Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 now on Mac App StoreWednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 12:37AMAdobe has made one of its flagship consumer products, Photoshop Elements 9, available in a slightly-modified version on the Mac App Store, selling for $80 rather than the boxed copy's usual $100 retail price. The Mac App Store version, in addition to being Intel-only and requiring OS X 10.6.6 or later, is available in English only and does not include the Adobe Elements Organizer program ...
U.S. FDA proposes oversight of some mobile medical appsTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:37PMThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking input on a proposal to oversee a certain class of mobile medical apps for smartphones and tablet devices. The proposal does not seek to regulate sale or use of consumer-level apps, but instead looks to regulate only those apps that function as an accessory to a medical device already regulated by the FDA, or which transform the phone or tablet ...
Lenovo outs IdeaPad P1 with Windows 7, shunts it to workersTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:21PMLenovo contributed a third model to its tablet introductions early Wednesday with a lone Intel model. The 10-inch IdeaPad P1 will be one of the last Windows 7 tablets and support both finger-touch and an optional pen. It carries an unnamed 1.5GHz Intel chip (likely an Atom Z670) and will be slightly bulkier than Android models at 0.57 inches thick and a weight just under two pounds....
HP Movie Store now live on HP TouchPad TabletTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:47PMIsn't in nice when a company lives up to their promises? HP's Stephen DeWitt promised that both the Amazon Kindle app and the HP Movie Store would go live this week, and indeed we got Kindle yesterday and the ...
Beat Thang rhythm generator now out at Best BuyTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:51PMR&B and hip-hop producer Dallas Austin and his Rowdy Electronics store have teamed up with Nashville-based hip-hop artist Aja Emmanuel to produce what he calls "the music machine of the future," dubbed the Beat Thang. Loaded with over 3,000 original sounds, hundreds of pre-existing loops, patterns and beats and sporting 65 digital effects along with sampling, editing and mixing capability, the ...
RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook manager jumps ship for SamsungTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:07PMRIM took another big hit Wednesday after its BlackBerry PlayBook Senior Product Manager Ryan Bidan confirmed he was leaving the company. The tablet lead is joining Samsung's US mobile division as its Product Marketing Director. It wasn't clear as of Tuesday night who would replace Bidan....
LaCie intros weatherproof Rugged Mini drives with USB 3.0Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:37PMLaCie has expanded its Rugged series of portable hard drives, introducing the Rugged Mini. The new offering is said to be 40 percent smaller than its predecessors, without sacrificing a durable build. The compact drive features a rubber edge for resistance to shock and falls, while the aluminum housing is also claimed to be water resistant....
Cook: iPad sales now surpass Mac in K-12 schoolsTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:22PMIn a revelation Apple COO Tim Cook himself described as "absolutely shocking," the iPad has surpassed the Mac in terms of popularity in the K-12 education market, despite the former still being a very new product -- only available for the past five quarters. Cook commented that education, like enterprise, is traditionally a conservative market resistant to changes -- but that the adoption rate ...
HP Pavilion Slimline s5-1060 - Core i5 2310 2.9 GHzTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:57PMAmid increasing competition from other mainstream PC vendors, the HP Pavilion Slimline S5-1060 offers a wisely chosen mix of speed and functionality that will appeal to college students and digital media enthusiasts.