Apple has pulled away from its plans to open a technical support centre in Bangalore, India, notes Macworld UK. “Without warning, the India Times reveals Apple has engaged in a sudden about-face on its plans. It had hired its first 30 staff in April, but on May 29 announced its decision to lay-off its new employees, they are being given two months salary as severance pay,” notes the story.
Read MoreEquinux has introduced a new application called “CoverScout,” which helps to find and apply thousands of Album Covers to a user’s iTunes music library in a simple click. The application searches for appropriate covers using Google, Amazon, the iTunes Music Store library, or any other Web site. Coverscout is also able to handle huge music libraries as it can perform multiple search operations for album covers at the same time.
Read MoreRealmac Software has announced a new version of it’s popular Web creation software — RapidWeaver 3.5.0 Public Beta for Mac OS X. In addition to being a Universal Binary for Intel-based Mac support, this release features: an improved interface with new theme viewer; SFTP publishing; an enhanced blog; the ability to add drop shadows and borders; seven new professionally designed themes; a savings of over 70% in size for file saving; and many other fixes and improvements.
Read MoreThe 2006 O’Reilly European Open Source Convention takes place in Brussels, Belgium on September 18-21. EuroOSCON is where business people, coders, decision makers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, artists, and policy makers using, creating, and managing free (libre) and open projects gather to learn about best practices, strategic issues, and coming changes. Register by August 7 for a 10% discount off sessions and/or tutorials and receive a complimentary O’Reilly book. Use promo code euos06mmin.
Read MoreRuntime Revolution today announced the release of Revolution 2.7.2, the latest version of its multi-platform development tool. Version 2.7.2 offers: Universal Binary support for Intel-based Macs; improvements to the installation process; accessing the online documentation system; and several bug fixes for the IDE and engine. The Revolution 2.7.2 update is available for the entire product line, including Revolution Revolution Studio (US$299) and Revolution Enterprise ($899).
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