Apple jumped higher from the start on news of new products for the education market. After falling to a low of $18.11 in intra-day trading on Friday, Apple rebounded Monday morning on heavy volume, reaching a morning high of $20.63. The markets moved higher in early Monday trading after recording a fourth straight weekly decline…
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Analyst: "Apple In Better Position To Gain Share In 2002 Than 2001"
CNN ran a story on Apple’s new "Real People" ad campaign that contained some interesting quotes from an analyst. Apple’s campaign features Windows users who have switched from Windows to the Mac platform and are quite happy about it. Most of the article features the same information that Mac and mainstream publications alike have been…
Apple To Use "Real People" Windows Converts In New Ad Campaign
News.com reports that Apple is readying a sets of ads that target Windows users. This comes on the heels of reports last week that Apple was considering putting Windows PCs on display in its Apple Stores for side by side comparisons to the Mac OS. From News.com: The "Real People" ads, which will start appearing…
Cool Waste of Time: Hours Of Wireframe Madness At Sodaplay
I f tinkeringis your thing, youill find hours of addictive fun at Sodaplay. Using Java, this site provides you with something thatis a mix between a KiNex constructor kit and a wireframe modeler, and a little bit of something else entirely different. The objective is simply to build neat stuff. Building something that works looks…
InterMapper Beta Update
Dartware LLC announces that the first beta-test version of InterMapper(R) 3.6.2 is available. InterMapper is a MacOS X and Classic application that monitors the servers, routers, switches and other devices on a network as well as the local and wide area links that connect them, and can notify the network manager about problems via audible…
Apple Releases QuickTime 6 As Preview Release
Apple has released QuickTime 6 as a preview release. QuickTime 6 is a massive upgrade of the QuickTime platform, and includes support for the industry standard MPEG-4 video and music encoding technology. It also includes new tools for Apple to push QuickTime Streaming Server, as well as improved content streaming for consumers, even ones on…
Why Does Anybody Need To Be In Charge Of Online Speech?
A s anyone whois familiar with the judicial system knows, it takes a long time to get something done. With the advent of the Internet almost two decades ago, there still isnit any definite answer to the question of who has jurisdiction over a dispute that affects people all over the world. If youire in…
Are You Taking Responsibility For Your Own Privacy?
An upcoming report says that while 70% of online consumers say that they’re worried about their privacy, there’s very little they’re willing to do about it themselves. According to a New York Times article, a report to be released today by Jupiter Research shows that both consumers and businesses are particularly lax when it comes…
Microsoft Releases Office v. X Update, MSN Messenger 3.0, & Announces Entourage/Palm Synchronize
M icrosoft has officially released an update for Office v. X, as well as version 3.0 of MSN Messenger. The Office update is dubbed Service Release 1, and includes some 1,500 improvements, tweaks, fixes, and other enhancements. The press release cites the addition of Quartz antialiasing with the as-yet unreleased Mac OS X 10.1.5, improved…
Maine iBook Purchase Threatened With State Budget Shortfall
According to the Wired.com article, the stateis portion of the funding for the program was to be handled through a US$25 million endowment. The contract itself is worth US$37.2 million over four years, with the difference in the endowment and the total being made up of funding from other sources. The problem being encountered is…
1394 Trade Association Formally Licenses "FireWire" Brand Name From Apple
The 1394 Trade Association (1394 TA) and Apple have formally announced that the trade group has licensed the "FireWire" name. The 1394 TA is a platform neutral body whose purpose is to promote the development and use of IEEE 1394, FireWire to most Mac users. The 1394 TA is comprised of the many patent holders…
Investors Take Early Summer Break
The major market indexes moved lower in early Wednesday trading as investors stayed away from stocks. Continued concerns about the prospects of new terror attacks weighed on the mood of the markets. Moodyis downgraded the credit rating of AT&T and pressure remained on other Dow components such as IBM and Home Depot. Concerns About Consumer…
TMO Short Take: 'Beyond The GUI' & The Next Big Thing In Computing, Redux
CKQUOTE> When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting"
Macrobyte Releases Conversant
After three years of development, Macrobyte Resources is pleased to announce the release of Conversant 1.0b1. Conversant is a flexible Web application development platform, with emphasis on groupware applications such as Intranets, project work groups and collaborative learning environments. It provides exceptional integration of Web, email, and even news-based (NNTP) collaboration. Features of the standard…
Apple, The Knock-off King?
iTunes is made by the same developer who used to make SoundJam for Casady & Greene. Apple now releases iTunes for free, putting a serious crimp in the market for shareware MP3 players like Audion, and other apps. iChat will also be a free AIM chat client from Apple, which threatens the markets for the…
Mandolux Issues Its 2000th Desktop Image
A s the words to the theme to Enterprise tells us: Itis been a long road, getting from there to here… Truer words have never been said about Mandolux, provider of classy desktop pix, and Madolux continues its tradition by offering up its 2000th desktop picture. Mando Gomez, the man behind Mandolux, has this to…
Apple CFO Files To Sell More AAPL Shares
R euters is reporting that Apple CFO Fred Anderson has filed to sell more of his AAPL holdings this week on Monday. Since April 22nd, Apple execs have filed to sell shares of the company on 11 different occasions, counting this latest filing. SEC regulations require executives of publicly held companies to file all stock…
AOL Drops IE From AOL For Mac OS X, Replacing It With Netscape
J ust when you thought the browser wars were over, AOL has thrown a new twist into it. ZDNet is reporting that the company has dropped Internet Explorer from its latest beta release of AOL for OS X. In its place, the company is using its own Netscape browser. Netscape was bought by AOL in…
MacPlay To Release Bejeweled And Alchemy For Mac Gamers
MacPlay, a subsidiary of United Developers, announced today that it will publish the Mac versions of PopCap’s wildly popular puzzle games, Bejeweled and Alchemy. The mind-bending and immersive games will ship as a bundle to retail in early June, pre-orders are available. Bejeweled and Alchemy have been enjoyed by millions of online players, and soon…
Computing With Bifocals - Burning Files To CD, The Bifocals Way
Burning Files To CD, The Bifocals Way May 15th, 2002 More About Burning CDs I recently wrote a column about burning music CDs. This time I want to address burning other files to a CD (in other words, not a music CD). I had all kinds of problems when I first started trying to do…
Apple Announces Dual Processor Rackmount Servers
Apple has released its first rackmounted servers ever. The company has released a new series of G4-based servers called Xserve at an event in Cupertino today. Hinted at during last week’s World Wide Developer Conference by Steve Jobs, the new servers come in a 1U enclosure (meaning it takes up one space in a rack),…
DEVONtech Releases Freeware ServicePack 1 Tool Kit
DEVONtechnologies introduces ServicePack 1, consisting of three top-rated freeware tools: AntiWordService 1.0, CalcService 2.6 and WordService 2.3. AntiWordService 1.0, introduced on the 11th of May, 2002, enables all well-behaved Cocoa applications able to read plain text, for example TextEdit or DEVONthink Personal Edition, to open Microsoft Word documents. The actual conversion is done by the…
TMO Short Take: BMW Shows You How Cars Would Be If Microsoft Made Them
L ast week, a friend showed me his new car that came equipped with a state-of-the-art GPS console, complete with color-rich LCD display and buttons galore. Gadget hound that I am, I went thereafter to read up on other vehicles that are offering similar convergences between auto and PC. I ran across a review of…
AAPL Up As Market Sustains Early Tech Sector Gains
Despite last Wednesdayis large gains, the major market indexes finished on Friday at levels below last Mondayis open. Concerns about the spotty nature of economic growth and the pace at which reported growth is working its way to corporate bottom lines continues to keep many investors on the sidelines. The market sustained its early Monday…
