News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Three electronics manufacturers—LG Display, Sharp and Chunghwa Picture Tubes—have agreed to plead guilty and pay a combined $US585 million in criminal fines for conspiring to fix the prices of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, the US Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Grant Gross | Nov 13, 2008
Evidence suggests that the shortage of low-cost Intel Atom processors that system makers faced earlier this year is over.
Sumner Lemon and Dan Nystedt | Nov 13, 2008
Pure Digital Technologies on Wednesday announced the release of the Flip MinoHD, which it bills as the world’s smallest HD camcorder. It costs $US229.99 ($A360).
Peter Cohen | Nov 13, 2008
Google is getting into the video chat game with a new feature: Gmail Video and Voice offers Webcam-based video conferencing to all Gmail users. The service is available free of charge.
JR Raphael | Nov 13, 2008
The BBC has announced plans to offer iPlayer both on a global basis and on as many platforms as possible.
Macworld UK Staff | Nov 12, 2008
Nvidia's Quadro FX 5800 packs 4G bytes and 240 graphics processor cores, but the US$3,500 graphics board isn't designed for gamers.
Sumner Lemon | Nov 12, 2008
Parallels on Tuesday unveiled Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0, the next major version of the company’s virtualisation platform for Intel-based Macs. The new version introduces over 50 features and enhancements, including the ability to run Leopard Server in a virtual machine.
Jim Dalrymple | Nov 12, 2008
It’s that time of year again: Apple has filed its annual 10-K report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The required report on Apple’s business activities, as expected, outlines lots of fun and thrilling info about Apple’s financial activities. Boring, right? Wrong: the 10-K is pretty much the only public document that companies have to release in which they have to come clean about almost everything.
Cyrus Farivar | Nov 11, 2008
The threat posed to your pacemaker by your iPod may have been downplayed by no less than the US Food and Drug Administration, but that doesn’t mean that you can go listen to your music willy-nilly. The player itself might be harmless, but perhaps you’re forgetting about that most dangerous of accessories—the headphone.
Dan Moren | Nov 11, 2008
Apple has rejected an update to return7's Internet Radio application CastCatcher into the App Store because of bandwidth concerns, according to a blog post by one of the developers, Amro Mousa. The rejection comes after Apple allowed three prior releases into the Store.
Jim Dalrymple | Nov 11, 2008
YouTube made one of its first deals with a major studio to stream full-length films, but the agreement offers only very limited content and may not be the breakthrough YouTube hoped for.
Nancy Gohring | Nov 11, 2008
Apple introduced Mark Papermaster as its new senior vice president of devices hardware engineering this week. But the former IBM executive won’t be able to start work at Apple any time soon after his former employer won an injunction from a U.S. District judge in New York.
Philip Michaels | Nov 10, 2008
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
