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MultiChannel News states that the first episodes of all upcoming Fox Reality original series will debut on the iTunes Store. Viewers will be able to download these programs for free for approximately a week prior to their premieres on the network.
“We’re fortunate to have enjoyed some real success with our original content on iTunes and so this seemed like the next logical step,” said Fox Reality COO and general manager David Lyle. More …
According to CNet, the Web traffic growth for online retailing was only 12% over 2005 using the Nielsen/Net Ratings Holiday eShopping Index that tracks more than 120 online retailers. In comparison, the growth was 29% for 2004/2005 and 11% for 2003/2004. eBay was first in Web traffic, followed by Amazon.com and Walmart.com. More …
Smarthouse, quoting unnamed Taiwanese sources, reports that Apple plans to launch a ‘Tablet Mac’ in 2007 with a type of docking station.
The rumor mill also relied heavily upon the various touch-screen patents Apple has lodged in past year. According to the report, the Mac Tablet “has been designed to handle third party applications such as home automation software that will allow users to control lighting, audio, entertainment devices and security feeds. It also acts as a full blown PC has wireless linking for a new generation of Wireless Hi Fi speakers that are currently being tested by Apple.” More …
According to iTWire, Apple has commissioned research to try and determine if the much-discussed ‘halo effect’ — the notion that people who buy its wildly successful iPod music player are more likely to subsequently purchase a Mac — actually exists. More …
ZDNet report that the US Government has added its weight to warnings about a vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X’s handling of disk image files. More …
Victor Keegan, of the Guardian, ponders: Whether the latest report – that Apple has ordered 12m units from Foxconn of Taiwan, complete with 2-megapixel camera, – is true, is beside the point. The interesting thing is that Apple’s entry could give mobile phone operators the big kick they badly need. More …
It is called Black Friday because it is the start of what is hoped to be a financial quarter which is in the black. For some retail stores the Christmas time produces enough revenue to keep the store in the black for the entire year. Apple has a number of items for sale at a reduced price. These are available at the online store or any of the retail locations. for example, you can save $101 on either MacBook and iMac. Ready.Set.Shop.
The Sydney Morning Herald profiles a number of different VoIP solutions, including Apple’s iChat and Skype.
Apple got into the internet chatting business early with iChat and the iSight camera-microphone, with which you can text, talk and video-conference with up to 10 people on your buddy list in audio and three in video, but all points need good broadband. Skype is now video enabled and recently released its video application for Mac users, taking advantage of the iSight cameras built into Mac notebooks and iMacs. More …
Apple has confirmed this article in a KB article 304819 that states:
“If the Classic environment is running and you attempt to video chat with iChat or use iSight in PhotoBooth, an alert message may appear that the iSight camera is in use by another application.”
Apple’s listed solution is to restart the computer. More …
Today, Month of Kernal Bugs has published information relating to how .dmg (ie disc image) files are handled:
Mac OS X fails to properly handle corrupted UDTO HFS+ image structures (ex. bad sectors), leading to an exploitable denial of service condition. Although it hasn’t been checked further, memory corruption is present under certain conditions (in this particular case, unlikely to allow arbitrary code execution). More …
Safari automatically opens dmg files, by default. This can be prevented by changing the Preferences and deactivating the functionality for ‘opening “safe” files after downloading’.
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