After Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPad, 190,000 orders were placed within the first week. That rate slowed to 5,000 per day as Apple begins offering school discounts, reports “Fortune” (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/20/ipad-week-1-190000-pre-orders/?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29).
Read MoreRobert McHale’s “A Practical Legal Guide to iPhone Application Development” white paper is now available as a downloadable PDF.
By examining the iPhone SDK Agreement, Apple’s End User License Agreement, and federal copyright and trademark registration, this article provides an introductory overview of the common legal issues surrounding iPhone Application development, and the measures developers can adopt to minimize liability and maximize protection of their intellectual property rights.
Read MoreWorldcloud (http://www.worldcloud.com), a provider of cloud computing and dedicated server solutions, has announced the availability of FileMaker 11 hosting on both shared and dedicated platforms.
Read MoreCocoamug Software, developers and publishers of great Mac software, has released CosmoPod 4.3 (http://www.cocoamug.com/cosmopod/index.html), an update of the Safari extension that lets you download Flash videos from web sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc.
The upgrade sports a new QuickTime movies interpreter that just works with tutorial movies and trailers from Apple. Also, the CosmoPod toolbar button now features a menu.
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EverythingHerePlus has released a 13-port Hi-Speed USB 2.0 External Hub (http://www.everythinghereplus.com/electronics/13-port-hi-speed-usb-2-0-external-hubs-with-4a-ps-black-or-white). It costs US$33 and is available in black and white.
Fully USB 2.0 compliant and USB 1.1 backward compatible, it supports low, full, and high speed USB devices and works with any system that supports the USB specification. One of the 13 downstream ports is on top of the unit, and folds down for access to portable USB thumb Drives.
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