In this week’s poll, we’re asking if you feel a need for USB 3.0 on your Mac. The poll can be found at the right hand side of our home page, below the Macsimum Opinion column.
In our last poll, we asked if the you were happy with Apple’s latest iMac and Mac Pro updates. Seventy-nine percent of you said “yes,” and 21% “no.”
Read MoreIntel and GE have entered into a definitive agreement to form a 50/50 joint venture to create a new healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living.
The new company will be formed by combining assets of GE Healthcare’s Home Health division and Intel’s Digital Health Group, and will be owned equally by GE and Intel. Pending regulatory and other customary closing conditions, the joint venture is expected to become operational by the end of the year. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Other World Computing has announced its new OWC Turnkey Upgrade Installation Program for the new 27-inch iMac.
Read MorePFiddlesoft has released version 2.0.0 of UI Actions, bringing “universal attachability” to AppleScript. The new version is Universal Binary and runs on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
With UI Actions, you attach an AppleScript script to a native Mac OS X application. From then on, the script will be triggered automatically every time the user performs the actions you specify in the target application. A UI action script can respond to all manner of user actions, such as opening or closing a window, selecting a menu item, editing a text field and many others.
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MocoSpace, a mobile social network has released its latest Mobile Social Graph Report (http://www.jnjmobile.com/report), which shows iPhone and Android usage surging. Their findings show that both iPhone and Android traffic has risen significantly during the quarter.
Android shows the strongest quarterly traffic growth, a 73% surge in quarter two (Q2), while iPhone users follow close behind, showing 67% growth. Blackberry traffic was down 2.8% since Q1, while traditional feature phone traffic declined by 10% in Q2.
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