years.
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According to Small Business Association figures, about six million Americans a year make the bold leap onto the startup path, with many more worldwide, and many have no corporate safety net to fall back on.
Even so, the information given in this year's annual report represents a leap forward in openness for the company and for Chinese industry as a whole.
Early the following year, Szilagyi took a leap and along with Miller founded Catalyst.
This tradition made it to the big screen via a movie called Leap Year starring Amy Adams (as a young woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on February 29) and Matthew Goode.
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"In the quarter, spend growth continued to be healthy, and was relatively consistent with the past several quarters, despite the negative impact of having an extra billing day in the first quarter of 2012 because of leap year, " Dan Henry, American Express' chief financial officer, said during a conference call with analysts.
Within a year 175 competitors would leap into the game, but Cotsakos got the early jump.
When Tulsa's Bill Blankenship decided to make the leap from high school, it took him a year to find a college gig.
Neat stacks of medical text books, a sharply-designed carrier bag from a clothes store, an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family.
One code-writer's trick, for instance, was to encode dates using the 1, 461 days that make up a full leap-year cycle.
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While Morris (66.7%) is quickly approaching the required 75% for election with two years of eligibility remaining, Bagwell has made a quantum leap to 56% of the vote after only his second year on the ballot.
Data traffic on the Internet continues to grow tenfold every year and takes a thousandfold leap every three years.
The quarterly cash cost per user of Leap Wireless soared nearly 16% year-on-year.
MetroPCS says it added 249, 000 net new customers in the third quarter, doubling its year-earlier increase, and Leap Wireless says it gained 156, 000 net customers, more than tripling its year-earlier growth.
In May this year 26.8 million people visited the site, with Facebook leap-frogging MSN to become the UK's second most visited site.
Yet with only a year's reserve left, the seminary grad remains undaunted in his leap of faith.
It has in the past been reluctant to accept tougher sanctions but, after an embarrassing leap in its exports last year, may now reconsider.
And the Belarussian leader is in a hurry, both because his economy is (even) wobblier than Russia's and because he seems to think that, under existing agreements with Russia, he can leap across the border and win Mr Yeltsin's job at Russia's presidential election next year.
The Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising giant saw a 36.7% leap from last year.
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