Live From The Floor Of DellWorld: Excitement City!

Todayis main attraction is Michael Dellis keynote speech. In his fat-Elvis-like white suit he personally delivers all the most exciting news from Dell. Michael steps forward in a drum roll and does a little dance with the microphone stand. He says to the audience: "Well let me hear ya say YEAH!!" "YEAH!!!!" Roars the audience.…

Alternative Web Design Tool Updated

Today Optima System released Final Candidate 1 of PageSpinner 3.1, the HTML Editor for Macintosh. The new PageSpinner 3.1 features: improved Mac OS X Classic compatibility previews of local Server Side Include files translucent dragging proxy icon support automatic line feed detection improved support for CSS and HTML 4.01 better handling of XML files enhanced…

So Long Cube! Apple Officially Kills The Cube (With Analysis)

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…

QuickTime Plug-in For REALbasic Updated

Essence Software is proud to announce the release of VideoPlug 1.2.VideoPlug is a plugin for REALbasic which allows developers to utilise QuickTime-compatible video capture hardware in their applications to capture audio & video sequences.VideoPlug 1.2 improves VideoPlug by adding:Support for MacOS X (Carbon)Programmatic control over grabber parameters (compression, brightness, contrast, audio gain, etc.)VideoPlug also fixes…

MAKI Updates Web Filtering Software

All you need to do is installing Kids GoGoGo in order to protect children from harmful web sites. Kids GoGoGo filters known or unknown web contents without slowing down your web browser. As Kids GoGoGo affects nothing to your network peripherals, you can try filtration ability safely by yourself. What kind of sites are blocked?…

Apple Adds 480,000 Students To PowerSchool

Apple® today demonstrated its ongoing commitment to providing innovative technology solutions for education at the National Educational Computing Conference in Chicago. During the opening keynote, Steve Jobs, Appleis CEO, announced that three more school districts, Chicago Public Schools, the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Fremont Union High School District, will be implementing the PowerSchool® from…

?Warm Fuzzy? = Joy Of Being A Mac Salesman

Rhetoric has a number of overlapping meanings; the practice of oratory; the study of the strategies of effective oratory; the use of language, written or spoken, to inform or persuade; the study of the persuasive effects of language; the study of the relation between language and knowledge; and, of course, the use of empty promises…

Ah, Nostalgia! Apple I Owners Club Site Relaunched

The Apple I Owners Club, founded in 1977 by Joe Torzewski, is back, along with the most extensive reference to the Apple I in existence. This historic reference contains over 120 pages detailing the Apple I computer. Yes, there are still those interested in the old Apple I. You can find more information at the…

Larry Ellison Discusses Steve Jobs In Interview

Q Another person who has a certain mythology about him is your friend Steve Jobs. Everybody seems to believe they know the book on Jobs: heis brilliant but hard-driving, overly sensitive. Do you and he ever talk about that? A We almost decided to wear T-shirts: "The Mercurial Steve Jobs" and "The Arrogant Larry Ellison."…

Interview With Bungie's Matt Soell About Microsoft, Oni, & Halo

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Combo USB/FireWire CD-RW Now Available For Less

Effective immediately, LaCie announced an end user price of only $299 — after $30 rebate — on the firmis high-performance 16x10x40x CD-RW drive that features”BURN-Proof” (Buffer Under RuN) technology. Equipped with LaCieis unique U&I interface, the new drives are the first true 16X CD-RW drives to offer both Universal Serial Bus (USB) and FireWire (IEEE…

Semiconductors Spark Rally, Apple Gains 4.49%

"Even though the earnings that are going to come out in this next quarter are pretty weak, thereis a sense that maybe tech land is bottoming out," said Michelle Clayman, chief investment officer at New Amsterdam Partners. IBM is about to announce a new technology that will increase processor speeds by up to 30-35% without…

App Helps Make Fundraising Easier

Version 3.6 of FUNDimensions fundraising software is now shipping, with a new integrated word processor and other features.The word processor is an optional plug-in that facilitates mail merge by making database information readily within the word processing environment. To add a donoris name, gift amount or any other information to a word processing document, you…

This Year's Hot Wedding Accessory: A Macintosh? (With Pic)

If you are reading this site, you probably do not need any convincing of the PowerMac G4 Cubeis stunning style. Despite poor sales, the machine generates a relatively high “drool factor” in those that see it. The photographers and Web site designers at Dessy, a company that makes bridesmaid dresses, agree. For at least one…

Remembering 1993: Who & What Is Newton?

The Newton was one of the most exciting technologies to come out of Apple during the reign of John Sculley. The Newton was a handheld computer that stemmed from a vision of Mr. Sculleyis, then CEO of Apple, called the Knowledge Navigator. The Knowledge Navigator was actually more of tablet computer, but one of the…

Politics Upset The Markets, Apple Closes Lower

Volume was light on both the Dow and the Nasdaq as the selling sent the Nasdaq off by 3% and the Dow by 1.35%. Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of the PC hardware sector today. The firm offered Dell a fat "Recommended" rating, while Apple, Gateway, and Compaq all got "Market Outperform" ratings. Our old friend…

7700 Visitors In Two Days At The Apple Store

Apple today announced that its first two retail locations welcomed over 7700 people and sold a combined total of $599,000 of merchandise during their first two day weekend. The stores, located in Glendale, California and McLean, Virginia are the first of 25 stores the company is opening across the U.S. in 2001. “We are blown…

Techs Lead Market Rally, Apple Posts Gain

iPeople are looking ahead for when earnings are going to turn, because it appears the Fed is insistent on getting the economy moving," said John Davidson, chief investment officer at Circle Trust Co., which has $8 billion under management. "People believe this is eventually going to work." All of the stocks we track in he…

Michael Dell Bashes Apple & Steve Jobs On CNBC

Ms. Herera noted that Dell Computer had so far resisted the move to open its own retail stores, unlike Gateway and Apple, and asked Mr. Dell if his company would ever consider doing so. “No, you know, we figured out 10 or 15 years ago that you don’t need stores to sell computers,” replied Mr.…

Zone Warrior II Updated

Casady & Greene announced today the release of Zone Warrior II, version 2.0.2, for Mac OS 7-9.1. Zone Warrior II is a 3D space flight simulator in which you, the pilot, defend your space station from attack by blasting away incoming asteroids and enemy ships. The game has over 100 levels and offers intense action…