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Intel to acquire Infineon’s Wireless Solutions business

Intel to acquire Infineon’s Wireless Solutions business

Posted by | Aug 30, 2010 | , |

Infineon Technologies and Intel Corp. (http://www.intel.com) have entered into a definitive agreement to transfer Infineon’s Wireless Solutions (WLS) business to Intel in a cash transaction valued at approximately US$1.4 billion.

WLS, a provider of cellular platforms to top tier global phone makers, will operate as a standalone business serving its existing customers. WLS will also contribute to Intel’s strategy to make connected computing ubiquitous from smartphones to laptops to embedded computing, says Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO.

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Computers haven’t overtaken TVs for video viewing — yet

Posted by | Aug 30, 2010 | , |

More U.S. households are watching online video and on a wider variety of devices now than two years ago, but we’re not sacrificing our TV viewing to do so, according to international research firm Parks Associates (http://www.parkassociates.com). At least not just yet.

The firm’s “Digital Media Evolution II” study found 40% of all U.S. broadband homes now regularly watch long-form video on a computer. However, service providers can allay their fears of cord cutting for now as high use of computer video doesn’t yet correlate with decreased TV viewing. “Yet” may be the key word here.

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Mail Act-On beefs up support for Act-On, Outbox rules

Posted by | Aug 30, 2010 | , |

Indev Software has released Mail Act-On 2.17 (http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html), an update of the enhancement to Apple’s Mail application that lets you create rules to perform actions on messages by responding to simple keystrokes. The upgrade adds preliminary support for saving /reading Act-On and Outbox rules to/from a drop box folder or shared network folder.

To use an alternate folder, use the following terminal command. defaults write ca.indev.MailActOn ruleSavePath “Path/to/dropbox” Note: This won’t work with inbox rules because of potential sync problems with MobileMe.

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OverSite 4.0 update for Mac OS X adds new widgets, more

Posted by | Aug 30, 2010 | , |

Independent software developer Dave Taubler has released OverSite 4.0 (http://www.taubler.com/oversite), an update to his wireframing and interaction design application for Mac OS X.

The new version adds: new widgets, the ability to colorize the page background. and the ability to colorize individual spreadsheet cells. Also, wireframe canvases can now autosize to fit components.

The registration cost for new users is US$65; existing users can upgrade for $30. OverSite is compatible with PowerPC and Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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