Year: 2005

Emerging Telephony Conference with discount announced

Posted by | Nov 21, 2005 | |

Our colleagues at O’Reilly are offering a discount to MacMinute readers for their upcoming Emerging Telephony Conference, taking place in San Francisco January 24-26, 2006. “Web telephony technologies are hitting the big time. EBay bought Skype, Google launched GoogleTalk, and Yahoo introduced Yahoo Messenger with Voice. Web developer voice platforms such as TellMe and Voxeo are creating entirely new voice services opportunities for developers and enterprises.

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CenterStage 0.5 announced

Posted by | Nov 21, 2005 | |

CenterStage 0.5 has been released, the latest version of the open-source project to build a “powerful and intuitive” media center. New features in this release include: a new Photo module (with inline slideshow); a Music module; module transitions (Quartz Composer-based); on-screen display; zoom in full screen playback; resolution switching in the preferences; and more.

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Dekorra Optics releases EasyDraw 1.9.0

Posted by | Nov 21, 2005 | |

Dekorra Optics has released EazyDraw 1.9.0, the latest version of the company’s affordable drawing application for technical drawings, illustrations, icons, logos, stylized text, and more. Version 1.9.0 offers a new tape measuring tool, smart guidelines, an interactive cursor, expanded capability for multi-layer drawings, and more. EazyDraw is priced at US$95 and a demo version is available.

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Xitel HiFi-Link for iPod announced

Posted by | Nov 21, 2005 | |

Xitel today introduced HiFi-Link for iPod, a docking station that connects iPods to home stereos or televisions while charging them to be ready for the next road trip. “Now you can enjoy all of your iPod content on your home entertainment system — played through more powerful stereo speakers or viewed from a large-screen living room TV,” said Barrie Davis, president of Xitel.

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Apple announces supply agreements for Flash memory

Posted by | Nov 21, 2005 | |

Apple today announced that it has reached long-term supply agreements with Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba to secure the supply of NAND flash memory through 2010. As part of these agreements, Apple intends to prepay a total of US$1.25 billion for flash memory components during the next three months. “We want to be able to produce as many of our wildly popular iPods as the market demands,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

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