New and Noteworthy: Final Cut gets Sony XDCAM support; Universal Shake announced; more

NAB 2006: Final Cut gets Sony XDCAM support Macworld UK reports that Flip4Mac developer Telestream has announced its Flip4Mac XDCAM Component Version 2.0. "The import component allows editors to ingest MXF content directly from Sony's XDCAM Professional Disc production system into Final Cut Pro 5 for editing." More.

Universal Shake announced Macworld reports that Shake 4.1 will ship in May and feature support for Apple's Intel Macs, Apple executives confirmed on Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters show (NAB). "Kirk Paulsen, senior director of pro applications marketing, demonstrated Apple's high-end digital compositing software running on an Intel Duo Core iMac. This, admitted Paulsen, is not something that could have been done with the PowerPC iMac." More.

Pioneering Wi-Fi City Sees Startup Woes The Associated Press reports that a forerunner in the burgeoning city-blanketing WiFi initiative has run into some execution pitfalls. "More than a month after St. Cloud launched what analysts say is the country's first free citywide Wi-Fi network, folks in this 28,000-person Orlando suburb are still paying to use their own Internet service providers as dead spots and weak signals keep some residents offline and force engineers to retool the free system." More.

Apple Corps, Ltd. and Apple Computer, Inc. Trademark Agreement MacFixIt reader Monty Solomon dug up the 1991 trademark agreement between Silicon Valley-based Apple Computer and Apple Corps, Ltd, the British company formed by the Beatles and their families. The agreement is currently the subject of heated litigation. More.

Previously on MacFixIt

• MacBooks/PowerBooks/iBooks powering off during sleep; when power adapter is disconnected; other sleep irregularities
• Apple releases 17-inch MacBook Pro -- brings back FireWire 800 port
• Six potential Mac OS X security flaws -- are they really flaws?

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