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The judge did leave an opening for the shareholders to amend their complaint with different arguments and additional information, which is exactly what they plan to do. Shareholder lead attorney Mark Molumphy commented “The discovery we have so far has made the case stronger.” A group of Apple shareholders filed the suit against Apple in…

Vista was ahead of Mac OS X Tiger in the control parents have over their kidsi computers. However, Leopard has caught up and matches Vista, according to C|Net on Tuesday. The winner is … parents. The settings in the OS, called parental controls, allow the parent, the administrator of the computer, to set policies, access…

Appleis 10-K Report for the fiscal year ending September 29, 2007 is full of interesting tidbits about financial compensation to its board of directors and senior VPs. Starting on page 24 is a synopsis of the major legal proceedings against Apple. Itis a long list and spans ten pages. On page 35 is a chart…

California-based Digital Background Corporation filed its case against Apple on November 14 in the Illinois Southern Federal District Court. The 1997 patent describes a process where the background in an incoming video signal is repaced by an alternate background in real time — just like iChat can do. While on the surface the patent and…

Autotextis “computer-based transcription” patent describes a process where a list of words is presented based on the letters a user is typing. Mac OS X 10.4 and Safari along with IBMis Lotus Notes, Eudora 7.1 from Qualcomm, The Sony PS3, and the Nintendo Wii are listed in the case, as are devices from several other…

Mr. Chizen has worked for Adobe for 14 years, and was CEO for the past seven. John Warnock and Chuck Geschke, co-chairmen of Adobeis Board of Directors, commented “Bruce Chizenis vision has helped transform Adobe from a company that was known mainly for its popular design products into one of the largest and most diversified…

Dane Harnettis WideMail 0.0.5 plug-in, like Letterbox, adds a three column view to Mail. The first column shows your accounts and mailboxes, the second shows messages, and the third displays the selected message. Message rows in the second column alternate colors which makes it easier to pick out individual emails. WideScreen adds a three column…

Appleis losses have taken place in the midst of a broader tech selloff, a sector where the company has led gains during the past 18 months of trading. The tech selloff itself has been one of the major victims of a stock downturn triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis. *In the interest of full disclosure,…

There are good reasons why an Apple iTablet wouldnit fly in the market, and recent rumors have done nothing to convince Dr. Macenstein that heis wrong about that. First, one has to ask who the market is for such a device and how many Apple would sell. In the PC side, the sales of tablets…

“The once-little app has proven almost endlessly adaptable to new needs and workflows, but all that morphing has a price,” Mr. Nack said. “In many cases weive traded simplicity for power, and not all the pieces look like part of a cohesive whole. In fact, I sometimes joke that looking at some parts of the…

The list was comprised from a poll of IT industry professionals. 73 percent of the 473 respondents named Mr. Jobs as the most influential, while 84 percent named Mr. Gates. PC maker Michael Dell came in third, and Linux creator Linus Torvalds took fourth place. Mr. Jobs is credited with revolutionizing the PC market first…

Googleis Android OS for mobile phones is poised to challenge Microsoftis assertion that open source can imitate but not innovate. In fact, the man behind Android is a former Apple and General Magic employee, Andy Rubin, according to John Markoff at the New York Times on Tuesday. There is a lot at stake as the…

Hereis how: Launch iChat. If it isnit already in your Dock, check in the Applications folder. Choose iChat > Preferences. Select the Messages tab. Check Collect chats into a single window. Leopardis iChat can group chats in a single window.

Apple is showing how it can cross industry boundaries and shake up a tired industry with innovation combined with some muscle, according to Forbes on Monday. Itis called “cross-boundary disruption.” One of those industries that was ripe for a shake up was the music industry. The current target of Apple is, of course, the mobile…

If you want to create your own Dashboard widget to monitor a specific Web site, Leopardis Safari 3 makes it easy. Hereis what to do: Launch Safari. It should be hiding in your Dock and also in your Applications folder. Open a Web site that has something you want to monitor. I decided to make…

Leopard demolishes Vista in a classy, coherent upgrade according to Slate Magazine on Wednesday. Apple has underpromised and overdelivered while Vistais techincal improvements remain difficult for users to appreciate and utilize. Appleis OS update approach stands in sharp contrast to Microsoftis. While Apple remains modest in its numbering system and includes lots of new features…

Microsoft has posted Beta 2 of its free Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client for Mac OS X. After round one, a number of important issues were addressed. Multiple Sessions Improvement ? Due to popular demand, the File menu has been redesigned to allow for the launch of multiple Remote Desktop Connection sessions from the menu.…

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, a critical part of many design-related workflows, is not fully Leopard compatible and will require an update. Even though the Acrobat update wonit be available until January 2008, Adobe claims it is safe to run the CS3 apps and Acrobat 8 Professional on Mac OS X 10.5. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3,…

My computer is a 15 inch G4 notebook.? I always use an external keyboard with it.? I despise typing on a notebook keyboard.? It is a personal thing, but I just canit type well on the notebook keyboards and I donit like the long reach that is required.? So for what it is worth, from…