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by Jack Schofield, Guardian Rumours that Apple is about to launch an ultramobile tablet have not been confirmed by Intel.
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by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Microsoft will deliver its delay-plauged Open XML file converters for Office 2004 for Mac next month, the company reaffirmed Tuesday.
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by Inside CRM Complete solutions, familiar formats and "the cool factor" keep customers coming back.
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by Tim Anderson, The Guardian DRM might not stop pirates, but it does rivals. And in business, the later can be a greater threat than the former.
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by The Small Wave There's really nothing Apple could show that Microsoft (if they desired) couldn't easily conter with an ad of their own.
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by Andy Space, 9 To 5 Mac Apple is stimulating demand for the new device when it ships by making it hard to get hold of the current edition.
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by Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe Time and again, Apple serves up features like touch-screen controls that seem unnecessary, irrelevant — until you try them. Apple vice president Ron Johnson says the new store's "green roof" is that kind of innovation. A rectangle of lush grass surrounds the skylight. This lucky reporter was taken up to see it; store customers never will, unless they look down at it from a room in one of the nearby hotels.
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by Richard Wray, The Guardian The 3G version of the iPhone will be unveiled "in the coming weeks", the boss of Apple's exclusive mobile phone partner in the UK and Ireland hinted today.
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by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com In what might be a high-profile case of career suicide, an Intel Germany executive has reportedly confirmed that Apple plans to use Intel's Atom processor in a future iPhone.
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by Maggie Shiels, BBC Apple media figures are stonewalling on whether or not Mr Jobs will actually be taking the wraps off a new 3G smartphone at the WWDC event.
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by Zack Urlocker, InfoWorld
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by Aayush Arya, MacUser This one, titled "Sad Song", has John Hodgman donning a hat, carryng a guitar, and singing "Vista Blues" in tandem with a dog.
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by Dan Moren, Macworld Apple has big plans for its latest retail store and its first in downtown Boston—literally. The new brick-and-mortar outlet, opening Thursday on Boston's tony Boylston Street, will be the largest Apple Store in the United States with three floors of retail space. After so many years and so many stores, new stores still carry an air of excitement.
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by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld All indications are that Time Capsule has a bright future. When will Apple have one single set-top box to do it all? Apple TV for video, Time Capsule for networking and backup, and iPod dock for charging - is it time to merge them all up into one single device?
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by James Galbraith, Macworld Real performance progress has been made at each iteration of the iMac. So when does an upgrade make sense? That is entirely based on who you are and what you use your Mac for.
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by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld Apple confirmed on Wedneday that its Worldwide Developer Conference, being held June 9-13 in San Francisco, has sold out for the first time in the history of the annual event. This is indeed good news for both the iPhone and Mac platform. Existing Mac developers: watch out for the incoming competition.
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by Peter Cohen, Macworld GhostReader converts text to speech and works in PDF, Word and other documents, and can speak any selected text in any application.
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by Peter Cohen, Macworld
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by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu The Day There Was No News.
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by Thomson Financial News
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by Dori Smith, Backup Brain Does buying Adobe's applications help Apple sell more hardware? Nope? Then it ain't gonna happen.
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by Ryan Faas, Computerworld With a host of new tools and add-ons available, changing the look and feel of Mac OS X 'Leopard' is easy.
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by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
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by John Gruber, Daring Fireball Adobe is a good company with good products, but they don't fit into Apple's focus at all.
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by Lewis Page, The Register Air New Zealand will equip eighteen of its airliners with in-flight entertainment rigs allowing iPod users to play their video on seatback screens, listen to audio through the aircraft system, and control their device via the plane's interface.
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by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
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by Tom Koulopulos, Wisconsin Technology Network The greatest innovators today aren't product innovators, they're companies and people who build new business models. Of couse, regardless whatever business model you have, your product must also be good.
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by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
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by Erik Schwiebert, Schwieb When we came to the realization in 2006 that there was no way for us to keep VB in the product and still ship Office 2008 on any semblance of the schedule we wanted, we announced its removal, but kept looking at how to bring it back into the suite even before we shipped.
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by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac "They were pulling down the green monster covering."
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by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
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by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld Apple has entered into an agreement with Emmis Interactive that will give radio listeners in the U.S. the ability to buy the songs they hear on the air using their iTunes account.
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by Peter Cohen, Macworld MYOB US has announced the release of Checkout 2.1, an update to its point of sale software for Mac OS X.
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by Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle Any time you make a major change, even with an operating system known for its user-friendliness, there is a learning curve. Here are six common items that regularly flummox Mac newbies.
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by Peter Cohen, Macworld Hendrickson Software Components on Tuesday announced the release of Compass 1.0, a new utility that archives e-mail.
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by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune For Apple, it's a strong signal that Steve Jobs has backed away from his stubborn insistence on flat-rate pricing and is ready to start a new round of deal making in Hollywood.
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by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
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by MacNN Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs, along with a "team of Apple executives," will deliver the keynote at this year's WWDC conference.
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by Tim Haddock, Macworld Pros willwelcome Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.0.3.111's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink feature set and fully customizable outlining abilities, but Writers Guild wannabes may want to think twice before they cough up cash for features they'll never use.
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by Rob Griffiths, Macworld Thanks, Microsoft, for listening to your customers. It's always pleasing to know that the voice of the user does matter in determining the future direction of a product.
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by Jenn Abelson, Boston Globe Inspired by the Red Sox fan who buried a David Ortiz jersey under the new Yankee Stadium, Apple reseller Tech Superpowers decided to leave its own subversive treasure under the competition moving in directly behind them on Boylston Street - the massive new Apple store set to open Thursday.
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by Jonathan Seff, Macworld On Tuesday, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2008 for Mac, designed to add stability, security, and performance enhancements to the suite of office applications.
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by Jonathan Seff, Macworld Microsoft on Tuesday announced it wold restore support for Visual Basic for Application (VBA) to Microsoft Office for Mac, a direct result of complaints from uses about the removal of the suite's cross-platform automation functionality. Although Microsoft offered no specific date when users could expect the next version of Office for Mac, the company said the product is typically revised every two to three years.
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by Bryan Gardiner, Wired With these new non-exclusive deals, some analysts say Apple is finally realizing its traditional business model just won't work on a global scale. Moreover, there are actually benefits to being doing away with exclusively.
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by Philip Berne, infoSync World The lesson is that companies who try to blatantly defeat the iPhone will probably fail, because their goal is suspect. Better to try to make the best phone possible. And this lesson can easily be applied to other products, from iPod-killer, to Microsoft-Office-killer.
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by John Biggs, CrunchGear Clearly this is a shopping cart glitch.
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by Charlie Wood, Moonwatcher By choosing to compete on design instead of technology alone, Apple seems to have found a loophole in the Innovator's Dilemma.
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by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com Google ahs released basic software called Vidnik that lets Mac OS X users record video with a webcam or built-in camera, trim its length, add tags and a title, then upload it to YouTube.
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by Rich Mogull, TidBITS We iPhone users check email and browse the web on our iPhones as much as on our Macs, but there's on key difference: the iPhone is always in a pocket and always on the network. While there isn't a lot you need to do from a security standpoint, I do have a few recommendations that stem from how we use iPhones differently than other devices.
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by Peter Cohen, Macworld Essentials 2 for iPhoto includes "Make It Better," a tool that lets you compare color, contrast and brightness adjustments side-by-side. You can then pick the best-looking images, and adjust your picture accordingly.
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by Peter Cohen, Macworld Pixelmator is an image editing application that incorporates selection tools, painting tools, retouching tools, layers and color correction capabilities, typography elements and filter-based effects.
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