Apple has updated its Game Center terms of service so that gaming invites sent to friends will include the “real” name users have associated with their Apple ID, notes “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com).
Read MoreAccording to “9to5Mac” (http://www.9to5mac.com/38912/apples-top-data-center-executive-olivier-sanche-passes-away), Oliver Sanche (center), the man in charge of all things related to data centers for Apple, passed away last Thursday from a heart attack.
Sanche was heading Apple’s soon-launching North Carolina data center, the article adds. He joined Apple from eBay in late 2009 where he used to lead data center projects as well.
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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/).
Deep Prose Software has announced FastTalker 1.0 for the iPhone and iPad. The US$1.99 app is for making quick audio notes on-the-go without having to look at the screen or tap a lot of buttons. It is designed to capture quick audio recordings of 5, 10, 15, or 20 seconds at a time. FastTalker starts and ends recording automatically; just start the app and record your thoughts.
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By Terry Jarrell
Apple Consultants Network
Thinking back to this past April, it’s hard to believe iPad has only been with us a little over 7 months. The world has changed considerably since then with the explosion of the Apple App Store, and so many others scurrying to release their take on the most successful electronics device in history.
The real story is in iPad users themselves and how there has been an awakening, in a major way, to so many professional industries that had previously been stuck in older, inefficient ways of doing business.
Read MoreOther World Computing (http://www.macsales.com) has expanded the storage capacity of its OWC Mercury Rack Pro rackmount storage solutions to 12TB.
It touts four hard drive bays each capable of holding up to 3TB each in a 1U rackmount design. The Mercury Rack Pro is available in two RAID and interface models: the “Quad Interface” model with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2, and eSATA ports and Hardware RAID 0/1/5/10/Span modes; and the eSATA port multiplier RAID ready model.
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