A week before Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple has posted a teaser on its Home page, stating: “The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007.” As usual, rumors are flying thick and fast over what announcements Apple has up its sleeve for the show next week, but the company’s has said nothing — its consistent policy. However, it is a pretty safe bet to say that 2007 is in line to be a stellar year for Apple.
Read MoreA report by Rich Duprey on The Motley Fool today looks into Apple’s stock option backdating scandal in some detail and voices his opinions on what the consequences should be for CEO Steve Jobs. Duprey writes: “Will Steve Jobs be able to survive Apple’s backdating scandal? More importantly, should he be allowed to survive? My colleague Anders Bylund reported last week that with Apple’s stock-option backdating investigation coming to a close, the computer maker was able to get back to business.
Read MoreREAL Software today announced that REALbasic 2007 Release 1 is shipping today. In addition to improved reliability for building Universal Binary applications, REALbasic 2007 Release 1 improves support for MySQL, PostreSQL and ODBC compliant databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server. This release also improves support for QuickTime and making network connections via proxy servers. Other new features include: new QuickTime functionality; support for HTTPS Proxies; and more.
Read MoreEchoFX today announced the availability of USBVision 1.2.1, software drivers that offers support for USB 1.1 video digitizing devices, including the XLR8 InterView, Belkin VideoBus, iRez USBLive and CapSure USB, Hauppauge USB-Live, Dazzle Digital Video Creator, Pinnacle LINX and others. This version corrects a problem with Mac OS X10.4.8 running on Intel-based Macs as well as Mac OS X 10.4.7 running on the Mac Pro and the Core 2 Duo iMac.
Read MoreSynium Software today announced the release of NoteMind 1.1.6, a utility that helps users to collect and to organize information centrally in one place. Version 1.1.6 features: export documents from the NoteMind database via the contextual menu; select a folder to collect notes inserted by pressing the short key; database corruption problem that plagued some useres fixed; and more. NoteMind is priced at US$20 and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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