Year: 2010

Heading into the holiday season, Apple captured 10.8% of the Canadian Personal Computing Market in Q3, 2010 according to IDC Canada. The data collected by IDC puts Apple in fourth spot among other computer manufacturers HP, Acer and Dell respectively, reports “ehMac” (http://www.ehmac.ca/index.php?f=29).

NewBay Media, a publisher of digital content creation media, says the Government Video Expo will get underway Tuesday, Nov. 30, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, where the conference will run through Dec. 2 and offer two days of exhibits on Wednesday, Dec. 1, and Thursday, Dec. 2. Thousands are expected to gather at the East Coast’s largest professional video event,.

Carmel King, executive vice president, Video Broadcast Division, NewBay Media, says highlights of Government Video Expo 2010 include:

Apple is hiring more lawyers in its battles against Nokia, Motorola and HTC over alleged patent violations, reports “Bloomberg” (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-29/apple-lawyers-up-for-patent-showdowns-with-nokia-motorola-htc.html).

Apple has been the most-sued technology company since 2008, the year after the iPhone was introduced, topping Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., according to LegalMetric Inc., a compiler of litigation data based in St. Louis.

Developer Dirk Stichling has announced myTracks 2.2. for Mac OS X (http://www.mytracks4mac.com/myTracks/Start.html), an update to his GPS/Photo application that allows the user to download, sync, edit, and record GPS tracks.

myTracks’ Logger Assistant has presets for more than 50 GPS devices. Features include: automatic geotagging; iPhoto ’09 and ’11 and Aperture 3 compatibility; track import, export, editing, and library; geocaching; OpenStreetMap and Google Earth support; and a free iOS version with sync.