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Jobs: Forced name change 'not that big of a deal'

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/stevejobs-bw.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple CEO Steve Jobs has chastised a Mac developer in response to a letter regarding a name change, reports say. The CEO of Little App Factory, John Devor, says he was recently served a notice by Apple lawfirm Baker & McKenzie, asking him to change the name of iPodRip, a program used to transfer content from an iPod or iPhone back to a Mac. Devor decided to plead his case with Jobs directly, writing an elaborate e-mail message....

Microsoft roadmap puts Windows 8 in 2012

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/windows8-roadmap.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft should once again release its next mainstream version of Windows about three years after the last, a roadmap obtained this week reveals. The schedule has the major revision, tentatively titled "Windows 8," launching in 2012 or about three years after Windows 7. It will purportedly keep in step with a rhythm developed by Microsoft that has Microsoft launching major releases four years apart, as Windows Server 2008 is considered a major release where its R2 upgrade and even Windows 7 are both treated as "release updates."...

Apple calls for permanent injunction against Psystar

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:50:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/law.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Following a recent legal victory, Apple is now calling for a permanent injunction against Psystar's operations. If granted the injunction would prevent Psystar from doing anything which might violate Apple copyrights, including bypassing controls in Mac OS X which prevent it from being freely installed on any Intel system. The company would similarly be banned from sharing the necessary decryption technology with others....

Ballmer: it "matters" that Apple has gained share

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:45:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/steveballmer-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer today warned at a yearly shareholders' meeting that the company needed to improve the standing of Windows in the future. The executive was emphatic that Microsoft was still in a comfortable position with "96 out of 100" choosing Windows worldwide but acknowledged that Apple had cut into Microsoft's share in the past year. He downplayed the amount, labeling it a "a couple of tenths of a percent" but added that even the claimed amount was significant and worth fighting for....

AT&T strikes back at Verizon with new 3G commercials

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:10:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/wilson.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AT&T has fired back at Verizon's "there's a map for that" commercials by launching its own critical ad. The carrier hired film actor Luke Wilson, who guides viewers through a chart comparing several aspects of the 3G networks. Wilson credits AT&T with having the fastest network, the ability to simultaneously use voice and Internet, the most popular smartphones and access to over 100,000 apps....

Briefly: Magic Mouse for Windows, smoke voids AppleCare

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:55:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/mm1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />In Brief: Although Apple only provides drivers to support the new Magic Mouse on Mac OS X or Windows via Boot Camp, a recent software update has been hacked and converted into an .exe for operating the mouse on ordinary Windows PCs. Meanwhile, a separate report suggests Apple has been rejecting warranty claims for Macs that have been used in smokers' homes....

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:55:00 EST

Droid helps Motorola overtake Apple in brand loyalty

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/motodroid-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The launch of the Motorola Droid and Verizon's ad campaign have pushed Motorola's brand loyalty for the first time in recent memory, YouGov reported in its BrandIndex late last week. The Android phone maker passed Apple one week ago and, as of Friday the 20th, had a loyalty score among men of 29.3. By comparison, Apple has fallen from a recent high of 48.1 on the 9th, shortly after the Droid launch, to 22 on the 20th....

Microsoft opens store-in-store at Saks 5th Avenue

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:20:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/microsoftsaks.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft made a tentative step into a retail presence on the East coast with a special section at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. The section replicates a small slice of Microsoft's retail shops in the West and shows notebooks running Windows 7. It will also have staff on hand to answer questions about both the notebooks and the OS....

Buffalo intros USB 3.0 external hard drive

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:35:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/buffalosml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Buffalo Technology has introduced the DriveStation HD-HXU3, a new series of external hard drives featuring USB 3.0 interfaces. The high speed connection option is claimed to support transfer rates of up to 625MB/s, beating USB 2.0 and even FireWire by a considerable margin. Users can still connect using the current USB standard, however the transfer rates drop to approximately 480Mb/s....

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:35:00 EST

Gameloft sells 400X more iPhone games than Android

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:30:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/t-mobileg1-game.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Gameloft today revealed that it has scaled back development of games for Android phones. The French software house made the move as just a fraction of its sales come from the Google platform: it sells 400 times more iPhone games than Android titles, the company's financial head Alexandre de Rochefort said....

Core i7-based iMacs suffer cracked screens, DOA failures

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:40:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/imac2009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Some buyers of the 27-inch Core i7 iMac are receiving unusuable systems, threads on Apple's support forums indicate. In a collection of cases the systems are failing to even turn on properly, at best sounding the Mac startup chime, always failing to display anything more. Apple is reportedly offering replacement iMacs for affected customers, but this may involve a shipping time of two weeks, as Core i7 is an upgrade option not normally sold at retail....

Dell misses targets, sees income plunge 54%

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:25:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/delladamoxps.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dell today posted disappointing results for its latest quarter ended in October. The company saw its year-over-year revenue drop 15 percent to about $12.9 billion and its net income drop even further, falling 54 percent to $337 million. Both decreases were blamed on poor results both in the public sector and in its staple home PC business, where its shipments were up about 17 percent compared to a year earlier but its revenue was down 10 percent, an indication that many buyers were opting for less expensive PCs....

iPod touch with camera to appear in spring?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/ipodtouchcamera-leak.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple's long rumored camera-equipped iPod touch may have a more definite release window, according to a purported source. A contact insists the device is back on track and that it would unusually launch outside of Apple's typical upgrade cycle, releasing in spring 2010. To make that goal, however, Apple would use the same 2-megapixel camera as in the...

NPD: 48% of retail desktop revenue in US from Macs

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:25:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/imac27inch-logo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mac desktops represented nearly half of all desktops sold at US retail shops in October, the NPD Group said in a new study. About 47.7 percent of desktop revenue was from iMacs, Mac minis or Mac Pros, an increase from 45 percent in April and a sharp surge from just 33 percent in October 2008. Mac notebooks also saw a sequential gain from 30 percent in April to 34 percent last month, though this was a drop from 38 percent a year earlier....

Multi-carrier iPhone in France doubles sales

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/iphone3gs-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The elimination of the iPhone's exclusivity to Orange in France has resulted in "more than double" the sales of the device and dealt a blow to the BlackBerry, according to research notes issued recently. Estimates from Bernstein, Strategy Analytics and others report twice as many iPhones being shipped in the summer quarter as in the spring due specifically to Apple's handset being readily available at Bouygues Telecom as well as SFR. That added exposure is thought to have directly impacted RIM as customers at the new carriers had a new, major alternative to the Blac...

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:00 EST

Live: Google's Chrome OS event

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:20:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/googlechromeos.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Google provided its first public details of Chrome OS at a special event today. Electronista supplied coverage of the just-ended even; all updates are listed in reverse chronological order. Among the news unveiled are the first public view of the OS, that there will be no beta today and that the platform is being open-sourced early as Chromium OS a year ahead of its planned late 2010 release....

Publishers closer to 'iTunes for magazines'

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:20:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/plasticlogice-reader-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A coalition of magazine publishers is getting close to producing a digital storefront of its own that would produce a centralized portal for their titles, a leak hinted late Tuesday. Anonymous sources for the New York Observer claim Cond� Nast, Hearst and Time are within weeks of a deal for a store that would offer both digital versions of their publications as well as physical copies. Time executive VP John Squires would leave his company to head up the new venture and is believed to be the originator....

New iPhone ads highlight Verizon's network drawbacks

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:55:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/mms.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple is set to launch two new TV ads in response to Verizon's criticism of AT&T's 3G network. Both ads focus on the iPhone's ability to maintain a voice call while simultaneously using features that require a data connection. The first sequence shows the iPhone interface as the user checks an e-mail, changes reservations and orders flowers without ending each call. The second spot features an iPhone user talking to a friend while checking movie times, sending the theater location and checking out a restaurant....

Dell phone in China; iPhone retailers intimidated?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:30:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/dellmini3i-china.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dell's Mini 3i is shipping to China with a possible unfair competitive advantage against the iPhone. The Android phone should be available by the end of the month through China Mobile's retail partners and later through Dell's own site. As expected, it will drop 3G and Wi-Fi due to the government-backed carrier's preferences but will still have a 640x360 capacitive touchscreen, GPS, Bluetooth and microSDHC storage....

Apple sues company for producing knockoff MagSafe adapters

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/magsafesml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Media Solutions Holdings, a company that has allegedly been producing and distributing knockoff MagSafe power adapters. The Apple patent, No. D478,310, was initially issued in 2003. The defendant sells the AC adapters, including the 60W and 85W variants, on several websites such as laptopsforless.com, ereplacements.com and laptopacadpater.com....

Microsoft fights claims of NSA backdoor in Win 7

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:10:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/windows7ultimate-photo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft in a response late Thursday rejected assertions that it has put in a security "backdoor" at the request of the National Security Agency. The denial comes after the NSA's information assurance lead, Richard Schaeffer, told a US Senate terrorism subcommittee that the agency had worked with Microsoft to improve Windows 7's "security guide" and sparked fears that the government had deliberately left a secret window the NSA could use to spy on users....

Apple tablets pushed to 2H 2010, to get OLED model?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:35:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/appletablet-mockup.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple may have delayed the launch of its repeatedly rumored tablet line to incorporate newer parts that could include an OLED touchscreen, a purported leak claims today. While an often mentioned 10.6-inch version with an LCD is still deemed on tap, the entire line may have been moved to the second half of 2010 to accommodate a 9.7-inch OLED from LG Display. The company may be delaying the launch to wait for OLED prices to fall, as a panel costs $500 today where Apple could save $200 to $300 just by waiting several months....

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:35:00 EST

iPhone continues to encounter 'searching for service' bug

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:50:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/iphone-1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Some iPhone owners are still suffering from an issue preventing any kind of cellular connection, posters on Apple's support forums say. After entering an area with no carrier service, or simply at random, an iPhone may launch into a "searching for service" mode from which it does not return, even when back in a known coverage area. The only way of temporarily fixing the problem is said to be rebooting a phone....

IntelliScanner's Wine Collector mini tracks wine collections

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/winecollectormini-story-23.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />IntelliScanner has released its Wine Collector mini, a software and hardware package for scanning barcodes and organizing wine collections. The scanner tracks wines based on the barcodes found on many wine bottles, while the software automatically recognizes wines, organizes them and visualizes collections in a virtual cellar. The scanner is USB-powered, rechargeable, and has memory for retaining scans until the data can be offloaded....

Schiller responds to App Store approval criticisms

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/philschiller.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Speaking in an interview, Phil Schiller -- Apple's senior VP of worldwide product marketing -- has responded to ongoing criticisms of the App Store approval process. A number of developers have complained that it may take weeks or months for an app to be approved. Even after such delays an app can still be rejected, sometimes for what may be considered arbitrary criteria....

Mac OS X 10.7 already in development?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:15:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/snow.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple is in early development of the next major version of Mac OS X, evidence suggests. The information comes by way of the open-source launchd framework, which is used to boot Mac OS X and manage its processes. The framework's codebase was recently updated, and a posted changelog contains the entry "< rdar://problem/7386864> 11A47: SecurityAgent no longer visible via Accessibility."...

Microsoft vows GPU acceleration, standards in IE9

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:50:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/ie9-pdc2009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft on the second day of its Professional Developers Conference by providing an early look at Internet Explorer 9. The new browser is just three weeks into development but is already expected to significantly outperform its predecessor. The new version will take advantage of hardware acceleration from graphics chipsets that support D2D in DirectX to offload many of the visual elements of browsing, such as maps or sub-pixel rendering. Microsoft's aim is to let the hardware "shine through" in the browser, chief software architect Steven Sinofsky said....

Apple Black Friday deals leak online

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:50:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/applebfleak.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />With teasing having only just begun for the event, a brochure has already leaked for Apple's Black Friday sales. The document reveals conservative discounts for various products, for instance dropping the prices of iMacs to between $1,098 and $1,898. MacBook Pros are slated to cost between $1,098 and $2,448....

Apple I system on auction through eBay

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:15:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/applei.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A resident of Roseville, California is auctioning off an original Apple I, according to the Detroit Free Press. The computer was the first put into production by Apple, launching in 1976 in a limited run of 200 units. It was distinctive at the time for being produced and sold by a two-man team -- Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs -- and building in its own terminal circuitry, requiring only a separate keyboard and TV set....

Report: iPhone slowly gaining momentum in enterprise market

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:15:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/iphone3gs-bell.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The iPhone is slowly gaining momentum in the enterprise market, according to a recent report issued by TBI Research. The analysts believe employees have been a contributing factor, as many executives have first purchased iPhones for personal use before pushing the idea to their company's IT department....

Conde preps Wired for Apple tablet without Apple help

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:15:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/appletablet-mockup.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Magazine publisher Cond� Nast today revealed that it's taking the unusual step of optimizing its publications with Apple's rumored tablet in mind. The agency doesn't claim to MediaMemo that it's privy to Apple's design but expects Wired, and later its 17 other magazines, to be ready in a format that works with the device by mid-2010. It will allow both actual-size and optimized formats and should include both mixed media and hooks for social networking....

HP's 3rd quarter results hurt by budget PCs

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/hpmini110-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />HP this afternoon revealed mixed results for its quarter ended in October. The company's net earnings climbed 14 percent year-over-year to $2.4 billion, but its revenue dropped by 8 percent to $30.8 billion in the same time frame. It credits the profit boost to cost-cutting measures but saw its revenue drop across the board in every category, including the Personal Systems Group that handles its common PC business....

Google phone real, due early 2010?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:15:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/htcdragon-leak.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Google's rumored self-developed Android phone is real but has been pushed back, a scoop claimed on late Tuesday. The handset would be built by a third party, most likely LG or Samsung rather than the previously preferred HTC, but would carry only Google's branding and is said by TechCrunch to be designed almost exclusively according to Google's design. It would launch in early 2010 after a delay but would receive heavy marketing as soon as January....

Briefly: Office 2008 for Mac discount, iMac repair guides

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:15:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/office2008biz.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />In brief: To help U.S college and graduate students dealing with heavy educational-based costs, Microsoft's MacBU has announced a special deal for the Office 2008 for Mac, dropping the price by over 70 percent. Office 2008 Business Edition provides a series of different applications to help support all areas of education, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Entourage 2008, and Document Connection for Mac with SharePoint support....

Silverlight 4 beta adds support for webcams, Chrome

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:45:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/silversml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft on Wednesday released an early beta version of the upcoming Silverlight software. Version 4 adds a variety of new features including the ability to integrate HTML content within applications, while Google's Chrome browser will also be supported. The company claims performance optimizations allow apps to start quicker and run up to twice as fast as they would with Silverlight 3....

Palm phones face serious backup failures

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:55:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/palmpre-contacts.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Owners of Palm's newer phones have encountered a flaw in its online backup system that has wiped out contacts and calendars. A portion of users note that backups sent to Palm's Profile cloud service from a Pre (and now Pixi) are being corrupted and blank out any synchronized data when the phone has to be reset or restored. Those without a local backup, such as through an app like Missing Sync, have no choice but to recreate the data from scratch....

Best Buy cuts Mac prices ahead of Black Friday

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:55:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/bestbuyblack.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Big-box retailer Best Buy has announced a brief holiday discount for Macs, already in effect. All iMac prices have been cut by $100, while MacBook Pros are between $100 and $200 cheaper, depending on individual configurations. Notably the deals are set to end after Wednesday, well ahead of Black Friday, the traditional date for Thanksgiving sales. Consequentially, they will also avoid overlapping with Apple's own sales plans....

Review: Photo Mechanic photo browser

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:05:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/photomechanic-story-18.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />MacNN has reviewed Photo Mechanic, a professional photo browser that offers options for renaming, captioning and geocoding groups of photos. Photos can also be rotated, watermarked and given new metadata, as well as saved to backup. When browsing, images can be displayed in a contact sheet or else zoomed in for detail....

iPhone owners more likely to pay for digital content

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:40:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/iphonesml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />iPhone owners are much more likely to pay for digital content than the average Internet user, according to a recent survey conducted by the media firm Olswang. Although previous surveys have concluded that iPhone owners have an apatite for apps and media accessible directly from the handset interface, the latest research suggests the same group is also spending more money on content purchased on other Internet-connected devices such as a desktop and notebook computers....

Apple's App Store API screening flawed, says developer

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/postage.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new automatic screening technique Apple is using for the App Store appears to be backfiring, claims developer Rogue Sheep. The screening is believed to be aimed at catching unauthorized APIs, blocked under Apple's submission rules. A number of the apps trapped so far are allegedly ones using Three20, an Objective-C library. Rogue Sheep's Postage has in the past relied on some Three20 code, and so private API calls were removed from the software before submitting a recent update....

iPhone now 50% of all smartphone traffic worldwide

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:10:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/iphone3gs-3sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple devices now represent exactly half of all smartphone traffic on the Internet, AdMob said today in its report for October. The iPhone has gained 10 percent of absolute share since August to reach 50 percent while Symbian has fallen again to 25 percent. Apple has identical share in the US....

HandBrake 0.9.4 adds 64-bit support in Leopard, Snow Leopard

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:05:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/handbrake.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />HandBrake has released an update to its self-titled DVD ripping utility. Version 0.9.4 adds support for 64-bit operations for the Mac, including both Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems. The 64-bit builds are said to perform approximately 10 percent better than the 32-bit equivalents. The software is also claimed to offer overall improvements in quality, which has been partially attributed progress made with the x264 project....

Early Core i9 tests show up to 50% boost

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:25:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/intelcorei9-leak.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Despite being more than a month away from the public, Intel's Core i9 (Gulftown) platform has already been tested and is shown to be potentially as fast as its design implies. The move from four to six cores has translated into an almost perfectly linear increase in speed for those apps that can use multiple processors. In tasks such as 3D modeling and video encoding, a 2.8GHz Core i9 is found by PCLab to be roughly 50 percent faster than a Core i7 at the same clock speed....

Casio touts EX-G1 as slimmest rugged camera

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:30:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/casioex-g1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Casio today added a new category to its Exilim cameras tailored just to ruggedized models. The Exilim G series is headed up by the EX-G1 and claims the title of the thinnest toughened camera: it measures just 0.78 inches but can survive drops of 7 feet and is both dustproof as well as waterproof at depths of up to 10 feet for up to an hour. Winter travelers can also use it as it operates in temperatures as low as 14F (-10C)....

Future RED cameras delayed by chip problems

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/redscarlet-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />RED this week warned that its EPIC-X camera program would be delayed by 30 days due to a problem with its app-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips. Company head Jim Jannard explained that it has to perform a new "metal spin," or manufacturing revision, due to an unspecified flaw. It's considered a relatively mild obstacle as a major alteration would have taken substantially longer....

Barnes & Noble sold out of Nook reader until 2010

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/barnesandnoblenook.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Barnes & Noble today signaled that new orders for the Nook reader now won't ship at all in 2009. Those placed today will ship no sooner than January 4th, or more than three weeks after the delay to December 11th. The bookseller hopes to console those missing the Christmas target by giving them a certificate that promises a Nook reader when it ships....

EU formally adopts file sharing rights

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:55:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/euflag-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The European Parliament late yesterday officially approved a final key rule in its telecoms package that will require legal rights for those threatened with losing Internet access in piracy cases. The measure will only allow EU member states to cut off access if it's deemed "appropriate, proportionate and necessary within a democratic society." Any decision will require an objective procedure that allows the accused to defend themselves as well as presumptions of innocence and a right to privacy....

AT&T denied injunction against Verizon ads

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:40:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/iphone-verizonchristmasad.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Judge Timothy Batten Sr. dealt an early setback to AT&T's lawsuit against Verizon over allegedly misleading ads by refusing to grant a requested injunction that would have forced Verizon to take the ads down immediately. The US District Court ruled that the TV spots might be misunderstood but weren't harmfully deceptive, thus leaving no urgent need to change or withdraw the ads ahead of court proceedings. AT&T will have a second chance to persuade Judge Batten at one more hearing on December 16th....

YouTube blocking native video API from TV devices

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/popcornhourc-200.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />YouTube drew controversy with word this week that it has begun limiting the use of its native video API on devices. Reflecting new terms of service, any device that connects to a TV must have a license from YouTube to get fully native video support. The move will ban smaller-scale devices like the Popcorn Hour C-200 from directly accessing YouTube videos, although it will still allow them access using Flash....

Malicious worm targets jailbroken iPhones

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/iphonesml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new worm has begun targeting iPhones and iPod touches, however it only appears to attack jailbroken devices, according to the security company Sophos. The worm, which works in a similar way to the recent 5 Euro scam, was reportedly discovered after a Dutch ISP noticed unusually high volumes of data traffic....