Winter Wolves has released a beta demo for its upcoming, Mac OS X compatible game Vera Blanc: Ghost in the Castle (http://www.verablanc.com/), the second title in the mystery adventure series. It can be ordered for US$19.99.
Read MoreApple needs another carrier to maintain the iPhone’s current rate of growth in the U.S., says Kaufman Bros.’s Shaw Wu in a note to clients Monday — as reported by “Fortune” (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/23/verizon-and-apple-at-loggerheads/?section=magazines_fortune&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmagazines_fortune+%28Fortune+Magazine%29) — but it doesn’t necessarily have to be Verizon — though that’s the company that most folks expect to become the second US carrier.
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In June Apple scored its biggest gains in government, big business and the European home market, according to Needham analyst Charles Wolf, using using the second quarter number from the IDC research group. In a note to clients — as reported by “Fortune” (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/23/mac-enterprise-sales-surged-in-june/) — Wolf says:
° At 35%, Mac shipment growth in June easily exceeded the market’s growth rate of 20.9%.
° Mac shipments grew 31.4% in the home market, topping the market’s growth rate of 25.2%.
Read MoreTake this one with a grain of sale: In a Chinese-language interview with the Economic Daily News — as reported by “DigiTimes” (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100823PB200.html), JT Wang, chairman of Acer, said that he expects Apple’s iPad market share to drop from close to 100% currently to only 20%-30% after the tablet PC market stabilizes.
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Only 2% of US homes which do not currently own an Apple device intend to buy an iPad during the next 12 months, compared to 18% of Apple-owning households, according to a new survey of 2000 US consumers by Strategy Analytics (http://www.strategyanalytics.com).
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