Year: 2010

‘MacVoices’ continues down the Road to Macworld

‘MacVoices’ continues down the Road to Macworld

Posted by | Dec 29, 2010 | |

The new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com) continues down the “Road to Macworld.”

Paul Kent, vice president and general nanager at IDG for Macworld, is back to give an introduction to the new Industry Forum at Macworld 2011. Boasting a series of focused presentations by some of the Apple industry’s most influential names, the Industry Forum is for anyone and everyone with a serious interest in the direction and future of the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad and more.

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OWC expands Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 line

Posted by | Dec 29, 2010 | , |

Other World Computing (OWC) has expanded the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 desktop hardware RAID storage line storage capacity to 12TB by utilizing four 3TB high performance hard drives in the Qx2’s four hot swappable drive bays.

The Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 features a “quad interface” of FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA ports and four selectable hardware RAID settings — 0, 1, 5, 10 — for high speed, plug and play use with Macs and PCs There are four prosumer models starting at US$479.99:

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New iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for Dec. 28

New iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for Dec. 28

Posted by | Dec 28, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

MultiEducator has announced JFK Historymaker 1.0 for iOS devices. It’s an US$3.99 encyclopedic, multimedia biography of President John F. Kennedy. Featuring 36 chronologically ordered chapters, there are 250 high resolution photographs, the full text of over 200 speeches, more than 60 pages of biographical information, and over 35 video clips. The reference app is fully searchable.

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Apple sued (again) over user tracking

Apple sued (again) over user tracking

Posted by | Dec 28, 2010 | , |

The suit, filed in federal court in Northern California, seeks both monetary damages and a court order to stop the profiling. It’s similar to another lawsuit (http://macte.ch/yTIvy) filed Dec. 23 in federal court in San Jose, California, on behalf of Jonathan Lalo of Los Angeles County, and seeks class-action status. Both lawsuits claim iPhones and iPads are encoded with identifying devices that allow advertising networks to track what applications users download, how frequently they’re used and for how long. The transmission of such data violates computer-fraud and privacy laws.

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