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Last week, a federal court jury in San Diego, awarded $1.52 billion to Alcatel-Lucent saying that Microsoft had infringed on two digital audio patents owned by them.
Microsoft said that they had paid Fraunhofer Institute for the rights to these technologies. The Institute had partnered with Bell Labs to develop MP3 formats. Bell Labs later became Lucent. Other companies that have licensed the technology from Fraunhofer Institute include Apple Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. This could get messy before it gets better.
Read the full story at: arstechnica.com
StreamingMedia.com: says "iPhone has broader implications for the future of mobile media delivery"
One comment I like in this article, besides the above is: "once again where these so called "competitors" in "digital music" are flattering themselves-they think Apple is competing with them. Apple doesn't even really consider Zune, Napster, URGE, Rio, or Creative a competitor. Why? They consider Wal-Mart a competitor. They consider Best Buy a competitor. Big-box distributors of CDs -- that's their competitor."
The point is that Apple is looking to replace the traditional media vendors, they aren't even worried about the smaller online competition. Could be... Read the full story at: www.streamingmedia.com
David Morgenstern has a great little article about Apple history at eWeek's Inside Channel web site in the form of a trivia quiz. Such questions as
* "What are the founder's full names?" or
* "what was the operating system on the Apple ///?"
How many can you get? He does surprise me with a story of the "satellite" broadcast by Bill Gates at the 1997 Boston MacWorld Expo. I think I will not be the only one surprised.
Take the quiz at: www.channelinsider.com
When my brother showed up at a reception with one of these little 'palm-sized' cameras, I have to admit I was skeptical. (Being a digital imaging professional!) But, when I began to really take a look at the results-- WOW -- I was blown away. You'll like these...
Wow!! The things that pass for news now a days. Mac users not being security minded!! Who would have thought it? Of course we don't think much about security, Apple keeps telling us how secure the Mac OS is. Well, truth is, we really should be more mindful of firewalls and virus checking. Don't you think? See the full story at: news.bbc.co.uk
Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives provides the knowledge necessary to bridge the gap between analog (traditional) and digital photography. www.user-groups.net/books/
Last week, Cisco and Apple agreed to share the iPhone name. Apparently, all Cisco got out of the deal was an agreement to continue talks on making their iPhone compatible with Apple products. Wonder if it will actually ever mean an agreement. Read Apple Inc.'s announcement
There were many, many stories written, about this, including this one is at: USA Today
Last week, I mentioned a program that I said was the Mac OS X answer to TypeIt4Me which was available for Classic Mac systems. Well, actually TypeIt4Me is still available for Mac OS X as well. It now costs $27, but you can download and try it out at the link below. BTW - I remember using it to fill out forms to get AOL disks to send out when I was paying by the hour and I used it to do boiler plating during User Group Forum conferences there as well. Get it here: ettoresoftware.com
Whenever you need to find something on the web, you "Google" it. Most of the web surfers do. For the percentage of those who "Yahoo" or "MSN" for information is considerably lower. Now you can capitalize on this... www.user-groups.net/articles
Joy of Tech has had several entertaining comics concerning the release of Windows Vista. All though this one might be a little to close to the truth. At: www.joyoftech.com
If you use Adobe InDesign for high-end projects and printing, ImageSwapper is a flexible and time-saving plug-in which streamlines the process of replacing low resolution, for-placement-only (FPO) images with the high rez counterparts. www.user-groups.net/shareware
Mariner software has long had a good word processor and a spreadsheet for the Mac. More recently they have had MacJournal, which makes it easy to put your thoughts into a number of different blogging programs. Now they have come out with a Windows version called WinJournal. Check it out at: yourtech.typepad.com
Not only does it appear that Safari has gained ground on the Mac against Firefox, but it looks like they are also gaining ground on Internet Explorer for Windows. Read the full story at: www.digitmag.co.uk
... the Denver Acrobat User Group www.ugnn.com
One-click Slideshow - One-click Slideshow displays your digital photos as a beautiful slideshow.
* What ToDo - Objective Satisfaction has a pretty cool program to help you take ccontrol of your life...
* ClickTris - ClickTris is the game for everyone -- this game can be played on old or new computers
* RAGE Macintosh Explorer - RAGE Macintosh Explorer brings the hierarchical, tree-view navigation style of Windows Explorer to the Mac.
* AXIGEN Mail Server Beta - AXIGEN is a modular, production class email server for Windows with an innovative architecture.
* AJAXCMSCreator - Generates a full AJAX enabled .NET visual studio 2005 (Windows)
* DocumentWallet - the document management application for Mac OS X that gives users the ability to easily scan, manage and archive documents.
* BBEdit Comes Again - You've heard us rage about BBEdit before -- as simply the ONE important piece of software for every Mac user. Now, Bare Bones Software has rolled out BBEdit 8.6.1
* BusinessCards MX - (Windows) This program will help to design and print a professional business card.
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