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iPhone pulls ahead as IT spending sags
IT firms are spending less as a result of a slowing economy, but even amid the constant downturn, Apple's iPhone is still seeing wider adoption in the field. According to a new report from ChangeWave Research, the amount of companies expected to purchase iPhones during the August quarter sits at 17-percent, having recently passed competitor Palm during November 2007. Overall demand for the iPhone ...
Categories: Mac News
ElectroBox - MiShake
interesting new player in the digital media market: The last time we saw an innovative new way of controlling media on a portable player it came from iRiver in the form of the Clix 2. In this instance the depressable case controls worked well....
Categories: Software and hardware reviews
MWg - Atom V
fully featured PDA with some attractive extras: MWg's Atom V packs in a lot of features. It is a Windows Mobile 6 Professional device complete with 2.8-inch touch screen and GPS antenna. It is quad-band GSM and it'll manage HSDPA connections at speeds...
Categories: Software and hardware reviews
Nvidia vice president firmly denies CPU rumours
A senior vice president of Nvidia has denied rumours that the company is planning an entry into the x86 CPU market.
Categories: PC news
Mac clone maker sues Apple, plays antitrust card
Psystar, which was sued by Apple last month, filed a countersuit Tuesday, charging Apple with restraint of trade, unfair competition and other violations of antitrust law.
Categories: Mac News
Psystar to countersue Apple, cites antitrust laws
Psystar, a Mac-clone manufacturer and defendant in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Apple, has been preparing its defense and is planning a countersuit. According to CNET, the legal battle between the two companies has been heating up for a while, beginning with Psystar's blatant modification of Mac OS X so it can be installed on its cheaper $400 PC. Apple finally filed suit on July 3rd ...
Categories: Mac News
Code Breaker logic game for iPhone
Gala Factory has announced Code Breaker, a code-logic puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch. In the game, colored dots form a scheme that has to be guessed in ten tries or less. The game hints that a player's guess is the right set of colors, but wrong order, or the correct position of a specific color. It supports saving the a game in progress when switching away for a phone call, and keeps t...
Categories: Mac News
Panic updates Coda Web development application
Panic has updated Coda with some significant new features including Subversion.
Categories: Mac News
Epson announces new MovieMate 55 projector
Epson today announced a new multimedia projector, the MovieMate 55. The device includes a projector, CD/DVD player, and speakers in a portable case.
Categories: Mac News
Apple enterprise share nearly quadruples
Apple has managed to almost quadruple its share of the corporate OS market within a short space of time, says Ben Gray of Forrester Research. The analyst notes that while in January 2007, just 1.2 percent of operating systems recorded in an online client survey were Mac OS X, current figures suggest an adoption rate of 4.5 percent. The figure is more remarkable, says Gray, because Apple does not...
Categories: Mac News
Google rolls out tool that suggests search queries
Google plans to add a new feature to its search engine that suggests queries as letters and words are typed.
Categories: Mac News
First Look: Celtx, open source screenwriter
If youíre interested in writing a screenplay, a teleplay, or a stage play, you could use an ordinary word processor. Unfortunately, each script style requires different page margins and formatting conventions. You could take the time to define these formatting styles yourself, or you could just use a special scriptwriting program that does this for you automatically. Rather than pay $200 or more f...
Categories: Mac News
RAGE SERank 1.8 adds searches, fixes Google glitch
RAGE Software has announced Rage SERank 1.8, an update to its search-engine tracking software. The software allows users to track website rankings over numerous search engines including Google, yahoo and MSN. Over a dozen new search engines have been added to v1.8, bringing the total search engine count to over 60, and a major bug fix relating to Google's recent algorithm change has been institute...
Categories: Mac News
BlueAnt intros first voice-controlled headset
Bluetooth device maker BlueAnt Wireless on Tuesday announced it has launched the previously announced V1 Headset, which, the company claims, is the first Bluetooth 2.1+EDR headset with voice recognition, allowing for totally hands-free operation. The headset's BlueGenie Voice Interface software is embedded in the headset and therefore independent of the connected cellphone or other Bluetooth-enabl...
Categories: Mac News
MS confirms 120GB Zune, hints new software
The 120GB Zune spotted in the FCC's system is real but just part of a larger strategy, Zune team member Cesar Menendez has revealed. Beyond confirming the existence of the player, Menendez states that the hard disk-equipped player is just "part of the plan" and that there are significant hardware and software updates in development. Pricing should also play a role, he says....
Categories: Mac News
Apple bans Murderdrome iPhone app
Apple has banned the comic book iPhone app Murderdrome, its creators claim. This adds to a growing list of titles that have been banned from the App Store for one reason or another, including Tetris clone Tris, lightsaber emulator PhoneSaber, and the "bling" app I Am Rich. Apple has used a variety of reasons for each pull, this time the iPhone SDK's assertion that content cannot offend Apple's "r...
Categories: Mac News
GPUs contributing petaflops to science research
Stanford's Folding@home (FAH) distributed computing project, with the help of GPUs, has produced information contained in over 50 peer-reviewed published scientific papers. The scientists are using the idle power of millions of processors from users all over the world to help study protein folding. A free program can be downloaded that will use an idle computer or Playstation 3 to run scientific ...
Categories: Mac News
Toshiba launches XGA 3LCD portable projector
Toshiba on Tuesday announced details and specifications on its newest projector, the TLP-XE30U. Capable of 1024x768 resolution, the projector features a blackboard function that allows it to correct for green, black, brown, blue or beige colored walls and surfaces to display a color-correct image. Setting it up is also straightforward, with automatic vertical keystone correction that can throw up ...
Categories: Mac News
Klausner hits Verizon, more with voicemail suit
Klausner Technologies today grew the scope of its licensing claims by suing multiple other companies it believes are treading on its patents for a visual voicemail system. The company claims that software developed by Google, LG, Verizon and six other firms are violating patents from 1992 onwards for a system that permits listening to voicemail out of order through a graphical interface....
Categories: Mac News
3G iPhones already outnumbering 2.5G models?
The number of iPhone 3Gs on the market is near or already past all of the original 2.5G iPhones Apple ever produced, a report claims. The article notes that it took Apple approximately a year to ship six million 2.5G phones, despite heavy promotion and availability in six countries. Anonymous sources now claim that Foxconn, the main assembler for 3G iPhones, is continuing to build some 800,000 u...
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