Apple Inc.'s Canadian division this week began offering $45 credit to Canadian residents who bought an Apple iPod player before June 24, 2004.
The credit program, which will cost Apple about $36 million, results from Apple settling a class-action lawsuit alleging ...
The Chinese owners of the Longbridge car factory have revealed plans to produce up to four new models at the plant over the next five years.
About 6,000 jobs were lost when MG Rover collapsed in April 2005.
Now Nanjing, which bought the MG Rover assets, said the new models will include a large luxury car and a replacement for the MGTF sports car.
The company added that production at the south Birmingham factory would start from 1 August.
Nanjing said 57 dealers were already signed up to sell the cars and that it would also be setting up a new research and development centre at Longbridge to design the new models.
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Five hundred limited edition models of the current MGTF will be the first cars to come off the production line.
The Longbridge plant will then continue to build standard models of the MGTF before work starts on a replacement for that sports car.
Last May Nanjing said it planned to start making some MGTF models at Longbridge in September 2007.
However, the plans were delayed when the company merged with rival carmaker Shanghai Automotive.
It is not known yet exactly how many jobs will be created with the production of the new cars.
However, it is believed to be at least several hundred new posts.
Most of the parts for the new cars are expected to be shipped in from China, rather than made in Longbridge as they were prior to the MG Rover collapse.
High Tech Computer on Tuesday launched a more powerful version of its popular Touch smartphone, hoping to lure consumers from better-known rivals such as Apple's iPhone.
The Touch Diamond, which supports carriers' 3G broadband-like networks, includes features that focus on Web browsing and checking e-mail. The device, which runs on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, includes a 2.8-inch VGA touch screen that the company claims provides near-print-quality viewing.
The smartphone's Web browser can zoom and pan Web sites. In addition, turning the device sideways automatically rotates the page view from portrait to landscape. HTC has also developed its own YouTube application to watch video from the popular site. The software also optimizes the use of Google's mobile mapping service for accessing street maps and getting traffic data. Google owns YouTube.
The Apple iPhone already has similar features to the Touch Diamond, but the latter goes one better by supporting faster 3G networks. Apple, however, is expected to add that feature in the next version of its iPhone, which analysts say is likely to ship this year.
The Touch Diamond is attracting attention, because of HTC's success with the original Touch smartphone, which the company launched in early June 2007. The company has sold 3 million units, making it a challenger to rivals such as Apple, which sold 5.7 million iPhones from its release last summer to the end of the first quarter.
The Touch Diamond weighs less than 4 ounces and includes a 3.2-megapixel camera. The device comes with 4 GB of storage, and supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technologies. Talk time is up to four hours on a fully charged battery, according to HTC. Its size is roughly 4 by 2 by 0.4 inches.
Microsoft Corp., trailing Apple Inc. badly in the market for portable music and video players, is introducing a new technology that will let users of its Zune portable devices legally share portions of their song libraries with other Zune users.
The Redmond, Wash., company on Tuesday also plans to announce it has started selling downloads of television shows that will play on Zunes, including "South Park" and "Heroes," through relationships with Comedy ...
Dutch information technology company Tulip Computers (TULN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it would list its German unit Devil AG on the Frankfurt stock exchange, using the proceeds to fund Devil's growth.
The company said in a statement it would list 2.85 million shares including 2.5 million new shares and that it would keep a controlling stake in Devil.
Tulip said it would announce the price range of the shares on May 7, while investors can subscribe from May 8 until May 14.
It expects Devil to have a listing as of May 20 on the German exchange.
Devil is one of Germany's leading IT distributors and had sales of about 322 million euros ($498 million) in the fiscal year 2006/07, of which 90 percent in Germany, and earnings before interest and taxes of 2 million euros.
After the listing Devil will have 7.5 million shares outstanding, with a free float of about 38 percent.
Tulip said it wanted to use the proceeds of the listing to increase the unit's product line and its client base.
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Apple, maker of the iPod media player, said yesterday that it would start selling movies through its iTunes online store the same day they are released on DVD.
New releases from studios, including Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros., will cost $14.99, Apple said in a statement. Previously, customers had to wait several weeks after the DVDs debuted. The service will start with such movies as "American Gangster" and "Juno" this week.
Chief executive Steve Jobs is counting on movies to increase sales of iPods, Macintosh computers and Apple TV devices, which let users watch downloaded films on their widescreen televisions. In January, Jobs said customers had bought 7 million movies, which was below his expectations. Apple began selling movies and television shows on iTunes in October 2005.
"People want to watch a movie as soon as it comes out, and they don't want to have to wait," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at JupiterResearch in New York. "What Apple is doing is knocking down one more barrier for why you wouldn't want to buy a movie from them."
Apple, maker of the iPod media player, said yesterday that it would start selling movies through its iTunes online store the same day they are released on DVD.
New releases from studios, including Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros., will cost $14.99, Apple said in a statement. Previously, customers had to wait several weeks after the DVDs debuted. The service will start with such movies as "American Gangster" and "Juno" this week.
Chief executive Steve Jobs is counting on movies to increase sales of iPods, Macintosh computers and Apple TV devices, which let users watch downloaded films on their widescreen televisions. In January, Jobs said customers had bought 7 million movies, which was below his expectations. Apple began selling movies and television shows on iTunes in October 2005.
"People want to watch a movie as soon as it comes out, and they don't want to have to wait," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at JupiterResearch in New York. "What Apple is doing is knocking down one more barrier for why you wouldn't want to buy a movie from them."
New titles will also be available from News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Co., Universal Studios, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios.
The studios are betting that Apple will repeat its success in music with films, Gartenberg said. "They are feeling that iTunes is an important venue."
The growing use of encryption software like Microsoft's own BitLocker by cyber criminals has led Microsoft to develop a set of tools that law enforcement agents can use to get around the software, executives at the company said.
Microsoft first released the toolset, called the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE), to law enforcement last June and it's now being used by about 2,000 agents around the world, said Anthony Fung, senior regional manager for Asia Pacific in Microsoft's Internet Safety and Anti-Counterfeiting group. Microsoft gives the software to agents for free.
While Microsoft can point to wide usage of COFEE, some experts are skeptical about using that type of tool to recover data, and even the developer of the product at Microsoft acknowledges that it's not accepted by some users.
Fung, who initiated the creation of COFEE, spent 12 years as a police officer in Hong Kong, with the final seven dedicated to fighting cybercrime. When he joined Microsoft, he sought to devise a way that agents could do better at finding valuable information on computers used by cyber criminals.
It’s no secret that Intel and Apple have been best buddies for the past couple of years. But the friendship seems to hit a high today when Apple announced a new top-of-the-line iMac model featuring an Core 2 processor that’s not yet list in Intel’s product catalog.
The spec sheet for the new 24-in. iMac listed the processor as a 3.06 GHz Core 2, but the TG Daily blog nailed it down as a special version of the Core 2 Duo Extreme X9100. The X9100 is in Intel’s roadmap as part of the forthcoming “Montevina” family of chipsets; the version used by Apple is a new processor with the older, i.e., currently available, “Santa Rosa” chipset.
How long before you see this sizzler on offerings from Dell or HP? It probably won’t be too much of a wait. “We provide our customers with a range of technology choices,” said an Intel spokesperson. “If a customer requires a different technology feature-set, then where possible, we will work with them to develop a solution to meet their respective market needs, as we have done in this case. That said, if other companies are developing products with similar specifications, we would offer these or similar products to those companies.”
(BUSINESS WIRE) ClearOne (NASDAQ: CLRO), the leading provider of high performance audio conferencing solutions, today announced the release of a new version of software for its CHAT™ family of audio conferencing products. The new software upgrade includes full support for all versions of the Microsoft Vista operating system, as well as enhancements to the user interface. This software upgrade applies to all models of the CHAT 50 Personal Speaker Phone and CHAT 150 Group Speaker Phone.
“Windows users have always been able to plug a CHAT 50 or CHAT 150 into a PC running Vista and the products have worked well,” said Mark Child, Director of Product Marketing at ClearOne. “This new release now gives the CHAT software complete Vista compatibility. This means that users can install and run the CHAT software on Vista machines making it easy to fine-tune the CHAT’s audio settings and create their own database of defaults for different applications. The software interface has also been improved with simplified menu selections and a broader range of supported products.”
The recipient of PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award, the CHAT 50 is used by traveling and home-based office professionals who want crystal-clear audio in a hands-free speaker phone. The CHAT 50 connects to a PC or laptop via the included USB cable to provide high-quality audio for phone calls using Skype or other VoIP softphone clients. About the size of a deck of cards, the CHAT 50 can also connect to certain cell phones and business or home phones. Portable Computing Magazine also awarded the CHAT 50 its Best for Business Award for 2007.
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