Apple representatives have purportedly been talking with some of the major film studios about enabling iTunes users to store their content on the company’s servers, two people “familiar with the discussions” told “CNET” (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10462562-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20). That’s in addition to streaming television shows and music.
Read MoreCanaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek told clients in a report on Monday that a manufacturing bottleneck could limit supplies or push the launch to April. However, Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) — which makes iPhones and iPods for Apple — says everything is still on track.
Read MoreStart-up airline Virgin America has decided HTML is “good enough” for animating online content on its brand-new website, which went live Monday, dumping Flash, reports “The Register” (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/02/virgin_america_html_flash/).
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Western Digital (http://www.wdc.com) is shipping its first consumer-oriented solid state drive (SSD) with the new WD SiliconEdge 2.5-inch SSD family. The company has also introduced WD SiliconDrive N1x 2.5-inch SSD family.
WD SiliconEdge Blue SSDs are available in capacities up to 256GB, feature a native SATA 3.0 gigabits per second (Gb/s) interface with read speeds up to 250MB per second (MB/second) and write transfer rates up to 170 MB/second. F
Read MoreThis week’s “Your Mac Life” looks at the recent Olympics and the iPad.
There’s an interview with Steve Mesler, Olympic Gold medalist for the USA Men’s Four Man Bobsled team. Plus, there are commentaries about Apple hype and Rob Enderle’s misguided opinions about the iPad.
You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .
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