Year: 2006

AP: ‘Apple Shares Gain on Upgrade’

Posted by | Mar 13, 2006 | |

Apple’s shares today gained in premarket trading after analyst Richard Gardner of Citigroup told clients “investors should build positions in Apple shares ahead of a slew of new products” slated for launch over the next several months. Gardner said he expects Apple to make a ‘fairly eventful’ announcement around the date of its 30th anniversary on April 1, possibly an Intel-based iBook and an upgraded iPod video with a larger screen or more storage capacity,” notes The Associated Press.

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Vulnerability in iTunes, QuickTime found

Posted by | Mar 13, 2006 | |

A report on PC Pro today notes that Apple has announced a “vulnerability affecting iTunes and QuickTime that could lead to code being run on the system.” The story notes that: “The integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affects both the Mac OS X and Windows versions of QuickTime Player 7.0.3 and 7.0.4 and iTunes 6.0.1 and 6.0.2.” eEye Digital, a security company, describes the flaw as “high in terms of severity.” Apple is working on patches for the vulnerability.

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Verbatim announces 4GB, 8GB Store ‘n’ Go USB HD Drives

Posted by | Mar 13, 2006 | |

Verbatim today announced the availability of its new 4GB and 8GB Store ‘n’ Go USB HD Drives, the latest additions to its family of USB drives. Designed for portability and style, these lightweight drives have the capacity to meet the needs of people who want to carry volumes of digital data, video, and audio with them or for keeping key information such as emails, photos, or personal calendars available at any time.

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AssistiveWare announces Proloquo 1.1

Posted by | Mar 13, 2006 | |

AssistiveWare today announced the release of Proloquo 1.1, a multi-purpose and multilingual speech and communication solution for Mac OS X that provides a full-fledged Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for people who cannot speak, a talking interface for people with visual impairments, speech feedback in any application while typing, and can read text aloud.

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