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Apple Store Covent to open Aug. 7

Apple Store Covent to open Aug. 7

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , |

Apple will open a new retail store in London on Aug. 7. It will be Apple’s 28th retail store opening in the UK.

Apple Store Covent Garden (http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/coventgarden) is located at No. 1-7 The Piazza, London, WC2E 8HA. The grand opening will start at 10 am

Regular store hours will be Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 pm.

Apple Store Haywood Mall will be the company’s 296th retail store. Apple plans to open another 187 or so during this fiscal year, with about half of those outside the U.S.

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AMD, Intel have huge share growth at Nvidia’s expense

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , |

Jon Peddie Research (http://www.jonpeddie.com) — a research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, computer graphics — has announced its estimated graphics chip shipments and supplier’s market share for the second quarter of 2010 (Q2’10).

Overall graphics chip shipments were up 4% from Q1’10, while desktop discrete GPUs fell 21.4% reflecting the tremendous growth in notebooks. For the first half of the year, 2010 shipments are 38.6% above the same period last year.

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Speed Download for Mac OS X speeds to version 5.2.19

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , |

Yazsoft (http://www.yazsoft.com) has released Speed Download 5.2.19, the latest version of its Mac OS X download manager that combines four products: a download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity.

The upgrade is revved for tighter compatibility with Safari 5. Speed Download requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher. It costs US$25 for a single-user license. Speed Download is available in US English, French and Polish localizations.

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KeynoteUser releases Elemental theme set

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , |

KeynoteUser (http://www.keynoteuser.com) has released Elemental, a Keynote theme based on the four elements in nature. Keynote is the presentation component of Apple’s US$79 iWorks bundle.

Elemental sports brightly colored, gradient backed themes (plus a fifth, alternate bonus color) in all the standard presentation sizes (including HD). It costs US$29.95.

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