< I>Every week, Vern Seward takes a look at Appleis latest offerings at the QuickTime Trailer site, letting your know whatis new. Many of you are too young to remember the 70s, but during that time there was a boat load of movies made that featured Black actors. These "Blaxploitation" movies were geared to give…
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Apple To Open Apple Store In Microsoft's Back Yard
The Seattle Times is confirming what our friends at MacNN reported yesterday, that Apple is opening up a retail Apple Store in Big Redmond’s back yard. According to the Seattle Times, Apple is opening up an Apple Store in the Seattle area, specifically in the Bellevue Square mall in Puget Sound, Washington. MacNN broke the…
Ireland's Royal College Of Surgeons Buys 305 iBooks For Incoming Students
E agle eyed Observer Stephen Vaughn (iGrouch in the TMO forums) noticed a story in the Irish Times this weekend about Apple. According to a one picture mention, with no accompanying story, the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland is using Macs for its incoming class of first-year students. The deal is worth €520,000…
Apple I Resurrected: Would You Buy An Apple I Replica For US$200?
If you are one of the lucky few who owns a vintage Apple I computer that’s in working order, you either have deep pockets or an uncle who recently cleaned out his attic and discovered it. In either case, there are some who are envious of your good fortune, but if you are one of…
AMD Comdex Keynote Devoid Of Apple Connection
W e reported this morning that Leo Laporte of TechTVis ScreenSavers said yesterday that Apple would be involved in todayis Comdex keynote presentation from AMD CEO Hector Ruiz. Apple was nowhere to be seen, however, though the keynote from Mr. Ruiz focused on such topics as turning the computer into the center of peopleis homes,…
IntelliMerge SQL 1.0 Shipping From Intelli Innovations
Intelli Innovations, Inc. today unveiled IntelliMerge SQL, its new specialized database software for electronic business messaging. Using any standard MySQL or OpenBase server as a data source, IntelliMerge SQL can create, preview, deploy, and report on dynamically created e-mail campaigns in a single, integrated software solution. IntelliMerge SQL 1.0 features: Integrated campaign/message editor with plain…
Take A Look Back At Motown And Viet Nam Before The War
< I>Every week, Vern Seward takes a look at Appleis latest offerings at the QuickTime Trailer site, letting your know whatis new. This weekis QuickTime Exclusive movie trailers are few, but a lot of fun. First up is Just Married starring Ashton Kutcher — you may know him for Dude, Whereis My Car? (admit it,…
Iraq's Acceptance, Consumer Spending Help Boost Apple's Stock 4.55%
I raqis official acceptance of the U.N. resolution demanding access for weapons inspectors helped set the markets on fire. Worry exists that Iraq will continue the same delaying games and rites of obfuscation that it engaged in throughout the 1990s, but todayis markets chose to focus on the positive. Added to this was good news…
BusinessWeek Says Apple More Innovative Than [Microsoft]
BusinessWeek has been publishing Byte of the Apple by Charles Haddad for the last two years or so. Because of Mr. Haddad’s columns, many of BusinessWeek’s readers have been exposed to positive coverage of Apple, as well as honest criticisms of the company. Coming at a time when BusinessWeek was not known for its Mac-friendliness,…
QuickTime & Kevin Spacey Help New Writers Through TriggerStreet
C |Net News is reporting some good news for wannabe screenwriters and story tellers. Kevin Spacey and his business partner, Dana Brunetti, have opened a Web site for express purpose of giving movie makers and screen writers outside of Hollywood a means of getting their work seen by peers, and others in the movie-making business.…
Apple Adds "The Apple Glossary" To Online Knowledge Base
In a rather unique attempt to provide users with the end-all be-all guide to computer terms, Apple has posted the Apple glossary to their Knowledge Base. The A-Z document covers a wide range of topics about a wide range of hardware…for a wide range of user level. It seems to try to provide more than…
RUN! The Redmond Invasion Has Just Begun...Again!
I n Eight-Legged Freaks, (Yeah, I watched it. What of it?) Doug E. Doug plays a paranoid renegade radio owner/operator/host of a nameless radio show on which he relates his latest theories on alien abduction and government cover-ups. I thought of that while reading about how the governmentis case against Microsoft and its monopolistic practices…
Esquire Magazine Names Apple's Head Designer Among "Best & Brightest Who Will Revolutionize The World"
Apple’s head industrial designer, Jonathan Ive, has been the recipient of numerous awards since the introduction of the Bondi-Blue iMac. Today, Esquire Magazine has given him a new one. The men’s magazine has included Mr. Ive in a list of what it says are the 43 "Best and Brightest People Who Will Revolutionize the World."…
Microsoft Compares MovieMaker To iMovie, "Innovates" By Adding FireWire Support
This just in from the "Whoda Thunk?" Department, Microsoft has added features to its iMovie rip-off MovieMaker that iMovie has had for two years. MovieMaker is the consumer digital video editing software that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates audaciously called innovative when it was announced several months after Apple released iMovie. The company has released a…
Microsoft Scores Sweeping Victory In Antitrust Ruling, Business-As-Usual For The Software Giant
I n what is already being heralded as a sweeping victory for Microsoft, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has ruled that most of the provisions in the settlement worked out between the Bush administrationis DoJ, 9 of the original suing states, and Microsoft is "in the public interest," and acceptable. Judge Kollar-Kotelly had been presiding over the…
The Hunted, Treasure Planet, & Pixar's New Movie Trailer
< I>Every week, Vern Seward takes a look at Appleis latest offerings at the QuickTime Trailer site, letting your know whatis new. A good story has a way of hanging around for a very long time. The really good ones always manage to find a way to resurface, sometimes with a new twist, often with…
Apple Adds Canada To Free Jaguar For Teachers Program
Canadian teachers take note: Apple has added Canada to its program to give free copies of Jaguar to teachers. Apple launched such a program in the US earlier this month, and many Observers from other parts of the world have been asking if other countries will be included. Yesterday, Apple Canada’s Web site added a…
Dell iPod News Helps Push Apple To 9-Week High
N ews that Dell will be selling Appleis iPod, and official confirmation from Apple that Target will be doing the same thing, helped propel AAPL to a new 8-week high. According to News.com, Apple will be selling Windows iPods through its online Web site soon, and is already selling the MP3 players through its phone…
Apple Death Knell Counter
The Apple Death Knell Counter (ADKC) is a collection of death pronouncements for Apple throughout the years. Issued by journalists, analysts, pundits, business executives, and the like, there have been innumerable "Apple is dead," "Apple will soon be dead," and "Apple is dead if they don’t do this or that" statements issued by all sorts…
Apple Stock Watch - Weak Consumer Confidence Drags Techs, AAPL, & (Maybe) Interest Rates Lower
A weak Consumer Confidence rating for October helped drag the tech markets south in a Sherman-like sweep through Georgia. A trail of red tech stocks rotting in the wake was all that remained, but the smoke drifting from the wreckage was hope that the Fed would soon cut interest rates yet again. The CCI fell…
MR Stuff Brews Up A BeerMeister 2.0 Release
MR Stuff Shareware has released version 2.0 of BeerMeister, a shareware beer recipe organizer designed to help homebrewers organize and create beer recipes. BeerMeister is the easy way to organize your homebrewing recipes. Developed by a homebrewer for homebrewers, it is a full-featured database designed explicitly for the needs of brewers. BeerMeister is fully searchable.…
eBay Patent Case Develops, Business Process Disputes At Issue
News.com is reporting on a series of developments in a patent dispute between eBay and MercExchange. At issue are several patents filed by Tom Woolsten, founder of MercExchange, back in 1995 — several months before the creation of eBay. These patents describe "methods of creating and searching online marketplaces and auctions." This case, among others,…
The Back Page - Microsoft Can't Even Be Original When It Illegally Advertises
In April and May of 2001, IBM launched a campaign that I personally found to be reprehensible. The company paid guerilla marketing companies to deface sidewalks and other public property with advertisements for its Linux campaign. "Peace, Love, and Linux," was the name of the campaign, and this was symbolized by chalk art and other…
Cool Waste Of Time - Steve Jobs Vs. Bill Gates On GoogleFight - Bill's In The Lead
We have TMO forum mod CrazyOne to blame for this, but there’s a dandy little Web site that offers a grand opportunity to waste some time. A sight called GoogleFight allows you to enter two search terms and see how many search results each of them returns on Google. For instance, if you enter the…