Year: 2006

Apple cuts workforce in Taiwan by 30%

Posted by | Aug 15, 2006 | |

According to a report from DigiTimes.com, Apple has trimmed its workforce in its Taiwan sales office by 30-40%, including a number of executives and managers. “Other sources in the local Taiwan distribution channel indicated that the workforce reduction was due to weaker sales and market share achieved by Apple Taiwan, compared to the performance of Apple’s Hong Kong branch,” notes the story. “Kong Yuk-loong, the former managing director of Apple Taiwan, submitted his resignation at the end of June.

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SMALL TREE ANNOUNCES HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKING SUPPORT FOR MAC

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SMALL TREE ANNOUNCES HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKING SUPPORT FOR APPLE’S
NEW INTEL-BASED MAC PRO Cost-effective RoHS-Compliant Solutions for
Higher Performance from Apple Mac Pro

CHIPPEWA VALLEY, WI, August 15,
2006–(http://www.small-tree.com/)Small Tree Communications,
designers and manufacturers of high-performance networking and
storage solutions for Mac OS X, announced today that it is ready to
ship and support its multi-port
(http://www.small-tree.com/mp_copper_pcie.htm)copper Gigabit Ethernet
and (http://www.small-tree.com/mp_optical_pcie.htm)optical Gigabit
Ethernet c

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TEXTEXPANDER 1.4

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SMILEONMYMAC RELEASES TEXTEXPANDER 1.4, THE CUSTOMIZABLE TYPING
TIMESAVER TOOL Users Can Now Specify Custom Delimiters and “Classic”
Logo

San Francisco, CA — August 15, 2006 — SmileOnMyMac has released
TextExpander 1.4, the customizable typing timesaver tool. The
utility, which lets users define abbreviations for frequently-used
text strings and images, has been updated to expand the choice of
delimiter characters that trigger snippet expansion.

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Apple to open retail store in Atlantic City August 19

Posted by | Aug 15, 2006 | |

Apple has announced it is opening a new retail store in Atlantic City, NJ on August 19, 2006. The store, which is located at at The Pier at Caesars, One Atlantic Ocean, Space #BW-112, will be open to the public at 11:00 a.m. EDT. As part of its usual Grand Opening promotion, Apple will give away an Apple T-shirt to the first 1,000 people to visit the store. In addition, the company is offering a chance to win a Digital Lifestyle Collection valued at US$2,229.

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PLATINUMNAS 3.0

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MICRONET ROLLS OUT PLATINUMNAS 3.0 WITH BEST-IN-CLASS CAPACITY FOR
SMB CUSTOMERS

3 Terabyte NAS Server Combines Performance & Availability for Data
Intensive SMB Applications

TORRANCE, CA — August 15, 2006 –MicroNet Technology, an innovator
in disk-based storage solutions, today announced the PlatinumNAS 3.0,
providing the highest capacity in its class with 3 terabytes of
network storage capacity for Small and Medium Sized Business
customers.

The PlatinumNAS 3.0 is a compact, high-performance network storage
solution that combines the latest SATA drive technology and

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