Apple is suing unnamed individuals who leaked details about an unannounced product by posting detailed information on the Web. Apple’s complaint, which was filed with the Santa Clara County California Superior Court on Dec.
Read MoreiPodlounge reports that Belkin plans to introduce a Bluetooth stereo solution for the iPod next month. The new product, called TuneStage, “will consist of two components–a receiver and a transmitter–which will connect any iPod via wireless Bluetooth link to any stereo system. The receiver will connect to a stereo via 3.5-inch minijack or RCA left and right ports, and Belkin is currently considering whether to additionally include an optical TOSLink output on the final product.
Read MoreMacworld has announced the recipients of its 20th annual Editors’ Choice Awards for 2004. More than 30 hardware and software products were chosen, including: Photoshop Elements 3, Snapz Pro X 2.0, GarageBand 1.1, iMac G5, iPod mini, Motion, Xserve G5, Xserve RAID, BBEdit 8.0, BitTorrent 3.4, EyeTV 200, FileMaker Pro 7, Halo, Unreal Tournament 2004, Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard, QuarkXPress 6.5, Nicecast, Omniweb 5.0, and You Control 1.1.
Read MoreCompanies such as Rio, Creative, Virgin Electronics, iRiver and Archos are pushing their design teams to challenge the iPod on function and fashion. “We live and breathe competition and talk about iPod every day,” said David Feldman, vice president for marketing in for Archos. “To come up against the 800-pound gorilla, we have to provide differences in our product mix.
Read MoreDEVONtechnologies has released updates to several of its Mac OS X applications. DEVONthink 1.9.1 and DEVONnote 1.6.1 add the ability to drag e-mail from Microsoft Entourage to the database or to add rich text notes from Entourage, improve compatibility with Apple Mail and BareBones Mailsmith, and come with a rewritten zoom mechanism for text and RTF documents. PhotoStickies 5.3 features internal improvements that make it faster and let it consume less memory. EasyFind 3.3.1 is faster, more stable and handles volumes with 100 nested folders.
Read More