Year: 2007

Apple added to Bluetooth patent suit

A report on Bloomberg today notes that Apple, Dell, and Sony have been added to a Bluetooth patent lawsuit. “The nonprofit Washington Research Foundation sued Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Samsung Electronics Co. and Nokia Oyj over Bluetooth in Seattle federal court in December,” notes the story. “Apple, Dell and Sony were added as defendants March 15, along with Logitech International SA, Motorola Inc., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Toshiba Corp.

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WeatherPop 2.6.1 promises more efficiency

Glucose today announced the release of WeatherPop Advance 2.6.1, a menu-based Weather viewer that is always visible and up to three times more efficient than Apple’s Dashboard weather widget, notes the company. This release includes a variety of weather data accuracy improvements. Specifically, they have improved the US government weather data source and fixed problems with international cities. WeatherPop is available now for free and WeatherPop Advance is available for 14-day demo, and can be purchased for US$8.

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Deals: HistoryHound for 35% off today only

Today’s featured promo on MacUpdate features HistoryHound 1.9.2 for US$12.95 (35% off, retail $19.95). HistoryHound lets you quickly search for keywords in the entire content of all Web pages and RSS feeds you’ve visited recently, plus all those that you’ve bookmarked. It’s a “personal Web search.” Instead of hunting through endless lists of obscure URLs and page titles, just type in a few words that appear anywhere on the page. HistoryHound will give you a list of matches, ranked by relevance.

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Total Training announces Adobe Creative Suite 3 training

Total Training today announced five new DVD-ROM based training series: Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: Essentials, Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS3: Essentials, Total Training for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Essentials, Total Training for Adobe InDesign CS3: Essentials, and Total Training for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3: Essentials. The Creative Suite 3 training series offers a visual learning experience, hosted by Total Training’s industry experts on Adobe products.

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