Apple Scores iTunes Bundling Deal For Chinese Market

A pple announced today a new bundling agreement for iTunes in the Chinese market. The company inked a deal with Chinese PC vendor Founder that will place iTunes on every PC that Founder sells in China. The deal doesnit specifically include the iTunes Music Store, as that service has yet to be launched outside the…

iOrganize Updated With Auto Backup Support

iOrganize 5.4, a new version of the popular organization tool for MacOS X, has just been released. iOrganize is the perfect application to store all the notes, ideas, text extracts, Web links… you find while working daily, but without knowing exactly what to do with them. Thanks to a clean and familiar user interface, iOrganize…

The Back Page - Apple Death Knell #40, Enderle vs. Chaffin Finale

You knew it was coming: Rob Enderle has let ring his 5th Apple Death Knell in just the last few years. Today’s entry in the Apple Death Knell Counter comes in part 5 in the heads up debate between Mr. Enderle and myself in MacNewsWorld’s Death Match. This cements Mr. Enderle’s lead in the Apple…

World Domination, Phase 3: TMO's New Forum Design!

F irst there was the new layout for TMO, then the new, advanced comment system. Prepare yourselves for the next stage of our plans for world domination, a stage we like to call “Phase 3.” Thatis right, thereis a brand new design for the forums to make it match the fancy new layout for the…

Phlink Updated With Multiple Line Support

Ovolab today released version 1.4 of Ovolab Phlink, its innovative and award-winning telephony software for the Mac. Ovolab Phlink is a software and hardware product that turns your Mac into a flexible and powerful answering machine and telephone information center. The new version can handle multiple phone lines simultaneously, by simply plugging in multiple Phlink…

IBM To Centralize Desktop Services, Applications, & Data

Back in the 60’s and 70’s, the word ‘computer’ was synonymous with the name ‘IBM’; back then, room-filling centralized servers chugged away supporting hundreds, even thousands of workers who used terminals to get their work done. It wasn’t pretty, but it worked very well, and there was no such thing as a virus or worm…

PlayFair Born Again As Hymn, Back Online

F or those who have been following the battle between PlayFair, the software that will strip Appleis DRM from iTunes Music Store downloads, and Apple, thereis a new development. The story began a few months ago when PlayFair was first released. Apple quickly sent a Cease & Desist to SourceForge.net, the projectis home, demanding that…

Jon's Phone Tool Updated With Improved Code

Jonathan Nathan has released an update for Jon’s Phone Tool, bringing it to version 1.2. Jon’s Phone Tool is a utility designed for automated phone dialing. The update features improved code and a modified search feature. According to Jonathan Nathan: Jonathan Nathan is pleased to announce that Jon’s Phone Tool v1.2 has been released. Jon’s…

Miglia Shipping New Analog/Digital Video Converter

Miglia Technology, a global technology solution provider that manufactures, markets and supports a range of own and licensed branded products, has today announced that it has launched the latest version of its award winning analogue/digital video converter Directors Cut SCART. Simply connect the Directoris Cut to a VCR with the SCART cable and the FireWire…

Apple Legal Tries Again To Keep PlayFair At Bay

R emember the Open Source application, PlayFair? Itis an application that allows you to make songs purchased from Appleis iTunes Music Store playable on any music player, not just iPods, stripping the DRM out of the song. The application was originally hosted on SourceForge, a US-based Web site dedicated to open source development. The project…

BusinessWeek Says IBM's Chip Problems May Be Over Soon

Sometimes it seems that Apple couldn’t get a break if it paid top dollar for it. Not long ago, Apple’s fortunes, and misfortunes, were tied to the ability of Motorola to produce the CPUs that were the heart of Apple’s computers. Many complained bitterly that Motorola’s inability to produce faster chips in large enough quantities…

TMO Reports - Apple Sued Over JPEG Patent; Damages Possibly "Millions"

Videoconferencing company Forgent Networks, Inc. filed suit Thursday against 31 defendants, including Apple Computer, for using its JPEG digital image compression patent without paying a licensing fee. In making the announcement, a company spokesman said damages could end up being in the millions of US dollars for each company. Among the other companies being sued…

Fundamental Flaw Threatens Entire Internet

A fundamental flaw has been discovered in TCP, and the AP is reporting that this flaw could "cripple" the entire Internet. TCP is the protocols that sits underneath all of the other protocols and technologies that makes up the Internet. In effect, it is the technology that controls/allows digital traffic to get to its destination.…

Apple, Matsushita To Develop Low-Cost Video Editing Suite

< A href="http://www.apple.com">Apple Computer and Japanese electronics giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will jointly develop and market a low-cost video-editing system for the television industry, the Japanese company announced Monday. The system is expected to cost less than one-tenth the price of conventional editing systems and is directly targeted at Sony Corp., the worldis leading…

TMO Reports - Apple Exec Says iPod mini Static Issues "Extremely Small"

Despite wide-spread media reports of static or distorted audio problems with Apple’s iPod mini portable digital-music player, an Apple executive said Wednesday the problem is “isolated” and is affecting very few users. During an analyst conference call regarding the company’s second-quarter earnings results, Tim Cook, Apple’s Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations, said…

Major Apple Shareholder To Withhold Vote For Entire Board (W/Explanation)

Apple’s board of director, including CEO Steve Jobs, has a thorn in its collective side. That thorn comes in the form of the California Public Employee’s Retirement System (Calpers), one of the company’s largest shareholders. Calpers has announced that it will withhold its 1.48 million votes for Apple’s entire board of directors because the board…