Feature films could be part of Apple’s iCloud launch next week, according to “CNET” (http://macte.ch/TckcA). Today Apple announced it would debut iCloud, upcoming cloud services offering, along with Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 at next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Read More
Revenue growth in digital music dropped from 91% in 2006 to 6% in 2010, according to a new Parks Associates (http://www.parksassociates.com) report. “Digital Music Services: Trends and Outlook” evaluates consumers’ growing demand for music everywhere solutions and industry’s response with new business models including enhanced discovery engines, multidevice access, music-centric social networking tools, and digital locker options like those being launched by Amazon, Apple, and Google.
Read More
The app Internet will dramatically alter the Web as users know it, force today’s leading technology vendors to adapt to a new business environment, and affect every job function in the business technology (BT) organization, Forrester Research CEO and Chairman of the Board George F. Colony told more than 1,300 business technology professionals attending last week’s Forrester’s IT Forum (http://macte.ch/RscHK), Forrester’s largest IT event of the year.
Read More
By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum
The Doxie sheet-fed “cloud-based” portable scanner (http://www.getdoxie.com) is useful, but has some noticeable flaws that may make you think twice before buying it.
Reminiscent of the Visioneer Strobe XP, this is a cylindrical scanner that derives power from USB. Unlike the other Visioneer products, Doxie supports both Mac and PC and the key feature of the product is its ability to scan directly to the cloud.
Read More
By Greg Mills
Well, I read about it and now I have seen it myself. I was searching Google images for “Arabic decor” when, suddenly, I opened an image and got a number of pop-ups that warned me my computer was infected — and also magnanimously offered to help me.
Read More