A pple has shown that it has a sense of humor, at least some of the time. In wake of the companyis announcement to appoint Al Gore to its board of directors, a fire storm of debate, though we use the term loosely, has erupted from all corners of the Mac community. Most of the…
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Apple Overhauls Corporate Governance, Adds Two Independent Director Positions
O n the heals of announcing the appointment of Al Gore to its board of directors, Apple announced today an overhaul of its corporate governance rules. The company also officially announced that two new director positions had been added to the board, including the one already occupied by former vice president Al Gore. The press…
Gateway To Close 80 Retail Stores With 1/3 The Revenues Of Apple's Retail Store Locations
TheStreet.com has published a report looking at Gateway’s current, or latest, plans for restructuring. Gateway has been struggling for the last couple of years, and has taken on the role of "beleaguered" that the press used to assign Apple. Gateway’s two biggest problems have been being crushed by Dell in a price war that Dell…
Apple Appoints Al Gore To Board Of Directors
I n a surprising, as well as fascinating move, Apple has named former vice president Al Gore to its Board of Directors. The press release for the company specifically cites the record economic expansion during Mr. Goreis second term, his track record with supporting technology — specifically the Internet, and the fact that Mr. Gore…
Mainstream Tech Columnist Questions Analysts' Negative Views On Apple
Most Wall Street analysts have been negative on Apple for the last several months, with some issuing negative comments and downgrades on Apple’s stock. Some have even gone so far as to specifically state that the Mac is heading towards obsolescence. This is, of course, why we have put together the Apple Death Knell Counter,…
LetterWorks Updated With Expanded Languages
Objectpark Development has released an update for LetterWorks, bringing it to version 1.2. LetterWorks is a word processing utility designed as a letter writing assistant. The update features several enhancements including expanded language support and bug fixes. According to Objectpark Development: Objectpark Development Releases LetterWorks 1.2 – a Macintosh application for writing quality letters with…
TMO Reports - Apple iPod Number One In Music Player Market
The iPod is the king of portable music players, according to new dollar market share numbers obtained by The Mac Observer. During the fourth quarter of 2002, Apple’s dollar market share reached 27 percent compared with 10 percent for second-ranked SONICBlue and its Rio players, according to market research firm NPDTechworld. In terms of actual…
EU May Force restrictions On Microsoft, Including Uncoupling Windows Media Player For QuickTime/Real
The European Union’s antitrust probe into Microsoft’s business may yield more results than the US’s suit. Reuters is reporting that the EU has concluded that Microsoft did indeed violate the EU’s antitrust regulations, but that remedies are still being debated. One of the remedies being shopped around internally is to force Microsoft to uncouple Windows…
Apple Posts Tips On How To Troubleshoot Effectively
A pple has added a new article to the Knowledge Base detailing how one would go about tracking down an problem or error while running OS X. Appleis Knowledge Base (sometimes referred to as the KBase) is a central location for all of Appleis support documents and other important information. Anyone who has ever had…
Jobs Rises, Gates Falls, On Forbes's Billionaire Lists
To paraphrase the late Carl Sagan: They have billions upon billions upon billions… We are talking, of course, about the newly released Forbes’ list of the World’s Richest People. The Forbes list is headed, once again, by Microsoft’s own William H. Gates III, whose fortune Forbes values at US$40.7 billion dollars, down substantially from the…
IBM Introduces PowerPC 970 Servers, Touts 970 As "Fastest PowerPC So Far"
Today, IBM announced the first products to use the 970 — the PowerPC Blade — at Europeis CeBit conference. The PowerPC Blade will be added to IBMis BladeCenter product line, a line of servers powered by Intel processors. The company is touting the PowerPC Blade as "superior to Intel Blades for certain applications in the…
metaobjects Releases PdfCompress 4.0 With Image Sampling
metaobject announces the immediate availability of version 4.0 of the popular PDF compression tool for Mac OS X. Version 4.0 adds image downsampling, the feature most requested by our customers. We took a little extra time to ensure best quality results and the ease of use users have come to expect from metaobject. You can…
Apple CFO Fred Anderson Says Apple Is Going For Market Share, Intermediate Goal Of 5%
Apple Computer, Inc. Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson said the companyis aim is to expand its share of the computer market. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology Symposium, Anderson said a "good intermediate" goal would be to reach 5% market share from 3% today. He also said the computer makeris target is to get to…
AquaFold, Inc. Releases Version 2.0 Of Aqua Data Studio
AquaFold, Inc. has released a new version of Aqua Data Studio, bringing it to version 2.0. Aqua Data Studio is a utility designed for creating and managing relational databases. The latest version features expanded compatibility including support for Sybase and Oracle. According to AquaFold: AquaFold, Inc today announced the latest version of Aqua Data Studio,…
DEVONtech Enters DEVONagent Beta Testing
DEVONtechnologiesi new Internet search agent software DEVONagent is now in internal beta phase and will be ready for shipping in Q1/2003. Consequently, new screenshots and more background information have been posted on the web site. Based on DEVONtechnologiesi revolutionary DEVONtechnology, DEVONagent is the information finding tool of the next generation. It simulates the behaviour of…
Can You Hear Me Now? Woz Can't, So He's Moving
W hat would cause you to move out of your house? Bad neighborhood? Termites? Even if it was a castle, literally, complete with secret tunnels? How about bad cell phone reception, would that push you out? Thatis what did it for Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. He canit get a digital signal to his GSM cellular…
BusinessWeek : Proposed Levy Could Increase iPod Price By US$100
The RIAA’s assault on Fair Use rights has been unprecedented in its scope, and much of the recording industry trade group’s arguments has centered around the notion that piracy is killing sales. TMO strongly denounces piracy, but has taken issue with the RIAA’s efforts to reduce and eliminate the Fair Use rights of people who…
Robota, Birds, & The Big Green Hulk
< I>Every week, Vern Seward takes a look at Appleis latest offerings at the QuickTime Trailer site, letting your know whatis new. Early last year we stumbled onto a Web site that was truly intriguing. The site seemed to be dedicated to an animated movie that featured robots. At that time, the site only had…
Bill Gates Envisions A Future Where Microsoft Is Innovative In The Digital Decade
D uring the three-day Most Valued Professionals Summit at Microsoft headquarters, Bill Gates expressed his opinion that Microsoft is the "most optimistic company" about innovating new technologies. The summit is a closed to the public event where Microsoft invites 1,300 Microsoft resellers, consultants, and other business partners to participate. Within the Windows world, the event…
Mireth Tech Ships New MP3 Burn Utility
Mireth Technology has launched MacMP3CD, Macintosh OS X software that allows you to burn and to play MP3 CDs. MP3 CDs are audio CDs that are burned using the MP3 file format, which allows you to put up to 10 hours of music on a single CD. MacMP3CD&Mac226;s burning capability supports features that make MP3…
Apple Explains How To Delete The Undeletable
If youive ever cancelled a download or a file copy part of the way through the process, you may have been unable to delete the partially copied file. The solution, if the file was downloaded in Internet Explorer, is to open the download manager, and delete the file from there. If not, it gets a…
SilverNetworks Shipping Spy For Remote Screen Viewing
SilverNetworks today released the final version of itis new remote screen capture tool, Spy. Spy allows you to run a small server on your Mac, that when accessed by any normal Web browser, allows people to see your screen, as well as information about your Macintosh. But it doesnit stop there – they can look…
Maxprog Updates eMail Extractor With Added Filters
Maxprog is proud to present a new release of eMail Extractor, new version 1.6.1, available now at Maxprog website with several interesting improvements, new features and bug fixes. eMail extractor is a very powerful tool to extract email addresses from all kind of files. eMail extractor is very fast, easy to use and multithread. eMail…
Apple Joins Microsoft, Dell & Others To Fight Hollywood & The CBDTPA
Yet another group is standing up to protest Senator Fritz Hollings’ misleadingly named Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, or CBDTPA. The CBDTPA is a proposed law being backed and pushed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and sponsored by Senator Hollings. As it is written, the CBDTPA would, if passed, require…