Another day, yet another lawsuit. Apple is countersuing Kodak, claiming the company’s devices copy the technology that it uses in Macs, iPhone, iTunes and Photo Booth involving image processing, energy management and memory design.
Apple wants all Kodak devices that violates two of its patents (6,031,964 and RE38,911) to be banned from being sold. The countersuit was filed in the California Northern District Court.
Read MoreGomez (http://www.gomez.com), which specializes in web site and application performance analytics, says that the iPad is proving surprisingly swift when it comes to web browsing.
In fact, the new Apple tablet often outperforms netbooks — perhaps its closest rival product category — when it comes to interacting with a majority of popular web sites, according to the research group. In preliminary results, Gomez said that 74% of the pages, on what it determined to be the top 50 most visited sites by iPad users, loaded faster on the iPad than on netbook computers in the U.S.
Read MoreMacPractice — the developer of MacPractice MD, MacPractice DDS, MacPractice DC, and MacPractice 20/20 — has launched new iPad integration solutions that allow dentists to use MacPractice DDS, DR (Digital Radiography/Photo) and EDR (Electronic Dental Record) on an iPad.
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Connectivity solutions provider Gefen has released a newly redesigned fiber optics-based extender, the USB-400 Fiber Optic (http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=9133). This US$1,599, long-range 4-port USB 2.0 hub powers multiple hi-speed peripherals at distances up to 1640-feet (500m) from the computer, enabling a reliable remote workstation.
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SMEStorage, the multi-cloud data access provider, has released the first beta of a Mac Cloud Drive (http://www.smestorage.com/?p=static&page=clients_and_tools#Mac), which enables up to 10 commercial storage providers to be accessed directly from a virtual drive in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
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