By Graham K. Rogers

Earlier this morning, Apple put out a press release on a conference call that is being held later today: Monday 19 March, at 6am Pacific Time, 9am Eastern.

The matter on the table is an announcement of company discussions concerning its cash balance which is now reported to be around $100 billion. Apple will not be providing any information on the current quarter. Only the cash is to be discussed at this time.

The dial-in number for press is (877) 616-0063 (toll-free) or (719) 219-0041. Please enter confirmation code 592016 and it will be available as a continuous rebroadcast beginning Monday, March 19 at 9:00 a.m. PDT/12:00 p.m. EDT through Monday, April 2 at 9:00 a.m. PDT/12:00 p.m. EDT.

The dial-in number for the rebroadcast is (888) 203-1112 (toll-free) or (719) 457-0820. Please enter confirmation code 6274937.

The press release also reports that Apple will provide live audio streaming of its conference call using QuickTime. The live webcast will begin at 6:00 a.m. PDT on March 19, 2012 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/call31912 and will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs.