Year: 2006

SeeFile 2.0 brings new features to online photo sharing

Posted by | Feb 24, 2006 | |

At the Photo Marketing Association’s (PMA) annual conference, SeeFile will be showing a major upgrade to their software package. The Macintosh-based software is aimed at photographers, designers, and smaller graphic arts shops looking for a way to promote their work and interact with customers on the Internet. The SeeFile 2.0 system is being shown in booth 3280 at PMA at a complete price of US$995, including hardware that puts a Web server on an affordable platform.

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Wozniak criticizes Apple’s Intel move

Posted by | Feb 24, 2006 | |

In an interview with Toronto’s Globe & Mail, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, while praising the iPod’s success, criticizes Apple’s decision to move to Intel-based Macs. “It’s like consorting with the enemy,” says Wozniak in the interview. “We’ve had this long history of saying the enemy is the big black-hatted guys, and they kind of represent evil. We are different, and by being different we’re better,” he says.

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iSale 3.0.4 now a Universal Binary, new localizations

Posted by | Feb 24, 2006 | |

Equinux today released iSale 3.0.4, the Apple Award-winning application for eBay auctioning. iSale now offers Universal Binary support, which runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. In addition, this release has been localized into French and German, includes more design templates, extends various features like the Amazon and eBay import plug-in, enhanced picture handling, and Google Map integration for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Belgium.

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Forbes: ‘Apple Poised For In-Line Or Better March Quarter’

Posted by | Feb 24, 2006 | |

A story on Forbes today notes that Gene Munster, a research analyst at Piper Jaffray, maintained an “outperform rating on Apple, saying the company is “poised to post results that are in-line to slightly above expectations for the March quarter.” Munster cautioned, however, that these extrapolations are based on only one month in the quarter, January. His 12-month price target for the stock remains at US$103.

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BusinessWeek: ‘iPod Takes Japan by Storm’

Posted by | Feb 24, 2006 | |

In a column appearing on BusinessWeek today, Ian Rowley looks at the popularity of Apple’s iPod in Japan. He writes: “It seems iPod mania is alive and well in Japan — one of the most competitive consumer-electronics markets on the planet. Despite an array of well-entrenched Japanese rivals, such as Sony and Matsushita (MC), the iPod had cornered 51.3% of the digital-music player market as of the end of 2005, up from about 32% in 2004, according to research firm BCN.

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