News Archive for 08/08/19

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Pad for iPhone/iPod controls Macs over Wi-Fi

08/19, 12:55pm

Pad remote-controls Macs

Philip Hansson has announced Pad, an iPhone and iPod touch application for remote controlling a Mac via Wi-Fi. The app lets users can control a Mac's mouse, keyboard and volume controls, and supports functions such as dragging, zooming and scrolling, left-, right- and double-clicks, and hotkeys with the option for application-specific custom keys. A host Mac can use any resolution, and any number of screens.

New iPod nano fires spark concern in Japan

08/19, 10:25am

iPod nano fires in Japan

The Japanese government has taken a serious interest in iPod nano defects following three separate fires this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. Hiroyuki Yoshitsune, an official from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, says that a pair of Nanos recently overheated in Tokyo, scorching a straw mat in one case and paper in a second. These incidents surround another from March, in which sparks were caught erupting from a Nano.

Piper: Student iPods, Sept. event to drive 2H08

08/19, 9:25am

Piper on 2H08 factors

Apple's current Back to School promotion -- in which students can pick up an iPod nano or touch for free, alongside a new Mac -- might have more significance than normally attributed to it, write analysts with Piper Jaffray. The firm notes that at $299, the cost of a Touch is a significant hit for Apple, which in past years has limited its iPod rebates to $199. This is likely one driver of Apple's decreased gross margin predictions, set to slide to 31.5 percent in September and eventually 30 percent during FY09. By contrast, margins reached 35 percent in the June quarter.