News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Lower-income U.S. consumers are flocking to Apple’s iPhone, sending an early signal that smartphones are changing from a luxury to a necessity, according to research company ComScore Mobile.
Stephen Lawson | Oct 31, 2008
Western Digital (WD) on Thursday announced the addition of a FireWire 800 interface to its My Passport Studio external portable hard disk drive. The drive is available starting at $US199.99 ($US297).
Peter Cohen | Oct 31, 2008
NCsoft on Thursday announced plans to release its long-running massively multiplayer online (MMO) game City of Heroes on the Macintosh. The game is expected to go into open beta in November, with a general release to follow for $US19.99.
Peter Cohen | Oct 31, 2008
Blizzard Entertainment announced this week that World of Warcraft had surpassed 11 million worldwide subscribers. While other games have sold far more than 11 million copies, no other MMORPG comes close in terms of the number of paying subscribers.
Jordan Golson, The Industry Standard | Oct 31, 2008
Apple Corps Ltd -- the Beatles' company -- and MTV networks have put out a press release this afternoon announcing that they will shortly be making an announcement of an exclusive agreement to "develop unprecedented global music project". While details of the project are unknown (the actual announcement is at 1am AEST tomorrow) the word "exclusive" would seem to imply that whatever this project is, Apple Inc, and therefore iTunes, is not included.
Matthew JC. Powell | Oct 30, 2008
Apple’s anti-Vista response last week to its rival’s “I’m a PC” marketing campaign blunted the impact of Microsoft’s efforts, an Internet video metrics firm said Wednesday.
Agam Shah | Oct 30, 2008
Hard drive-maker LaCie is offering potential customers unlimited online backup for one year with the purchase of any of the company’s external storage devices.
Jim Dalrymple | Oct 30, 2008
Mozilla is considering just two more security updates for Firefox 2.0 before it retires the browser at the end of this year.
Gregg Keizer | Oct 30, 2008
Microsoft this week revealed Windows 7 at its annual Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. Windows 7 is designed to replace Windows Vista as the main operating system for Windows-based PC users.
Mark Hattersley, Macworld UK | Oct 30, 2008
Apple may be spurning Blu-ray for the moment, but US-based Mac clone-maker Psystar brought out an option for those users that want the ability to play and burn Blu-ray formatted disks.
Jim Dalrymple | Oct 30, 2008
Mac users will be able to use the next version of Office for Windows directly, thanks to lightweight versions of its apps that will be delivered through Web browsers. Even though the release is for Windows, Microsoft representatives confirmed for Macworld that the Office Web apps would work with Safari and Firefox.
Jim Dalrymple | Oct 30, 2008
Ntractive on Tuesday announced the launch of Elements SBM 1.0, a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software package for Mac OS X. It costs $US69.95 per user per month.
Peter Cohen | Oct 29, 2008
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
