Year: 2006

Apple joins Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium

Posted by | Aug 8, 2006 | |

Apple this week at WWDC announced its membership in The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, as well as an open source implementation of Apple’s calendaring server. “Apple’s release of its new iCAL calendaring server to the open source community demonstrates a solid commitment to open standards and to interoperable calendaring and scheduling, which are keystones of CalConnect’s mission,” said Dave Thewlis, Executive Director of the Consortium.

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Griffin Announces TuneFlex for iPod

Posted by | Aug 8, 2006 | |

Griffin Technology today announced TuneFlex for iPod. Like the TuneFlex for nano, this new TuneFlex for full-size, 4G and newer iPods is an dock and charger designed for ease-of-use in automobiles. “TuneFlex grips your iPod in a secure iPod-shaped cradle, and holds it on an infinitely-adjustable flexible steel neck.

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Columbia, Apple offer exclusive pre-order of new Dylan album

Posted by | Aug 8, 2006 | |

Columbia Records and Apple today announced that the new album “Modern Times” from Bob Dylan will be offered through an exclusive pre-order on the iTunes Music Store. Beginning today, iTunes customers who pre-order “Modern Times” from iTunes for US$13.99 will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an exclusive Ticketmaster pre-sale for concert tickets to select dates on Bob Dylan’s upcoming fall tour.

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Apple opens up: Kernel, Mac OS Forge, more

Posted by | Aug 8, 2006 | |

In a posting to the Apple’s Mailing List, Ernest Prabhakar Open Source Product Manager at Apple confirmed the company’s commitment to Open Source development. “As of today, we are posting buildable kernel sources for Intel-based Macs alongside the usual PowerPC (and other Intel) sources, starting with Mac OS X 10.4.7. We regret the delay in readying the new kernel for release, and thank you for your patience,” notes the posting.

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