Standard & Poor’s analyst Clyde Montevirgen has cut his rating on Nvidia to Strong Sell from Hold, while keeping his $9 price target on the stock, reports “Barron’s” (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/08/30/nvidia-sp-downgrades-to-strong-sell-keeps-9-target-price/).
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
MiniMonos has announced MiniMonos Flight 1.0 for iOS, an iPhone adaptation of the US$1.99 game in MiniMonos, the children’s virtual world. Players of the game become flying monkeys, and have to tilt their iPhones left and right to swoop through the sky, collecting wind clouds and avoiding energy-sapping pollution clouds. Trampolines on the ground provide bouncing rescues to monkeys that get too low.
Read MoreA security researcher has unearthed a “bizarre” flaw in Apple’s QuickTime Player that can be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on Windows-based PCs, even those running the most recent versions of operating system, says “The Register” (http://macosg.me/2/t4).
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The members of Predicto (http://www.predicto.com), a web site that offers regular polls, think Apple will announce a new version of the Apple TV at its special event tomorrow.
Of those who have voted so far, 76% are expecting a new Apple TV, and 24% are not expecting such an announcement.
Apple’s special event will be held at 1 pm (Pacific) at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The invitation shows a guitar with an Apple logo/cut-out indicating that the event will focus on music instead. Or perhaps in addition to Apple TV Take Three.
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September starts with some special guests on this week’s “MUG Event Calendar.”
“Chicago Sun-Times” columnist and “MacNotable” Andy Ihnatko will present to a Chicago user group, Ben Kerosky of Apple will be the guest to show off iTunes in Alaska, and nik Software will talk about HDR Eflex Pro at a California group. Other topics up for discussion this week include computer security, favorite apps, screencasting, GarageBand and more.
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