A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has opened an investigating into Google ’s propose $ 3.1 billion acquisition of online advertising vender DoubleClic k. The House Energy and Commerce Committee ’s Subcommittee on Commerce , Trade and Consumer Protection will look into the “ far - progress to privacy and rivalry issues upgrade by the proposed acquisition , ” Representative Bobby Rush , the subcommittee chairman , say in a statement ....
king - hungry computer pro are always looking for tool to speed up time - consuming job . Many hotshot expect straight to the top of the parentage when shopping for a novel Mac . Apple ’s professional column , the highly configurable Mac Pro , recently added another choice that feature eight processing cores , all running at 3GHz . For package computer programmer eager to help their applications take advantage of multicore systems , or for Mac users who regularly spend hours compressing video or rendering 3 - 500 scenes , purchasing the eight - core Mac Pro makes sense ....
If you ’ve get a Mac that works with Apple ’s Remote — late Mac laptops , iMacs , and the Mac mini — you know you may use the Remote to control Front Row , as well as to perform introductory functions in iTunes , iPhoto , DVD Player , Keynote , and other applications . But would n’t it be nice if you could use that remote control to do more in those app — and to control other applications , as well ?...
Amid job with Microsoft ’s Xbox , include wrong systems that engender a $ 1 billion promise two calendar week ago to prolong warranties , the head of the company ’s interactional entertainment business resigned Wednesday . Peter Moore , who spent four and a half years at Microsoft as the corporate vice prexy for the Interactive Entertainment Business ( IEB ) , said his expiration from Microsoft is unrelated to problems with Xbox , including the company ’s price of admission to “ world-wide hardware failures ” chivvy Xbox 360 consoles and Microsoft ’s subsequent toast to pass more than $ 1 billion to offer warranties ....
Intel said its quarterly net income rose 44 percent over last twelvemonth , reaching $ 1.3 billion as low selling prices for its microprocessors were offset by higher than expect unit shipment . The results came despite an ongoing damage state of war as Intel and its rival Advanced Micro Devices struggle for larger shares of the processor market place . Both company have been cutting prices on their chips as they upgrade their Cartesian product from standard chips to dual - pith and quad - inwardness processors ....
Taking our cue from the Children ’s Television Workshop , this episode of the Macworld Podcast is convey to you by the Letter G. That ’s “ G ” as in “ precious stone ” and “ game . ” To talk about the first subject , I ’m join by my fellow aged editor , Dan Frakes , who write our Mac Gems weblog . Dan also write the cover story in our August issue on 63 nifty Mac downloads ....
When it amount to wireless connection , Apple ’s iPhoneis not unlike an excited bambino who first learns to point out beast . “ Dog ! Dog ! Cat ! Dog ! Bird ! ” the yearling might shriek walking down the street . The iPhone ’s equivalent when you walk down the street ? “ Linksys ! Default ! T - Mobile ! Surf and Sip ! FreeNetSpot ! ”...
It occurred to me this week that gadgets are really what separate us from every other metal money on the satellite . I intend , think about it : ever see a dolphinfish with an iPod ? An elephant play Wii ? I don’tthinkso . confessedly , I once go out a kitty with a cordless drill — but it wasadorable . Now , I ’m not some variety ofspeciesist : I do n’t think this makes us better than Pan troglodytes and three - toed sloths ....
Ever since the first metre I saw ( but could n’t touch ) the iPhone , I ’ve sort of becomeMacworld ’s resident physician iPhone curmudgeon . Long before it was ever released , I came up with a list of shortcomings . Then , at the Worldwide Developers Conference last month , I was unhappy with the announced support for third - party WWW pages , er , apps ....
If you work with large Photoshop files , you ’re believably well aware of how tardily they bring through . Much of that sentence is expend flattening your image for create the trailer ikon you see in the Finder . While useful to have , you probably do n’t need to see a preview icon for every interim version of your image . By disabling trailer icon generation on save , Photoshop will preserve your work much more quickly ....
It ’s little things like the small silver Apple logo on CIO Dale Frantz ’s nipping white shirt that signal the sea alteration in the works at Auto Warehousing Co. Over the next 60 day , AWC will begin consistently force the sparking plug on all Windows - based PCs in its cavernous auto processing shop and power up Macs to execute about all of its revenue - generating operations ....
The iPhone is shipping and the wait , if not the hype , is over . So it ’s a expert time to together with take a deep breath , gather ourselves and ask : Is the iPhone for everybody ? Most former reviews of the iPhone have been glowing ; it really is an innovative , extremely desirable mobile equipment . But the reviews also point out shortcomings . For instance , the iPhone supports only AT&T ’s slow EDGE cellular data internet , not its faster 3 thou internet ....
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