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Terry Semel ended his six - year run asYahoo’schief executive officer on Monday , and the fellowship ’s co - founder Jerry Yang will take over from him , the company articulate . Semel has been the focus of intense criticism in the retiring two years due to Yahoo ’s inability to capitalize as much as expected on the fast - growing market place for search locomotive engine advertising . By line , Googlehas enjoyed center - pop tax revenue growth and enviable profit almost exclusively from the search advertising marketplace ....

Sling Media ’s Slingbox is a gimmick that ’s gruelling to set : It ’s a rectangular plastic corner that you attach to both your dwelling computer web and to your video source — an analog cable line , cable box , digital video recording machine , or satellite receiver . Once that ’s done , you may use your Mac ( and a host of other digital machine ) to determine your home television signals from anywhere with debauched Internet access — be it in your backyard or halfway across the humanity ....

Apple ’s AirPort menu - bar computer menu is a convenient way to connect to nearby wireless networks , but it ’s not without its limitations . For example , you ca n’t see the sign strong point of each web , nor can you see which networks are opened and which are protected . Last year I talk about an interesting menu - bar program , coconutWiFi ( ) , which indicates which meshing are protected ....

If you ’ve been keeping up with our camcorder reviews atMacworld , you ’ve probably detect that we only value miniDV camcorder . You might ask , “ Why not the latest line of high - definition camcorders that utilise hard platter driving force , SD bill of fare , and DVD - roentgen to store footage ? ” From what we ’ve heard , most camcorders that use such store methods are n’t favorable with iMovie , the video - redaction software included with iLife ....

Last month , I keen the lack of third - political party power accessary compatible with the MagSafe connector on Apple ’s current laptops . manifestly , the MagSafe connexion is patented technology and Apple has thus far not licensed the exercise of that technology to other vendors . As I observe in that article , this is unfortunate because it means products such asKensington ’s slim AC / DC power adaptersandiGo ’s juice70 — which lease you use a individual power transcriber with several twist ; file multiple twist at the same time ; and work with AC wall outlets , railroad car accessory jacks , andairline - seat ( EmPower ) DC power ports — are antagonistic with MacBooks and MacBook Pros ....

Steve Jobs typically uses his keynotes to tout Apple products and applied science . And this workweek ’s Worldwide Developers Conference speech was no elision , with the iPhone , Safari 3 , and , especially , Leopard all find their share of attention from the Apple CEO . But Jobs also had praise for two other products that not only are n’t made by Apple but seemingly compete with a major component of OS X 10....

Our 17 - inch MacBook Pro has arrived , and we have initial results to go with the 15 - inch laptop we tested last workweek . Like those machines , this MacBook Pro outperform its herald in most chore that make up our Speedmark run . Unfortunately , this 17 - inch MacBook Pro , like the 15 - inch models last calendar week , fares poorly in our game examination — a surprising outcome return the promote graphics card inside the new laptop — and we still have n’t been capable to figure out why ....

When last we met , I discussed the trial of turning iMovie chapter into single iDVD clips . Brand - young assembly visitor , wired35 , had a abide by - up doubtfulness on the discipline . He or she writes : The answer is yes . All you need to do is to produce the separate scenes in another iMovie projection — the ceremonial , for lesson — add chapter markers , add appropriate fades at the get-go and end , save the iMovie project , and add it to your iDVD projection ....

Apple seldom competes directly — with anyone . Instead of slugging it out with other ironware and software company on a level playing field , Apple historically create its own playing battleground from scratch , then dominates it utterly . While almost the whole industry take part in what used to be foretell the “ IBM - compatible ” market , with clone computer hardware running DOS , OS/2 , Windows and , later , Linux , Apple refused to play ....

Even more so than this week ’s intelligence that Electronic Arts would publish Mac game directly for the first time in long time , I d Software ’s presentment of its new idTech 5 game locomotive engine harken good news for Macintosh - using gamers for years to arrive . I d CTO John Carmack took the keynote point at the Worldwide Developers Conference to demonstrate the unexampled applied science , the existence of which was only confirm about a month ago by I d ’s chief executive officer , Todd Hollenshead ....

A U.K. startup hope to compete with Apple ’s Modern iPhone by offering a prostrate - rate music servicing that can hightail it on most of today ’s nomadic phone . Omnifone launch on Thursday itsMusicStationservice that allows mobile phone substance abuser to download as many music tracks as they want for € 2.99 ( US$ 3.97 ) per workweek . The company preview MusicStation in February at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona ....

If you ’re a Mac developer , then Apple ’s annualWorldwide Developers Conferencemay be the single most crucial outcome on your calendar . It ’s where you ’ll see Apple ’s modish additions to OS X , get one - on - one time with Apple engineers ( more than 1,200 Apple engineers , in fact ) , get advice on bringing your program to marketplace , consult with human interface designers , get help with artwork and media in your apps or making your code head for the hills quicker , and attend a wide - range natural selection of instructive presentations ....

Steve Jobs’sWWDC announcementthat there will be a “ new way tocreate applications for the iPhone ” via the Safari browser app engine let down some Mac developers who were hope for the power to design native apps . But there ’s also similar reaction from another quartern : mobile developers and other experts who concenter on the fluid - machine world . “ World Wide Web - base apps are coolheaded for a mountain of things ....