Sorenson Media today announced Sorenson Squeeze 4, a new line of video compression applications for digital video professionals and enthusiasts. The new Sorenson Squeeze 4 product family includes the Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite, Sorenson Squeeze 4 for Macromedia Flash MX, and Sorenson Squeeze 4 for MPEG-4 — all of which are available in Windows and Macintosh versions.
Read MoreAlias today announced that SketchBook Pro, its pen-driven sketching and annotation software, is now available for Mac OS X. “The Mac community can now benefit from the fast, reactive, pressure sensitive artistic tools and intuitive user interface that make the software unique in its class.
Read MoreApple was given the No. 3 spot on this year’s “Wired 40,” Wired magazine’s annual ranking of the 40 companies driving the global economy. Wired said that Apple, which made the list for the first time, “has created the kind of platform-and-content synergy that gadget makers dream of. Having sold 5 million iPods, Apple owns 55 percent of the music-player market.
Read MoreSanDisk Corporation today introduced what it says is the world’s first 6-in-1 PC Card Adapter. The new adapter requires no software and works with six different memory card formats: SD, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, xD-Picture Card, and SmartMedia. To read a card, users insert it into the adapter and then slide the adapter into any computer with a PC Card slot.
Read MoreIn his “State of the Art” column for The New York Times today, David Pogue looks at Microsoft Office 2004, which was officially released for the Macintosh yesterday. Pogue sums up his article by saying, “…Microsoft’s Mac team appears to be reaching the same point of feature saturation as its Windows counterpart.
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