According to Clearwire’s CEO, the average 4G customer uses about 7GB of bandwidth per month.
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Now Software, longtime Mac software makers of Now Up to Date, Now Contact, and Now X, is closing up shop. Remaining users can get support from the user forums.
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So you’ve shot a few home movies, and maybe even some
scripted ones, on your HD handy-cam. But when you play the footage back on your
computer or television it sounds and looks bad. Even if it turns out all right, there
is still something that makes it look cheap and amateurish.
In addition to taking down the iPhone, security researcher Charlie Miller plans to reveal 20 zero-day Mac OS X security holes at CanSecWest.
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March 22 2010
feature: RIP Palm: it’s over, and here’s why
In January of 2009, shares of Palm traded at a little over $3 as everyone awaited details of the once-mighty smartphone maker’s plans to save itself from certain death. In the wake of the Pre’s successful unveiling later that month at CES, Palm’s stock price more than doubled, and optimism about the Pre’s prospects eventually drove shares to a high of over $17 in October of last year. But as of this past Friday’s earnings report, sales are way below Palm’s and Wall Street’s expectations, the company has little cash left on hand, and shares of PALM have dropped all the way back down to $4. There’s a growing consensus—as expressed by the market—that there are only two possible futures for Palm: acquisition, or insolvency.
The iPad launch is drawing near, so it’s not surprising that much of our most popular Apple news for the week was about the highly anticipated device. However, we also saw some news about iPhone app use, Kindle software coming to the Mac, and more.
March 19 2010
Apple to iPad devs: on your mark, get set, submit!
Apple is alerting developers that they have just over a week to prepare iPad apps and get them submitted for review if they want them to be in the App Store on April 3.
Developers must build their apps using beta 5 of the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK and submit them by 5pm PDT on March 27 to get an initial review by Apple, according to an e-mail sent to developers this afternoon. Reviewers will run the apps on iPad hardware and e-mail developers with notes on the “readiness” of the app, and information necessary to submit the app for final review for inclusion in the App Store by April 3. Only apps that are submitted for the initial review process will have a chance to go on sale at the “grand opening of the iPad App Store.”
March 19 2010
12-core Mac Pros, 27" Cinema Display may be coming soon
Apple has been very busy on the mobile front, with the iPad launching in two weeks and iPhone OS and hardware upgrades expected this summer. However, Apple hasn’t forgotten about its Mac business—sources for AppleInsider report that long overdue updates to Apple’s Cinema Display and Mac Pro will be also appear by June.
Expected to join the 24″ LED Cinema Display that Apple launched in October of 2008 is a 27″ LED Cinema display based on the same panel currently used in the 27″ iMac. Issues with the panels caused problems for Apple that resulted in shipping delays for the 27″ iMac, though those problems have been rectified. The 27″ LED Cinema Display has the same resolution as the current 30″ Cinema Display, though it is 16:9 instead of 16:10. Its introduction should finally lay to rest the 30″ model, which hasn’t been updated in three years.
Reports have been swirling that Apple plans to ban screen protectors from its brick and mortar retail stores, but for the time being, the items seem to be plentiful throughout many store locations. Several Apple Stores we contacted Thursday afternoon assured Ars that there were currently “plenty” of screen protectors in stock, and did not indicate that this would change anytime soon. (One sales associate went as far as listing off all the variations that were in stock.) None of the outlets mentioned anything about the impending ban or removing the product from inventory in the future.
Rumors of Apple’s supposed ban started Wednesday when iLounge reported that several companies had been informed that, starting in May, Apple would no longer carry screen protectors in their retail stores. According to iLounge’s sources, stand-alone solutions as well as those bundled with cases will eventually be removed.
Windows Mobile 6.x can multitask, and it can run applications written in native code. Windows Phone 7 Series can do neither of these things. The reasons are not philosophical, however: Microsoft has no problem with either concept per se. They’re practical.
