The four recipients of the fifth annual Jim Henson Honors were announced today by Lisa Henson, CEO of The Jim Henson Company (http://www.henson.com). Among them is Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who won the Jim Henson Celebration Honor.
Read MoreTurn-about is fair play, it seems. Apple’s patent-infringement complaint seeking to block Nokia Oyj’s phone imports into the U.S. will be investigated by a U.S. trade agency, reports “Bloomberg” (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=AAPL%3AUS&sid=a4xrkt3A4eeI).
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Corsair (http://www.corsair.com) has released its new Flash Padlock 2 secure USB flash drive. This unique USB flash drive is very cleverly and comprehensively designed to protect your critical business or personal data from unwanted exposure.
The Flash Padlock 2 employs two security technologies. The first of these technologies is a user-definable personal identification number or PIN. To unlock the drive and access the data, this PIN is entered using the drive’s integrated numeric keypad. The Flash Padlock 2 can’t be accessed without correctly entering the PIN for that individual drive.
Read MoreApple has expanded its Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore). Developers can now distribute their apps to more customers.
Apple has added App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda. Developers can log in to iTunes Connect (https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa) to view and update the countries where their applications are available.
Read MoreQoppa Software, which specializes in PDF tools, has updated PDF Studio (http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html), a PDF editor, to version 6.2. The new version adds PDF review and edit functionality to Google Docs.
The software can now open, edit and save documents directly from and to Google Docs. Additionally, it provides an integrated Google Docs file manager to upload, download and share files or whole folder structures.
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