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Monday, 20 February 2012

Blackmagic Design Adds Timecode and DNxHD QuickTime Support to HyperDeck SSD Recorders

Rick Young

Blackmagic Design has announced the release of HyperDeck 2.5 public beta, a new software update that adds embedded timecode support, DNxHD recording to QuickTime and SDI camera record triggering to its HyperDeck SSD recorders.

Monday, 20 February 2012

iPad 2 and Kindle Fire share many common complaints

Tony Bradley

A recent survey from FixYa uncovers the most common complaints from iPad 2 and Kindle Fire users.

Monday, 20 February 2012

App Store about to hit 25bn downloads

Ben Camm-Jones

Apple is offering a $10,000 Gift Card to the person who downloads the 25 billionth app from the iOS App Store.

Monday, 20 February 2012

OS X Mountain Lion: What you need to know

Macworld staff

Any time there's a new operating system, there's bound to be lots of questions about new features and capabilities. And when that operating system's unveiling is as surprising as last week's Mountain Lion announcement was, those questions take on a newfound urgency.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Opinion: Is OS X Mountain Lion a big cat for business?

Ryan Faas

OS X Mountain Lion is something of a mixed bag for enterprise environments: it adds some very useful features, but its tight integration with iCloud could raise red flags for CIOs and IT pros, says columnist Ryan Faas.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Dragons' Den stars lose £230,000 in 'Satski' satnav fraud

John E Dunn

A Swiss entrepreneur has been jailed for two years and 8 months after being found guilty of conning two stars of the BBC TV Show Dragons’ Den out of £230,000 that should have been invested in a ‘Satski’ satellite navigation device for skiers.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Opinion: Facebook integration seems a natural fit for Mountain Lion, iOS

Lex Friedman

When Apple took the wraps off iOS 5 in June 2011, one of the marquee features the company announced was systemwide Twitter integration: Take a photo, see an interesting webpage in Safari, or come across a great video in YouTube, and iOS 5 lets you quickly share it with Twitter through the built-in Tweet Sheet.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Zlatan Ibrahimovic biography iPad app published using InDesign and Mag+

Digital Arts Staff

Swedish publisher Bonnierförlagen has created an interactive biography app about controversial AC Milan footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic for the iPad.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Apple could destroy tablet rivals with iPad price cuts

Tony Bradley

Rumour has it the iPad 3 will soon be here. The device will most likely be a tremendous success simply by virtue of being an iPad, but if Apple wants to put some of its $100 billion hoard to use and get "creative" with the pricing of its tablets it could virtually assure its dominance and force many competitors to abandon the market completely.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Apple settles iPhone 4 antenna suit with free cases and cash

Stephen Lawson

iPhone 4 owners in the US can get a $15 (£10) cheque or a "bumper" phone case from Apple in a class action settlement that won preliminary approval from a judge on Friday.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Intel ponders solar-powered CPU tech in graphics, memory

Agam Shah

Intel's experimental solar-powered processor may have started off as a fun project, but the chip maker is now looking to extend the technology to hardware such as graphics processors, memory and floating point units.

Monday, 20 February 2012

iPad 3: Latest reports say screen sharpness nearly as good as billed

Christina DesMarais

Apple's enhanced display on its yet-to-be-unveiled iPad 3 appears to be the worst kept secret judging by all the eyes that are reportedly able to see it.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Samsung decides to spin off LCD business

John Ribeiro

The board of directors of Samsung Electronics has decided to spin off the company's LCD (liquid crystal display) panel manufacturing unit, it said Monday.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Mountain Lion: Hands on with Safari

Serenity Caldwell

Though Safari didn't receive as huge an overhaul in Mountain Lion as other OS X apps have, it still got some love from the folks in Cupertino.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Mountain Lion: Hands on with Mail

Dan Frakes

When Apple released Lion (OS X 10.7), Mail received its biggest overhaul ever, gaining many new and noteworthy features.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Chinese court orders vendor to halt iPad sales in trademark dispute

Michael Kan

A Chinese court has ordered a local electronics vendor to stop selling the iPad, as part of an escalating trademark dispute that threatens to stop Apple from selling its iconic tablet in the country.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Scientists develop computer-controlled intersections for self-driving cars

Joab Jackson

While scientists have been busy with making more accurate self-driving cars, at least one set of researchers has thought even further ahead and developed a smart intersection that can manage crossing flows of autonomous vehicles.

Friday, 17 February 2012

FBI insists that social media monitoring won't infringe privacy rights

Jaikumar Vijayan

In a Request For Information (RFI) last month, the FBI said that data posted on such sites would let it more quickly detect specific and credible threats, locate those organising and taking part in dangerous gatherings and predict upcoming events.

Friday, 17 February 2012

Twitter admits storing iPhone contact data

Ben Camm-Jones

Twitter has admitted that its iPhone app uploads the entire contents of a user's address book for up to 18 months if you use the Find Friends feature.

Friday, 17 February 2012

iBookstore gets new features for publishers

Ben Camm-Jones

Apple has made a number of changes to the iBookstore so publishers can now use screenshots, promotional codes and offer pre-orders.

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