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Analyst: Mac, iPod sales looking to beat the Street estimates

Analyst: Mac, iPod sales looking to beat the Street estimates

Posted by | Mar 15, 2010 | , |

In a note to clients today, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster expects Mac sales for the current fiscal quarter to beat the Street’s estimates and anticipates iPod sales will meet those estimates. He bases his prognosis on data from the NPA research group.

Munster says that NPD retail data points to sales of 2.8 to 2.9 million Mac units sold for the March quarter. The Street estimate is 2.7. Munster is forecasting Mac unit growth of 26 to 315 year-over-year.

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iKit releases AutoCon FM Transmitter for the iPhone, iPod

Posted by | Mar 15, 2010 | |

iKit (http://www.kit.com) has released the US$70 AutoCon FM Transmitter for the iPhone and iPod. It boasts rapid auto scan technology and lets you play music through your car radio.

The AutoCon has a built-in microphone and a unit to play/pause, volume & track skip, allowing library control displaying your selected music and offering call function display. It also includes the AutoCharge USB Car Charger and a 3.5mm cable for direct connection to your car’s auxiliary input.

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Application Wizard for Mac OS X conjures up version 2.5

Posted by | Mar 15, 2010 | , |

MaBaSoft has updated Application Wizard (http://www.mabasoft.net/products/applicationWizard/), a Mac OS X tool that provides access to your applications, document and pictures, to version 2.5. You can now choose what types of volumes appear in the Special menu and allows you to eject disks, partitions, and servers and mount ejected disks.

On Mac OS X 10.5 or later, the Recent Documents and Recent Servers items can now be added to the Special menu so that you can quickly open recently used files and connect to recently used servers. Also in Application Wizard 2.5:

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Intel introduces X25-V Value SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD) at $125 entry price point

Posted by | Mar 15, 2010 | , |

Intel (http://www.intel.com) has announced today a new addition to its line-up of solid state drives (SSDs): the Intel X25-V Value SATA SSD.

Priced at US$125, the 40GB drive is aimed at value segment netbooks and dual-drive/boot drive desktop set-ups. SSDs can replace or coexist with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs). With no movable parts or spinning platters, SSDs are more reliable and higher performing than HDDs.

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