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AppleInsider also believes the MacBook Air's multi-touch trackpad will make its way into Apple's MacBook Pro line before eventually being extended to the MacBook as well. Rumors of such an update were first reported by MacRumors (1, 2). In very much the same way that iSight video cams have become commonplace on nearly all of Apple's personal computer systems, the Mac maker will reportedly scale...

The Financial Times and Businessweek are independently reporting on an apparent soothing of relations between the heads of NBC and Apple. The Financial Times interviews Jeff Zucker of NBC Universal, who gives praise to Apple and Steve Jobs. "Weve said all along that we admire Apple, that we want to be in business with Apple, he said. Were great fans of Steve Jobs. Meanwhile, Businessweek gets...

NeatReceipts showed its upcoming Mac version of its scanner/software for cataloging receipts at Macworld. NeatReceipts for Mac scans, saves, and uses optical character recognition (OCR) to save receipt data into a catalogue. It will automatically identify key terms like total, tip, and tax lines and categorize receipts appropriately. A custom-made coverflow view for browsing stored receipts ...

Financial software maker Intuit has been busy over the past year. Two of its major software titles for the Mac, Quicken and TurboTax, have seen or are in the process of being re-written from the ground up to make better use of modern technologies. Quicken Financial Life for Mac Quicken for Mac has long existed as a Carbon application due to its pre-existence on Mac OS 9. However, in...

H&R Block showed off its updated tax preparation software at Macworld this week. The software is a universal binary and compatible with Mac OS 10.3.9 through Mac OS 10.5. Tax Cut includes standard features that you'd expect from a tax preparation program, such as the ability to import data from Quicken, TurboTax, or TaxCut in windows or mac flavors. In addition, the premium edition includes...

Readers in our MacRumors forums, along with some other websites, are beginning to identify hidden features of the latest iPhone software, released this week. Among them: - SMS storage capacity bumped to 75,000 (from 1,000) - Multi-touch keyboard - Gmail defaults to IMAP - Manually managing songs There are also reported bluetooth connectivity bugs, to which a clunky workaround has been...

We've spent another long day combing the floors of Macworld San Francisco 2008 and posting some of the best of what Macworld has to offer. Here is a quick rundown of what the day brought: - EA's Spore - a new Intel-only universe simulator - Ecamm Network - a remote iPhone Camera proof of concept - RAGE Software - webmaster tools - Ntractive Elements SBM - hybrid desktop/web small business ...

There were a lot of great products that we've seen on the Macworld floor, but there are some that especially catch your eye. Sometimes it's the display, sometimes it's the product itself. I'll let you be the judge for these two that caught our eye. Zap! Copter A green modified Volkswagen with a propeller on top and a jet-pack on the back? At Macworld no less? Hmm... Zap! is a company ...

Startup company Ntractive gave attendees of Macworld San Francisco a glimpse at its upcoming product Elements SBM. Elements SBM tackles an old problem (small business management) in a new and rather innovative way: by creating a hybrid desktop/web application. The result promises to be a solution that gives users the accessibility of web applications with the power, look, and feel of a...

RAGE Software, maker of a suite of tools to assist webmasters in optimizing their websites, announced updates to two of their most popular applications, SERank and Domainer, at Macworld this week. Domainer 1.5 is an update to RAGE's domain administration application. Previously functionality included integration with iCal to alert for domain name expirations and keychain to securely store FTP ...

Electronista cites an anonymous source saying that AT&T will begin offering the iPhone to business accounts on January 21st. Among the details includes the continuity of corporate discounts and the requirement of having a data plan at or above $25/month. There will also reportedly be no equipment discounts, and users will be required to pre-activate via iTunes. Just yesterday there was news...

Virtualization competitors Parallels and VMWare were taking opposite sides of the South Hall at Macworld to show off Mac OS X Server running in a virtualized environment on Apple hardware (made possible by changes to Mac OS 10.5's EULA for Leopard Server). For its part, Parallels showed off a new product, currently in beta, called

The folks at Ecamm Network in the West Hall were showing off their suite of products. Many probably know them from their product iChatUSBCam, which has allowed USB webcams to work with iChat for some time. However, what was probably the coolest software that they were demoing in their booth was a proof-of-concept that used the iPhone's camera as a remote webcam for iChat. Beyond just being a ...

The Associated Press reports that IBM will be releasing a version of its free Lotus Symphony office suite that is compatible with Macs next week, along with a version of Lotus Notes for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Lotus Symphony is a free productivity suite consisting of a word processor, spreadsheet application, and presentation application, currently in beta for Windows and Linux. It is...

Apple has released a new iPod game, Block Breaker Deluxe, by Gameloft S.A. Block Breaker Deluxe is a classic, arcade brick-breaker game reinvented with hot graphics. Play the game and interact with cool characters in their jet-set nightlife settings: bar, dance club, beach, restaurant, casino, and more! The game is available for all iPods that are compatible with iPod games, including...

SubRosaSoft in booth 218 in the South Hall showed its data protection programs, including FileSalvage and FileDefense. FileSalvage is a data recovery program that assists in the recovery of data lost due to varying situations, including media corruption and accidental deletion. While many may think that such software has become antiquated with the push that Apple has made with Time Machine,...

Renewed Vision, like BusyMac, is another great example of finding a hidden gem on the Macworld South Hall booth floor. Renewed Vision is a company that at first had its vision on creating immersive environments for worship at today's churches. According to their website, their first product, ProPresenter was written specially for Passion Conferences in 1999. One of ProPresenter's features is ...

In one of the many booths of South Hall 1338, BusyMac was busily showing off brand new features to its prime product, BusySync. BusySync is a preference pane that allows you to synchronize iCal calendars across multiple computers without the need for a .Mac subscription. It utilizes many core Mac OS X technologies such as SyncServices, CoreData, and Bonjour, and the result is a pretty slick...

An AppleInsider post earlier in the year had indicated that Apple would be showing something "super secret" at tomorrow's Final Cut Pro user group meeting. The most likely scenario at this point is that the secret technology is in fact the MacBook Air that was announced today. A product to replace Shake (code-named Phenomenon) has been rumored to arrive in 2008, but it is doubtful that that...

Here are some details that have come to light as the day has rolled along. iPhone/iPod Touch Location Technology While some had speculated that Apple would simply be incorporating Google's recently announced location services into the new software, Apple has actually used a hybrid technology that uses both Google's data (using cellular triangulation) and data from Skyhook Wireless (using a...