Year: 2009

Two colors that personify spring, Pink and Yellow, aren’t just for
Easter eggs anymore. Speck today introduced two wonderfully jovial
vernal colors — Hot Pink and High Noon Yellow — to its SeeThru
Satin soft-touch, hard shell case offerings for the new aluminum
unibody 13″ MacBook and 15″ MacBook Pro notebooks. For images of the
new cases, please visit
http://www.speckproducts.com/content/seethru-satin-for-macbook

“We’ve had a tremendous response to our SeeThru Satin hard shells
since their introduction last year,” said Irene Baran, CEO of Speck.

Publisher X, a videogame publisher, has released its physics-based
puzzle game, Magnificent Gizmos & Gadgets
(http://www.magnificentgizmosandgadgets.com), for the iPhone and iPod
touch. It’s available for US$4.99 at the Apple App Store.

Here’s how the game is described: “Magnificent Gizmos & Gadgets is an
addictive physics-based puzzle game that takes players into a world
where anything is possible!

At this week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las
Vegas, Nevada, EditShare (http://www.editshare.com), which
specializes in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media
storage systems, and Automatic Duck (http://www.automaticduck.com),
which makes timeline transition products, said they’re teaming up to
solve workflow productivity issues for postproduction facilities and
editing workgroups collaborating on shared media files across
disparate editing platforms.

Equilibrium (http://www.equilibrium.com) — a software and hosted
services company that specializes in helping enterprise clients of
all sizes to manage, monetize and mobilize content — has introduced
the EQ Network , at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters
conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The EQ Network enables content owners to deploy quickly a Media
Delivery Bar on their site allowing viewers to request personalized
videos to be prepared and delivered via an Ad-Per-View Software as a
Service (SaaS).

Aleratec (http://www.aleratec.com) — a developer and manufacturer of
solutions for the USB, Flash, HDD, Blu-ray, DVD/CD, duplicating, and
publishing markets — is featuring its new 1:5 HDD Cruiser, a hard
disk drive duplicator and sanitizer all in one unit, for Earth Day
2009.

Gartner reported recently that in one year there were 160 million
personal computers disposed of worldwide, which amounts to 460,000 a
day. Of these 41 percent were stored, 32 percent were put in
landfills, and 27 percent recycled.