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Intrigue Technologies Inc., creators of Smart State Technology, and makers of the Harmony Remote models SST-748 and SST-768, are pleased to introduce their newest “Family-Friendly Remote”, the SST-659. The new Harmony SST-659 is the culmination of customer feedback, design refinement and user group studies.� The resulting product includes some notable feature inclusions like Activity buttons,…

Burning Monkey Solitaire 3 is now shipping to retail and available for purchase from the Freeverse Online Store. This is an all-new game with 16 monkeys, 26 games, over 200 megs of insane solitaire action, internet high scores, songs, jokes and, of course, flaming arrows. The game is also chock-full of easter eggs, the first…

[ Update 1:56 PM CDT: Apple has officially given us a comment of “We donit comment on pending litigation” in response to our questions on this story. – Editor] Apple knowingly stole the Rendezvous name, according to a lawsuit filed against Apple by a company called TIBCO. In a press release today, TIBCO says that…

F or the road warrior of the 21st century, having the tools to stay connected is a must. Todayis intrepid traveller must equip him or her self with the basic array of gadgets to stay in touch and get work done: a laptop, cell phone, and a PDA. The latter 2 items have become so…

T hough last weekis power outage in the North East US and South East Canada shut down manufacturing for two days at the plant where IBM makes Appleis G5 processors, an Apple exec says that things are going well with IBM. The plant in question is the East Fishkill, NY fab, which is one of…

S teve Jobs canit get no satisfaction, at least not initially. The Rolling Stones, one of the great holdouts in the online music distribution business, have announced an exclusive deal with RealNetworksi Rhapsody service. Rhapsody is Realis subscription service (it requires a monthly subscription fee) that allows for streaming of Rhapsodyis entire online catalog of…

I nfoworld has published a very complimentary pieces on Appleis server offerings, Xserve and Xserve RAID, as well as a separate article on Appleis new Power Mac G5. Infoworld is a print magazine aimed at IT professionals, and has recently begun to feature expanded coverage of Appleis Unix-based Mac OS X offerings. P. J. Connolly…

Group Logic, developer of best-selling network workflow software products, announced today a migration program for 4-Sight iSDNManager users to switch to MassTransit Enterprise via a competitive upgrade. This follows the announcement that 4-Sight is being shut down effective September 12, 2003 by corporate parent WAM!NET, Inc. WAM!NET sold its print media business August 1st to…

Y esterday, we brought you an article looking at SCOis demand that Linux users pay them the hefty sum of US$199 for a desktop PC using Linux, or US$699 for a single-CPU server (US$1,399 after October 15th). SCO is demanding this money from end-users of Linux because the company says Linux includes code that is…

T he New York Times has published an interesting write up of Microsoftis annual financial analyst meeting. We were considering a general-interest reference article to the Timesi coverage until we noted one specifically interesting tidbit concerning Microsoftis own estimation of Windowsi robustness. According to the article, Mr. Gates says that 5% of all Windows installations…

C ompetition breeds a better product. Look at the battle for the best MP3 player, and how far the iPod is pushing its competitors. Unfortunately, when BuyMusic.com (BM) decided to toss their hat into the online music distribution game, they threw their heads in as well. We want to give BM a fair shake. They…

Antilog announced today Julius I.0.0, the first release of their free roman-number converter for the Macintosh. Julius is a simple converter for the translation of numbers written with arabic digits into roman digits. The use of Julius if very easy: you simply write the number (strictly positive, no decimal, under 4000), click on the convert…

If you want to see the commercial but havenit caught it on TV yet, Apple has posted the commercial to its QuickTime site. Below, we have a couple of screen shots from the commercial to give you a feel of what itis like.

Fortunately, the good folks at CMS Peripherals offer such a backup system, called ABSplus, the ABS standing for Automatic Backup System. We had a chance to chat with Mike LaPeters, Vice President of Sales, to give us an update on whatis been happening with the product, and to receive a demonstration. ABSplus Portable

T he booth that we were drawn to like people lost in the desert are drawn to an oasis, like moths to a flame, like Mac geeks to a new laptop bag… Well, if we mixed more metaphors it would make us dizzy. It seems that some of our Australian Observers may be a bit…

DEVONtechnologiesi new Internet search agent software DEVONagent is getting closer to the first public beta, and so the product page has been updated with new screenshots and a description of the forthcoming features. Based on DEVONtechnologiesi revolutionary DEVONtechnology, DEVONagent is the information finding tool of the next generation. It simulates the behaviour of a human…