At this week’s SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference in Taipei, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced the certification of 75 SuperSpeed USB products and multiple company demonstrations of new SuperSpeed USB consumer products.
Certified SuperSpeed USB products from industry-leading companies are available to consumers worldwide. Additionally, SuperSpeed USB products in new device classes, from display to hubs, are emerging.
Read MoreI’m a bad person, I admit it. I’m going to visit Mom this Easter weekend. But there’s a part of me that wants to stay in town, pick up my iPad (which I pre-ordered) at the local Apple Store, and play with it.
Evidently, I’m not the only want wishing to spend Easter with an iPad. Although predictions of early sales are all over the place, I suspect the number of units shipped will exceed expectations.
One techie says the obvious interest in the iPad shows the growth of the tablet market.
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For those new to the column, Macsimum Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs — or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A Migration Kit is an overview of Mac OS products for a particular occupation, such as dentistry, accounting, etc.) This week we offer part two of our networking utilities for the Mac. Part one can be found here: http://www.macnews.com/content/migration-kit-networking-utilities-mac-os-x-part-one .
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By Bill Oakey
I just checked “App Updates” on my iPhone. There are several today listed as “universal,” meaning they are optimized for the iPad. Right away I wondered about the file sizes.
What if these enhanced versions with a higher resolution and more features for the iPad screen will be significantly bigger than the older iPhone only versions? I just ran a comparison and some of the results are quite shocking. Indeed, these new enhanced apps, which will replace the older versions, are bigger in size. Several times bigger in some instances.
Read MoreCBS Corp. and Walt Disney Co.’s ABC are adapting episodes of their TV shows to be viewable free of charge on the iPad, according to people familiar with the matter, reports “The Wall Street Journal” (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303338304575156730008680938.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology).
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