PA Semi founder and CEO, Dan Dobberpuhl, has apparently left Apple to join a Silicon Valley startup company founded by other former PA Semi employee, although exactly when he left is uncertain, as reported by CNET (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10465618-64.html).
Dobberpuhl isn’t alone. Other key PA Semi team members have left Apple, including one of PA Semi’s leading members, Mark Hayter, adds “CNET.”
Read MoreFourth quarter mobile handset sales almost always outpace the performance seen in the rest of a year. But according to the latest market data from ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com), the final quarter of 2009 was remarkable for the strength of smartphone shipment growth compared to the rather lackluster preceding nine months.
After a severely constrained first half, steeply discounted computers along with improving economic conditions steered the global computer market back into the black in the latter half of 2009. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) “Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker,”the yearly growth rate for the worldwide computer market in 2009 was 2.9%.
Read MoreiWebTemplate (http://www.iwebtemplate.com) has added free a iWeb themes and templates section, to be used with iWeb. iWeb is the web site building component of Apple’s iLife suite.
iWeb Free Themes includes seven themes: Sky, Picture, Church, Joy, Love, Billiard and Cat. Each template incorporates a number of different graphic elements which can be removed, moved and changed in size, opacity or color.
Read MoreSmall Tree (http://www.small-tree.com) will introduce its new 2TB GraniteSTOR ST-RAID direct attached shared storage system at NAB 2010.
Offering real time editing for Final Cut users while supporting 12 streams of ProRes 422HQ with no dropped frames, ST-RAID provides consistent performance over Ethernet networks. The 2TB system is available in eight, 12 or 16-drive configurations.