Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Netflix coming to Mac in 2008
Steve, the developer of Netflix’s download service, gave Gizmodo some explanations about the selection of movies on the service, the reason for a lack of Mac support and so on…
Basically Mac support is coming in 2008, and isn’t already here because Apple doesn’t license its DRM. (Of course, if you have Parallels or Fusion, [...]
Apple Slapped with Class Action Lawsuit
File this one under the “you’ve gotta be kidding me” department….Loop Rumors is reporting that Fred Greaves and Dave Gatley filed a lawsuit on May 3rd with the Superior Court of California for the County of San Diego. The duo are are asking for multiple forms of relief and reimbursement along with an injunction [...]
Jobs and Ive up for Time’s 100
MacNN reports that both Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and Apple vice president of industrial design Johnathan Ive have both been nominated for Time’s 100 list this year. Jobs is, of course, the CEO of Apple, Inc. and the largest shareholder of Disney. Jobs has already been featured on the list 4 times in [...]
ex-CFO of Apple Settles with SEC, anothe Ex-exec still in hot water
ex-CFO Fred Anderson has apparently settled his issues with the SEC over the back dating stock options scandal that Apple, Inc has found itself in recently.
According to the Wall Street Journal Anderson agreed to a fine of about $150,000 and to repay option gains of about $3.5 million under the settlement but won’t admit to [...]
Adobe Officially Announces CS3
The big brew-ha-ha from Adobe is still set for later in the day, but early this morning Adobe “Officially” announced the CS3 product line.
Here it is:
* Photoshop CS3
* Photoshop CS3 Extended
* InDesign CS3
* Illustrator CS3
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Disney clears Jobs of backdating stock options
MaCNN reports that Disney has done its own internal investigation over the alleged back dating of stock options at Pixar. What they have concluded is that, while there appears to have been some misconduct in this area, none of it was by people currently working at Pixar….that includes Steve Jobs and all of the [...]
Axiotron showing off Modbook at Wizard World LA and in Canada
Axiotron will be showing off its Modbook at a variety of locations in the weeks preceeding the release of the product. You can get a chance to see the Modbook in action at Wizard World LA from March 16th thru the 18th. “Events like the Wizard World are a great venue for us to meet [...]
Migila & EyeTV part ways
In a statement released today Migila CEO Simon Ellson officially announced a split between Migila and software maker EyeTV.
The licence agreement between Miglia and the software supplier for EyeTV has not been renewed, Miglia will no longer ship products that contain this application in its TV solutions.
Customers that use this application with their Miglia TV [...]
Google/Apple will do “Many more Projects Together”
Chief Executive Eric Schmidt stated on Monday that Google and Apple, Inc are going to be colaborating on “many more” projects together, but did not go into specifics about what those projects might be. This statement was in response to a question about the possibility of Apple and Google working together on a tablet [...]
Good New for Mac Users? BBC Adds content to YouTube
Mac User is heralding it as good news for Mac Users, but I’m not convinced. The BBC has reached an agreement to add BBC and BBC Worldwide Channels to YouTube. At first, that may sound great, but read this excerpt from the article:
The non-exclusive partnership will create branded BBC channels on YouTube, operating [...]
