Year: 2010

Playrix Launches Fishdom 2 Premium Edition for Mac

Playrix Entertainment has released Fishdom 2 Premium Edition for Mac OS X (http://www.playrix.com/games/mac/fishdom-2.html). The game is available exclusively on the developer’s official web site. Fishdom 2 is the sixth title in the Fishdom series, not counting the game’s recent adaptation for Facebook and soon-to-be-launched Playrix’s first internal iPad port Fishdom HD.

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Info needed on server security software for the Mac

Our next Migration Kit will look at retail management apps for the Mac. If you use or know of such goodies, drop me a line (dsellers@macsimumnews.com) no later than Wednesday, Sept. 8.

Migration Kits appear on Friday and round-up Mac solutions for specific industries and areas as dentistry, engineering, sales, etc. Also, if you have a particular migration topic you’d like us to cover, drop me a line, as well.

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Digitimes Research: Apple to ship 20 million iPods by end of 2010

“DigiTimes” (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100903PD214.html) says that “market watchers” forecast that manufacturer Quanta will ship more than 10 million iPad touches for Apple by the end of 2010, “helping to ease the company’s lower-than-expected sales of notebook products.”

Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo predicts that overall iPod shipments will reach 20 million units with the iPod touch to account for more than 55% of that total. He thinks that the iPod nano and shuffle will each ship 20% and remaining 5% will be iPod classics.

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Apple posts web site for iOS 4.2 for iPad

Apple has posted a web page (http://www.apple.com/ipad/software-update/) for the iPad version of iOS 4.2, which is coming in November.

“iOS 4 is the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. And soon iPad owners will get to enjoy its 100+ new features and innovations — including multitasking, folders, printing, and more,” says Apple.

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FaceBook blocking Ping?

“All Things D” (http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100902/facebook-blocked-api-access-to-ping-after-failure-to-strike-agreement-so-apple-removed-feature-after-launch/) reports that, according to “sources familiar with Facebook’s platform,” the site has essentially denied Apple’s Ping access to application programming interfaces (APIs) that would allow it to search for an iTunes user’s friends on Facebook who also had signed up for Ping, Apple’s new social music network that’s part of iTunes 10.

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