WiebeTech today announced two new additions to its FireWire product line. The RT5 FireWire enclosure (US$49.95 to $4699.95) features up to 2TB of transportable storage accessible through FireWire 800 (400 compatible) or USB2, five front accessible drive bays with trays (included), heavy duty aluminum and steel construction and more. Also announced were two new host adapters ($89.95) featuring two FireWire 800 and one FireWire 400 port.
Read MoreFirmTek today announced its new external SeriTek/1SE2 Serial ATA PCI host adapter for the Mac. The new adapter extends Serial ATA’s 1.5Gbits/sec performance to the outside of the Macintosh computer chassis, enabling users to take advantage of external Serial ATA enclosures. It offers two external ports and provides hot-swap flexibility similar to that of Universal Serial Bus (USB) and FireWire.
Read MoreConsumer watchdog, the Consumer’s Association (CA) has complained to the UK’s Offer of Fair Trading (OFT) that Apple’s iTunes Music Store is ripping-off consumers, reports Macworld UK. “The complaint relates to how much Apple charges UK iTunes customers for tracks – 79p, approximately 1.2 Euros. But Apple’s French and German customers are charged just 0.99 Euros – a 20 per cent difference for an identical service.”
Read MoreMicrosoft has announced a “critical vulnerability in its software’s handling of the ubiquitous JPEG graphics format,” reports The Register. According to the report, the security hole gives hackers the ability to create a special JPEG graphics file that when viewed through Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, or other software, would give the attacker control of the PC. Currently affected systems include Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Office XP. At present Macs are not vulnerable to the virus.
Read MoreAmazon.com has officially unveiled its new Web search engine, reports CNET News. “The service greatly expands on early features of A9 (an independent unit of Amazon), which launched in test form in April, by turning it into a centralized server to power personalized Web search,” notes CNET.
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