San Francisco-based MacSpeech makes general-use programs and ones designed specifically for the medical and legal fields.

According to Nuance, which already makes a dictation program for Apple’s iPhone, the deal will help it produce its flagship Dragon Naturally Speaking desktop software for Macs.

Shares of Nuance rose 18 cents, or 1.3 percent, to close at $14.63.

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Ametrine Audio has announced the release of Fire and Ice, a new synthesizer powered by the Wusik-Engine. The concept was to make a synth with two personalities: The “Fire” section covers basses, stab, synth and lead sounds, whilst the “Ice” section features pads, keys, organs, bell-tones and arps. 160 main presets are included with 250 variations. Two brand new skins have also been developed for the Fire and Ice.

Fire and IceFire and Ice is available for Windows in the VST format.

Summary:

• Powered by the Wusik-Engine.
• 160 main presets with 250 variations.
• Custom made Bass, Stab, Synth, Lead, pads, Keys, Organs, Bell-tones and Arpeggio sounds:

-Bass and Stabs 44
-Synth and Leads 23
-Arp and Wave-sequences 20
-Pads and Strings 30
-Bell-tones 21
-Keys and Organs 22

• Windows Platform Only

System requirements:

Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista, 128 MB RAM Recommended.

4.2 GB free hard disc space, VST compatible host software.

(Works Great in Logic Audio 5.5)

Install Note-

• Run WusikStation or FireAndIce
• Drug&Drop WusikPACK file to it.

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The forthcoming iPad tablet computer of Apple Inc, it will cost as little as $229.35 for the company to produce, according to an estimate on Wednesday from research house iSuppli

The group conducted what it called a “virtual teardown” of the iPad, since the device is not yet available and component suppliers have not been announced.

Apple’s iPad that resembles a large iPhone and uses the same operating system will go on sale as early as next month, as the company looks to define a new category of mobile devices.

For the $499 iPad — the lowest-cost model, which features 16 gigabytes of flash memory — iSuppli estimated the total materials cost at $219.35, with a $10 manufacturing cost.

The priciest iPad will cost around $335 to produce, while the mid-range model will cost roughly $287, according to the group.

In the iPad, the most expensive component is the 9.7-inch display and touchscreen, at an estimated cost of $80, according to the estimate.

Analysts expect Apple to ship somewhere between 2 million and 5 million iPad units in the first year.

With the applications, middleware and the Kernel itself, the Symbian 3 platform will be offered under terms of the Eclipse Public License and other open source licenses. According to Larry Berkin, head of global alliances for the foundation, “you can download it, you can modify it”. Previously, the kernel was made available via open source.

Berkin said they’re open-sourcing 108 packages that will be available at the source code level. Handset manufacturers can modify the code and build differentiated handsets, he added.

According to Berkin, the foundation members accelerated the process originally due to be fully open-sourced by June. Code, more than 40 million lines of it, will be available at Symbian’s Website at 6 a.m. Pacific Time.

“End-users will see, ideally, differentiated devices, converged devices that are based on Symbian that range from smartphones [to converged devices],” such as cameras or a phone that is a gaming device, he said.

According to Berkin, the open-sourcing could possibly result in incompatible, forked versions of the platform, and manufacturers need to be responsible for their work with Symbian. The market can be self-correcting in situations such as this, he said.

There are 330 million Symbian-based devices in use, said Berkin. Five manufacturers currently build Symbian devices: Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Fujitsu, and Sharp.

Symbian technology had been driven by Symbian Limited, the majority of which was owned by Nokia, which then spun it out as an open source project.

Putting Symbian into open source will boost the platform in the marketplace, said analyst William Stofega, program manager for mobile device technology and trends at IDC. Development Kits are also available to download for building Symbian applications and mobile devices. These include the Symbian Developer Kit and the Product Development Kit.

In November 2009, Nokia put the Linux-based Maemo OS on its high-end N900 “mobile computer,” which features a phone and capabilities like email, a Web browser, and video. But the company remains a backer of Symbian, according to Nokia representatives.

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Google has begun letting online visitors tell its news website what topics they want to tune into.

According to Google Software engineer Jude Britto, people can click on “stars” to mark groups of stories on preferred subjects to signal Google News to watch for updates or developments.

In a blog post, Britto said, it’s one way to let us know that you’re interested in that subject, when you star a story in Google News.

He added, when there are significant updates, we’ll alert you by putting the headline in bold so you can get more information.

The 20 most recently “starred” stories will be tracked in a section added to the Google News page, according to Britto.

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Joomla 1.6 is the next generation of Joomla, the most popular Open Source Content Management System in the world.

The broad goals of Joomla 1.6 are to:

• implement an expanded access control system;
• implement a nested categories solution;
• add a commenting system;
• and standardize the way extensions are built using the MVC framework.

To achieve those things there is a lot of other ancillary work to be done, but those are the highlights of this new version.

Apart from some user interface improvements the new access control and nested categories systems are feature complete. The access control system is progressively coming online throughout the administrator as is the nested category system. The new comments system has not been added to the core stack yet.

Currently, most work focuses on finishing the backend Administrator, bringing all extensions up to a common standard. The following Administrator extensions are “Beta ready“, which means they are essentially feature complete, at a consistent code standard and ready for rigorous testing.

• Articles manager
• Banners manager
• Configuration manager (used for Global Configuration and Component options)
• Modules manager
• Messages (private) manager
• Newsfeeds manager
• Plugins manager
• Redirect manager (a new component to redirect old page links to new ones)
• Search manager
• Template manager (including new “styles”)
• User manager (includes ability to add new user groups and content access levels)
• Weblinks manager

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US-based group of Holocaust survivors condemned an Apple iPhone application featuring speeches by Benito Mussolini, calling it “an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and Fascism.”

According to vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, Elan Steinberg, it is a disgrace and surrender to crass commercialism that the Apple computing company has approved the release of this ‘app’ through their online iTunes store.

She said, “we are protesting to them as their tight regulation and control of release of such apps makes them responsible”. Steinberg added this is an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and Fascism, Jew and non-Jew, and should be condemned for its offense to decency and conscience.

According to the creator of the application, Luigi Marino, Italians are downloading “iMussolini,” which features audio, text and video of his speeches, at a rate of around 1,000 a day.

Last week, Marino launched the app and it is already reportedly the best-selling application on Italy’s online Apple store. He added he is planning to also develop a version for Apple’s new iPad.

According to Marino, he developed “iMussolini” as a historical tool, but it has predictably attracted admirers of the fascist wartime dictator.

Some have posted fascist slogans such as “Dux Mea Lux” (The DuceIs My Light) or “Duce! Duce! Duce!” on the application’s page at the Apple App Store.

Apple has assured Marino that it would not remove the application from sale but is deleting any offending comments, he told AFP. The California firm did not return an AFP request for comment.

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