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Seagate Technology says that supply of hard disk drive will continue to fall shortly of demand this year , pass with child customers to wait to long - term agreement to ensure provision after annihilating floods in Thailand . shortfall of drives by the ending of this year is likely to be about 150 million units , the company aver . The forecast by Seagate is more or less in dividing line with those of research firms like Gartner whichsaid last monththat the major impact of the HDD shortage after the floods will be felt in the first half of this class , and even potentially continue through the class ....

The Macalope ’s going to be honest with you . He never thought he ’d see the day when corporate IT shops would welcome Apple intersection . But it was just over a year ago that he had tochastise himselffor his human knee - jerk assumption that IT managers would prefer to block the doors to the data sum and die tardily of asphyxiation rather than give up Apple products in on their lookout ....

Apple has appealed a Formosan Margaret Court opinion from last December that pooh-pooh its ownership of the iPad trademark in the country , and which could expose the company to trademark violation lawsuits from a local company . The maker of the iconic iPad file the appeal on January 5 with the Higher People ’s Court of Guangdong Province , allot to a statement from Proview International , a little known Chinese display monitor ship’s company that claims control over the iPad trademark in mainland China ....

Garmin ’s StreetPilot Global Positioning System offerings for the iPhone just got a bit more societal . Facebook and Foursquare exploiter can now check in at a placement from within Garmin StreetPilot . Both Garmin StreetPilot and Garmin StreetPilot onDemand date updates last week in continuative with the Macworld | iWorld show . Version 7.5.0 of the GPS navigation apps added integration with Wikipedia , Facebook , and Foursquare ....

Computers excel at repetitious job . So why are you opening the same menu and submenus , looking for the same bidding again and again ? OS X lets you assign keyboard shortcuts to menu command so you may trigger them more quickly . you could tailor software shortcuts to your work habits , but an especially productive way to use this capability is to typeset up shortcuts that workeverywhere ....

From the dramaticMegaUpload takedownto draconian legislating likeSOPA , it is easy to take over that commercial-grade art profits ( such as from record album sales ) are a sink ship . Not so fast , argue a young study from self - proclaimed open market advocatesComputer & Communications Industry Associationand Techdirt foundersfloor 64 . CalledThe Sky Is lift , this January 2012 written report provides compelling subject after compelling case to prove that artist are actually flourish ....

After spending a few day wandering up and down two floors of Moscone West to cover the Macworld | iWorld show , it was apparent the name alteration for this year ’s event was n’t a superficial one . Event organizers had spoken of their desire to make the yearly get - together for Mac enthusiasts more than just a trade show for Apple intersection ; instead , they looked to sour Macworld | iWorld into a cultural case for all the divergent facet of Apple civilisation ....

Browett seen as bad for Apple thanks to Dixons ’ short reputation(Ars Technica ) Apple ’s new fourth-year vice president for retail , John Browett , is causing some alarm among Apple looker . A number of UK reviewer have severalize Ars Technica that Dixons — the chain Browett antecedently headed up — features stores that are poorly design , unsuitably staffed , and unnecessarily expensive . So , basically , they hire the same hombre who ran Apple ’s retail efforts in the 1990s ?...

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young says that he speak to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs about offer up higher - quality digital medicine downloads , but that since Jobs ’s death , discussion with Apple on the matter has ceased . Speaking at theD : Dive Into Media league , Young arrogate that modern digital music format are so highly compress that 95 percent of the audio content is confound off ....

It ’s been seven month since Apple released Final Cut Pro X amidst furor and befuddlement ; four months since the caller released its first major update , with promise financial support for more pro - level feature article in the next year . That year is here , and with it , Apple brought its third major update to the political program , offer multicam redaction , updates to Chroma Key , beta programme video monitoring , and an assortment of other improvements ....

The June 2011release of Apple ’s new Final Cut Pro Xset off a firestorm that reverberated across the globe — at least in video circles . The hotly anticipated unexampled version of Apple ’s flagship video software was circumstantially accompany by the prompt removal of the previous version — Final Cut Pro 7 — along with the company ’s Final Cut Server and Final Cut Express apps , from retail distribution ....

I ’ve met with a bunch of the vendors at Macworld | iWorld who are vaunt instrument they say will make iPads and iPhones better business tools . Two in particular have stand out so far . The first is a fresh launched service callednivio . It get you enter to a fully functional Windows screen background ( specifically , Windows Server 2008 with the Aero theme ) from an iPad or iPhone ( or Mac or Android gimmick ) , using any HTML5 - compatible web internet browser ....

Amid renewed reports of inadequate working condition at factories making Apple products in China , it ’s unclear whether customers will demand change . Some Apple customers at the Macworld | iWorld show in San Francisco Thursday seemed to react with a shrug to alengthy New York Times storyalleging poor workings conditions at Chinese factories lock by Apple contractors . The floor draw fatal accidents at some plants , long work 60 minutes and crowded living conditions in hall near body of work ....