Archived Roundup - Thursday, May 08, 2008
News Sites
Apple Reportedly Offers $44 Credit To Canadian iPod Owners
(TechWeb)
news.yahoo.com
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The reward is based on a class-action lawsuit complaining some of the rechargeable batteries in devices bought before...
Free Wi-Fi Expands with AT&T, Cablevision
(PC World)
news.yahoo.com
PC World - Two giant offers for free Wi-Fi extended, one from AT&T to iPhone users, and another from Cablevision for its millions of home territory...
Apple Ranked as Bottom Electronics Company by Climate Counts
Macobserver.com
Apple has been given a failing grade by Climate Counts, and was placed at the bottom of a list of 12 electronics companies also ranked by the...
RIAA: DRM likely revived by subscriptions
mac.nn
Regardless of the movement towards permanent unprotected downloads in online music, digital rights management (DRM) is likely to persist and may...
How Psystar's computer measures up to a Mac
computerworld.com
The Open Computer, an Intel-based machine capable of running OS X, can outperform a Mac mini. But it lagged behind the entry-level iMac as well as a...
Hands-on with â€~Mac Cloner†Psystar†s Open Computer running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2
macdailynews.com
I'm writing this post on Psystar's Open Computer running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2...
Apple to refund customers to resolve replacement power adapter lawsuits
macdailynews.com
Apple Inc. agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to as many as 2.3 million Mac computer customers...
iPhone to launch with Swisscom this summer?
mac.nn
Reports are circulating that Apple would launch the iPhone in Switzerland this summer under the mobile provider Swisscom, presumably with the...
Comic Life Magiq 1.0: unique comic editing, layout
mac.nn
plasq has released Comic Life Magiq 1.0 for Mac OS X, its photo-comic desktop publishing software designed for all ages and skill levels. Built from...
Sonnet offers 3 Gigabit adapters for Macs
mac.nn
Sonnet has released three new Gigabit networking products for both older and new Macs: Presto Gigabit Pro PCI network adapter card, the Presto...
Sonnet Fusion RAID Expander offers 7 PCIe slots
mac.nn
Sonnet Technologies on Thursday debuted the Fusion RAID Expander, which provides a simple solution for connecting up to seven Sonnet Fusion SATA...
Microsoft completely withdraws proxy board
mac.nn
Microsoft has put the final nail in the coffin in terms of the Yahoo merger, as the proposed proxy board received notice from the software giant...
TMO's DealsOnTheWeb.com - MacBook Pro 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo 15-inch Back at $1449 Delivered
Macobserver.com
Our DealsOnTheWeb.com site noted that Apple has restocked the factory refurbished MacBook Pro 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo 15-inch for $1449. The system comes...
iPodObserver - AT&T's On-Again, Off-Again Wi-Fi Plan for iPhone
Macobserver.com
AT&T has had a recent on-again, off-again affair with a free Wi-Fi plan for iPhone users at more than 17,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots....
MW: Improved iMac Graphics Not the Key to Games
Macobserver.com
Apple has improved the graphics card in the latest iMacs, but that won't make much difference for die-hard gamers, and Apple isn't doing enough to...
NY Times†Pogue reviews Apple†s Time Capsule: Takes network hard drive into a higher realm
macdailynews.com
No other onetwork-attached hard drives seem to have the Time Capsule†s combo of capacity and wirelessness...
Spring Medical Systems and MacPractice partner to provide solution for Mac-based medical practices
macdailynews.com
Spring Medical Systems and MacPractice, Inc. have announced that a new HL7 compliant interface is now available..
EyeTV 3.0.2 supports H.264 TV, closed caption export
mac.nn
Elgato has released the v3.0.2 update to EyeTV, its TV streaming and recording software. The patch makes significant changes, most crucially...
Sonoro exports Cubo radios to US
mac.nn
German audio maker Sonoro says that it has begun exporting its Cubo line of luxury clock radios to the US. Aside from receiving AM/FM radio, the...
iPhone to launch with Viacom Switzerland this summer?
mac.nn
Reports are circulating that Apple would launch the iPhone in Switzerland this summer under the mobile provider Viacom, presumably with the...
MySpace effort to port data to Twitter, more
mac.nn
MySpace today introduced a new initiative that will see its users' data shared outside of the social network. The Data Availability framework will...
.Mac mail to to be push-ready on iPhone 2.0?
mac.nn
Users of Apple's .Mac service will be able to get their e-mail pushed to their iPhone or iPod touch, an anonymous source claims. The person writes...
Aspyr reveals Game Agent online store details
maccentral.macworld.com
Aspyr's Game Agent is being released as a new online store this summer, according to a statement from the company's development partner for the new...
Analysis: In Italy, Apple shifts iPhone strategy
maccentral.macworld.com
To bring the iPhone to Italy, Apple broke with its usual gameplan and signed deals with multiple providers. Jim Dalrymple wonders what that could...
U.S. lawmakers introduce new net neutrality bill
maccentral.macworld.com
Two U.S. House members introduced a bill that would subject broadband providers to antitrust violations if they block or slow Internet traffic.
Cablevision plans Wi-Fi network in NYC
maccentral.macworld.com
Cablevision announced plans to build a Wi-Fi network covering its footprint that will be accessible to its broadband customers.
House passes copyright enforcement bill
maccentral.macworld.com
The legislation approved by the U.S. House of Representatives would allow law enforcement authorities to seek the forfeiture of property used in...
Toshiba Makes MacBook Air Look Like a Brick
(PC Magazine)
news.yahoo.com
PC Magazine - The Toshiba Portégé laptop sports a 12-inch screen, a full-size keyboard, and yet weighs only 1.7 pounds -- about half...
iPodObserver - NBC Experiments with Free TV Shows on iPhone
Macobserver.com
NBC has made two of its popular shows available, 30 Rock and The Office, available, for free, on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The streams are...
CW: Leopard After Six Months: Solid and Doubts Vanished
Macobserver.com
Apple's Mac OS X 10.5, "Leopard" has matured into a solid operating system, according to Computerworld on Thursday. While some thought it was...
Theorizing a Big Apple Push Into Gaming
slashdot.org
Ian Lamont writes "Terrence Russell has outlined an interesting theory about what industry Apple intends to break into next. He points to games....
What will Apple name their next cat? Mac OS X 10.6 Lion?
macdailynews.com
What name will Apple use on the next version of Mac OS X?
Orb streams live TV and more to Apple iPhone and iPod touch
macdailynews.com
Orb streams live TV and more to iPod touch, iPhone...
Will your iPhone destroy the Internet?
macdailynews.com
The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation...
Movie studios join attack on Pirate Bay
mac.nn
Movie studios are the latest group to launch a legal assault on Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, filings indicate. The Motion Picture...
Microsoft offers phones as PCs for poor
mac.nn
Microsoft today discussed some of the details of a project it estimates could help address a lack of computing in developing countries. A plan so...
Gear4 intros DUO convertible iPod dock
mac.nn
British gear maker Gear4 today unveiled the DUO iPod speaker dock. Its design is built uniquely to double both as a portable system and as a...
From the Lab: How Psystar†s computer measures up to a Mac
maccentral.macworld.com
The Open Computer, an Intel-based machine capable of running OS X, can outperform a Mac mini. But it lagged behind the entry-level iMac as well as a...
Freeway 5.1 Improves RSS, SVG Support
Macobserver.com
Softpress Systems announced the immediate availability of Freeway 5.1 on Thursday. The update for the Web site design application added the ability...
Mac Gaming News - Macgamestore Releases The Scruffs for Macintosh
Macobserver.com
Macgamestore.com announced the immediate availability of The Scruffs for the Mac on Thursday. The seek-and-find style game sends players on a hunt...
Rising Component Costs Hit Notebook Computer Makers
Macobserver.com
Rising prices for raw materials, metals and plastics as well as new labor laws in China are set to raise the price of notebook computers made by...
iMac Turns 10
slashdot.org
UnknowingFool writes "Ten years ago, Apple announced the original iMac. In some ways it was Apple returning to its roots with an all-in-one design,...
Time Machine Exposed!
tidbits.com
Hard on the heels of my discovery of a version of GrandPerspective that lets you peer into your Time Machine backups to see what big unnecessary...
NBC offers free, full episodes of â€~The Office†and â€~30 Rock†ad-free for Apple iPhone, iPod touch
macdailynews.com
NBC is streaming full episodes of 'The Office' and '30 Rock' to the iPhone and iPod touch in unprotected Quicktime format. Without advertising...
NBC: Zune to get piracy filter as Apple resists [U]
mac.nn
(Updated with Microsoft comment) NBC Universal today revealed in a discussion with the New York Times that Microsoft is working to implement an...
Apple applies for 3D remote control patent
mac.nn
An Apple patent application, just published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, depicts a new 3D remote technology. Similar in basic concept to...
Dell Inspirons leaked, promise slick design
mac.nn
Dell's next design change for its Inspiron lineup will involve a radical overhaul meant to lure customers from fashion-conscious brands, according...
Best Buy buys half of Carphone Warehouse for $2.1B
macworld.co.uk
Best Buy to own 50 per cent of The Carphone Warehouse for about £1.1 billion Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Thursday said it will...
OpenOffice 3 beta ships, adds native OS X support
macworld.co.uk
OpenOffice.org has introduced a public beta of OpenOffice 3 OpenOffice.org has introduced OpenOffice 3 beta, the first version of the open source...
Judge slaps TorrentSpy with $111 million damages
maccentral.macworld.com
A judge awarded the MPAA $111 million from TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent peer-to-peer search site.
MS licenses Parallels Desktop for Expression Pro
maccentral.macworld.com
Microsoft has licensed Parallels Desktop for Mac, the virtualization software, for its Expression Professional Subscription product, which will be...
Freeway Web site editor adds RSS Feed action
(Macworld.com)
news.yahoo.com
Macworld.com - Softpress Systems on Thursday announced the release of Freeway 5.1, a new version of its Web design software for Mac OS X. A free...
iPO Review - Mophie Juice Pack
Macobserver.com
According to Mophie, the Juice Pack iPhone battery extender provides an additional 250 hours of standby time, 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of...
iPodObserver - O2: iPhone No Longer Available
Macobserver.com
U.K. residents hoping to buy an iPhone from O2 are out of luck now that the cell carrier has officially run out of inventory. O2's iPhone Web page...
iPodObserver - America Movil Lands Latin American iPhone Deal
Macobserver.com
America Movil announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with Apple to distribute the iPhone in Latin America before the end of 2008. The news...
plasq Introduces Comic Life Magiq
Macobserver.com
plasq announced the immediate availability of Comic Life Magiq 1.0 on Thursday. The new version of the photo-comic editing and publishing...
Pages Templates 2.0 Bundles 40 Pro Layouts
Macobserver.com
Jumsoft announced the immediate availability of Pages Templates 2.0 for iWork on Thursday. The package includes 40 professionally designed templates...
Hot Forum Topic - How Valuable is the iPhone's Home Screen?
Macobserver.com
Today TMO readers are discussing the value of the iPhone's home screen to third party software and service companies, and are debating the value of...
Extend the Functionality of Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras
tidbits.com
I'm always a little depressed when someone beats me to writing a cool article, and this one was on my list. In this case, however, Adam Pash at...
Microsoft sycophant Mary Jo Foley: Windows Mobile is awful; avoid it like the plague
macdailynews.com
Mary Jo Foley is a ZDNet blogger who has covered Microsoft since Bill Gates first emerged from puberty...
MarketWatch commentator: Microsoft should kill Windows Vista, write it off as a big mistake
macdailynews.com
I think Microsoft should euthanize Vista and write it off as a big mistake...
Computerworld: Apple†s Mac OS X Leopard at 6 months is the Mac†s heart and soul
macdailynews.com
It has been just over six months since Mac OS X 'Leopard' first shipped...
Apple patent application: 2D/3D remote control that supports TV, games, virtual store, more
macdailynews.com
On May 8, 2008, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a new and exciting Apple patent which...
Middlebronfman†s Warner Music continues downward spiral
macdailynews.com
Warner Music Group Corp., the world's third-largest record company, posted its biggest drop in New York Stock Exchange...
O2 says iPhone "no longer available"
mac.nn
British carrier O2 today issued a statement on its website (not available outside of the UK) that the company has stopped selling the...
Verizon takes new shot at iPhone with Glyde
mac.nn
Verizon this morning unveiled its anticipated release of the Samsung Glyde. The carrier's CDMA adaptation of the European, GSM-based F700 scales...
Best Buy, Carphone Warehouse to join
mac.nn
Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse on Thursday announced that they would create a new, jointly-run company to exploit each other's strengths. The...
New iPhone 2.0 OS adds Safari YouTube support
mac.nn
The latest version of the iPhone 2.0 firmware -- bundled with the beta 5 SDK -- adds limited support for YouTube within the Safari web browser,...
NBC streams iPhone/Touch-ready TV shows
mac.nn
Owners of an iPhone or iPod touch can now stream episodes of select NBC TV shows, observers note. By visiting nbc.com, users can gain access to...
Vista sales "rapid" at 140m copies
mac.nn
Microsoft chair Bill Gates today noted at a European news conference that sales of Windows Vista have reached 140 million copies worldwide. The...
O2, Carphone: More 2.5G iPhones inbound
mac.nn
UK residents worried that they may no longer be able to get a 2.5G iPhone are safe, reports say. Although Carphone Warehouse sold out last week,...
T-Mobile US cracks 30m, mum on Sprint rumor
mac.nn
T-Mobile's US division today reported a milestone first quarter of 2008. The communications company says that its first results of the new year...
The iMac turns 10
macworld.co.uk
We wish the iMac many happy returns with a look at 10 years of desktop perfection May 6, 1998 was a Wednesday. I used to work at home most...
Microsoft won't pursue other partnerships, says Gates
macworld.co.uk
Microsoft won't be pursuing tie-ups or takeovers to replace the Yahoo deal Microsoft won't be pursuing tie-ups or takeovers to replace its failed...
iPhone Doom developers sing SDK praises
macworld.co.uk
Developers are beginning to explain the trials and tribulations of the iPhone SDK Apple's iPhone SDK may not offer developers everything they need...
WiMix set to take over the world
macworld.co.uk
News and analysis on recent US WiMax plans The WiMax joint venture between Sprint and Clearwire could be good news for end-users, who might soon be...
IE-only marketing campaign skewed Firefox, Safari numbers
macworld.co.uk
Reports of large loss in Safari market share were exaggerated. A Web measurement firm Wednesday blamed a massive online marketing campaign aimed...
No iPhone price cut for France
macworld.co.uk
France Telecom/Orange looks forward to new model iPhone France Telecom/Orange will wait for Apple to update its iPhone before changing the existing...
Internet Archive challenges FBI records demand
macworld.co.uk
The Internet Archive challenges a secret FBI demand for information about a user The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret...
O2 out of stock of iPhones
macworld.co.uk
O2 website reveals no iPhones in stock O2 has sold out of both 16GB and 8GB iPhones.
Mac home control software updated
macworld.co.uk
Perceptive Automation introduces Indigo 3.0 Perceptive Automation has introduced Indigo 3.0, a major update to its home control and automation...
Apple Design Awards deadline looms
macworld.co.uk
Days to go until the deadline for submissions to this year's Apple Design Awards There's only a few days to go for developers to submit their...
iPhone for Latin America
macworld.co.uk
America Movil deal means iPhone's coming to 15 countries in Latin America Apple has reached a deal with the biggest mobile network in Latin America...
Free data rescue/back-up Mac tool ships
macworld.co.uk
Rescue Kit for Mac OS X - Lite is a free back-up and rescue utililty Paragon Software Group has introduced a free utility for Macs, Rescue Kit for...
Mozilla shipped Firefox plugin with malware attached
macworld.co.uk
Virus scan missed Xorer Trojan in Firefox upload Mozilla has admitted shipping a Firefox plugin that had virus-infected code in it.
Photoshop Express adds Flickr support
macworld.co.uk
Photoshop Express adds Flickr support Adobe Systems on Wednesday announced the pending release of an update to its Photoshop Express service for...
Iomega ships 250GB Camo drive
macworld.co.uk
Funky camouflaged portable drive offers 250GB storage and costs under £100 Iomega has introduced its latest eGo USB 2.0 Camo portable hard...
Hitachi reveals 320GB laptop drive
macworld.co.uk
320GB, 7,200rpm, 2.5-inch hard drive announced Hitachi is unveiling a 320GB mobile computer hard disk drive that offers 60 per cent more capacity...
Japan eyes adding copyright fee to iPod price
maccentral.macworld.com
Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency has proposed adding a fee to the price of Apple iPods and other digital music and video devices to partially...
OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta shrugs off X11
maccentral.macworld.com
OpenOffice.org 3.0, the free Office suite alternative, has gone beta, and no longer requires X11 to run on Mac OS X.
VueScan supports multi-page documents
maccentral.macworld.com
VueScan, the generic scanning software, is now capable of working with multi-page documents, either single-sided or two-sided, even if your scanner...
Freeway Web site editor adds RSS Feed action
maccentral.macworld.com
Freeway, the Web design software tool, is now capable of publishing RSS feeds and supports SVG import.
Update: ExpanDrive 1.15
macintouch.com
The remote directory mounting software adds support for handling sftp:// URLs, a command-line program for ExpanDrive control, a fix for a bug in...
Update: MacGourmet 2.3
macintouch.com
The recipe manager adds updated plug-in support, including support for Mealplan, a new optional plug-in that adds meal planning and menus, plus...
Update: Knapsack 1.1
macintouch.com
This release of the personal travel software features full iCal synchronization, making it possible to take itineraries and checklists along on...
Update: DrawIt 3.5
macintouch.com
The image editing and vector drawing program adds a Ghost Mode to speed up vector editing, support for Boolean operations on vectors, conversion of...
Update: Indigo 3.0
macintouch.com
The X10 home control and automation server adds support for the new INSTEON Thermostat Adapter allowing wireless control of several Venstar...
New: Presto Gigabit Pro Ethernet cards
macintouch.com
Sonnet Technologies released PCI, PCI Express, and ExpressCard/34 card support for link aggregation with onboard Ethernet ports, jumbo packet data...
Security: Acrobat Professional 7.1.0, Acrobat Standard 7.1.0
macintouch.com
The Acrobat 7 updates address "a number of customer issues and security vulnerabilities."
Reader Review: Psystar Open Computer
macintouch.com
Ryan Aumiller offers a detailed hands-on review of this low-cost, third-party computer running Mac OS X.
Japan Eyes Adding Copyright Fee to IPod Price
(PC World)
news.yahoo.com
PC World - Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency has proposed adding a fee to the price of Apple iPods and other digital music and video...
Tethered gadgets threaten Internet future: academic
(Reuters)
news.yahoo.com
Reuters - The rise of gadgets such as the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation which helped to build the...
Academic says gadgets threaten Internet's future
(Reuters)
news.yahoo.com
Reuters - The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the...
Photoshop Express public beta adds Flickr support
(Macworld.com)
news.yahoo.com
Macworld.com - Editor's Note: On Wednesday night, after this article was published Adobe announced it was delaying the update's release because of a...
