Year: 2010

‘Your Mac Life’ looks at Apple-branded TV rumors, more

Posted by | Mar 24, 2010 | |

On this week’s “Your Mac Life,” the gang looks at rumors of Apple branded TV’s, Steve Jobs’ emails and unannounced security flaws in Mac OS X.

In the archive, you’ll hear interviews with Kerrin Burke about his kidney transplant, and iPodMeister CEO Kris Schrey and Gus Mueller on the Acorn image editor.

You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .

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Apple’s market cap now $207.99 billion

Apple’s market cap now $207.99 billion

Posted by | Mar 24, 2010 | , |

Apple’s share are trading at US$229.45 which is a 52-week high — and an all-time high. The company now has a market cap of US$207.99 billion.

As noted by “All Things D” (http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100324/apple-nearing-wal-marts-market-cap/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker), this means it ranks fourth in a list of the top five publicly traded U.S. companies, which are: Exxon Mobil, $315.05 billion; Microsoft, $261.71 billion; Wal-Mart, $212.19 billion.

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Apple is most valuable personal computer maker in the world

Apple is most valuable personal computer maker in the world

Posted by | Mar 24, 2010 | , |

Apple’s integrated hardware and software system make it the most valuable personal computer maker in the world, according to a research note from Deutsche Bank.

As reported by “Silicon Alley Insider” (“http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-revenue-vs-operating-profit-share-of-top-pc-vendors-2010-3), Deutsche Bank assembled the revenue and operating profits of the top ten computermakers in the world. It then charted which companies are capturing the greatest share of the pie to determine which vendor is capturing the most value.

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Sales of top-of-the-line computer gaming stuff rising

Posted by | Mar 24, 2010 | , |

Jon Peddie Research (http://www.jonpeddie.com) — a research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, computer graphics — estimates that 46% of the dollars spent in 2009 on gaming motivated computer hardware were directed toward what the firm calls the Enthusiast class. This is the top-of-the line stuff: boutique computers, high-end processors and graphics cards, SSD’s, specialized gaming mice, keyboards, speakers, monitors, etc.

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PDF Studio 6 with CJK fonts available

Posted by | Mar 24, 2010 | , |

Qoppa Software, which specializes in PDF tools, has updated PDF Studio (http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html), a PDF editor, to version 6. CJK font support is now available.

CJK is an acronym for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The added support to PDF Studio 6 allows users to work with PDF documents that use these character sets, but do n’t embed the fonts in the PDF files. Support for CJK content is crucial to address the Asian market and widens the appeal of PDF Studio as a low-cost alternative to Adobe Acrobat, says Gerald Holmann, president of Qoppa Software.

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