Author: dsellers

Consumers and companies that have pre-ordered US iPads from outside the US are receiving e-mails from Apple canceling their orders in order to facilitate demand of real US consumers, according to MobileGamesBlog.com (“http://blog.mobilegamesblog.com/2010/03/apple-cancels-foreign-ipad-pre-orders.html).

Those orders (coming mainly from web sites like MyUS, Borderlinx and Shipito) that have been canceled will receive a full refund on their credit cards, the article adds.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) has announced the doubling of its iFund to US$200 million of venture capital for applications for Apple’s iPhone OS family of products, including iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. 

Established in 2008 as a $100 million investment pool, the original iFund is now fully committed across 14 companies. iFund companies have been supported by an additional $330 million from follow-on investors.
 

Ross Video (http://www.rossvideo.com will be releasing a range of CWDM optical transmitters, optical muxes and optical demuxes to allow customers to fully utilize available bandwidth on their existing fiber connections.

Global Delight has updated Voila (http://www.globaldelight.com) — an image capturing, annotating and sharing tool that sports the ability to capture a region from the screen in rectangular, circular, polygonal or free hand form — to version 3.0. Users will now be able to record high-quality videos of their desktop, among other feature additions.

Features such as image resizing, single-click sharing across FTP, SFTP, Flickr and YouTube, customization with regard to capturing and exporting options are among the many additions made. The app also sports a revamped look.