News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Say cheese! Apple’s finding itself squarely in the viewfinder of the U.S. International Trade Commission, which announced on Wednesday that it is investigating a patent infringement claim filed by camera-maker Kodak last month.
Dan Moren | Feb 19, 2010
On Tuesday, Nuance Communications, maker of the popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation software for Windows, announced that it had acquired MacSpeech, developer of dictation software for the Mac.
Dan Moren | Feb 17, 2010
Steve Jobs: International man of mystery. There have been more than a few would-be chroniclers of the Apple co-founder and CEO, but they all lacked one crucial ingredient: the approbation of the man himself. That may be about to change, however, according to a report in The New York Times.
Dan Moren | Feb 17, 2010
You’ve got to hand it to Google: when they take on a project, they don’t do things by halves. On Tuesday, in an event at the company’s Mountain View campus the company announced Google Buzz, its newest entry into the social-networking arena.
Dan Moren | Feb 11, 2010
According to our cousins at Computerworld, the developers of Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser are deep in discussions about the future of the program on Mac OS X Tiger. While the final nail has yet to be driven into the purest Carpathian wood of 10.4’s coffin, the writing for the striped cat appears to be on the wall.
Dan Moren | Feb 9, 2010
The lack of support for Adobe Flash in Apple’s newest shiny device has been, depending on who you talk to, a critical flaw in the device, or an “about time” decision to drop a dead weight. Flash and the Mac community have a long and complicated relationship, though, and the iPad is only the latest battlefield.
Dan Moren | Feb 5, 2010
Less than a week has passed since Apple unveiled the iPad and its new e-book reading software, but it seems that the device is already disrupting the publishing market. This past weekend, publishing house Macmillan and online retailer Amazon sparred over the price of e-books.
Dan Moren | Feb 2, 2010
Apple’s success in the music industry is incontrovertible: the iTunes Store has been the top music retailer in the U.S. since 2008. But whereas music has delighted the ears of the company’s customers, TV shows have never quite seen the same success. That gives the ring of truth to the Financial Times’s report on Tuesday that Apple is pushing content providers to drop the price of television episodes to $1.19.
Dan Moren | Jan 27, 2010
There is no corner of the Internet remote enough, no crevice dark enough, no nook or cranny small enough to hide from the deluge of tablet-related news stories. While plenty has been said qualitatively about Apple’s possible device, how about some cold, hard numbers? Research firm ChangeWave believes it has what you're looking for.
Dan Moren | Jan 22, 2010
Time to put on my black robe and powdered wig, which can only mean another installment of “Under the Gavel”, the much-lauded drama series from TNT blog posts that I write whenever Apple gets itself involved in some heady legal action. Today’s contestant? None other than camera company Eastman Kodak.
Dan Moren | Jan 15, 2010
Word on the mean streets of the Internet suggests that Apple CEO Steve Jobs may take the stage of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center on Wednesday January 27. If you’re looking for a little pre-show action to get you fired up, then look no further: Apple’s announced its quarterly earnings results conference call for Monday January 25.
Dan Moren | Jan 12, 2010
When last we visited with the professional rankologists who compile Greenpeace’s quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics—for those keeping score at home, that would be October of 2009—Apple had jumped up to ninth place in the list of electronics companies surveyed by the environmental group. The January 2010 rankings, released on Thursday, show Apple gaining ground again, as it leaps into fifth place—and picks up a bit of a bonus.
Dan Moren | Jan 9, 2010
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
