Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Expo: Atlona, Wisair release wireless USB DisplayDock set for the Mac

Atlona Technologies (http://www.atlona.com) has teamed up with Wisair, a provider of single-chip based UWB and Wireless USB solutions, to release the all new AT-PCLink. This wireless USB DisplayDock set is designed as a solution for Mac OS X, as well as Windows.

This new USB DisplayDock solution allows Mac and PC users to connect to a monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers, via a single wireless link with a single adapter that connects to a USB port.  The AT-PCLink will wirelessly send video signal and audio at distances up to 30 feet at resolutions up to 1440×1050.

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Is Apple considering a long term plan to develop its own chips?

The fact that the iPad, introduced last week, uses an Apple designed A4 chip offers a hint at future iPhones, iPod touches and—who knows?—perhaps even Macs.

The A4 was custom designed by Apple engineers to to be extremely powerful, and yet extremely power efficient. It apparently uses technology from PA Semi, a boutique microprocessor design company that Apple acquired in 2008. With Apple now in control of its own processors, you can bet good money that the A4 will appear in an upcoming iPhone. Then the iPod touch.

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iPad a finalist in the Fiasco Awards

The iPad is among the eight finalists for the 2010 Fiasco Awards (http://www.fiascoawards.com/), reports “Typically Spanish” (http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_25037.shtml).

The jury announced the selection of the final eight from the 32 candidates nominated in Barcelona for the second year of the Fiasco Awards. The jury said the iPad is nominated as it could “go the same was as Obama with the Nobel Prize and win the award before it does anything.”

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Apple in top five of electronic resellers

According to new data released by the NPD Group — and as reported by “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com — Apple came in fifth place among both physical store locations and for its online presence in total revenue in the U.S. Apple’s retail stores ranked behind major stores Best Buy, Walmart, Staples and Target, respectively.

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