Apple has issued a July 7 deadline for third-party developers hoping to have their applications considered for inclusion in the AppStore launch expected this month, according to iPhone Atlas.
Applications will continue to be accepted after the deadline but are not guaranteed to be included in the AppStore debut. The AppStore is expected to open with the release of 2.0 firmware to coincide with the launch of the iPhone 3G on July 11.
Written by Lonnie Lazar on July 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Two Apple shareholders have filed a class-action lawsuit against present and former Apple officials including Steve Jobs and four members of the Board of Directors, as well as former CFO Fred Anderson and former General Counsel Nancy Heinen. The lawsuit charges Apple officials with fraud in connection with the company’s practice of backdating stock options, the subject of an SEC investigation in 2007, in which the regulatory agency cleared Jobs of any wrongdoing.
That’s not enough for Plaintiffs Martin Vogel and Kenneth Mahoney, according to a story published by Information Week, which details the allegations against Jobs and company. Vogel and Mahoney are seeking to recover losses stemming from a drop in Apple’s share price that reduced the company’s market cap by over $7 billion in the wake of Jobs admitting to “irregularities” in the granting of options to company executives and to the existence of an internal investigation into the matter in 2006.
Written by Lonnie Lazar on July 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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The Naked Bikers, a global protest vehicle for raising oil dependency awareness, rode through London on a sunny day in June. Photographer Peter Payne’s arresting image at panoramas.dk shows the stunning visual capabilities of QTVR, Apple’s 360? and CubicVR photo viewing technology.
Written by Lonnie Lazar on July 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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Software developer Information Appliance Associates (IAA) leaps to the head of a line of design entrepreneurs helping Blackberry smartphone users “Macintoshify” their handhelds with the release of PocketMac Mac Themes for Blackberry. Counting on the likelihood that there are many, many Mac users who have and intend to keep using Blackberry mobile phones, the San Diego-based software maker is selling what the company claims is the first tool to transform the look and feel of a BlackBerry into a miniature Macintosh.
Available for a number of models of the Research in Motion (RIM) smartphone (with support for the Blackberry Bold on the way), PocketMac replaces the standard icons and images of the BlackBerry with those of original, yet very familiar Mac-like icons, complete with familiar colors and backgrounds, to create what some are calling a MacBerry.
“I’m a passionate Mac user. I love my Mac and I love my BlackBerry,” says IAA CTO Terrence Goggin. “We created the PocketMac MacTheme [because] all of our customers love the BlackBerry but they preferred something that reminded them of home… their Mac.” (more…)
Written by Lonnie Lazar on June 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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Software retailer MacHeist, well-known among software buyers for its bundle deals, says it is offering Parallels for the “lowest price ever,” at $49 or $39 for previous MacHeist customers.
Parallels Desktop software for Mac is a Mac System Utility that allows users to run Windows and Linux side by side on Mac OS X without rebooting.
Written by Lonnie Lazar on June 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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