Bryan Chaffin

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MacNN published a mention of an interview with Michael Dell in TechnologyReview that contained a glaring innacuracy. In the interview, Mr. Dell makes some claims about things his company did before anyone else. The only problem is that in one of those cases someone else did do it first, and that someone was Apple. Wanting…

Mr. Nagel will be helping Palmis transition into two companies, a hardware company and a software company. Mr. Nagelis interests include wireless connectivity and other related technologies. From the Wall Street Journal piece: The hiring of Mr. Nagel, who already is a member of Palmis board, reflects the Santa Clara, Calif., hand-held-computer makeris plans to…

I know this is a Mac newsletter but this was too much fun to pass up. Be sure to choose Shutdown and check the credits. Click the above image for a larger version.

"The personality of these objects is incredibly important," said Paola Antonelli, the curator of Workspheres, a recent exhibition that included several Apple products. "These objects give more meaning to the desk and the work. They are pleasant companions." We applaud the Museumis taste. Something will be of even more interest to those who regularly follow…

The action was largely seen as a delaying tactic designed to keep legal action from stopping the release of Windows XP. Microsoft is scheduled to release the next iteration of Windows in October, and has aggressively moved up the time period it will allow PC manufacturers to ship the OS into September. The new OS…

iBrotha: Be Incorporated, the creator of the BeIA and BeOS operating systems, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its intellectual property and technology assets to Palm, Inc. The purchase price is $11 million, to be paid in common stock of Palm, which Be currently intends to liquidate as soon as…

SETI@home is a research project from some graduate students at UC Berkeley who are taking data from a radio telescope in Peurto Rico and searching for a signal that might be coming from another planet. The researchers made a breakthrough in what is called distributed processing and broke that data up into 350K chunks that…

Just got the e-mail a little bit ago. Apple has officially closed the CQF program. Here is the main snippet: "Apple thanks you for your loyalty and participation in the Customer Quality Feedback Program (CQF). CQF was a part of Appleis Hardware Engineering Division. Recently, Apple has decided to permanently discontinue the CQF Program and…

Huge Mac sighting! Just got back from the movies, and away we go! American Pie 2 – Jim (the nerdy guy) has what appears to be either a 7100, 8100, or Desktop G3 at his home, and a Grape iMac in his college dorm. The first one was also seen in the first movie. Trailer/Teaser…

While you are checking out this movie, notice the controls in the upper right hand of the movie. Those allow you to stop the animation, play it again, or to step forward and backward, frame by frame.

Intel is reportedly about to initiate a price war against AMD that sent shudders through the chip sector today. Dan Niles of Lehman Brothers issued a report this morning saying that Intel would be making a move to recapture lost market share from AMD this Fall. From a Reuters report: For those who thought the…

The show started off with the MACWORLD Expo keynote by Steve Jobs, and included footage of Mr. Jobs, the new PowerMac G4s, OS X 10.1, iDVD2, and more. Interviews with people waiting for the keynote, and from attendees after the keynote, followed. From there, the showis hosts gave us a our of the QuickSilver PowerMac…

Sure, the increased speed of the new 867MHz G4s could make a slight difference. But there goes Jobs again, saying something that is simply not true: 867 MHz G4s are not "available now" as he exhorted to the adoring crowd, resulting in considerable ooo-ing and ahhhh-ing. A quick phone call to the Apple Store reveals…

Mr. Jobs followed that up by asking the reporter "Do you know who the biggest supporter of the Mac is at Microsoft? Itis Bill Gates." Observer Call: We missed part of the CNNfn article. If you saw more of it and can add details about the interview, please post it in the comments.

Apple® today announced that it will suspend production of the Power Mac™ G4 Cube indefinitely. The company said there is a small chance it will reintroduce an upgraded model of the unique computer in the future, but that there are no plans to do so at this time. "Cube owners love their Cubes, but most…