Type of Article: MacNews News Article

Apple-Nokia legal slugfest to recommence in 2012

Apple-Nokia legal slugfest to recommence in 2012

Posted by | Mar 12, 2010 | , |

The next round of legal smackdown between Apple and Nokia won’t take place for a while. And look for a long, drawn-out battle.

The two will seek a U.S. court hearing in a key patent battle in mid-2012, a court filing shows — as reported by “Reuters” (http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNLDE62A2JN20100312?rpc=44). Last week federal judge in Delaware signed an order staying litigation in a lawsuit in which Nokia claims that Apple is infringing on seven Nokia patents in products ranging from the iPhone to computers.

Read More
Apple now America’s third most valuable company

Apple now America’s third most valuable company

Posted by | Mar 12, 2010 | , |

Apple’s shares have surged on iPad pre-orders, making Apple America’s third most valuable company, reports “CNN Money” (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/12/apple-overtakes-wal-mart/?source=yahoo_quote).

Ninety minutes after Apple opened its online store for iPad pre-orders Friday morning, a burst of trading — roughly 2 million shares in 30 minutes — pushed its stock price to US$227.73 and its market cap to $206.5 billion.

Read More

Alesis releases Mac compatible MultiMix 6

Posted by | Mar 12, 2010 | , |

Alesis (http://www.alesis.com/), a manufacturer of professional audio equipment and studio electronics, has released the MultiMix 6 USB six-channel USB mixer for Mac and Windows. It costs US$149.

The MultiMix 6 USB is a six-channel desktop mixer designed for integration into a computer-based recording environment. This compact mixer is built for use in recording setups, video editing and production studio,s as it outputs not only line-level analog audio, but also stereo 16-bit, 44.1 kHz digital audio over USB for low-noise computer connection.
 

Read More

Task Timer adds daily total to dock and status menus for Mac OS X

Posted by | Mar 12, 2010 | , |

BKeeney Software has updated Task Timer (http://www.bkeeney.com/products/tasktimer4), a project management and time-tracking tool for Mac OS X (10.4 and 10.5), to version 4.3.3. The new version adds the daily total to the dock and status menus for Mac OS X users and fixes some minor bugs.

Task Timer allows users to track time spent on individual tasks and projects to the minute. It generates a variety of reports using relative and specific date ranges and other filters. Users may also synchronize their data on their local machine with a database server.

Read More

Fontcase 1.5 for Mac OS X adds auto-activation, more

Posted by | Mar 12, 2010 | , |

Bohemian Coding and Laurent Baumann have updated Fontcase (http://www.bohemiancoding.com/?Fontcase), a font manager for Mac OS X 10.5 and higher, to version 1.5. The new version adds auto-activation, duplicates detection, a speed increase and stability, among other things.

Fontcase focuses on metadata. For every font and weight, you can add a variety of metadata. You can set tags, genres, assign designers and foundries and more. They are not just pieces of text, but actually show up in the source list, right under your smart collections. Everything in the interface can be dragged.

Read More