MacNN | The Macintosh News NetworkMacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period.O2 pay-as-you-go iPhones due 'later this year'- July 7, 2008 O2 UK customers wanting a pre-paid iPhone 3G will have to wait longer than contract subscribers, the carrier has announced. The wording on its pay-as-you-go subsite has been changed to list availability for "later this year," in contrast with the July 11th launch for contract plans. One of the few third-party distributors of the iPhone, Carphone ...http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/o2.iphone.pay.as.you.go/ Yahoo, AOL rushing merger talks- July 7, 2008 Yahoo and Time Warner have spent the weekend in talks meant to accelerate a possible merger between the search engine giant and Time Warner's AOL division, says Britain's Times newspaper. Pointing only to insider sources, the publication claims Yahoo was in talks over the Independence Day weekend to speed up exploring the revived AOL deal as well ...http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/yahoo.aol.rush.talks/ iPresentee releases Keynote Motion Themes 2.0- July 7, 2008 iPresentee has released Keynote Motion Themes 2.0 for Apple's Keynote presentation software. The new visual themes are Money, Rain, Exercise Book, Story and Curtain, all of which include fourteen or more master slide layouts and moving background graphics. Keynote Motion Themes 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4.10 and QuickTime 7.2 (the minimum for iWork ...http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/keynote.motion.themes.20/ Segway CTO joins Apple as VP of product design- July 7, 2008 Segway's chief technology officer has left the company to join Apple, accounts say. J. Douglas Field is said to be responsible for the whole of the engineering team behind Segway's two-wheeled "personal transporter" vehicles, which were originally invented by Dean Kamen. At Apple Field will become a vice president of product design, serving along...http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/segway.cto.joins.apple/ Rogers roadmap reveals BlackBerry Bold, Kickstart- July 7, 2008 Rogers will quickly follow up its iPhone 3G launch with multiple BlackBerry models, according to a leaked roadmap. The outline reconfirms reports that the BlackBerry Bold launches July 25th as the Canadian carrier's first 3G BlackBerry but also adds that the BlackBerry Kickstart flip phone will be ready by the second half of September as a lower-c...http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/rogers.blackberry.roadmap/ Pioneer develops 400GB optical disc- July 7, 2008 Pioneer this morning promised to expand removable storage with one of the largest confirmed optical storage capacities available. By cutting back on the potential for interference from different layers on a given disc, the electronics maker says it can manufacture readable discs with 16 layers; at 25GB per layer, this equates to 400GB on a single ...http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/pioneer.400gb.optical/ Vodafone offers iPhone for US$150 in New Zealand- July 7, 2008 Vodafone New Zealand revealed on Monday that the iPhone 3G in New Zealand will be priced at $199NZD (around USD$150) when purchased with a 24-month contract. With stocks expected to be "strictly limited," the company has to disclose the its rate plans for the new device, but is expected to announce a significant tariff restructuring in the next few...http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/iphone.new.zealand/ Review: OmniFocus- July 7, 2008 OmniFocus (v.1.0.2) is a task manager from The Omni Group in Seattle, WA. It is loosely based on the vaunted Getting Things Done (GTD) philosophy of David Allen, who holds the term's copyright. OmniFocus is not rigidly tied to the Getting Things Done approach, but strict GTD adherents can use it. This Tiger and Leopard compatible program has a simp...http://www.macnn.com/reviews/review.php?id=475 O2 UK launches iPhone 3G pre-order service- July 7, 2008 Current UK iPhone users with the O2 carrier, on Monday received news that they can pre-order the new iPhone 3G starting 8AM Monday morning. New phones will be delivered directly to customers by courier on Friday the 11th July, coinciding with the iPhone 3G launch. There is no upgrade fee for the iPhone 3G 8GB version for customers contracted to the...http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/iphone.3g.pre.order.by.o2/ Apple sanctioning Rogers, diverting iPhones away- July 7, 2008 With the backlash rising against Canada's exclusive iPhone carrier, Rogers may be facing sanctions by Apple for its exorbitant rate plans. An unconfirmed report indicates that Apple, unhappy with the pricing plans offered by the carrier and perhaps the negative attention, has diverted a large percentage of iPhone 3G shipments -- destined for Canada...http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/06/apple.sanctioning.rogers/ |