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Cobb County , Ga. overseer of schools Joseph Redden has resigned in the wake of a arguing over the county ’s planned deployment of Apple iBooks . The superintendent foretell his surrender on Tuesday . Cobb County ’s “ Power to study ” initiative once promised to be the largest “ one - to - one ” iBook enterprise ever — if it had proceeded as first expected , more than 63,000 iBooks would have eventually found their way of life into the hands of students in grade 6 through 12 and teachers across Cobb County ....

Expanding further beyond its core search engine and into Web portal territory , Google on Wednesday present Google Talk , an crying messaging ( IM ) service with spokesperson communicating capacity that ’s also compatible with several Mac client applications programme , including iChat 3.0 . Many industry observers have said that Google call for to build up an armory of Web portal services because users are n’t very fast to search engines ....

More than a workweek and a half after it was first expected and almost a month after it made its debut in Japan , Sony has finally released its 2.0 firmware for the North American Playstation Portable ( PSP ) . The firmware update adds some long - awaited capabilities , such as the plus of a built - in Web internet browser , but takes other things away , such as the ability to run home brew software ....

Yonah , Intel Corp. ’s two-fold - gist roving central processing unit for the first after part of 2006 , is every number as revolutionary as the single - core Pentium M central processor that changed the style Intel designed its chips , fellowship executives said Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum ( IDF ) . Tuesday ’s bighearted intelligence at IDF was check of the society ’s architectural plan to base extroverted dual - core C....

If you spend any significant metre in front of your Mac , it ’s a jolly safe wager that you do — then you probably have at least one or two small applications that you use constantly to improve your productiveness . Senior writer Dan Frakes keep tabs on low - cost Mac software and indite the “ 50 Mac Gems ” article in the September 2005 egress . In this podcast , he explains how he pluck them and excuse some of his favorites gems ....

McAfeeon Wednesday announced Virex 7.7 , a new version of the company ’s antivirus solution for the Macintosh . This is not the same software as the consumer spill that was volunteer to Apple ’s .Mac client ; this version rivet on McAfee ’s pocket-size clientele and corporate users . Among the change is support for Apple ’s Mac OS X Tiger . McAfee readily admits that viruses are not a big problem on the Mac , but having this release pore on the corporate place they have to be concerned about heterogeneous environment ....

After some initial hold , Sony has releasedits 2.0 firmware updatefor exploiter of its PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) in North America . The software is downloadable through the connection Update feature on the PSP , and expect 16 M of spare space on the PSP ’s Memory Stick Pro Duo to download . It ’s also available for download from Sony ’s vane web site , for transferee using a Mac or PC and manual installation ....

Copyright issues have been a perpetual job for the nascent field of podcasting since its inception . regulation plan to protect euphony publishers and right of first publication holders often foreclose podcasters from playing new medicine , or turn over them into felon if they do . Adam Curry — one of the people most responsible for the podcasting explosion — andPodShowhave found a new web site to help solve this issue ....

When I start out working atMacworldsix - and - a - one-half years ago , I never dreamed I ’d end up at an Intel event . They ’re the opposition — after Microsoft , that is — correct ? But that was before Steve Jobs made his historic promulgation about the switch to Intel bit at Apple ’s own Worldwide Developer Conference in June . So today I notice myself at the fallIntel Developer Forumat Moscone West in San Francisco — which is , coincidently , the same place where Apple held its developer conference ....

Copenhagen , Denmark - basedOver the Edge I / Son Tuesday announced the release of Unity , a game development engine targeted at medium to small game developer . The new version of Unity is now able to publish games for Windows , for the first time — late discharge endorse Mac OS ecstasy only . It ’s a innocent upgrade for registered users . 1 features a graphical user interface , and touts supporting for particle effects , extensible graphics , skinned character animation , ragdolls , optimise scripting , and living for Ageia ’s physX Engine ....

In addition to its intromission of new Selphy and Pixma printers , Canon on Monday unveiled new PowerShot digital cameras and EOS digital Single Lens Reflex ( SLR ) cameras . New PowerShot A - series point - and - shoot models canyon brush up its PowerShot assembly line of point - and - shoot digital cameras with theA620,A610andA410models . The A620 and A610 feature 7.1 and 5.0 megapixel resolving power , severally , but both divvy up 4x optic zoom with a focal duration of 7....

I ’m constantly astounded at the right-down sack - sized superpower that is theiPod . I mean , even when the first - generation arrive out , was n’t the idea that you could obligate 5 GB in a gadget that was just about the sizing of your hand totally awesome ? And the fact that it ’s also a bootable FireWire driving force too ? That ’s sweet ....

Neometric Software ’s PHP Studio 1.1 is plan to make PHP programmers ’ live a fiddling gentle by helping them save programs quicker and test them more easily . It includes several tools that are plan to help programmers go with PHP code , access helpful mention stuff , and check that that computer programme in reality run before they are post on a live web server . While it has some interesting and useful features , such as PHP syntax coloring and advanced search - and - supercede , it lacks many helpful items like soft word wrapping , brace balancing , and file comparing , which are available in spare text editors like Bare Bones Software ’s TextWrangler 2....