A new patent (number 20010081505) at the US Patent & Trademark Office indicates that Apple is planning gaming accessories. The patent is for circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide user interfaces for playing games on portable electronic devices.
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Mac OS X, Safari and iPhone market share for Internet usage rose from February to March, according to the latest market share survey from NetMarketShare (http://www.netmarketshare.com).
According to the report, among operating systems, Mac OS X had 5.33% of the global market share in March, compared to 5.02% in February (that’s global market share; in the US it’s almost 10 %). Windows remains dominant with 91.58% as of March. That’s down from 92.12% in February. Apple’s highest percentage previously was 5.27% in October 2009, so March’s number is an all-time high.
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Appcelerator — a platform for developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies — has announced updated findings of its Mobile Developer Survey taken of application developers about their plans to build applications for various mobile and tablet platforms. And they find it’s a tight race between Apple and Google.
Read MoreThe latest edition of “MacNotables” (http://www.macnotables.com/wordpress/), a podcast that serves as home to Mac personalities who will comment on the latest news and opinions in the Mac community, is available.
Read MoreComm-Unity Networking Systems has released CNS Audit 1.0.3 (http://cnsaudit.cnsplug-ins.com), an update of the audit trail plug-in for FileMaker Pro to add to your databases. It’s a maintenance update that fixes a problem with the plug-in not working on Windows with FileMaker Pro 11.
CNS Audit includes full Roll Back support for undoing field changes and record deletions. CNS Audit is available for both Mac OS X and Windows systems. immediately at for both Mac OS X and Windows.
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