Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) has announced the doubling of its iFund to US$200 million of venture capital for applications for Apple’s iPhone OS family of products, including iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Established in 2008 as a $100 million investment pool, the original iFund is now fully committed across 14 companies. iFund companies have been supported by an additional $330 million from follow-on investors.
Ross Video (http://www.rossvideo.com will be releasing a range of CWDM optical transmitters, optical muxes and optical demuxes to allow customers to fully utilize available bandwidth on their existing fiber connections.
Read MoreGlobal Delight has updated Voila (http://www.globaldelight.com) — an image capturing, annotating and sharing tool that sports the ability to capture a region from the screen in rectangular, circular, polygonal or free hand form — to version 3.0. Users will now be able to record high-quality videos of their desktop, among other feature additions.
Features such as image resizing, single-click sharing across FTP, SFTP, Flickr and YouTube, customization with regard to capturing and exporting options are among the many additions made. The app also sports a revamped look.
Read MoreIt’s About Time Products has posted a screencast on It’s About Time for the iPad. You can find it at http://vimeo.com/10576929 .
“It’s About Time” is an iPad application that allows you to access and utilize multiple “mini apps” with different, customizable types of information. It will be available soon at a special launch price of $0.99.
Mini apps 1.0 ships with a 1984-style mini Calculator, Browser, Sticky, Weather, and NASA image of the day, all of which run at the same time.
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Newer Technology (NewerTech) NewerTech has introduced iFolio, a custom handcrafted carrying/protection case for the new iPad being introduced April 3. Made in the US from premium imported black or red Brazilian leather, it’s available in black or red leather colors.
The iFolio for the iPad is available for pre-order at a special introductory price of US$99.99 (it’s normally $129.99) from NewerTech’s exclusive distributor, Other World Computing at http://www.macsales.com/ifolio . All pre-orders and regular orders of the NewerTech iFolio will begin shipping April 5.
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