Belkin Corporation today introduced its Bluetooth Wireless Optical Mouse with USB Adapter…
Month: August 2003
The Beatles’ Apple Records could be gearing up for fight with Apple Computer
Apple Computers [sic] could be gearing up for a fight with The Beatles’ Apple Records label if the computer company continues…
Jury whacks Microsoft for $521,000,000 in browser patents infringement judgement
A federal jury in Chicago awarded the University of California and a browser technology company nearly $521 million…
Napster 2.0 signs five major labels; to offer 500,000 songs by Christmas
Napster, the file-sharing program that ignited an Internet revolution and sent the recording industry into convulsions…
Microsoft cuts price of Office for Mac users; bundles Virtual PC in new Professional Edition
Microsoft Corp., said that it has cut the price of its Office document, spreadsheet and presentation software suite for Apple Computer Inc.’s, Macintosh…
Apple posts tribute to Gregory Hines
Apple Computer, Inc. has posted a tribute to the life of Gregory Hines (1946-2003). Hines was an active Mac user…
Hewlett-Packard�s quest to become more like Apple falls flat
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina presents a range of new products by the high-tech pioneer Monday in New York City…
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina presents a range of new products by the high-tech pioneer Monday in New York City…
MBlast Worm spreads through flaw in Windows; Macintosh unaffected
Central Command, a leading provider of PC anti-virus software and services, today warns Internet users of Worm/Lovsan.A, or MBlast, an Internet worm circulating worldwide…
RUMOR: New 15-inch PowerBook; iMac updates; new Apple displays by August 19th
Many sources are agreeing [on the announcement of] new offerings at Apple, either on Monday 18th or Tuesday 19th…
Apple returning to Australian retail chains after long absence; strong Power Mac G5 orders reported
Apple Computer Australia is returning to the top-of-the-market retail scene after an absence of almost seven years…
Boston Globe: Price no longer a barrier to Mac ownership thanks to Apple’s eMac line
When it comes to technological verve, it’s hard to beat Apple Computer Inc. From its “lamp Mac” to its wide-screen PowerBooks to its SuperDrive…
Tech TV to feature iSight; iChat AV tonight; lists ‘no Windows support’ as con
Tech TV’s James Kim reviews Apple’s iSight and iChat AV, “Look and sound amazing with this netcam lover’s netcam…
IDG head: ‘Macworld is only going to happen once a year, in January, in California’
In an apparent reversal of a decision made in October by former IDG World Expo president Charlie Greco, the company’s new chief executive, David Korse…
LA Times: iChat AV is ‘first practical software’ for teleconferencing; a ‘huge step up’
Last month, Apple introduced the first practical software for online video chats. With a fairly inexpensive camera-microphone unit…
Turn your Mac into a Web kiosk with WebKiosk application
WebKiosk (now updated to version 2.0) is a highly customizable WebKit-based application which turns your Mac into a web terminal…
Forms To Go updated to version 1.7; creates PHP, ASP, Perl scripts for HTML forms
Forms To Go creates scripts in PHP, ASP or Perl to send your HTML forms to email. You can validate the values of the form for proper formatted email address, zip code or string length…
‘Photo to Movie’ creates movies from stills; offers more control than iMovie 3 ‘Ken Burns Effect’
Photo to Movie enables you to create a movie by zooming and panning over photos. It presents a simple interface…
Dvorak on Apple’s Rendezvous: ‘Windows world has nothing like this’
There is nothing secret about ZeroConf (for Zero Configuration), an initiative begun in 1999. But few Windows users are aware that Apple has initiated its use…
Already wrecked pseudo Macworld backing out of Boston; wants to stay in NYC
Macworld’s much-trumpeted return to the Hub next year may not happen after all, as the events promoter revealed yesterday…
Disney who? Steve Jobs rides a rocket named Pixar
Propelled by a movie about a clown fish that could, Pixar’s earnings surged 87 percent in its fiscal second quarter, Pixar reported Thursday…
iChat AV evolves uses beyond videoconferencing due to limited user base
Marc Zeedar has found a novel use for Apple Computer’s new iChat video-conferencing software — broadcasting pay-per-view soccer games to his brother across town…
Apple’s new iTunes Car Stereo should debut this fall for holiday sales season
By SteveJack The opinion piece posted earlier today got me thinking about using Apple’s iPod in the car. It’s kind of a pain right now with cords, devices, adapters, chargers, FM broadcasters, and your iPod sliding around on the seat or stuck in some weird mount screwed or stuck to your vehicle. Not as smooth […]
Apple ‘iTunes Car Stereo’ a good idea?
About using Apple’s iPod in the car: it’s kind of a pain right now with cords, devices, adapters, chargers, FM broadcasters, and your iPod sliding around on the seat…
Freeware Font Explorer 1.0 for Mac OS X debuts
Font Explorer makes it easier and faster to find specific characters in a font. It shows all the characters of your fonts…
Add fountain of exploding particles to iTunes’ visualization for free
Fountain Music is an iTunes visualization which animates a fountain of particles exploding to the music…
Sun and Apple, Apple and Sun; could it ever happen?
“Are Apple and Sun viable partners,” asks The Register’s Andrew Orlowski? Orlowski’s piece, “Sun-Apple rumors set markets jangling,” contains some remarkably frank…
Quit mousing around; Key Xing for Mac OS X supercharges your keyboard
Key Xing for Mac OS X allows you to perform many types of operations from your keyboard. Launch programs, files, and web sites…
Xserve chosen by US Navy on basis of low power consumption and strong price/performance ratio
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, has been awarded the contract to fulfill a unique sonar imaging system…
European Union will not let Microsoft off the hook in antitrust action
Microsoft Corp. will probably be fined, forced to disclose programming data to competitors and ordered to change the way it sells its…
US Navy buys 260 Apple Xserves to run Yellow Dog Linux
Apple Computer has scored its biggest ever sale of Xserve servers – thanks to Linux…
Creative Technology CEO: Nomad Jukebox Zen ‘better looking’ than Apple iPod
In a bid to get a head start on a budding recovery in the global economy, Creative Technology is flooding the stores with a staggering 90 new products…
USA Today: Apple iBook the ‘perfect student companion’
Keep your major in mind. A student of cinema or graphics arts may be wise to consider a Macintosh…
Apple releases Airport Software 3.1.1
Apple has released Airport Software 3.1.1 via Software Update…
Apple adds ‘New Music Tuesdays’ tracks and exclusives to iTunes Music Store
Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” continue to rock on weekly. Apple has announced new releases to the iTunes Music Store…
Sun VP of Software: practically every Sun employee owns an Apple desktop at home
Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice-president of Sun’s software group was quoted by eWeek yesterday…
Merrill Lynch analyst changes his iTune; says Apple has caught momentum
Merrill Lynch’s Michael Hillmeyer has been one of Wall Street’s biggest bears on [Apple Computer, Inc.]. But Hillmeyer has been softening…
Six years ago today: the infamous Apple-Microsoft deal announced
Six years ago today, Apple and Microsoft announced a broad agreement between the two companies that has resulted in urban myths as extreme as “Microsoft owns Apple” that persist to this day…
European Union to fine Microsoft for abuses; curbs on media software could help Apple QuickTime, oth
The European Commission said on Wednesday it intended to fine Microsoft for what it called continuing abuses of its dominant market position…
Apple releases DVD Studio Pro 2; includes integrated MPEG-2 encoder
Apple today announced that DVD Studio Pro 2, a powerful new application re-designed to simplify professional DVD authoring with a breakthrough user interface…
Intel’s Senior VP and CTO: ‘Steve Jobs has made the wrong CPU choice for 20 years’
Steve Makris of The Edmonton Journal has posted a conversation with Intel’s Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer…
Australian IT: Power Mac G5 really is ‘fastest personal computer’ after all
Microprocessor Watch, perhaps the most respected technical publication for the microprocessor industry, has weighed in with an analysis of Apple’s claims…
