Macromedia is to acquire Mobile Innovation, a privately-held design and integration house in the UK with around 50 staff, for an undisclosed sum. What makes this deal noteworthy is that Mobile Innovation designs phones as well as user interfaces.
Apple on Wednesday introduced a new Power Mac G5 line featuring dual-core PowerPC CPUs and a PCI Express expansion architecture. The new 2.0 and 2.3 GHz systems are shipping now, and the new 2.5GHz Quad system will be available in early November. Prices range from US$1,999 to $3,299.Maravilha. Acho que é a despedida dos PowerPCs...
At Apple's media event Wednesday the company rolled out a new iPod with a larger screen and video playback, introduced a new iMac line with media center-like features, and iTunes 6.Acho que o mais impressionante é o Front Row. A Apple traz o conceito de media center para o resto de nós... isso vai vender iMacs igual água. E, de repente, tá a Apple concorrendo com tvs, dvd players e afins...
The fourth quarter of 2005 saw revenue of $3.68bn and a net profit of $430m, up from $2.35bn and $106m a year ago, and The year brought home $13.93bn and a net profit of $1.33bn.
"Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
NotePage Inc. on Tuesday announced the release of FeedForAll Mac, which helps users create, edit, manage and publish RSS feeds and podcasts. Developed for Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later, FeedForAll Mac costs US$39.95 to register. A 30-day trial version is available for download.
We won´t go into the nitty gritty tech specs on this kit (peep the Read link if you're hungry for it), but we wanted to post up these pics of the Apple Intel-based developer kit. Of note is that, as was hinted at the WWDC keynote, Windows XP installed easily on the dev kit, with a few video tweaks.
Developers working with the new Intel-based, developer-only Macs are impressed with the performance. The machines take as little as 10 seconds to boot from Apple logo to desktop, and apparently run Windows XP at 'blazing speeds.' Rosetta tests demonstrate the PowerPC-native build of Firefox running just as fast as it does on a high-end G5.
If you've been following the Apple-to-Intel transition, you're going to want to read this whole article. Why? Because I'm going to do something that I almost never do: spill insider information from unnamed sources that I can confirm are in a position to know the score. Note that this isn't the start of some kind of new trend for me. It's just that all this information that I've been sitting on is about to become dated, so it's time to get it out there.
At WWDC 2005, Apple announced plans to deliver Macintosh computers using Intel microprocessors beginning in 2006. Developers at the conference visited the onsite Universal Binary Lab to see exactly what it takes to get applications ready for the transition.
Here's what developers had to say about the move to Universal Binaries.
Mac sales were strong during the month of April, while overall PC shipment demand declined. Merrill Lynch said April PC demand slowed ahead of sluggish summer months, but noted that Macintosh computers were \"hot,\" according to Forbes.