"Keep in mind that the PC industry has gone from all of them making money in December, to today — Gatewayis losing money, Appleis losing money, H-Pis losing money," said Bear Stearns analyst Andrew Neff. "You donit think their boards (of directors) are getting a little antsy?" No, Mr. Neff, I donit think that Appleis…
Bill Gates Prepares To Unmask "Un-American" Open Source Members (With Pics)
"I have in my hand a list of 205 cases of individuals who appear to beeither card-carrying members, or are certainly loyal to the Open Source Movement." "Are you now, or have you ever been, a user of the Linux operating system?"
Iomega Acquires Asimware, CD-RW Software
Iomega Corporation today announced that it has acquired the software product line of Asimware Innovations Inc., a Canadian developer of CD-RW software technology, as an investment in Iomegais rapidly growing software solutions business.”Weire pleased to announce this acquisition, which builds additional core competencies in software needed for the next stage of growth at Iomega,” said…
Hardware Mixed, But Apple Closes Over 19
Oracle had big impact on other software stocks, and the Nasdaq opened up lower across the board. Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe both closed lower, as did most other software stocks. Akamai also too a heavy hit as a company that depends heavily on sales from corporate revenue. SAP and Manuguistics made announcements that reaffirmed their…
Apple Removed DVD From The iMac For A Reason
Apple is pushing its "digital hub" concept and showing us slides of the Mac in the center, acting as a hub or middle ware, for digital media devices like MP3 players, DV cameras and DVD players. The Mac has several current software products that link different devices together through the Mac hardware (USB/FireWire) like iMovie…
Alan Greenspan & The Hand Of God Send Stocks (& Apple) Tumbling
The big news for the financial world was Fed Chairman Alan Greenspanis testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in the Testimony Formerly Known As Humphrey-Hawkins. The markets have gone up and down on a roller coaster ride as popular opinion swayed first one way, and then the other on whether or not the Fed…
Techs Tank, Apple Down
Then the backwash hit as the logic loop danced back around to the idea that the economy wasnit responding well to the Fedis most recent actions to stimulate the economy. Throughout it all, there was continued talk about the news that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan was changing his testimony in advance of tomorrowis Humphrey-Hawkinsi testimony…
The Zip Disk Is Dead, Long Live The Zip Disk!
It seemed like only yesterday when SyQuest was the king of removable media. In those days graphic artists and other people who worked with large files relied on their SyQuest 44 MB or 88 MB cartridges to move their files between their studios and printer shop. It was a love & hate relationship with SyQuestis…
IBM Announces The PowerPC 750CXe...Again
IBM today announced its highest performing embedded PowerPC® processor – the PowerPC 750CXe. While the PowerPC 750CXe is used as a stand-alone high-performance microprocessor in consumer-based desktop computers, it is also being used increasingly as an embedded processor in a broad range of networking and imaging applications. The new PowerPC microprocessor will be available in…
Microsoft/Fed Spark Late Rally, AAPL Up
That rally was sparked in part by news that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan would be changing his testimony to the House of Representatives later this week. That testimony, which used to be called the Humphrey-Hawkins testimony and is now known as the "testimony which used to be called the Humphrey-Hawkins testimony" usually mirrors the testimony…
Remembering 1984 With Steve Jobs & The Entire Macintosh Development Team (With Pics)
Richard Hallmark sent us scans of the cover and the table of contents. The cover is a great picture of Steve Jobs standing over three of the original Mac (128k) units. We have another version of that image below as well. Note that Mr. Jobs is in a suit, something that made a lot of…
Markets Shrug Off Tokyo Announcements
Sun Microsytems issued lowered guidance for the current quarter in an after hours conference call. After hours trading was halted. The company said that growth will come in between 10-13%, while the Street had been expecting 3rd quarter growth to come in at 30%. Look for this to have a negative impact on hardware stocks,…
Adobe Wants Your Video Creations
Its that time of year again-time for a new Adobe Dynamic Media Reel. Each year the Dynamic Media Team puts together a reel of user work to be shown throughout the world at tradeshows, seminars and industry events (it even shows in the Adobe SJ Lobby). This is a chance to showcase your work. We…
Poor PC Sales In January Hit Techs & Apple Hard
The Dow actually traded on the plus side for most of the morning, then dabbled back and forth in midday trading, only to start a 68 point slide that ended only when the dayis session closed. Tech stocks were hit the hardest today and the Nasdaq spent the entire day in negative territory. At one…
A 2nd Look At The 'Squeezable' PowerBook G4
Donit raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. Quoted by John M. Shanahan, in the Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)
Apple Ships 733 MHz PowerMacs With SuperDrives, Right On Time!
Apple® today announced it has begun shipping its new 733 MHz Power Mac™ G4 with the SuperDrive, a combination CD-RW/DVD-R drive that can read and write CDs as well as DVDs that can be played in consumer DVD players. Apple unveiled the SuperDrive at MACWORLD Expo in San Francisco last month. The Power Mac G4…
Remembering 1984 With The Mac 128K, Apple //c, & Education Ad (With Pics)
As part of our series of articles remembering the early days of Apple, the Mac, and computing we bring you two more great ads from Apple. Observer Charles Mangin has sent us several vintage Apple ads (and a really great Microsoft ad from 1983 we will share with you later :-), including these two ads…
Tech Stocks Rally, Apple Closes Above 20
After the bell, Dell posted earnings of 18 cents a share that were a penny short of Street estimates, but within the 18 cent to 19 cent range offered by the company in recent guidance. The company also announced they would be cutting some 1,700 jobs. HP, on the other hand, met lowered expectations in…
Marathon Mod "Return to Marathon" Released
Imagine yourself awaking alone in a small unknown ship flying across the cold and dark universe far from Earth in the middle of nowhere A few kilometers nearby, floating in outer space, a huge dead abandoned ship: the U.E.S.C.Marathon, where more than 180 years ago all your battles began You can find more information on…
id Software Releases Quake 3 Team Arena Free Map Pack
The maps are Japanese Castles, Schadenfreude TA, Crossed Paths, and An Iteration of TA Hell. Here is a quote from Paulis .plan. id has just released a map pack containing four team-style maps approved for use with id Softwareis Quake III: Team Arena™ computer game. Their creators are some of the most talented mapmakers in…
Apple Announces WWDC Plans For 2001 (Leather OS X Jackets For First 1500 Registrants!)
At WWDC 2001, you will receive the very latest information on Mac OS X and other important Apple technologies. Whatis more, you will get it directly from Apple engineers and technology experts in more than 100 in-depth technical sessions and hands-on labs. —————————————- EARLY REGISTRATION BONUS —————————————- To celebrate Mac OS X and this momentous…
Remembering 1984 With A Macintosh & Lisa Brochure (With Pics) [Updated]
The ProFile was the 5MB disk that in the brochure is sitting on top of the Lisa. I believe this was also used with the Apple II, but I donit recall. The 10MB disk was code-named the "Widget" and it was an internal hard drive. Thanks for the information Larry! Last week, we brought you…