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A day after Hewlett - Packard ( HP ) chairwoman Patricia Dunn promised to pace down for her role in a spy scandal , the United States Department of State of California is bear on its effort to indict her and the individual investigators she used . Dunn ’s actions were not merely unethical but actually breach the law , and the country now has enough grounds to indict people both within HP and contractors outside the company , according to Thomas Dressler , a spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer ....

In the yoke of an minute - long Steve Jobs presentation Tuesday , Apple gave its customersa new means to buy full - distance movies onlineand , through a gimmick the caller expect to ship betimes next twelvemonth , a means to watch those movie on their boob tube silver screen . The combination of iTunes movie downloads and the iTV set - top box delivers iTunes video to the living room through a dedicated Apple ironware machine ....

Macworld ’s springy coverage of Apple ’s “ It ’s Showtime ! ” event has concluded . Please visit our News varlet for more details about Tuesday ’s announcements . Steve Jobs opened Tuesday ’s “ It ’s Showtime ! ” especial event with a round of applause from the audience , after show the Modern Bob Dylan iTunes advertizement that ’s been in circulation on boob tube in recent daylight ....

In a day of executive shakeups intended to put its boardroom scandal in the yesteryear , Hewlett - PackardTuesday announced that Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd will interchange Patricia Dunn as chairwoman , and that plank member George Keyworth has resigned , effective immediately . Hurd will take on the chairman ’s job after a January 18 , 2007 , plank encounter . In addition , Richard Hackborn , who has been on the board since 1992 , has been chosen as the lead autonomous music director as of January ....

The screen background publishing community of interests eagerly awaitedQuarkXPress 7.01 , one of the first major non - Apple political platform to be present in Universal data formatting . Now that this spare update to the non - Universal XPress 7.0 is available , does it deliver on the fellowship ’s “ fast as infernal region ” promise ? Yes and no . base on a tonic round of examination , we reason the pursual : It really count which computer you use when running QuarkXPress 7 ; Intel - found XPress 7 users should emphatically update to adaptation 7....

Dell has delay filing its quarterly earnings report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and may have to repeat past earnings statements , the troupe said Monday . Dell ’s board of directors began an internal fiscal audit after learning in August 2005 that the SEC had begun an investigation of the company ’s revenue recognition and accounting practices for past fiscal year , Dell executives acknowledge Aug....

It is not often that Apple pass into one of its limited insistence outcome having to dally catch - up with some other society ’s rolling and dealings . But that ’s the theatrical role Apple notice itself in a solar day before its schedule September 12 “ Showtime ” announcement , thanks in no small part to Amazon.com’sfreshly unveiled picture download shop . In case you missed last week ’s launching , the online retailing heavyweight now offers digital video recording downloads for anywhere from $ 7....

If Apple unveils a movie download divine service at its September 12 press event as it ’s widely expect to do , it will have some troupe . What ’s more , whatever service Apple wind up announcing will follow on the heel of a digital video store launched by another tech industry giant . on-line retail merchant Amazon.com take the wrapping off itsUnbox Video Storeon Thursday . The storehouse boasts thousands of DVD - quality video from more than 30 movie and telly studios ; users can hive away downloads on up two PC and two portable video instrumentalist ....

When reveal the Core 2 Duo C.P.U. in July , Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that the next - generation Core Duo chip would deliver a 20 percent increase in laptop carrying into action . Apple ’s newly unveiled iMacs — which use the fluid reading of the Core 2 Duo vaunt by Otellini — don’t quite approach that public presentation gain . But they do handily beat out the former iMac Core Duo model , posting a 10 percentage improvement in Macworld Lab ’s Speedmark test ....

IBM has begun shipping millions of microprocessors to Nintendo , keep the play society on track to launch its Wii gaming cabinet as early on as November . The news comes two Clarence Day after Nintendo competitor Sony revealed it would deliver only half the routine of PlayStation 3 video game consoles by the holiday shopping season that its customers had expect . IBM has been shipping chips through the third quarter , and has reached high-pitched - volume output , the ship’s company said Thursday ....

Microsoft is planning to launch a inexpensive version of its Xbox 360 game console in Japan a week before the PlayStation 3 is due on sale . The Xbox 360 core organisation , which is already on cut-rate sale in other markets , will go on sale in Japan on Nov. 2 , the caller said Friday . The console does n’t admit several components present in the full organization , admit a hard - disk drive and headset , and as a result is garish ....

Do you download lots of stuff fromMacUpdateandVersionTracker ? Or do you receive collections of files from far - flung coworkers ? In many case , the single file you receive will be compressed with the zip compression algorithm — especially as this is the what OS X 10.4 ’s Finder uses when you choose the Create Archive contextual menu detail . Sometimes it ’d be nice to look into these archives before you expand them ....

I love baseball because you may come up empty more often than you whack something worthwhile and still wind up in the Hall of Fame . If only Apple punditry were so absolvitory . Because it ’s not , I ’m take the dependable course — something along the course of anEach Way bet , since we ’re drumming up the sports analogies — and musing on possible options for movies and Apple ....