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<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176731"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Iomega (http://www.iomega.com) has announced the worldwide launch of the new Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array. It's a rackmount storage device for small and medium businesses, as well as small enterprise locations such as workgroups, departments and distributed/branch offices.
Supporting groups of up to 250 users, the StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array provides up to 24TB of  networked storage in a 2-rack unit (2U) form factor. The StorCenter ix 12-300r has sophisticated configuration and networking features often only available in larger enterprise installations, and is ideal for production file (NAS) and block (SAN)  data storage, backup to disk (B2D) of critical business data, shared storage for virtualized environments.
 
The StorCenter ix12-300r mounts in an EIA-310 standard equipment rack and starts with 4TB and 8TB base configurations that can be expanded in four-drive increments of 4TB or 8TB, up to a total of 24TB. In the U.S., configurations of the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176724"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Epson (http://www.epson.com) has announced two all-purpose scanners: the Perfection V33 and Epson Perfection V330 Photo, which are priced at US$89 and $119, respectively. Both models feature 4800 x 9600 dpi (dots per inch) optical resolution and an 180-degree lid for scanning oversized objects.  
The V330 however adds a built-in transparency unit that enables it to scan slides, negatives and film. Bundled with these scanners is ArcSoft Scan-n-Stitch Deluxe, which enables users to scan multiple images such as panoramas, oversized artwork, documents, and scrapbook pages (to name a few) which it stitches together automatically.  
The Epson scanners sport ReadyScan LED technology, which enables fast scan speeds, eliminates warm-up time and decreases power consumption. The technology is also mercury-free.
Epson's Easy Photo Fix technology allows users to restore color from old/faded prints, remove dust from scanned film or slides, and reduce grain. Four customizable buttons allow for one-...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176707"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">U.S. antitrust enforcers are eyeing the changes that Apple has made to its licensing agreement with iPhone application developers and are likely to open a preliminary investigation into whether the company's actions stifle competition in mobile devices, "people familiar with the situation" told "The Wall Street Journal" (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870361280457522255309149581...). And they're also apparently looking at iAd.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, which are jointly tasked with enforcing federal antitrust laws, are holding discussions over which agency would hold the inquiry, these people said. Apple, the FTC and Justice Department all declined to comment to the "Journal."
Those "people familiar with the matter" said the latest interest from regulators was triggered by complaints from Apple competitors and application developers over the terms of company's agreement with iPhone and iPad app developers. "The Journal" notes that Apple...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176693"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Another day, another lawsuit. NetAirus Technologies LLC has sued Apple over a patent related to wireless handset communications, claiming the defendant's iPhones infringe the technology.
El Segundo, Calif.-based NetAirus lodged its complaint Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. contending that Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS products infringe on its patent. The patent in question was granted to NetAirus on September 5, 2006 and seems to cover the broad concept of a “Wireless Handset Communication System."
However, looking at the patent (number ) it seems it's more for a netbook device than a portable phone. Here's the summary: "A small light weight modular microcomputer based computer and communications systems, designed for both portability and desktop uses. The systems make use of a relative large flat panel display device assembly (2), an expandable hinge device (10), battery power source (9), keyboard assembly (16), and wireless...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176643"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has posted Mac Pro Audio Update 1.1 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1042), which addresses an audio anomaly that some customers may hear coming from inside their Mac Pro computer when using FireWire audio devices. This update is for Mac Pro (Early 2009) computers running Mac OS X v10.6.3.
Mac Pro Audio 1.1 is a 515KB download. It requires Mac OS X 10.6.3 or higher and can be obtained via the Software Updates component of Mac OS X's Systems Preferences app.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176638"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">They're baaaack. Mac cloner Psystar has been granted an extension for filing an opening brief in its appeal against Apple. The company now has until May 17th, 2010 to file said brief, and Apple’s reply will be due on June 16th, "World of Apple" (http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2010/05/03/apple-v-psystar-psystar...) reports.
In January Psystar officially filed its Notice of Appeal in the copyright suit it lost against Apple. The appeal involved a copyright infringement suit Apple brought against Psystar to stop the Florida company from selling Psystar computers with Mac OS X installed.
In December 2009 Apple won as permanent injunction against Psystar. Granted by Judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, it prevents the Mac cloner from selling clones, installing Mac OS X on any hardware, and selling or copying Mac OS X.
Psystar also can't manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any technology, product...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176636"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In what it says is the the world's first demonstration of an iPad application for interactive streaming content, the inVDO app brings the unique, immersive features of Mozaik's !Content (http://www.mymozaik.com) technology to mobile platforms. It purportedly enables viewers to enjoy their favorite movies and TV shows anywhere, and to interact with in-movie brands and products at any time.
inVDO offers the ability to embed search, shop and share capabilities into any form of video content. Its capabilities are made possible by Mozaik's !Content technology, which includes the company's Ads On Demand solution for pull-based advertising, contextual in-video search based on LIPSS search criteria (Locations, Items, People, Services, Soundtracks), and E-commerce integration. With inVDO and Apple's magical iPad, content owners and aggregators are now in a position to offer consumers unique entertainment experiences and be able to monetize at the same time, says Bob Saffari, CEO and Chairman...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176633"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Coding Robots has updated their Memoires journaling software (http://www.codingrobots.com/memoires/) for Mac OS X to version 3.0. The upgrade improves support for Mac OS X 10.6 features and more.
With Memoires, users can choose a day and write as many notes for that day as they like. Then they can browse entries by date using calendar, or search for notes using the instant search feature.
The new version includes Quick Drawings feature, that allows users to create sketches using mouse or trackpad and insert them into journal entries. In addition to RTF and plain text exporting, Memoires 3.0 can now export journals to PDF format. Users can also print single entries, entries for a specified period of time, or the whole journal.
Version 3.0 improves support for Mac OS X 10.6 features, such as grammar checking, automatic correction of spelling errors, smart quotes and dashes, text substitutions, and data detectors. The Universal binary now includes 64-bit version. To help users stay more...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176632"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Visioneer (http:/www.visioneer.com), which makes intelligent document imaging solutions, has announced the Strobe 400, an US$2.99 duplex color scanner that measures 11.6 x 2.5 2 inches and weights 22 ounces. When used in duplex mode, it purportedly scans both sides of a page in six seconds.
The Strobe 400 can be connected to computer via the USB 2.0 interface and has a resolution of 600 DPI. It incorporates Visioneer OneTouch with Kofax VRS technology to create images from imperfect originals by which users can scan, file and store all of their documents, plastic ID cards, checks, articles, brochures and business cards. It can be powered through the computer’s USB port, or via wall-power.
The Strobe 400 includes patented Paper Driven and AutoLaunch technologies so scanning begins as soon as a document is inserted into the scanner, says John Capurso, vice president of marketing at Visioneer. It will also automatically convert, at the user’s option, any scanned item into a text-...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176434"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">PhatWare Corporation, a leading provider of software products and professional services for mobile and desktop computers, has announced the release of WritePad for iPad 3.3, the advanced handwriting recognition software for iPad.
The new version offers customizable styles, improved recognition and spell checker, inline gestures, and support for external iPad keyboard.
WritePad lets users take notes in their own handwriting with an iPad stylus pen or their finger. The state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software will adapt and learn while it is being used, improving the recognition quality overtime. WritePad supports simple gestures to select text, cut, copy, paste, and insert special characters.
WritePad has a spell checker with it's own custom dictionary, a context analyzer which allows users to dial phone numbers or open URLs embedded in the text, auto-corrector which automatically fixes common spelling and recognition errors, and a Shorthand feature that lets users perform...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176433"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">DAVA Consulting, LLC has released the first ever encyclopedia of modern weapons for iPhone. You can search, compare, or analyze famous models of weapons.
The iApp presents over 500 models of guns with technical and tactical characteristics. It also includes an extensive library of photos. Handguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and lots of other unique samples from all over the world can be found in Modern Weapons encyclopedias.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176435"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">According to BBC News, a jury in Tennessee has convicted a former student of hacking the e-mail account of Sarah Palin.
David Kernell, 22, was found guilty of obstructing justice and unauthorised access to a computer. His lawyer said that his action amounted no more than a college prank.
He illegally broke into Palin's e-mail account during her 2008 Republican campaign for the US vice-presidency.
Kernell, the son of a Democratic lawmaker, faces up to 20 years in prison for the first charge and one year for the charge of hacking.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176432"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">As Hollywood retools its product for the small screens of cellphones, its assumptions about mobile viewing are being upended by surprisingly patient consumers, according to the NYTimes.
“We all thought they’d be watching video clips in the checkout line or between classes,” said Vivi Zigler, the president for digital entertainment at NBC Universal. But owners of iPhones and other smartphones are actually watching long episodes and sometimes complete films, so a growing number of media companies are vying for people’s mobile attention spans. The result - companies, from Hollywood studios to local TV stations, foresee a wireless world that they don’t want to be cut out of.
In light of this shift some of the biggest local TV station owners in the United States announced a joint venture last month to transmit their content to viewers on the go. Roughly 17.6 million people in the United States watched video on their phones in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the Nielsen...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176385"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple released the following announcement this morning...
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple® today announced that it sold its one millionth iPad™ on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.
"One million iPads in 28 days—that's less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Demand continues to exceed supply and we're working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers."
iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad's revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176238"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Adobe plans to demonstrate a version of Flash for Google's Android software in May at the Google I/O conference. And, according to "CNET" (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20003922-94.html), the company is preparing to give away Android phones running Flash to employees,
The article quotes "three sources familiar with the plan." It's not clear which phone employees will receive (various HTC phones and the Nexus One were mentioned) and it will not be a mandatory shift, says "CNET." Adobe and Google want to encourage Adobe employees to spend as much time using Android and the Flash Player 10.1 as possible, the article adds.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176231"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">According to Net Application's May 1 report, the five U.S. market areas with the largest concentration of iPads -- measured by its clients' browser data -- are: San Francisco, California (0.25% Internet share); Grand Junction, Colorado (0.23%); Santa Barbara, California (0.19%);
Honolulu, Hawaii (0.19%); and Bend, Oregon (0.19%).
"Fortune" (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/01/the-ipads-of-bend-oregon/) notes that it's a city of 82,000 nearly 200 miles from the nearest Apple Store "that seems to give lie to the notion that iPad fever is a condition that affects only Apple diehards in large metropolitan areas." Bend is the largest town in sparsely populated central Oregon.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176230"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">"iFixIt" has offered a teardown (http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-3G-Teardown/2374/1) of the 3G iPad and says it shows some interesting differences when compared to its Wi-Fi-only sibling, mostly due to its additional 3G / GPS functionality. Check out the highlights below. Here are some of the highlights of the teardown:
° The immediate visible difference is the inclusion of a black plastic RF window on top of the iPad for better antenna reception.
° The black RF window significantly changes the opening procedure. You can't start separating the display using the notches on the top (à la Wi-Fi version), since that will undoubtedly break the RF window. You have to start from the right side and gingerly proceed to the top and bottom of the iPad.
° There are actually five antennas in this iPad. There are two antennas that handle the cell reception -- one is in the RF window on top, the other attaches to the LCD frame. A single GPS antenna is also housed in the RF window on top. Just...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176227"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mac OS X, Safari and iPhone market share for Internet usage rose from March to April, according to the latest market share survey from NetMarketShare (http://www.netmarketshare.com).
According to the report, among operating systems, Mac OS X had 5.32% of the global market share in April, compared to 5.33% in March (that's global market share; in the US it's almost 10 %). Windows remains dominant with 91.46% as of April. That's down from 91.58% in March. Apple's highest percentage previously was 5.27% in October 2009, so March's number is an all-time high.
When it comes to browsers, Safari had 4.72% in April, while Internet Explorer had 59.95% Firefox had 24.59% and Chrome had 6.73%. That compares to, respectively, March percentages of 60.65, 24.52 and 6.13%, for the browsers.
The iPhone's market share also rose, according to Net Applications. The Apple device had 0.531% of the global market share in April compared to 0.51% in March. The iPod touch also had 0.12% of the mobile market...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176226"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">WFXL-TV in Albany, Georgia, has switched to iPads from paper scripts that anchors read on set, reports "Poynter Online" (http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=182192). To change pages, anchors just swipe their fingers across the screen.
To add scripts, producers print them to a PDF and send the PDF to an iPad e-mail account. Terry Graham, news director/anchor at WFXL, told "Poynter Online" that the station bought the iPads because it expects to save thousands in paper expenses. The move, he said, is not part of a promotion or partnership with Apple.
On average, Graham says, his station spends $2,000 a month on paper and printer repairs, says "Poynter Online." Once he began thinking about the potential savings for the 15 stations owned by his company, Barrington Broadcasting, the experiment seemed worthwhile.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176068"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">3Gstore.com is announcing a way to obtain Verizon Mobile Broadband. Starting today, they're offering an option of leasing a Verizon MiFi or USB760 for an US$49.95 per month service plan.
3Gstore.com is offering the two most popular devices from Verizon, the Novatel MiFi 2200 and the Novatel USB760. If you have a new iPad, the Verizon MiFi will give you the most 3G coverage compared to AT&T’s network, and with a MiFi you can also use up to five WiFi devices at the same time (iPod Touch, NetBook, MacBook, iPhone, etc), says Michael Ginsberg, president of 3Gstore.com.
"With our new Verizon Mobile Broadband Lease, not only will you save $10 month, but at anytime during the two years, you can easily cancel your lease by simply returning your mobile broadband device, or if you want to keep the device, pay $250," he says. "If you pay $49.95/month for 24 months the device is yours to keep.”
3Gstore.com’s Verizon wireless mobile broadband offerings include:
° Verizon Mobile Broadband...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176067"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">With the availability of Adobe Creative Suite5 vjoon (http://www.vjoon.com) has released K4 6.2, which is fully compatible with CS5. Publishers can immediately take advantage of the combination of multimedia capabilities offered by K4 and Adobe Creative Suite 5 by including videos or picture galleries in dynamic layouts and publishing them into digital platforms like the iPad.
With vjoon K4 6.2, the Hamburg-based software developer enriches its cross-media publishing platform with features for more collaboration and multi-channel publishing -- such as real-time chat communication with sticky notes across different clients, additional preview capabilities in K4 Overview Advanced, and alternative page designs.
The sticky notes feature is also integrated with the browser-based K4 Overview Advanced, introduced with K4 6.2, which means the head of production can participate in the live chat on the document and can request changes to layouts directly from browser-based previews of the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175986"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Axiotron has released Quickscript 3.0, an update of its handwriting recognition application for Mac users.
Quickscript is now available for a 30-day free trial at http://www.axiotron.com/quickscript . Customers can purchase Quickscript beginning next week for the introductory price of US$29 -- a $10 savings from the regular price of $39. This introductory offer expires May 31.
Quickscript offers support for 26 languages and includes an on-screen writing pad with configurable interface, basic gesture support, personal dictionary, handwriting recognition training and the innovative Kopernikus digital assistant feature which lets users perform tasks by writing short commands on the Quickscript writing pad. It's compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.</div></div></span>
Movies are available for purchase on iTunes the same day as their DVD release, and can be viewed on an iPod with video, iPhone, Mac or PC or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV.
With iTunes Movie Rentals, once a movie is rented, it starts downloading from the iTunes Store directly to iTunes or Apple TV, and users with a fast Internet connection can start viewing the movie in seconds. Customers have up to 30 days to start watching it, and once a movie has been started customers have 48 hours to finish it -- or...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175938"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Steam gaming service and Valve gaming engine from Valve (http://www.valuesoftware.com) will steam up things on the Mac starting May 12. Steam and Valve's library of games include Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series.
"As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients," says Valve President Gabe Newell, "The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services."
"Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac," adds Jason Holtman, director of Business Development at Valve. "Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175937"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">A note at the Lala web site (http://www.lala.com) says "The Lala service will be shutting down on May 31" and "unfortunately, we are no longer accepting new users."
Lala -- which offered "the first and only free fully licensed service to instantly provide anywhere web access to an existing music library such as iTunes" -- was purchased by Apple earlier this year. The goal is probably to allow Apple to implement a new iTunes feature that would allow users to stream their purchased media content remotely. In fact, rumors of such a service surfaced earlier this year.
Purportedly, the service would allow iTunes shoppers to build up a digital video collection (music, movies, TV shows, etc.) without having to worry about the intensive storage space involved. iTunes Replay would, per the rumors, stream music, TV shows and movies purchased on iTunes, so you wouldn't have to download them after purchasing, freeing up hard drive space.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175936"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple will be closing its retail stores in the U.S. Friday afternoon from 4-5PM to get ready for the launch of the 3G version of the iPad. Some folks who have pre-ordered 'em may receive them prior to this time.
The Wi-Fi + 3G models of iPad have a suggested retail price of $629 for the 16GB model, $729 for the 32GB model and $829 for the 64GB model. The iPad is sold in the US through the Apple Store (http://www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.
AT&T offers an iPad data service for the Wi-Fi + 3G model. For US$14.99 per month, you get 250GB; $29.99 gets you unlimited storage. Data plans for iPad include access to more than 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots nationwide at no additional cost.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175935"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">lynda.com, an online training provider of computer skills education for consumers, businesses and schools, has released10 courses covering the products in Adobe Creative Suite, which was released today.
Course topics include Photoshop CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Flash Professional CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, After Effects CS5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Fireworks CS5, Encore CS5, and Soundbooth CS5 tutorials. Registered users of all Adobe Creative Suite 5 products receive a free 30-day trial membership to lynda.com, which unlocks 1005 of the lynda.com course offerings in addition to the Creative Suite 5 tutorials.
lynda.com now has over 100 hours of Adobe CS5 training available, with more being released in the coming weeks. To view the free segments of all the Adobe Creative Suite training tutorials, and to view more detailed product info, go to http://www.lynda.com/AdobeCS5 . Monthly subscriptions to the lynda.com courses start at US$25.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175931"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mac users who have long been at the mercy of arcane permissions from Mac OS X's Unix underpinnings can now regain mastery of their Macs with "Take Control of Permissions in Snow Leopard," the latest title in the Take Control library about Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
Written by Unix guru and Mac aficionado Brian Tanaka, the 91-page ebook mixes how-to details and troubleshooting tips with just a certain amount of theory as it explains permissions in relation to how to keep files private, copy files to and from servers effectively, work with accounts and groups, configure ACLs, set the Ignore Permissions option for external disks, repair default permissions, and delete those files that just won't die. The ebook may be purchased for US$10 at http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-permissions .
For those who want to learn advanced concepts, the ebook also delves into topics like the sticky bit, symbolic versus absolute ways to set permissions, and how to work with bit masks. In...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175929"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Yazsoft (http://www.yazsoft.com) has released Speed Download 5.2.16, the latest version of its Mac OS X download manager that combines four products: a download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity.
The upgrade offers offers optimized performance, better compatibility and more. Speed Download requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher. It costs US$25 for a single-user license. Speed Download is available in US English, French and Polish localizations.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175928"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Akvis Software has released Akvis MultiBrush 4.0 (http://akvis.com/en/multibrush/index.php) for Mac and Windows systems. The app lets you retouch damaged photos and enhance portraits.
Version 5.0 includes a new Artistic Tools palette with tools such as Oil Brush, Roller, Felt-tip Marker, Chalk, Artistic Pencil, Artistic Spray, and Artistic Eraser for adding artistic effects to images. The Standard Tools palette has been expanded and improved. There's a new Spray tool, and new parameters for selecting the color of pencils and brushes. You can change the shape of a pencil and the angle of brushes. Also the parameters of the Smudge tool have been changed.
MultiBrush now lets you edit an image in layers. In the Layers palette, layers can be added, reordered, their visibility can be switched on or off, and they can be arranged in groups. There are two kinds of layers, raster and artistic, which can be edited by the standard and artistic tools, respectively. The layer Blending Options...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175927"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Monkeybread Software has released version 2.5 of the REALbasic DynaPDF plug-in (http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugin-dynapdf.shtml), which adds professional PDF support to REAL Studio. With it you can reate, import and modify PDF files on Mac, Windows and Linux systems.
This includes features like PDF split and merge, fonts embedding and text extraction. With DynaPDF 2.5 such features are added as support for OpenType fonts, improved font handling, better colorspace support and functions to use external signatures. All this features are available in the version 10.2 MBS REALbasic DynaPDF Plugin. Available with the download are more than 50 example projects to show you how to use the plug-in with REAL Studio.
With the recent introduction of the Starter license, the entry license is available for US$199. Also available are Lite, Pro and Enterprise licenses with more professional features, as well as academic licenses for students and teachers. The 2.5 upgrade is free of...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175926"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics (http://www.strategyanalytics.com), global smartphone shipments grew 50% year-over-year, to reach 54 million units in the first quarter of 2010 (Q1 2010). This was the strongest period of growth for almost three years and smartphones continue to lead the handset industry out of recession, according to the research group.
"The global smartphone market will head in two broad directions this year," says Neil Mawston, director at Strategy Analytics. "Some smartphone vendors, such as Nokia, will chase growing mid-tier volumes in emerging markets such as China and India. Other brands, such as Motorola, will focus on mature markets like the US and explore a new wave of services beyond Internet browsing and email such as high-quality video and navigation."
RIM shipped 10.6 million smartphones worldwide in Q1 2010, beating Apple’s record 8.8 million units during the quarter. RIM has become the largest mobile device vendor of North...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175925"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Adobe has announced the availability of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 product family, which the company says has more than 250 new product features.
The Adobe CS5 product family is powering the creation of content and applications for the upcoming releases of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2, which are optimized for high performance on mobile screens and designed to take advantage of native device capabilities for a richer, more immersive user experience, according to John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. Featuring integration with online content and digital marketing measurement and optimization capabilities for the first time, Creative Suite 5 products include access to signature Omniture technologies, to capture, store and analyze information generated by web sites and other sources.
Adobe Creative Suite 5 products also integrate with Adobe CS Live, a set of five innovative online services that accelerate key aspects of the creative workflow and enable...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175668"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">John Shegerian, chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International (http://1800recycling.com), a recycler of electronics and e-waste, has issued a statement about the success of the iPad. In his statement, he refers to the iPad as a “perfect example of a future trend” of the electronic waste recycling and urban mining industries.
Shegerian said that Apple’s massively popular tablet device is the kind of significant innovation that creates enormous new opportunities across multiple industries while it triggers the public to discard older devices now rendered obsolete by the newer, user friendly technology the iPad provides.
“It’s a rare occurrence, but once in a while a consumer electronics product comes along --he flat screen television for example – that captures the imagination and interest of the public so well that the product immediately becomes a ‘must have’ item and part of modern culture,” says Shegerian. “Apple’s iPad is such an item. We at ERI marvel at visionary...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175743"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Many Tricks has released version 3.1 of Witch (http://manytricks.com/witch), its window switching utility for Mac OS X. The new version adds a couple of new features, improves on many behaviors, and fixes a few bugs.
In version 3.1, the Witch panel appears after a very short delay, so it can be used (as with Command-Tab) to toggle between two open windows without seeing the Witch panel flash onscreen. A major memory leak has been identified and plugged. Witch no longer uses increasing amounts of RAM over time, and uses less RAM overall than version 3.0.
Updated help files explain all of Witch 3's features. Version 3.1 handles Parallels' windows more gracefully when Parallels is running in Coherence or Crystal view modes. Hidden windows are now shown with a translucent icon, so they can be easily identified at a glance.
Witch 3.1 is a free update for all Witch 3 users. Witch 3 is US$19 for new users and $8 for users of Witch 2.x.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175793"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com) has released LinkOptimizer 4.2, an update of its workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. The new version gives users access to two more Photoshop resampling methods and addresses a compatibility issue.
LinkOptimizer lets you reduce InDesign job size and speed up processing by eliminating excess image data and performing essential image adjustments.
LinkOptimizer Light 4.2 can be purchased from the Zevrix Solutions web site for US$239.95 , as well as from authorized resellers. LinkOptimizer works with Mac OS X 10.4.2-10.5 and InDesign CS-CS4.
Version 4.2 is free for LinkOptimizer 4.x users and a $95.98 to upgrade from previous versions. A demo is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175762"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released version 3.0.3 of Aperture (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1040) its software for professional photographers. This update improves overall stability and fixes issues in a number of areas.
According to Apple, the key areas addressed include:
° Applying adjustments such as Retouch or Chromatic Aberration;
° Creating and using Raw Fine Tuning presets;
° Viewing, adding and removing detected faces;
° Switching target printers and paper sizes when printing;
° Duplicating Smart Albums;
° Repairing and rebuilding Aperture libraries;
° Reconnecting referenced files;
° Working with GPS track files in Places;
° Searching for keywords in the Query HUD or Keyword Controls.
Aperture 3.0.3 is a 69.4MB download. It requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175753"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Fetch Softworks (http://fetchsoftworks.com/) has updated the Fetch transfer app to version 5.6. The upgrade automatically resumes uploads, downloads, and mirror operations, to ensure that network glitches and server hiccups do not stand in the way of successful FTP or SFTP transfers.
Fetch 5.6 is a Universal binary, compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Fetch is free to try for 15 days, and a single-user license is US$29. Upgrades to version 5.5.2 are free for customers who purchased Fetch after Jan. 28, 2009; otherwise, upgrades are $10. Free licenses and upgrades are available for educational and charitable use.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175746"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The WebObjects Community Association and BoxOffice Tickets have announced 2010's World-wide WebObjects Developer's Conference (http://www.wowodc.com), the annual conference dedicated to WebObjects, Apple's enterprise-class web application development framework.
This three-day event will be held Aug. 27-29 in Montreal at the Hotel Gouverneur Place Dupuis. Sessions and Hands-On Labs will be led by WebObjects experts from around the world.
The past few years have seen substantial new development surrounding WebObjects, one of Apple's most mature and time-tested technologies, says Pascal Robert, event organizer and Steering Committee member. Its behind-the-scenes roll in the iTunes music store and the App Store have driven development both by Apple and the global WebObjects community, bringing substantial updates to existing functionality and dramatic new features that keep WebObjects on the cutting edge of internet-enabled application development, he adds.
Sessions and hands-on labs will...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175742"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In an interview with the "Wall Street Journal," Adobev CEO Shantau Narayen offered a rebuttal to Apple CEO Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flash (http://www.macnews.com/2010/04/29/what-steve-jobs-really-thinks-about-flash). You can read the entire article at http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/29/live-blogging-the-journals-interv..., but here are some highlights.
Narayen says:
° Adobe believes in open content and support for multiple operating systems, while Apple/Jobs is apparently concerned about technology that works across multiple platforms.
° The technology problems that Jobs mentions in his essay are "really a smokescreen," as more than 100 applications that used Adobe's software were accepted in the Apple App Store.
° If Flash is crashing the Mac OS as Jobs claims, that has something to do with the "Apple operating system."
° Jobs' claim that Flash is a battery drainer is "patently false."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175734"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named to the "2010 TIME 100" (http://www.time.com/time/specials/bestworst/0,32232,1984685_1984745_1985...), TIME Magazine's list of "the people who most affect our world." It's his fifth appearance on the list.

Jeff Koons, an artist living in New York City, offered these thoughts on Jobs for the TIME list: "Apple's core ideal has always been to make people's experience of computing as accessible and pleasurable as possible. As a young man, Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, decided to be the Beatles of computing. I once said that I make what the Beatles would have made if they made sculpture, and I can appreciate how Steve, 55, applies their ethos of optimism to his work. The tools he has given us, from the Macs at my studio to the iPhone in my pocket, are like clean, new windows, fitting between our selves and our work elegantly, naturally and unobtrusively. It's great to see Steve stay true to his vision. I can imagine some young artist saying today, 'I make...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175667"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">EastWest/Quantum Leap is shipping its Hollywood Strings (http://www.soundsonline.com/hollywood-strings) virtual (software) instrument. It's a collection of orchestral string instruments with multiple finger positions for all sections, including open strings.
The range of positions purportedly allows composers to realize the true voicing and emotional content of a string section. Vibrato intensity and extensive dynamics, including five dynamics of up- and down-bowed sustains and notes, are also controllable by the composer. Multi-dynamic true legato has been sampled for all sections in three different categories: slurred, portamento and bow change.
Hollywood Strings comes supplied on a pre-configured hard drive. The list price is US$1,695; an introductory price of $1,495 expires May 15.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175659"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Intelligent Assistance has released Matchback Magic (http://assistedediting.com/MatchbackMagic/), software that adds matchback information to Final Cut Pro media files to make them very robust through many postproduction workflows, according to Intelligent Assistance CEO Philip Hodgetts.
“With Matchback Magic it doesn’t matter if an editor or assistant renames clips or file names, or even if they lose reel name or Timecode reference," he says. "The conform to master media will still happen correctly.”
Matchback Magic adds metadata into the media file that's carried with the file, regardless of what happens inside Final Cut Pro or to the file. At the end of the editorial process, Matchback Magic extracts that information and provides either a fully conformed (to the original high quality media) Final Cut Pro Sequence, or an ALE file for conforming a Cinema Tools database, or even an Excel spreadsheet for manual conforming.
The Matchback Magic demonstration version, freely downloadable...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175658"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">eMedia Music Corp. (http://www.emediamusic.com) has announced a new distribution agreement with Arobas Music to release Guitar Pro 6 in the US and Canada. New features in version 6 include an improved Real Sound Engine (RSE) with realistic playback of your scores using over 100 sounds sampled from instruments and over 50 real-time pedal effects such as overdrive, distortion, wah-wah, chorus, delay and more.
Other features include: a revised user interface (including full screen mode); Parametric Equalization on each track; piano grand staff; new notation symbols such as rhythm, slash, simile marks and multi-measure rest; configurable tones; tap tempo; jazz fonts and more. In addition to writing scores, Guitar Pro 6 is a designed as a tool for beginning and accomplished guitarists alike to improve their skills, compose or simply accompany themselves.
Guitar Pro 6 will be available at computer and music retail stores nationwide in May at an estimated retail price of US$59.95. It's...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175657"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Atlona Technologies (http://www.atlona.com) has introduced the AT-HD620, an HDMI to Mini DisplayPort Converter capable of up-converting incoming video signals to dual-link resolutions up to 2560x1440.
The US$279 converter -- due to ship May 1 -- solves compatibility issues that have been plaguing HDMI users looking to take advantage of the technologies offered in new Mini DisplayPort displays, such as the 27-inch iMac and the 24-inch Cinema Display, according to the folks at Atlona. The new AT-HD620 will scale any HDMI input to match native resolution of either display.
With the AT-HD620, a host of new image enhancing technologies are available to users looking to connect an HDMI source to an MDP display. The unit features an HDCP compliant HDMI input, as well as a Mini DisplayPort input that functions as a pass through for Mini DisplayPort sources. This unit can switch between the two inputs, allowing users to use both a connected Mini DisplayPort computer such as a MacBook Pro,...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175654"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Plugable Technologies (http://www.plugable.com) has launched two new USB graphics products enabling expandability of any laptop or desktop system with a spare USB port.
The UGA-125 (US$49.99) enables multiple VGA, DVI, or HDMI monitors or projectors to be added to any system via USB 2.0 (one extra display supported per adapter). Each display can extend the desktop or mirror other displays. The UGA-125 is designed for multi-taskers who want to see and work with several applications or documents at once, including programmers, designers, writers, office managers, day traders, customer service and sales personnel, etc.
The second product in the UGA-125 family, the UGA-125-HUB ($59.99), also includes a matching bus-powered 4-port USB 2.0 hub. This provides a solution for docking any laptop to an extra display, keyboard, and mouse. Unlike proprietary docking stations, the hub solution works with any brand of computer, using standard USB 2.0 connectivity and components. Note that docking...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175619"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple plans to charge close to US$1 million for ads on its mobile devices this year and perhaps even more to be among the first, ad executives told the "Wall Street Journal" (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870364830457521241150098304...). The execs say they're used to paying between $100,000 and $200,000 for similar mobile deals.
The "Journal" says Apple is making waves on Madison Avenue with its price tag, which comes with initial demands for greater control over advertisers' marketing campaigns. "It's a hefty sum," says Phuc Truong, managing director at Mobext, a mobile marketing business owned by Havas SA whose clients include Sears, Choice Hotels, Amtrak and Volvo. "What Apple is trying to do is certainly above and beyond what's been done in the past."
At the April 8 unveiling of iPhone OS 4.0, Apple debuted iAd, Apple’s new mobile advertising platform, which "combines the emotion of TV ads with the interactivity of web ads," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said. Today, when...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175614"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Eltima Software has released SWF & FLV Player for Mac 3.8 (http://mac.eltima.com/swf-player.html), an upgrade that offers improved downloading of online Flash movies and videos option.
SWF & FLV Player is a Flash movies and videos player that facilitates watching them on a Mac/ The app is available in two versions: free and Pro (USS$19.95); the latter features a number of extra options.
Free Flash Player has such movie control options as forwarding and rewinding SWF and FLV files, zooming the movie in and out, fitting it to current window size or restoring to original one. SWF & FLV Player also lets you create and manage playlists and obtain detailed information about SWF and FLV files (size, SWF version, frame rate, shapes/morphs/fonts/ActionScripts/sounds, etc.).
The pro version of SWF & FLV Player adds: the ability to save online Flash movies or videos with the external resources they use; a full-screen mode; the ability to take a screenshot of any moment of the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175601"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Future Media Concepts (FMC) -- a digital media training organization for postproduction, broadcast, and content creators -- has announced the latest additions to its Mac IT Academy curriculum: Apple's Snow 303 T3: Mac OS X Security and Mobility 10.6 and Xsan 301: Xsan 2 Administration "Train-The-Trainer" courses.
Launching in April and May, these "Train-The-Trainer" courses, offered only by select training companies worldwide, will incorporate FMC's manufacturer authorized training curriculum. Available at select FMC branch locations beginning in April the four-day "Snow 303 T3: Mac OS X Security and Mobility 10.6" course prepares Apple Certified training professionals for implementing and delivering Apple's Snow 303 course.
The Snow 303 T3 course is designed for Apple Certified Trainers looking to add the ability to deliver the Snow 303, Security and Mobility course to their repertoire. It covers DNS, VPN, firewalls, certificates, and proxy servers, as well as being able to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175600"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Economy-x-Talk has released CC File Converter (http://www.color-converter.com), an utility for Mac OS X 10.4 and later to change the color profile of image files. Some graphics editing software packages call this the color mode, color space, or mode.
For example, images can be in GIF, JPEG, PNG or TIFF format. Additionally, colors can be defined by a CMYK, RGB or other color space. Pictures may print slightly dark on some printers, while slightly brighter, or with a more intense red, on other printers. Devices often need their own color profile. Many people change the color settings of their computer screen, which in Mac OS X implies the creation of a custom color profile.
With CC File Converter you can convert picture files to make images look more similar on different computer screens and different printers, even in different software packages. It has the capability to automatically find all color profiles that are available on your hard drive. There's no need to adjust installed...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175598"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">NZWidgets has released SmuginProForAperture (http://nzwidgets.com/smugin/SmuginProForAperture/SmuginProForAperture.html), a new plug-in for Aperture, Apple's software for pro photographers. The plug-in allows the uploading of images to the SmugMug photo and video sharing site.
SmuginProForAperture's features include: caption and keyword handling; hierarchical gallery selection based on category and subcategory; and manual or template based gallery creation. The plug-in adds custom fields to the Aperture metadata for exported images. The generated custom fields can then be used to create smart albums of all images that have been uploaded to SmugMug, or to a specific album.
Each image can be exported to a different gallery if required. You can choose whether to replace an existing image with a new version or add a second version of the same image to a new gallery. SmuginProForAperture uses Growl (if installed) for status notifications.
SmuginProForAperture 1.0 costs US$19.99. A demo is...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175595"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">AnyBizSoft Studio, a provider of PDF solutions, has released PDF to Word for Mac (http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word-for-mac.html), an app that lets you convert PDF files into editable Microsoft Word files.
Tom Chande, CEO of AnyBizSoft Studio, says PDF to Word for Mac allows you to preserve original text content, images, layouts in the converted Word document. It supports batch and partial conversion mode. PDF to Word supports Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 and Microsoft Word X/2004/2008, as well as encrypted PDF conversion.
It costs US$39.95 for a single user license. A demo is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175592"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In case you hadn't noticed, Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't a big fan of Adobe Flash, a multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. And in an online post (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/) he tells why -- and why he doesn't want Flash on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
"I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads," Jobs says. "Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store -- but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain."
You can read his entire post for details, but here's a summary of his anti-Flash arguments:
° Flash products are 100% proprietary.
° Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175591"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">A decline between a calendar year's fourth quarter and the next calendar year's first quarter is typical of seasonal demand patterns but this decline is less than normal. When compared to 1Q09, shipments in 1Q10 rose 39.0%. Total market revenue in 1Q10 fell 2.0% compared to 4Q09 and rose 40.4% compared to 1Q09.
"PC processor shipments typically decline around 7 to 8 percent going from fourth quarter to first quarter," says Shane Rau director of Semiconductors: Personal Computing research at IDC. "A decline of 5.6% is modest and wouldn't mean much by itself. However, after the huge rise in shipments we saw in the fourth quarter, it adds more credibility to market recovery and that the PC industry anticipates improvement in PC end demand in 2010."
Looking at market performance by computer form factor, mobile processors declined 6.3% quarter over quarter, desktop processors declined 5.1% quarter over quarter, and PC server processors declined 1.4% quarter over quarter. The overall market...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175432"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">CrispSofties (http://www.crispsofties.com/) has updated its iPod.iTunes music synchronization tool to version 4.5, which has been tweaked for iTunes 9.1.1.
iPod.iTunes does real add-synchronization, even in two directions if desired. The source can be either the iPod or the iTunes library. The software evaluates the source for songs, videos, podcasts and/or playlists that are not in the target and only adds these seamlessly, avoiding duplicates. Unlike iTunes' own synchronization iPod.iTunes generally does not delete content in the target. iPod.iTunes can also transfer song dependent data like "My Rating", "Last Played", "Play Count", album artwork, etc.
iPod.iTunes can be used for: keeping files and playlists on different Macs and iPods up to date; doing a full restore of songs, videos and playlists from iPod; reversing the accidental deletion of songs, videos and/or playlists in iTunes, if these are still on your iPod; transferring an iTunes library from one Mac to another via the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175399"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">HP and Palm have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm, a provider of smartphones powered by the Palm webOS mobile operating system, at a price of US$5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash or an enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion. The transaction has been approved by the HP and Palm boards of directors.
“Palm’s innovative operating system provides an ideal platform to expand HP’s mobility strategy and create a unique HP experience spanning multiple mobile connected devices,” said Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP, in a press release. “And, Palm possesses significant IP assets and has a highly skilled team. The smartphone market is large, profitable and rapidly growing, and companies that can provide an integrated device and experience command a higher share. Advances in mobility are offering significant opportunities, and HP intends to be a leader in this market.”
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175397"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find 'em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Yellow Field Technologies and Coach Joe Beer has announced MyZones 1.0, exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch. The US$3.99 app calculates training heart rate zones that can be used by runners, cyclists, triathletes from keen fitness enthusiasts to focussed racers. MyZones can calculate your personal zones from maximum heart rate, race HR data, or professional lab test results.
SplashData has rolled out SplashID, a new version of its $9.99 secure password manager for the iPad. It offers an interface for storing, organizing and accessing passwords, PINs, account numbers, frequent flier numbers, and any kind of information that needs to be readily available yet completely secure. It provides iPad users with both AES and Blowfish encryption, a password strength meter, a web browser plug-in with web form auto-fill and much more.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175370"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, says new development partner, Luca Visual FX, has released Light Box 1.0 for the FxFactory platform.
It's a collection of light and image enhancement tools designed to work inside Adobe After Effects CS3/CS4/CS5, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion and Final Cut Express. Light Box 1.0 includes nine customizable GPU-accelerated plug-ins and transitions.
Light Box 1.0 is available for $49 USD via the Noise Industries web site (http://www.noiseindustries.com). A trial version is also included with the FxFactory installer.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175365"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple could put its next-generation iPhone on sale during the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), "sources familiar with the situation" tell "Mashable" (http://mashable.com/2010/04/28/apple-iphone-launch/), the "Social Media Guide."
"Over the last two years, Apple has revealed both the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS at WWDC," the article says. "However, the release of the actual iPhone hardware has traditionally come a few weeks after the announcement. Our sources say that Apple may break that tradition this year by shortening the timetable. An immediate release would also break another tradition: Apple fans camping out in front of Apple stores just so they can get their hands on the company’s newest product."
Indeed, the iPhone and the iPad are getting the lion's share of attention from Apple regarding WWDC, which will be held June 7-11 at San Francisco's Moscone West. Apple says "this year’s WWDC offers developers in-depth sessions and hands-on working labs to learn more about...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175298"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">nova media has unveiled FrameLoader, software for synchronizing digital picture frames with Mac OS X. It features a one-click sync of iPhoto albums, iTunes playlists and custom media files.
FrameLoader will convert pictures, music and videos automatically into a format that can be displayed by the chosen digital fotoframe. It works with most digital picture frames, USB memory sticks and memory cards.
To select the media contents, FrameLoader displays a list of iPhoto albums and iTunes playlists. They can be checked or unchecked to be synced. Custom media files can be dragged and dropped into FrameLoader and selected accordingly. A click of the sync button starts the synchronization process and an activity monitor displays the details of the sychronization process.
FrameLoader features a SyncMonitor to synchronize media files automatically. Once the to-be-synced iPhoto albums and iTunes playlists are selected within FrameLoader, it's not necessary to open FrameLoader again to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175288"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Other World Computing (OWC) has announced a price drop of up to 20% off on its entire line of NewerTechIntelligent Battery Charging/Conditioning Stations, which are designed to keep batteries in optimal charged condition for maximum "unplugged" usage.
Available immediately and starting at US$119.95, the NewerTech Intelligent Battery Charging/Conditioning Station is available for the a variety of Mac notebooks. For details go to http://eshop.macsales.com/search/charger+conditioner .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175284"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has acquired Siri (http://siri.com), a mobile "assistant" app maker, heating up the Apple-Google competition. According to a pre-merger notificationÔøº released by the Federal Trade Commission, and first noticedÔøº by Robert Scoble (http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/13015365163), the transaction apparently won't be held up by any antitrust reviews.
Here's how Siri describes itself: "Just like a real assistant, Siri understands what you say, accomplishes tasks for you and adapts to your preferences over time.
Today, Siri can help you find and plan things to do. You can ask Siri to find a romantic place for dinner, tell you what’s playing at a local jazz club or get tickets to a movie for Saturday night.
"Siri is young and, like a child taking its first steps, may be awkward at times. Siri may occasionally misunderstand things you ask it to do even within its range of understanding.
"Nonetheless, Siri will improve quickly by getting to know you better and understanding a broader...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175275"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple set a new record last Friday, closing at US$270.83 a share. And three Apple execs took advantage of that.
"Fortune" (http://macosg.me/2/6m) notes that "among the people lucky -- or prescient -- enough" to sell before the stock dropped to $256.41 in mid-morning trading Wednesday were three senior Apple officers: Scott Forstall, senior vice president for iPhone software; Mark Papermaster, senior vice president of devices; and Betsy Rafael, vice president, controller and chief accounting officer. According to SEC Form 4s filed Tuesday, the trio sold a total of 61,632 preferentially owned shares between Friday and Monday at prices ranging from $267.01 to $271.43 a share. Total proceeds: $16.5 million.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175274"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Overall music sales declined by US$1.3 billion in 2009, but digital downloads grew $363 million to $4.3 billion. And Apple's iTunes represented more than a quarter of total digital and retail U.S. sales, notes "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com)
The figures come from a new Recording Industry in Numbers report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. As reported by paidcontent.co.uk, global digital music sales grew 9.2% in 2009, and now make up over a quarter of total music income. This as the worldwide market decreased by 7.2%o $17 billion.
However, digital sales were pretty much flat in the U.S.. There was only 1.1% year-over-year growth in 2009. Domestically, iTunes represents more than a quarter of all music sales, both digital and retail.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175272"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Needham & Company analyst Charles Wolf told clients in a note today that Apple's retail stores have attracted lots of users from the Windows world and play a pivotal role in the Apple-Microsoft competition.
"[The Apple Stores] have become a magnet in attracting Windows users to the Mac platform," says Wolf.
He says that -- as Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer has said -- that Windows users purchased half of the 606,000 Macs sold in the stores during the March quarter, he added. Needham estimates that, since 2004, more than 18 million Windows users have switched to a Mac.
"Mac sales in the March quarter were almost four times higher than they were in the second quarter of fiscal 2004," wrote Wolf. He adds that Windows switchers have more than doubled the size of the Mac installed base.
The analyst said that same-store sales rose 8% in the March quarter of 2010, thanks to a 22.3% year-over-year increase in Mac sales, even though no new Macs weren't introduced during...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175271"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Microsoft and HTC have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for HTC's mobile phones running the Android mobile platform. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will receive royalties from HTC. And the deal may help HTC in its legal fight with Apple.
Last month Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware.
"We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said at the time. "We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."
But when it comes to today's announcement, "HTC and Microsoft have a long history of technical and commercial...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175246"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Twelve South (http://www.twelvesouth.com) has introduced its first accessory designed exclusively for the iPad: the US$39.99 BookArc, which supports the iPad for comfortable viewing, charging, and hands-free use in either portrait or landscape positions.
The BookArc for iPad is made from heavy gauge steel. A soft silicone cushion enables the iPad to be viewed in four different positions. One side holds iPad with a tilted viewing angle, in both portrait and landscape positions. Turn the BookArc around, and it stores iPad upright in portrait or landscape positions. All available positions offer access to the Dock Connector for charging and syncing.
"The iPad is great in your hands, but it’s not always a 'handheld' product," says Andrew Green of Twelve South. "There are many situations where iPad is best used self-supported. That’s where BookArc for iPad takes over. The BookArc’s flexible positioning, especially in landscape mode, allows you to place and use iPad the way you want....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175245"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Harman International (http://www.harman.com) has announced a new addition to the Harman Kardon Go + Play family with the new Harman Kardon Go + Play Micro. It will retail for US$399 and go on sale in May.
The Harman Kardon Go + Play Micro is a one-piece 2.1 iPhone and iPod dock and features a built-in subwoofer. It's designed for on-the-road travel or a day out at the beach. The Go + Play Micro sports four Odyssey drivers and an Atlas bass driver. Plus, it can stream video from web sites such as YouTube from a user’s iPhone or iPod directly to his or her television with a composite video connection.
Also, the Harman Kardon Go + Play Micro is one of the few iPhone docks on the market that has the capability to sync an iPod or iPhone directly to a computer through a USB connection when it's docked. Eight C batteries allow users purportedly provide up to 18 hours of continuous music playback. There's an eco-friendly “sleep” feature for conserving battery life. It also comes with an AC...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175244"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">BenQ (http://www.benq.com) has announced the E1260 HDR (High Dynamic Range) camera. It sports 12 megapixels, a 28mm 4x optical wide angle zoom lens, the ability to shoot 720p movies, a 2.7-inch LCD screen, an advanced smart scene mode, a G-Sensor application and HDR image enhancement technology.

The E1260 comes with an upgrade on the advanced smart scene modes compared to its predecessors, automatically detecting up to 12 different scenes: Landscape; Portrait; Backlight; Backlight Portrait; Night Scene; Night Portrait; Macro; Sunset; Text; Foliage; Snow and Still Mode. Other features of the E1260 include: Auto Face Tracking; Blink Detector; Self/Love Portrait; Beauty Enhancer; Smile Catch; Smart Focus; File Management; Auto Rotation; 3 Second Prerecording and Super Shake-Free (S.S.F.).
The E1260 comes in “Metallic Gun-Metal Gray” and “Metallic Blue." It will be available worldwide in May. Pricing hasn't been announced.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175230"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple CEO and Co-founder Steve Jobs will indeed appear at the eighth D: All Things Digital, in an interview on the opening night, "The Wall Street Journal" -- which sponsors the event -- confirmed today (http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100427/welcome-back-steve-apple-ceo-jobs-wi...).
There's much to talk to Jobs about, obviously, including the new iPad, the mobile market and the iPhone, its tense relationship with Google and the next innovations from the Silicon Valley computer icon, says Kara Swisher of the "Journal." It will be his first appearance in three years at the event.
Other speakers confirmed for the event -- with tickets priced at US$4,500 -- include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, movie director James Cameron and AOL co-founder Steve Case. The event will be held in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, June 1-3.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175200"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The New York Forum (http://www.ny-forum.com), to be held on June 22 and 23 in New York City, says that the global business gathering will be the first of its kind to go completely paperless. All participants will receive an iPad featuring the program, background information, schedule, and any other relevant materials.
The New York Forum is a global business leader meeting aimed at addressing the future of the global economy, including focusing on strategies to spur job creation and develop new business models. The first annual forum will purportedly bring together hundreds of international business leaders, entrepreneurs, sovereign fund managers, regulatory officials and academics for a series of results-oriented discussions, debates and dialogues, with a mission "that is both bold and urgent: to reinvent business models, to stimulate job creation and restore faith in the international economy."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175199"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Custom mobile app developer PointAbout Inc., event series Disruptathon, and entrepreneur hotspot 1410Q are hosting an app-making seminar at the Apple store in Clarendon, Virginia, on May 6 to help local businesses learn how to make iPhone apps.
PointAbout will be showing the local business community how to make iPhone apps for less than IS$300 by using http://www.AppMakr.com, a do-it-yourself, app-making service. Since its launch in January, more than 5,600 apps have been built using AppMakr.
The event will take place at the Clarendon, Virginia Apple store located at 2700 Clarendon Boulevard, Arlington on May 6 at 7 p.m. It's scheduled after regular Apple store hours, so registration is required. To RSVP, visit http://appmakr.eventbrite.com .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175198"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">TRENDnet (http://www.trendnet.com) has announced the availability of the 150Mbps Mobile Wireless N Router. The US$99 device connects to the Internet by using either a traditional hard wired connection or by connecting with a compatible USB modem from a 3G/3.5G Internet service provider such as SprintT, AT&TT, or Verizon.
It comes withe a replaceable 2.5 hour lithium ion battery that purportedly offers four hours in idle mode. For long road trips, TRENDnet will also offer a Car Adapter, model TA-CC, to power the unit.
The compact router connects to the Internet from any 3G/3.5G cellular phone signal. No installation is required; you plug the 3G/3.5G modem into the router to share an Internet connection.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175196"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">LogicalVue Software has released SQLite Studio for Mac OS X (http://www.logicalvue.com/products/sqlite-studio/). It's an IDE for software developers that use SQLite, the free, open-source, single-user database engine used by a wide variety of software.
SQLite Studio is designed for working with tables, views, indexing and triggers. It also has a full featured SQL editor with code completion and syntax highlighting.
With its tab-based design, SQLite Studio allows you to work with multiple tables and SQL queries. You can view: all tables, data, indexing, triggers and views; all database views; and all SQLite Pragmas.
A fully licensed version costs US$99.95. Site licenses are available for $299.95, and a trial version is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175192"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Thinking Code Software has released Dejumble 2.0 (http://www.dejumble.com) as a public beta. It's an update of their organizational application for Mac OS X. Just remember: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.
Dejumble provides a menu-bar-accessible view for collecting notes and tasks, as well as advanced features for searching and organizing to-do lists and notes. The 2.0 update features wiki-like syntax and formatting. Projects are defined as generalized, broad goals, and tasks and notes are grouped within projectsn. Dejumble accommodates informal projects such as simple reminder lists, but also supports more formal task management methods such as GTD.
Getting Things Done (GTD) differs from traditional task management theories that emphasize prioritization of tasks. GTD proposes a workflow process emphasizing control and perspective, with shifting priorities in the middle of activity.
Dejumble 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. The beta will be free until the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175179"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple placed third in the fifth annual Millward Brown Optimor BrandZ Top100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking (http://www.millwardbrown.com/Sites/mbOptimor/Ideas/BrandZTop100/BrandZTo...) released today. It ranks behind Google and IBM, but is ahead of Microsoft.
When most key financial indicators plummeted, the value of the top 100 brands rose by four percent in the last year to more than US$2 trillion. The BrandZ Top 100, commissioned by WPP, is the only valuation in the world that takes into account customers’ opinions on brands and demonstrates this with a dollar value.
“In the past, many companies were quick to cut their marketing spend during a down economy,” says Joanna Seddon, CEO of Millward Brown Optimor.  “A new trend has emerged in the wake of the recession as more companies realized the importance of maintaining and even increasing budgets to support brand loyalty and engagement.”
Technology brands demonstrated their pervasiveness in our daily lives. Google leads as the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175178"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through June 11 at San Francisco's Moscone West. The five-day conference includes the first ever iPad development sessions and hands-on working labs for iPhone OS 4, as well as Mac OS X core technology labs.
"This year's WWDC offers developers in-depth sessions and hands-on working labs to learn more about iPhone OS 4, the world's most advanced mobile operating system," Scott Forstall, Apple's senior vice president of iPhone Software, said in a press announcement. "WWDC provides a unique opportunity for developers to work side-by-side with Apple engineers and interface designers to make their iPhone and iPad apps even better."
WWDC 2010 is focused on providing advanced content for skilled developers across five key technology tracks: Application Frameworks; Internet & Web; Graphics & Media; Developer Tools; and Core OS. Apple engineers will deliver over 100 solutions-oriented...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175063"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">JAMF Software and John Wetter, technical services manager at Hopkins School District #270, on Thursday May 6, at 2:00 pm (Central Daylight Time) will team up for a live webinar that will explore one education IT professional’s experiences imaging thousands of Macs using JAMF's Casper Suite.
The webinar will cover the basics of imaging using the Casper Suite as well as how the IT staff at Hopkins School District #270 tackles the challenge of compiling approved images and deploying these images out to large groups of desktop and laptop computers -- all while enjoying their summer.
Both current Casper administrators looking for best practice recommendations and other IT professionals looking for a better way to image Macs are invited to attend. You can register at
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175057"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Tiffen Company (http://www.tiffen.com) has released two new Domke bags to the line -- the Quick-Shot Sling and the Photo Courier. The Quick-Shot Sling camera bag is a light weight bag with padded interior and adjustable dividers.
It's available in small and medium sizes in Brown RuggedWear and Black Canvas. The bags will be available in May at manufacturer's suggested retail prices ranging from $104.99 to $129.99.
The Domke Photo Courier is a bag created for today’s photographer who needs to carry a camera at all times but, doesn’t always want to look like it.  It's fashioned after the versatile bike messenger bag. The Photo Courier is available in small, medium and large sizes in cotton Black canvas or Brown RuggedWear waxed canvas.  All bags feature YKK Zippers and will be available in May from $139.99 to $254.99.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175056"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">RadTech (http://www.radtech.com) has released the STM Glove (US$24.95) in four new colors. The vertical-loading STM Glove protects your notebook from impacts, dust, scratches and spills.
They're constructed from neoprene and ringed with YKK zippers. The Glove features deep, protective flanges to prevent the zipper from contacting your laptop. They comer in five tailor-made sizes to fit all Apple and many PC notebooks.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175055"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">On one hand, Apple is being criticized for censoring apps at the Apple App Store. On the other, the socially conservative Parents Television Council (PTC) thinks many of the iPhone/iPod touch apps available -- such as "My Vibe," which converts the iPhone into a vibrator, and "Love Positions Free," which has drawings of couples having sex -- should be banned as well, notes "FOX News" (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/27/apple-iphones-porno-apps-stimu...).
The group has publicly demanded that Apple stop providing porn to children -- and clean up its act. And they want Apple to do more.
Gavin McKiernan, the PTC's grassroots director, said Apple executives assured the group that the content on its App Store would be clean, and he hopes that any remaining pornographic applications or the many sexually-themed "wallpapers" still available are "there by mistake, possibly." </div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175054"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">While law-enforcement officials ponder the legality of computer equipment seized from the home of a blogger, analysts on Tuesday say Apple may be doing itself harm in the case of a missing iPhone prototype that ended up on the Internet, according to a "MarketWatch" (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-doing-itself-harm-in-case-of-miss...) report.
Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates said in an interview that Apple blundered by making the case a criminal one, as opposed to a civil case.
"There is no way that this is not negative in some way for the company," Kay told "MarketWatch." "The question here is what is Apple hoping to get?"
"Apple has been drifting into looking like the wrong side of their famous Big Brother ad for some time," added Rob Enderle, a longtime Silicon Valley technology analyst. "This could easily turn out to be one of the biggest mistakes the firm has ever made because the investigation ... could showcase other Apple problems as this story snowballs."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175053"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Electric Peel Software is making their newest application, Ariena (http://www.electricpeelsoftware.com/ariena), available for pre-order at a 50% discount. It's an upcoming Mac application designed to help music teachers organize their teaching businesses by keeping track of student information, payments, and lesson notes.


Ariena offers integration with iCal and Address Book. The amount that each student owes is automatically calculated based on the teacher's iCal calendars, and student contact information is synchronized with Address Book. Payments received from students can be organized and viewed in Ariena. Ariena can display several reports, such as a list of all students currently owing money, and a list of all payments received in any particular year. Ariena can also manage lesson notes. Lesson notes can be sorted by student and date.
It requires Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard"). will be free for anyone who needs to manage 10 or fewer students. It will cost $49.95 (USD) for...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175052"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">One of the reason some folks think 3D will be slow to catch on in home is the fact that home 3D screens, like those, in movie theaters, require those funky 3D glasses. Toshiba may have solved that.
According to "TG Daily" (http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/49540-toshiba-designs-glasses-f...), has designed a 21-inch autostereoscopic high-definition display for use with next-generation 3D monitors. The display also purportedly helps to "significantly" reduce 3D-related eye fatigue.
"Most 3D products have used special glasses to separate a picture into two images: one for the left eye and the other for the right eye. But the market has strongly desired a more versatile and glasses-free approach that could be used anywhere," Toshiba says in a press release. "This new product employs an integral imaging system (a 'light field' display) to reproduce a real object as a 3D image that can be viewed without glasses over a wide range of viewing angles."
According to Toshiba, the integral...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175051"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">"The New York Times" (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/technology/28apple.html?partner=rss&em...) is reporting that Apple has bought Intrinsity, a chip maker that specializes in ARM processors. In fact, it's believed that the company's technology contributed as much or more to the A4 processor in the iPad than the technology from P.A. Semi (another company bought by Apple) did.
Intrinsity is a privately-held Austin, Texas based fabless semiconductor company. It was founded in 1997 as EVSX and changed its name to Intrinsity in 2000. It has around 100 employees and supplies tools and services.
“Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we do not comment on our purpose or plans,” Steve Dowling, a spokesman at Apple, told the "Times." And Tom R. Halfhill, an analyst with Microprocessor Report, told the publication he believed the acquisition price was US$121 million.
Intrinsity is the second chipmaker purchased by Apple in two years starting with P.A. Semi,...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-175047"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released iTunes 9.1.1. You can obtain it via the Software Updates component of Mac OS X's Systems Preferences app.
According to Apple, the 102.1MB download addresses several stability issues with VoiceOver, addresses a usability issue with VoiceOver and Genius Mixes, addresses issues with converting songs to 128 kbps AAC while syncing and addresses other issues that improve stability and performance. iTunes 9.1.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174993"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find 'em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
White Sky has debuted a way to access any online account from the iPhone with its new ID Vault for iPhone. It's an app that offers single-tap access for virtually all online accounts, combined with the security features. ID Vault for iPhone is available now on the Apple App Store. The product is free for up to three online accounts; and there is an in-app upgrade that allows users to add an unlimited number of accounts for a one-time cost of US$9.99.
Apalon has announced Dream Home HD 1.0 for the iPad. It's an $0.99 s an image gallery for everyone who wants to keep up with the latest interior design trends. The app features high resolution photos. You can browse and draw inspiration from design ideas applicable for any room in the house.
The rock band Linkin Park has released an $4.99 iPhone/iPod touch/iPad app: Linkin Park 8-bit Rebellino.It's an...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174991"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Joby (http://www.joby.com) has unleashed the newest member of the Gorillapod family, the Gorillapod Magnetic flexible tripod. With the addition of magnets in the feet, it can be anchored to any magnetic surface, in addition to being secured with its fully-articulating legs. 
The Gorillapod Magnetic is the latest addition to Joby’s popular Gorillapod family, which features a host of positioning and stabilization products to extend one’s photographic capabilities. It supports compact digital cameras and mini video cameras weighing up to 11.5 ounces, weighs 2.5 ounces, is six inches tall, and has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$24.95. US retailers include REI and Amazon.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174985"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">"Valleywag" (http://gawker.com/5525569/conference-comeback-for-steve-jobs) says Apple CEO Steve Jobs may appear at the "Wall Street Journal's" D Conference (http://allthingsd.com/d/) in June for the first time in three years. "May" is the key word.
Speakers confirmed for the event -- with tickets are priced at US$4,500 -- tickets cost $4,500 -- include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, movie director James Cameron and AOL co-founder Steve Case. The event will be held in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, June 1-3.
All Things D's Kara Swisher told "Valleywag" that Jobs has been "invited" to D and wouldn't comment further. If he showed up, it would be his first D appearance since 2007 when he appeared on stage with Bill Gates.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174970"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">South Korea has lifted its ban on the iPad, according to the "Wall Street Journal" (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870346520457520888110653085...). The country's communications regulator said on Tuesday it wouldn't stop people from importing Apple's device for personal use, ending a ban that early adopters in South Korea says was unfair, the article adds.
The Korea Communications Commission did say that Customs rules still apply. The country's Customs Service is holding up shipments that contain more than five iPads at once. South Korea’s communications regulators haven’t approved the device for wireless networking in the country.
Apple hasn't announced when it will offer the iPad in South Korea. South Korea's decision to allow the iPad comes days after Israel made a similar reversal, lifting a ban that prevented travelers from entering Israel with Apple's device, notes the "Journal."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174969"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ortery Technologies (http://www.ortery.com) has launched PhotoCapture 360M to complete their line of software-controlled turntables used to simplify and automate 360-degree product photography.
360-degree product animations have been popping up all over the web. They allow website consumers to view a product from multiple angles, with click-and-drag control, before purchasing.
PhotoCapture 360M features a motorized turntable and professional control software that when used with a compatible digital camera designed to integrate and simplify the complete process of creating product animations. The turntable and compatible digital camera are connected to a computer via USB.
The PhotoCapture 360 software provides a live camera view displayed on the monitor screen so users can conveniently view the object spinning and adjust position, zoom, lighting and crop markers before proceeding to image capture. Pressing Start synchronizes turntable movement and picture taking to automatically...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174945"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Consumer confidence in the overall direction of the economy showed slight improvement from last month while confidence in technology dropped to its lowest level since March 2009, according to the latest figures released today from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and CNET.
The CEA-CNET Index of Consumer Expectations (ICE) rose to 164.1 points in April, an increase of more than one point. The ICE, which measures consumer expectations about the broader economy, is down more than four points from this time last year. Although there was a small improvement from last month’s lowest point of the year, the figures still reflect consumers’ hesitation towards the overall economy.
The CEA-CNET Index of Consumer Technology Expectations (ICTE) fell in April to 72.3, down more than 11 points from last month. The ICTE is at its lowest level since reaching an all-time low in March 2009. The ICTE is down more than five points from this time last year.
“With tax season causing everyone to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174928"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The iPhone 3GS captured 39% of iPhone OS requests in the latest AdMob report for March, followed by the 2nd generation iPod touch (25%) and the iPhone 3G (20%). The two most recent versions of the iPhone OS generate 86% of the traffic. In March 2010, 44% of iPhone OS traffic came from devices running iPhone OS 3.1.3 and 42% from iPhone OS 3.1.2.
The Android platform has experienced significant growth in monthly traffic over the past year. Android traffic has grown at a compounded monthly growth rate of 32% per month, going from 72 million requests in March 2009 to 2.0 billion in March 2010.
Two Android devices, the HTC Dream and HTC Magic, collectively represented 96% of Android traffic in September 2009. Seven months later, 11 devices represented 96% of Android traffic in the AdMob network. In March 2010, Android traffic share on the AdMob network was divided relatively evenly between the three primary versions of the Android OS: Android 1.5 (38%), Android 2.0 / 2.1 (35%) and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174927"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Most Japanese consumer electronics discount stores have halted online sales of iPods, iMacs and other Apple products, apparently at the request of US Apple, reports "MarketWatch" (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/japan-retailers-halt-online-sales-of-ap...).
Industry watchers believe that the Japanese unit of Apple has cut out some sales channels because it was unhappy about online stores selling its products at a discount, the "Nikkei" business daily reported. Apple Japan has offered no comment to the Japanese publication, saying the personnel in charge of the matter weren't available.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174924"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The criminal probe into Apple's "misplaced" iPhone prototype is expected to broaden, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation told "CNET" (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003477-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&ta...).
San Mateo County's investigation may expand beyond Gawker Media's Gizmodo.com, which acknowledged buying the prototype for US$5,000, and the unknown person who sold it to the gadget blog, the source said. Police obtained a warrant to search a Gizmodo editor's home on Friday evening.
"CNET" says that one reason for an expanded investigation is obvious: law enforcement wants to learn who found the so-called 4G prototype and offered it for sale. California law makes it a crime for someone to find lost property but not return it.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174923"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Panic has updated its Transmit FTP client (http://www.panic.com/transmit) to version 4.0, which offers a speed boost, streamlined interface and more.
With the new Transmit Disk feature, you can now mount any of your favorites in the Finder itself, even if Transmit's not running. You can drag files to your SFTP server, save a small graphic to your Amazon S3 bucket directly from Photoshop, or roll your own iDisk-like backup volume.
Transmit 4.0 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 or later and costs US$$34. Upgrades from version 3.x are $19.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174913"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to investigate a multi-touth related patent infringement complaint against Apple filed by Taiwain’s Elan Microelectronics.
Last month the Taiwanese maker of chips and touch-screens asked the U.S. trade agency to ban the import and sale of some Apple products, including the iPad, because of alleged patent infringement. The company claims Apple “knowingly and deliberately” used Elan’s technology, while continuing to introduce infringing products The petition also seeks to ban imports of the iPhone and iPod touch products, Elan said in the complaint.
Elan sued Apple in April 2009 , alleging infringement of two of its touch screen patents, The lawsuit alleges that Apple products -- including its MacBook, iPhone and iPod touch -- use technology that infringes on two of Elan’s patents.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174912"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pioneer Electronics (http://www.pioneerelectronics.com) has announced new "Works with iPhone" audio/video docking stations. The Audition, Duo and HTD series works with iPhones, iPod and iPod touch users.
The new A/V docking systems include 2.1 speaker and subwoofer design, HDMI outputs, component video output, composite video connectivity and Bluetooth audio streaming capability. The Audition Series system, XW-NAS3/-K will be available April in black or white for a suggested retail price of US$449.
The Duo Series systems, XW-NAC1-K will be available in May and the XW-NAC3-K will be available in June for $349 and $449, respectively. The all-in-one HTD Series system, XW-NAV1K-K will be available in June with a black or white frame for $299.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174910"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">LaCie (http://www.lacie.com) has announced the latest addition to its Rugged family of mobile hard drives -- the LaCie Rugged USB 3.0, which purportedly provides speeds up to 110 MB/second -- three times the speed of USB 2.0.
The LaCie Rugged USB 3.0 is backward compatible with USB 2.0, meaning it will work with any computer or notebook that has a USB connection. Housed in the Rugged casing designed by Neil Poulton, the LaCie Rugged USB 3.0 features a scratch-resistant aluminum shell, internal anti-shock absorbers, and a shock-resistant rubber bumper to better protect files against everyday blunders. 


The LaCie Rugged USB 3.0 will be available in 500GB capacity through the LaCie Online Store, LaCie Corner, LaCie Reseller+ and LaCie Storage Partner. Suggested retail pricing starts at US$149.99.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-174909"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Kerio Technologies (http://www.kerio.com) says that Kerio Connect 7, a messaging and collaboration server, now natively supports the iPad. Kerio Connect now allows users to access email, calendars, and contacts on the Apple device, expanding the choice of mobile devices.
With Kerio Connect, iPad users can synchronize their email, contacts, and private calendar, search the global address book (GAL), manage invitations, and perform a remote wipe, all using Exchange ActiveSync. Users can also access shared and global calendars with the integrated CalDAV support.
Kerio Connect includes distributed domain clustering for IT management of a single domain supporting multiple branch offices. The latest release also has a newly implemented CardDAV protocol to synchronize contacts with Apple Address Book. Kerio runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and is available as a virtual appliance on the VMware and Parallels platforms. The solution comes with integrated anti-spam, anti-virus, automated backup...</div></div></span>
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