Year: 2010

Apple has blamed the GST, not international price gouging, as the reason Australian consumers are being forced to pay more for the iPad, according to the “Herald Sun” (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/apple-denies-profiteering-with-ipad-prices/story-e6frf96f-1225864734553).

Victorians will have to pay $629 for the entry level 16GB version of the device — about $70 more than for the same model sold in the US. Australians will pay an average 12 % more for the six various iPad configurations than US buyers.

In Japan models of the 3G iPad will be SIM-locked to Softbank Mobile, which has evidently negotiated an exclusivity deal on the device, reports “All Things D” (http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100510/ipad-3g-sim-locked-to-softbank-in-japan/?mod=ATD_rss). Softbank is the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in Japan.

Troi Automatisering has released Troi Dialog Plug-in 5.5.2 for FileMaker Pro 11. The upgrade adds support for bigger icons and offers several other tweaks and bug fixes.

Troi Dialog Plug-in is a tool for displaying all sorts of dialogs in FileMaker Pro 11. The text of the dialog and of the buttons can be created dynamically by using a calculation.

A fully functional demo version of Troi Dialog Plug-in 5.5.2 is available for downloading at Troi’s web site (http://www.troi.com/software/dialogplugin.html).

Tension Software has updated Product Manager (http://pomola.com/products_productmanager/productmanager.html), software for managing a company’s products from different points of view, to version 1.5. The update adds a Customizable To Do Report, Customizable Bug Report and report printability.