Apple CEO Steve Jobs attended the 82nd Academy Awards yesterday. He was on hand to watch “Up” win a best-animated-feature Oscar for Pixar — the fifth for the company he bought in 1986 and sold to Disney in 2006.
And the first ad for the iPad appeared during the Oscar telecast. Besides running Apple, Jobs is also the largest shareholder of Disney.
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Using recent figures from the NPD research firm (http://www.npd.com) Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is predicting a continued upward swing in Mac sales in the months ahead.
“We expect the strong year-over-year growth in NPD data that we saw in January to continue in the month of February,” he wrote in a note on Monday — as noted by “TheStreet.com” (http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/10697430/1/apple-dell-h-p-poised-for-pc-rebound.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA). “We believe this represents a buying opportunity ahead of NPD data for the month of February on March 15.”
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Macgamestore has announced Murder, She Wrote (http://www.macgamestore.com/detail.php?ProductID=1410) for the Mac. It costs US$19.95; a demo is available for download.
The game was developed by casual games developer and publisher, Legacy Interactive. Murder, She Wrote is an interactive “seek and find, who-dun-it” mystery adventure with minigames in every scene. You play as the novelist/criminologist Jessica Fletcher and solve each of the five cases by investigating murders using hidden object and light adventure gameplay.
Read MoreAccording to the upcoming April 2010 issue of GameInformer” — as noted here (http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Portal_2_confirmed_for_Mac_Platform/551-109762-585.html), Valve is apparently bringing Steam, its Windows game store, to the Mac.
Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and based in Bellevue, Washington. The company’s titles include Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, and Portal.
Read MoreApple’s first iPad commercial made its debut appearance during the 82nd annual Academy Awards on Sunday.
The ad aired three times. You can view it for yourself at Apple’s web site (http://www.apple.com/ipad/gallery/#hardware06).
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