News
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Apple TV update adds several new features
Jonathan Seff Macworld.com
Apple last night released an update to its Apple TV set top box software.
Thursday, 20 November 2008
BBC One and BBC Two available live online
Carrie-Ann Skinner
The BBC has announced it will broadcast BBC One and BBC Two television shows live over the internet from next week.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Apple discontinues 23in Cinema Display
Macworld staff
Confirming concerns first raised on the Macworld Forums, Apple has discontinued the 23in Cinema Display, to be replaced by the new 24in LED Cinema Display.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Adobe adds dynamic streaming to Flash
Paul Krill InfoWorld
Flash 3.5 announced on Monday at the Adobe Max conference, adds dynamic streaming, which adjusts to the bandwidth rate on the desktop.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
QuickTime update improves compatibility with Apple's iChat
Jim Dalrymple Macworld.com
Apple has just released a software update for QuickTime. The update titled "H.264 Compatibility Update" claims to improve QuickTime compatibility with Apple's iChat.
Thursday, 13 November 2008
US military gets 'TroopTube'
Heather Havenstein, Computerworld
The US military has launched TroopTube, a new site to upload and share videos, more than a year after the US Department of Defense banned YouTube from military networks for being a bandwidth hog.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
BBC iPlayer to be rolled out across the world
IDG staff
The BBC iPlayer will be rolled-out to the rest of the world.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Tour continues
Macworld staff
The free Adobe Creative Suite 4 Tour continues across the UK with events in Sheffield (today), Edinburgh (November 18th), Newcastle (November 20th), Bristol (November 25th) and Dublin (November 27th).
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Fujitsu launches thinner 500GB mobile SATA drives
Todd R. Weiss Computerworld
Just in time for smaller laptop computers and other consumer devices that require smaller hard drives, Fujitsu on Tuesday unveiled two new 500GB hard drives that are thinner, use less power and take up less space in devices than previous models.
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Sky Player comes to those without TV package
Carrie-Ann Skinner
Sky is making its online video content available to users who don't subscribe to its TV package.
Monday, 10 November 2008
MGM to post full-length movies on YouTube
Steven Schwankert
YouTube will announce today that it will host full-length films and television shows from MGM, including classic Western 'The Magnificent Seven'
Thursday, 06 November 2008
Techno-thriller author Michael Crichton dies at age 66
Jon Brodkin Network World (US)
Popular author Michael Crichton has died at the age of 66 after a career writing science fiction and "techno-thriller" novels such as Jurassic Park and the Andromeda Strain.
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
Realmac releases RapidWeaver 4.2
Jim Dalrymple Macworld.com
RealMac announces that RapidWeaver 4.2 is now available. The update fixes numerous bugs and adds a couple of interesting new features.
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
MyVu video glasses make it to the iPhone
Macworld staff
MyVu confirms that for the cost of a cable users can now look forward to full-screen effect video viewing using its video headset and an iPhone.
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
New e-paper is 'better than newspapers', says NEC
Martyn Williams
NEC is to demonstrate new electronic paper (e-paper) displays at the FPD International exhibition in Japan tomorrow that are said to offer higher visibility than newspapers.
Thursday, 16 October 2008
TV goes HD on iTunes US, Apple confirms
Jonny Evans
The HD catalogue includes shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Lost” from ABC, “CSI” and “CSI: Miami” from CBS, “Bones” and “Prison Break” airing on FOX, and “Heroes” and “The Office” from NBC Universal.
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Special Event: MacVideo Live 25 Oct.
Rick Young
Bringing together the best the UK production industry has to offer, MacVideo Live is an entire day of nothing but digital video. Covering everything from post-production, encoding, content distribution and camera technology, MacVideo Live presents to you tips and tricks to speed up your editing workflow, a one hour lighting demonstration from one of the UK's top cinematographers, and a detailed overview of current camera technology. MacVideo Live is the digital video event of the year, not to be missed.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Adobe Flash Player 10 Now Available
Jonny Evans
Adobe Flash Player 10 offers new support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing, and GPU hardware acceleration.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Adobe ships CS4 range
Jonny Evans
Six new versions are available: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium and Master Collection.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Hands on: MacBook and MacBook Pro
Jason Snell Macworld US
The new MacBook and MacBook Pro are here. No, not just “here” in the sense of “publicly acknowledged by Apple and being shipped to arrive in Apple Stores tomorrow.” Here in the sense of, in our office right now. So in advance of our full reviews and lab tests of these products, let us give you a quick tour of the products.







