Year: 2003

A wireless iPod to defeat piracy?

In his “Byte of the Apple” column for BusinessWeek today, Charles Haddad wonders what would happen if iPods went wireless. “Riddle me this: What would you get if you crossed a BlackBerry with an iPod? The answer: The future of the music business,” writes Haddad. The concept behind this is called Everywhere Internet Audio (EIA), and it would allow an iPod to become a “wireless digital ladle,” providing the user with a constant stream of digital music without the need for a storage device.

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LightWorks released for Power Mac G5s

LightWork Design, a supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software, today announced the release of a new version of LightWorks optimized for the new range of Apple’s G5 Power Macs. The company says that this “new version of LightWorks running on G5 hardware gives users typical performance increases of 1.3 times.

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The future of the Tablet PC

Charles Arthur, writing for The Independent, evaluates the success to-date and future of the much-hyped Tablet PC. “So is the Tablet going to the great computer design graveyard? Probably not, because it is selling very well to a number of specialist markets, like health care and some financial institutions,” writes Arthur.

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4D Agenda updated to version 1.2

Rose Development recently released 4D Agenda 1.2, a 4D plug-in that allows users to display calendar events in a day, week, and month view; drag events to different locations within the calendar; create calendars for multiple users; and query to retrieve events. Version 1.2 adds full drag-and-drop support, 12/24 time, improved offscreen drawing, and other changes. 4D Agenda is priced starting at US$150, and is available for Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, and Windows with 4th Dimension 6.7 and later.

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