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EU legislation could force Apple to change software policies

EU legislation could force Apple to change software policies

Posted by | Jul 5, 2010 | , |

Neelie Kroes may also launch a probe into interoperability between various smartphone platforms, including iPhone, reports “Rethink Wireless” (http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/07/05/apple-face-eu-probe-new-antitrust-rules.htm).

Kroes has already fined Microsoft $1.4bn for lack of software openness, and is now focusing on whether smartphone vendors comply with new European interoperability rules. Kroes specifically named Apple’s App Store as an example of a closed environment.

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‘MUG Event Calendar’: MacSpeech, Wi-Fi picnic, more

‘MUG Event Calendar’: MacSpeech, Wi-Fi picnic, more

Posted by | Jul 5, 2010 | |

“The MUG Event Calendar” roars back to life this week, with a wide variety of speakers, topics and presentations.

Jay Gonzales of MacSpeech will present to a California group, a Mac dealer will show off the iPad in Kansas, “free stuff” will be identified at a Florida group, an annual “Wi-Fi picnic” will be held in New Jersey, and Time Machine and iPhoto backups will be the focus at at group in Australia.

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iWeb SEO Tool for iWeb updated to version 1.9

Posted by | Jul 5, 2010 | , |

Rage Software has released iWeb SEO Tool 1.9 (http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool.html), an update of their utility for iWeb users to optimize their web sites for search engines. It’s free for all iWeb users. (iWeb is the web creation component of Apple’s iLife suite.).

Version 1.9 now allows iWeb blog pages to be properly optimized for search engines and will work with iDisk syncing enabled. Previous versions required iDisk syncing to be disabled in order to use all of iWeb SEO Tool’s features.

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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for July 2

Posted by | Jul 2, 2010 | |

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/).

Paragon Software Group has released a mobile version of the UEFA Football Dictionary for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The US$15.99 reference source provides trilingual translations or monolingual word definitions in three official UEFA languages — German, English and French — of all terms related to football. 

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Macsimum Poll: iPhone 4 owners, are you having reception problems?


Posted by | Jul 2, 2010 | |

In this week’s poll, we’re asking iPhone 4 owners whether they’re having reception problems. 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 you planned to buy an iPhone 4. Fifty-percent said “yes, but not during launch week,” 22% said “no, not until it’s freed from AT&T,” 21% said “yes, and I gotta have it now,” and 7% said “no, never.”

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