Podcast - Apple Weekly Report #128: Lawsuits, Diablo & iPhones

Direct Link: MP3 Version Listen Now: Blizzard announced Diablo III, Apple kind of updated Leopard again, Apple’s lawsuit express pulled into the station, and the Mac is showing up in eight out of 10 businesses surveyed. Apple’s ads are good enough to watch even on TiVo, an iPhone deal for China is getting closer, and…

Adobe Ships Creative Suite 3.3, Acrobat 9

Adobe began shipping Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 and Adobe Acrobat 9 on Wednesday, ahead of the company’s planned July release. The new Creative Suite bundles are still available as Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection, and now include Acrobat Professional 9. The new version of Acrobat Professional includes Flash support, enhanced collaboration…

Senate Hears Arguments on Search of Laptops at U.S. Border

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has the authority to search, copy contents or seize a notebook computer or mobile phone when travelers re-enter the U.S. Various groups have sought scrutiny of the practice in order to protect corporate private data and are also concerned about the economic impact. The Senate Judiciary Committee is…

Is there really a problem with bandwidth hogs?

Mobi le phone plans give you more monthly minutes than you will ever use, at a very reasonable cost. For a bit more, you can get practically unlimited text messaging as well. Many land-line phone plans come with unlimited calling within the United States. With each month, Web-based storage sites are offering more gigabytes of…

Crumpler Reginald Transfer

You can always count on Crumpler to design great bags and give them unconventional names. The companyis Reginald Transfer comes through on both counts, and looks good, too. The Reginald Transfer is a simple bag designed to fit a 15-inch laptop, a power supply, some documents, and a few odds and ends. It has a…

NVIDIA Unleashes GeForce GTX 200 Series GPUs

NVIDA has unveiled its most powerful graphics processing units (GPU), the GeForce GTX 280 and 260. The GTX 280 has 240 multi-threaded cores and can process video 18 times faster than the latest CPUs. It has 1.4 billion transistors and is capable of nearly a teraflop. Rendering 3D images in realtime is just about the…

Khronos Compute Working Group Evaluating Apple's OpenCL

The Khronos Group announced on Monday that they will form a Compute Working Group to create open standards for parallel computing across multiple GPUs and CPUs. Members include AMD, Apple, Freescale, NVIDIA and IBM. Apple has presented its OpenCL specification to the group. The Compute Working Group will “create royalty-free, open standards for programming heterogeneous…

AMD Announces OpenCL Compatible Teraflop Graphics Card

At the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden Germany on Monday, AMD announced its FireStream 9250 graphics card which breaks the one teraflop barrier for single precision computations. The card occupies a single PCI slot and draws 150 watts. Developers have reported up to a 55x performance increase on financial analysis codes compared to processing on…

Icahn's Yahoo Takeover Plan Going South

Mr. Icahn launched a proxy battle to take over the Yahoo board and offer the Internet search company to Microsoft after an unsolicited buyout offer from Microsoft fell through. Mr. Icahn insisted that buying Yahoo was in the best interests of both companies, but Yahoo contended that the offer was undervalued and a bad move…

Yahoo! Formally Ends Acquisition Talks with Microsoft

“At that meeting,” the company said in a statement, “Microsoft representatives stated unequivocally that Microsoft is not interested in pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo!, even at the price range it had previously suggested.” Microsoft had made an unsolicited buyout offer of some US$46 billion earlier in the year, a price that Microsoftis management…

MacPractice Releases Direct-to-USB Intraoral Camera for Dentists

According to MacPractice, DocPortMacro-U offers high image quality, a no focus design, and a one-touch macro close up feature that allows dentists to quickly zoom in problems areas in their patientis mouth. The DocPortMacro-U is priced at US$3,995, with additional docking station kits available at $795 each.

iPhone 3G: Great news and yet another delay

It’s official. The iPhone 3G is here. Sort of here. Almost here. It’s a dizzying and exciting time for iPhone users. Heck, it’s a great day for all Mac users, indeed for all computer and mobile phone users. But there was more to today’s announcements than just the iPhone 3G. Much more. The information overload…

Amuse Intros Serene Saver Pro

Serene Saver Pro lets users import their own movie clips, and string together clips that are up to two minutes long each. It also includes the ability to auto shut off or mute when certain events happen, like iTunes launching, or when other user defined apps open. Serene Saver Pro is priced at US$49.95 and…

WWDC Feels All New Again

WWDC has had pretty much the same flavor for the last 15 years, having been mostly about the Mac. This yearis keynote made it perfectly clear: the Next Big Thing has arrived and consists of a new major platform, the iPhone, a new generation of iPhone developers and new Apple leaders. The air was electric…

Icahn, Yahoo Still Sparring over Microsoft Buyout

In a letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock, Mr. Icahn accused the company of creating a “poison pill” plan to entice employees to leave the company should Microsoft successfully leverage a buyout. “According to details in a complaint that I became aware of yesterday (details Yahoo fought to keep under seal), Jerry Yang and a…

Firefox 3 RC2 Release Imminent, with Minor Tweaks

The Mozilla Group announced on Wednesday that they have elected to release RC2 of Firefox 3 prior to the final releases expected in mid-June. The release has just a few additional fixes since RC1 and should be posted some time on Wednesday. “The Firefox 3 development team has decided to produce a new Release Candidate…

Ballmer: Buy Vista, Downgrade to XP for Free

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, responding to a question about the support for XP off the shelf, said that customers can buy Vista, then downgrade to XP for free. “I don’t know how you can do better than getting both,” Mr. Ballmer said Tuesday in Washington D.C. According to InformationWeek on Wednesday, Mr. Ballmer’s comments suggest…

Share Your WWDC App News with TMO

Weire betting there will be plenty of developers on hand ready to chat up their shiny new iPhone apps, but we arenit limiting our interest to the handheld crowd. If you have a cool app for the Mac, we want to hear about that, too. Send an [removed]eval(unescape(i[removed](’email’)i))[removed]email to our afternoon editor, John Martellaro, to…