Native Instruments has introduced Evolve Mutations 2 (http://www.native-instruments.com/EvolveMutations2.info), a new Kontaket Player-based instrument for movie, TV and game composers. Developed in collaboration with the sound design house, Heavyocity, and powered by the industry-leading Kontaket engine, Evolve Mutations 2 includes an arsenal of instruments, rhythms and ambience.
Read MoreEternal Storms (http://www.eternalstorms.at) has updated their flickr client, flickery, for Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) to version 1.8. The upgrade adds Google Maps to the search functionality to bring more powerful searches to flickery users.
Read MoreSynology America (http://www.synology.com), which specializes in network attached storage servers, has introduced DiskStation Manager (DSM) 2.3. It sports such new features as encryption, easy setup of RAID volumes with SHR, backup to the Cloud, video surveillance with iPhone DS cam and more.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs attended the 82nd Academy Awards yesterday. He was on hand to watch “Up” win a best-animated-feature Oscar for Pixar — the fifth for the company he bought in 1986 and sold to Disney in 2006.
And the first ad for the iPad appeared during the Oscar telecast. Besides running Apple, Jobs is also the largest shareholder of Disney.
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Using recent figures from the NPD research firm (http://www.npd.com) Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is predicting a continued upward swing in Mac sales in the months ahead.
“We expect the strong year-over-year growth in NPD data that we saw in January to continue in the month of February,” he wrote in a note on Monday — as noted by “TheStreet.com” (http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/10697430/1/apple-dell-h-p-poised-for-pc-rebound.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA). “We believe this represents a buying opportunity ahead of NPD data for the month of February on March 15.”
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