DEVONtechnologies (http://www.devon-technologies.com) has released updates for all its freeware applications and services: EasyFind, PhotoStickies, ThumbsUp, XMenu, BlueService, CalcService, and WordService.
All have been updated to the latest frameworks and optimized for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. In addition new features have been added and bugs fixed.
Read MoreAcclivity (http://www.acclivitysoftware.com) has announced a partnership with Asian Business Software Solutions (ABSS) for Asian distribution and support rights to its AccountEdge small business Mac software. ABSS is the exclusive republisher of MYOB business management software in Asia and will distribute AccountEdge under the MYOB brand.
Read MoreTension Software has updated Mac Restart X (http://pomola.com/products_macrestart/macrestart.html), a Mac OS X app that can restart a Mac on a regular basis or one time only at a specific date and time or at launch using it via Apple iCal or other applications — to version 1.6.1. The upgrade sports internal improvements.
Mac Restart uses the native Mac OS X Date Time Calendar control. It warns the user before a restart, showing a progress bar or jumping from the dock. And the software has a variable warning time interval adjustable in the preferences.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a nominee for TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year. You can see the list of this year’s candidates (listed in alphabetical order) below. As usual, TIME’s editors who choose the actual Person of the Year reserve the right to disagree with readers.
You can see the 2010 Person of the Year poll here and who is winning so far at http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2029036_2029037,00.html . As we post this story, Jobs is in fourth place, trailing Julian Assange, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (listed as one “person”) and Lady Gaga.
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Worldwide computer microprocessor unit shipments and revenues in the third calendar quarter of 2010 (3Q10) increased 2.1% and 2.5%, respectively, compared to 2Q10, according to the latest processor study from International Data Corporation (http://www.idc.com/).
Compared to 3Q09, worldwide computer microprocessor unit shipments and revenues in the third calendar quarter of 2010 (3Q10) increased 8.6% and 24.1%, respectively, says the research group. The average sequential change in unit shipments between a calendar year’s second quarter and its third quarter is an increase of 10.6%.
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