Aperture 3 was released just last week, but users immediately began noticing issues with scratch disk space eating up their Macs’ startup disk. Additionally, users of the latest revision of Airport Extreme and Time Capsule base stations have noticed problems using 802.11n’s 5GHz channels.

Aperture 3 users attempting to import libraries from Aperture 2 have left their machines crunching away at the data only to return later and find their Macs unresponsive. It appears that some users are running into a problem when Aperture tries to process images, which begins consuming all available disk space on the startup drive for virtual memory or scratch disk space. Once all the free space on the startup drive is used up, Mac OS X will become unresponsive.

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Reuters has a special report about how Apple’s secrecy puts a strain on foreign manufacturers. Nothing surprising, but it’s a rare look into the supplier side of the equation.

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Nuance, maker of Dragon Naturally Speaking, has acquired MacSpeech. MacSpeech Dictate already uses Nuance’s recognition tech, and should see feature improvements under Nuance’s guidance.

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TUAW, Ars review

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Vodaphone CEO Vittorio Colao took to stage at Mobile World Congress is Spain this week to warn that smartphones—representing the only growth proposition in mobile phone sales—will soon begin to outstrip wireless networks’ capacity to send and receive data. While chipmakers, handset makers, and services providers are all cashing in on the growth, mobile carriers are left trying to “cope” with the growing demand for data from increasingly data-hungry phones.

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The 2010 Macworld Expo was, by most accounts, a success. Attendees, the media, and vendors were all happy with the turnout, and we were able to see many things that we didn’t get a chance to write about during our short time in San Francisco. This post is essentially a massive photo dump from the Expo with brief captions for each. Some of the photos are repeats from articles we have already written, but most are new. If you weren’t able to make it this year, check ‘em out.

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Acer has announced the Aspire One 532G first netbook to use the NVIDIA ION 2 graphics solution.

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Adobe CS 5 for Mac is nearing completion and Adobe seems to be putting in the much needed time on under-the-hood improvements. 64-bit Photoshop at long last!

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The last three years has seen an explosion in new smartphone operating systems. Apple’s iPhone OS, Google’s Android, Palm’s webOS, and Nokia’s Maemo all offer rich, touch-driven platforms for a new generation of fast, Internet-capable, high-end telephonic pocket-sized computers. The one company missing from that list is, of course, Microsoft. Though a long-time player in the smartphone OS market, Windows Mobile is outclassed by its competition. The recent 6.5 release has done little to redress the balance. Windows Mobile is slow, unstable, clunky, and fundamentally not designed for use with fingers. Today at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft showed off its new phone platform for the first time. Everything that we knew and loathed about Windows Mobile is gone. Even the name is different. It’s now “Windows Phone 7 Series”.

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We’ll cut to the chase: the 2010 Macworld Expo was a wild success. This was despite the expectations of nearly everyone—the press (yes, even those of us who still went to cover the conference), many of the exhibitors, and nearly the entire Internet. The conference’s huge crowds ended up surprising everyone, however, all but guaranteeing a future for the Macworld Expo.

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SAN FRANCISCO—Most of our readers can identify with the problem of having too many devices that charge over USB and not enough USB outlets in the house. Or, a more common scenario might be traveling with your iPhone, Kindle, and perhaps soon an iPad, and then realizing that you brought the cables, but not the mini power brick. These are both scenarios that Fastmac hopes to address with its recently announced U-Socket that it displayed at the 2010 Macworld Expo, which the company hopes will eventually become ubiquitous at hotels, conference centers, and even your own home.

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