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Nikon tonight had its second round of camera news in as many weeks with two new lenses for both its DX- and FX-mount DSLRs. The 24mm f1.4G ED provides an even wider angle than many of Nikon’s other primes and has an extremely wide aperture that both takes in a large amount of light and focuses quickly. It lacks image stabilization but uses Nikon’s extra-low dispersion optics to minimize chromatic effects….
Macworld 2010 will purportedly host the largest face-to-face viewing of applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch devices, IDG World Expo, owner of Macworld 2010, has announced.
Bunkspeed has announced that its upcoming SHOT software will integrate Iray rendering technology developed by Mental Images. The new system will allow the software to process renders using a combination of CPU and GPU resources, including NVIDIA’s CUDA-equipped graphics cards. Offloading the rendering tasks to various components is said to significantly reduce processing times….
A possibly last-minute slip hints that Apple may be close to updating the MacBook Pro line. One Best Buy employee notes that all MacBook Pro models have been deleted from the company’s inventory system, preventing them from ordering new models. The systems can still be found but are listed as “deleted.”…
MacVoices continues the “Road to Macworld 2010” series.
ZoomMediaPlus has introduced the ZoomIt memory card reader for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new dock-connecting accessory works with the companyís ZoomIt application that provides access to content stored on SD cards. Support is offered for all file types recognized by iPhone OS 3.0, ranging from photos and videos to PowerPoint documents. The accessory allows users to upload all stored media for use at a later time, or share files with other users via e-mail, Facebook or Flickr….
Today, BoomTown motored down to the Sunnyvale HQ of Yahoo, this time with a tiny bit of trepidation.
Okay, not that much, but some!
Why? Because CEO Carol Bartz had invited me to be the first in a new speaker series for employees at the Internet giant, called “Yahoo from the ‘Outside In,’” due to my intense–some might say obsessive–interest in the company.
The twist: Bartz herself conducted the interview with me in front of about 600 Yahoos gathered in its URL’s Cafe, the main cafeteria at the company.
Smart Technologies says the Smart Slate WS200 wireless slate is now available for use on the Mac platform. It enables teachers and students to interact with digital lessons projected on a screen, interactive whiteboard, interactive display or interactive pen display from anywhere in the classroom.
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Rumors, Steve Jobs
Apple doesn’t have a huge social media presence. There’s an iTunes Facebook page and what can arguably be called a MobileMe blog, but that’s about it. However, they do monitor the likes of Twitter, like any self-respecting company would, and a recent tweet reportedly ticked off Steve Jobs but good.
Recently, Steve set up meetings with tech writers and executives from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to promote the iPad. He gathered the group from the Times at Pranna, where he ordered off the menu, wore “… a very funny hat” and reportedly tried to sell them on distribution via the iPad. Having taken place in a public restaurant, the gathering was called “Intimate” and “family-style” by observers.
By contrast, representatives from the Wall Street Journal met Steve and his new device behind closed doors. According to sources, the Journal group was confined to the 5th floor of their building and several staffers who wanted to meet Jobs could not. One of the lucky few was editor Alan Murray, who sent the following Tweet, supposedly after playing with an iPad:
“This tweet sent from an iPad. Does it look cool?”
According to Valleywag, the tweet infuriated Steve Jobs and was soon deleted. When Valleywag followed up with Alan to ask about the incident, he replied by simply saying that he can’t discuss it. Later in the day, he wrote via email, “I will say that Apple’s general paranoia about news coverage is truly extraordinary- but that’s not telling you anything you didn’t already know.”
Apple is notorious for great design, extreme secrecy and yes, what many have called paranoia. Teams working on unreleased products are kept under a so-called “cone of silence” with Steve’s notorious temper — he has reportedly gone off on high-profile members of the press who had written disagreeable reviews of Apple products — keeping things in check.
Lest you think Steve is just a big meanie, he gets it as much as he dishes it out. In rather not-safe-for-work terms, Steve shared with the panel of journalists the flavor of some of the angry emails he’s received from disgruntled fans after product announcements. We’ll let you read that on your own.
[Via MacRumors page 2]
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Google tonight confirmed talk of a significant product update by sending an invitation to a special event on Tuesday at the company’s Mountain View, California campus. The company is short on details but promises “some new product innovations” at the gathering….
