Some analysts, including Mike Abramsky of RBC Capital Markets, is worried that Apple isn’t addressing the current economic crisis in its pricing structure and product updates, reports Seeking Alpha. Take the new, 17-inch MacBook Pro, for example.

I’m estimating that I’m walking five and six miles a day between walking back and forth between my hotel and the Moscone Center, home of the Macworld Conference & Expo. I love to walk, take in the sights and sounds of the city, and stretch my legs.

Targus is showcasing its Spruce EcoSmart line of MacBook Pro carrying cases at this week’s Macworld Conference & Expo. The new cases are made of 100 percent recycled nylon and are PVC-free, making the production of these bags less harmful to the environment, says Al Giazzon of Targus.

Respondus, Inc. announces the release of StudyMate Class Server, a web-based collaboration tool that lets students and instructors create interactive study materials from within online courses.

Robert Hess, 29, a former associate editor at MacWEEK, passed away January 12,1996 from complications due to pneumonia. In addition to being a fine reporter and a great guy, Robert was the founder of the Macworld party lists.

Griffin Technology Inc., creator of all things iPhone and iPod, today announced the availability of its Navigate inline controller and iFM app for iPhone and iPod touch. Navigate delivers FM stereo radio and offers a remote control for any recent-generation iPod or iPhone model. The iFM app can be used...

PulpMotion V2 comes with a lot of new features and more than 25 themes and 80 presets. With a simple drag and drop become a pro slideshow creator and share your best moment with your familly, friends or colleagues. PulpMotion V2 makes it easy to animate your pictures and video,...

PulpMotion V2 comes with a lot of new features and more than 25 themes and 80 presets. With a simple drag and drop become a pro slideshow creator and share your best moment with your familly, friends or colleagues. PulpMotion V2 makes it easy to animate your pictures and video,...

Freeverse is pleased to announce that they are currently showing off four upcoming iPhone and iPod touch games on the show floor of the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The four titles are SlotZ Racer, Days of Thunder, Flick Baseball, and Roads of Ruin. Freeverse invites everyone to come by...

NETGEAR, a provider of networking solutions, announced the launch of its next generation of versatile, high-performance wireless routers to fulfill the unique lifestyle needs of different customer segments – including the RangeMax™ Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (WNDR3700), RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Modem Router (DGND3300), and 3G Mobile Broadband Wireless...

SoftRAID LLC is pleased to announce SoftRAID 4.0, a major upgrade to its acclaimed RAID management software for Mac OS X. SoftRAID 4.0 will be demonstrated at MacWorld 2009, in San Francisco, January 5th to 9th, at booth 342. SoftRAID 4.0 will be released by the end of Q1, 2009.

Speck, a designer of cases for popular consumer electronics, introduced a new line of original bags, backpacks and sleeves specially designed to meet the needs of today’s demanding notebook computer owners. The new offerings are on display at Speck’s MacWorld Booth, South Hall #1838 and at the Consumer Electronics Show...

Viximo announced its TrueFlirt virtual flirting application for the iPhone is now available on the Apple App Store. This groundbreaking app allows users to send fully-interactive virtual ‘Flirts’ to one another.

Below are some photos from the Moscone Center, home of the 2009 Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. These are photos from day three; we’ll have more tomorrow.

Epson today announced the latest addition to its line of 3LCD 1080p front projectors, the PowerLite Home Cinema 6500 UB. Offering true 1080p (1,920×1,080 pixels) resolution with the latest 3LCD D7 chip set for significantly higher contrast, a built-in HQV Reon-VX processor by Silicon Optix, and a wide range of...

Opera Software has unveiled the Opera Devices Software Development Kit 9.7. The company says it spent much of 2008 developing version 9.7 of its SDK and has worked closely with its partners to accelerate the browser’s core performance on a variety of hardware.

DocProtect provides drag and drop protection to many document types on Mac OS X or Windows computers. The protected document becomes a single file application that presents the document on licensed computers while restricting features like copy, export and save. For spreadsheets and PDF files, first use Microsoft Excel or...

Macsimum News and MacTech Magazine have teamed up to announce their Best of Show awards for the 2009 Macworld Conference & Expo. have just announced the Best of Show awards. With so many products on the floor from approximately 500 exhibitors, editors from the publications teamed up to find interesting...

In light of Apple’s recent decision to detach itself from any future Macworlds, IDG decided to hold a late Wednesday afternoon Town Hall meeting basically asking atendees,”Where do we go from here.

The room was packed with hundreds of people brimming with all sorts of ideas.

Imagine Products, Inc. announces the release and general availability of ProxyMill for Macintosh, a new automated video compression application for Panasonic [NYSE symbol: PC] P2 media. With ProxyMill™, designate a “Watch” folder and let the software create low resolution QuickTime™ proxies with frame accurate timecode directly from P2 MXF files...

IntelliScanner Corporation, creators of scanners and software that organize everything, today unveiled IntelliScanner SOHO, cubed. Conveniently packaged in a metallic, cubed box for easy storage, IntelliScanner SOHO’s smart barcode scanner and software uses advanced barcode technology to organize business assets, inventory, media and more. New in 2009, IntelliScanner SOHO 120...

UniPress Software, European distributor of the Web Help Desk Software, announced attendance to the 2009 BETT Show, 14-17 Jan. in Olympia, London. The Web Help Desk Software is a cross-platform help desk software solution for all educational institutions from higher education universities to the smallest lower schools. Visit UniPress at...

Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery software for Apple Mac has been announced by Disk Doctor Labs. The software is compatible with Mac OS X Leopard and Tiger and is a stand-alone software solution, which supports both Power PC and Intel based Apple Mac computers. The product provides recovery from Hard...

The Dream Apps is proud to present an exclusive one day promotion of the award winning video recording application Dream Capture at 40% off. This amazing saving is only available at the MacZOT website for one day only. The promotion will start on Thursday 8th January 2009 at 00:00AM and...