Year: 2005

iTunes more popular than most P2P services – report

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

The NPD Group today reported that iTunes is “proving to be a formidable competitor against free peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services.” According NPD’s MusicWatch Digital service, iTunes’s tied with LimeWire as the second-most-popular digital music service in March, 2005. Both iTunes and LimeWire were used by 1.7 million households. The most popular digital music service that month was WinMX, which was used by 2.1 million households to download music.

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Livid Instruments offers major upgrade to Union

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

Livid Instruments today introduced Union 1.5 for Mac OS X, a major upgrade to its live video performance software. New features in version 1.5 include a larger clip library, effects triggers, clip sequencer, easy to use LFO’s, integrated MIDI templates, four effect layers, and an optimized engine for real time performance. Union 1.5 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later and is priced at US$299. A free demo version is also available.

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Susteen upgrades DataPilot for Mac OS X

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

Susteen today unveiled the a new, upgraded version of its DataPilot for Mac OS X. This upgraded version allows Macintosh users to manage their cell phone calendars and personalize their mobile devices with MIDI or MP3 ring tones, pictures and movies. Also included is a Phone Book Manager and Internet Data Connect functions. DataPilot supports Panther and Tiger, and more than 120 models of the most popular cellular handsets.

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ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl for Tiger launched

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

ActiveState today announced the release of ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl open source language distributions for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. “The demand for ActiveState’s languages and developer tools for Tiger is intense,” says David Ascher, ActiveState’s Chief Technologist. “Our initiative starts with the launch of ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl to meet the developer need for up-to-date and maintained distributions on the Mac OS X platform.

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BakBone launches customized data protection for Tiger Server

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

BakBone Software today announced a new suite of solutions customized for Mac OS X Server 10.4. Built on NetVault for Mac OS X, the product family offers server-level Mac OS X support along with a new native interface. The product suite also integrates three comprehensive backup and recovery solutions designed to help small- and medium-sized companies, data center users, and education and digital media departments address data protection challenges.

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