While 1 million people have already enabled Ping in iTunes 10, plenty of picky early adopters have found it lacking.
On Wednesday, following a keynote address from Steve Jobs, Apple released iTunes 10, the latest version of the popular media management software. One of its major features is “Ping,” a new music social network from Apple.
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Android continues to put in a powerful performance as measured by the share of mobile web consumption attributable to devices running Google’s operating system, as reported by the Quantcast (http://blog.quantcast.com/) research group. It’s also catching up to iOS in OS share of mobile web consumption in the US (though it still has a ways to go to catch up).
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Economy-x-Talk has released Color Converter 3.0 (http://www.color-converter.com), an update of the color conversion tool for Mac, Windows and Linux systems. This tool encodes color values from and to any of the following color spaces: CMYK, H.Lab, HEX/HTML, HSV, RAL, RGB, XYZ and X11 Color Names. Additionally, it provides an RGB-based brightness value.
Read MoreOur next Migration Kit will look at retail management apps for the Mac. If you use or know of such goodies, drop me a line (dsellers@macsimumnews.com) no later than Wednesday, Sept. 8.
Migration Kits appear on Friday and round-up Mac solutions for specific industries and areas as dentistry, engineering, sales, etc. Also, if you have a particular migration topic you’d like us to cover, drop me a line, as well.
Read More“DigiTimes” (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100903PD214.html) says that “market watchers” forecast that manufacturer Quanta will ship more than 10 million iPad touches for Apple by the end of 2010, “helping to ease the company’s lower-than-expected sales of notebook products.”
Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo predicts that overall iPod shipments will reach 20 million units with the iPod touch to account for more than 55% of that total. He thinks that the iPod nano and shuffle will each ship 20% and remaining 5% will be iPod classics.
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