Year: 2010

Apple shares fall 6% Friday

Posted by | May 7, 2010 | , |

Apple shares fell as much as 6% Friday as the tech sector joined in a broad-market selloff, reports “MarketWatch” (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-takes-6-hit-in-wake-of-nokia-suit-2010-05-07?siteid=yhoof2).

Apple shares recovered some of their losses, but remained down by US$11 a share at $235 on volume of more than 25 million shares exchanged. Separately, Nokia Corp. said it was suing Apple for patent infringement involving the iPhone and iPad 3G products.

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Info needed on veterinary software for the Mac

Posted by | May 7, 2010 | , |

Our next Migration Kit will look at veterinary software for the Mac. If you use or know of such goodies, drop me a line (dsellers@macsimumnews.com) no later than Wednesday, May 12.

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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WWDC 2010 sells out

WWDC 2010 sells out

Posted by | May 7, 2010 | , |

Passes for Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference sold out in eight days, a record time. The 2009 event took a month to sell out.

WWDC 2010 will be held June 7-14 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Apple says the five-day conference includes the first ever iPad development sessions and hands-on working labs for iPhone OS 4, as well as Mac OS X core technology labs (though the focus is definitely more on the iPhone OS).

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iPad available in nine more countries on May 28

iPad available in nine more countries on May 28

Posted by | May 7, 2010 | , |

Apple says the iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from Apple’s online store in all nine countries beginning on Monday, May 10.

In the US, Apple has already sold over one million iPads and customers have downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store, as well as over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.

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