Year: 2009

ATTO Technology (http://www.attotech.com ) has released what it says
is the industry’s first 16-port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Host Adapters, the
ExpressSAS H60F and H6F0, as well as the release of the
4-internal/4-external port ExpressSAS H644, to its existing family of
6Gb/s SAS/SATA host adapters.

Now available for original equipment manufacturers, the H60F, H6F0
and H644 deliver throughput of up to 600MB/second per port with the
flexibility to connect to SAS, SAS2.0, SATA and SATA II devices.

ngmoco (http://ngmoco.com), creator and publisher of games
exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch, will open a virtual pet shop
on the Apple App Store with their newest title, Touch Pets Dogs. The
game, currently in development with virtual pet genre pioneer Andrew
Stern of Stumptown Game Machine, will be available this spring.

Here’s how it’s described: “Touch Pets Dogs
(http://touchpets.ngmoco.com) combines the magic of puppy ownership
and virtual play with the connected interactivity of a fully-realized
social network designed exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch.

Absoft Corp. (http://www.absoft.com) has announced Fx3 stand-alone
debugger, a more advanced debugging option for Fortran developers on
Mac OS X running on Intel Macs. It provides a full graphical
interface for Fortran developers.

Previously available only as part of Absoft’s Pro Fortran suite, it
can now be purchased as a stand-alone item and is compatible with
Absoft Pro Fortran and Intel Fortran compilers, Apple C and gnu c
compilers, and assembly language. Linux versions are also available.
Prices start at US$99.

Thomas Dingler Software Development has released RemoteCalendar
(http://www.remote-calendar.com), an iPhone/iPod touch application
that gives users direct access to calendars located Internet or
intranet servers. RemoteCalendar uses the CalDAV protocol to access
these calendars.

CalDAV is a standard to access scheduling information on a remote
server (such as POP3 or IMAP for eMail is) and is supported by a
growing number of servers, e.g. Apple iCal Server, Google, Zimbra
5.x, Oracle Beehive and more.

HolyWars Veteran (http://vitotechnology.com/iphone-holywars.html) is
a new app for the iPhone that lets you create your polls and test
other people opinions. It’s available for US$2.99 at the Apple App
Store.

You can take or make quizzes. With HolyWars Veteran, you can take
quizzes and evaluate your intellectual level. Make your own quiz and
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