IBM and Hitachi recently announced plans to combine their hard drive operations and create a separate joint venture company. In a related move the two have also agreed to a multi-year alliance to research and develop new technologies for next-generation storage. The creation of the new company will include components from all levels of IBM…
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Apple's Ad Agency Founder, Jay Chiat, Passes At Age 70
In 1984 the advertising agency, Chiat-Day, helped launch Apple’s new Macintosh computer with the now famous ‘1984’ commercial during the Super Bowl. The rest, as they say, is history. On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, Jay Chiat died of cancer in his home in California. A story in the Boston Globe had this to say: Chiat’s…
Apple CFO Fred Anderson Files To Sell 100,000 Shares Of Apple Stock
F red Anderson, the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Apple, has filed to sell 100,000 shares of his Apple holdings. According to a Dow Jones report, Mr. Anderson planned on selling the stock on Tuesday. Executives of publicly held corporations are required to disclose their stock transactions in SEC filings, including the…
Font Utility Update From Vizspring
Vizspring Software has released an update for Typeset, bringing it to version 1.1. Typeset is a text viewing utility designed for viewing custom fonts and logos. The update includes performance enhancements and bug fixes. According to Vizspring Software: Vizspring Software, a leader in quality shareware products for the Macintosh, released a major update their flagship…
"Creationist Site" Says: "Mac Users, You Are Godless Communists!"
R epent, sinners. Your Macintosh is a tool to promote Godless Communism and anti-Creationist "propaganda", according to an article at OBJECTIVE: Christian Ministries. Dr. Richard Paley, apparently "a teacher of Divinity and Theobiology at Fellowship University," starts out with discussions of the PBS series Evolution and Pokemon, and goes on to say: However, these propagandists…
Telecom Worries Rock The Market
Over the weekend representatives of the G7 nations met and agreed that a worldwide economic recovery is taking place. Indeed, except for international concerns over the impact of rising oil prices, finance ministers of the worldis wealthiest nations are optimistic that an economic rebound is taking hold. A quick look a the Dow Jones Industrial…
Cheap Digital Pix:Part 1
This isnit intended to be a review of cameras; my goal is to show you how you can get reasonably good quality digital pictures and video using equipment that cost a fraction of the cost of the tools usually considered for the purpose. I also want to be able to warn you of some of…
2nd Fiscal Quarter Review And Analysis
In the conference call with analysts following release of the quarterly numbers, Apple CFO Fred Anderson detailed for Wall Street and AAPL investors the factors which enabled the company to slightly exceed Wall Street estimates for the period that ended in March and why his revenue and earnings guidance concerning the current quarter and the…
Time Tracking App Updated From Malus
Malus Software released today Sambucus 2.0.1, the multi-tasks time-management application for the Macintosh. This new version fixes a bug that would crash the application when relocating the timer window accross multiple screens. It also tweaks the floating timer window to make it even smaller and give more control to the user over itis size and…
MacsDesign Studio Releases Web Help Desk 5.5
MacsDesign Studio today released Web Help Desk 5.5, a powerful web application for technical support designed for education and small to medium sized business customers. Built with the industry’s most powerful and mature application server, WebObjects 5.1 from Apple Computer, Web Help Desk 5.5 offers an intuitive web interface and an excellent feature set for…
Microsoft Pledges Continued Support For Apple
In 1997, Apple and Microsoft signed an agreement: Apple would make Internet Explorer the default Web browser on all new Macs, and Microsoft would continue their support for Office and other key applications. Additionally, Apple would drop a long-standing patent lawsuit, and Microsoft would buy $150 million in Apple shares. That agreement is set to…
SmarterChild: AIM-bot With Answers
I f youire an instant messenger junkie, youill probably get a kick out of ActiveBuddy, Inc.is SmarterChild. SmarterChild is an iinteractive agenti – an interface to a search engine, weather reports, cinema times and more – that understands your plain English requests, and delivers them right there in your chat window. All you need to…
Will Microsoft Abandon The Mac Platform? No Way!
For one thing, the MBU makes money for Microsoft. It makes a lot of money for the company. Microsoft likes to make money, and Microsoft is perpetually on a quest to increase its revenues. The companyis shareholders like for Microsoft to make money, too. Those shareholders might well question a move from the company that…
Pomp And Economic Circumstance
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) ended the day at 10381.73, up 173.06 in a broad-based rally sparked by investor interest in highly cyclical stocks. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index closed at 1767.07, up 24.50 on the day. Softness in software stocks limited the Nasdaqis gains. Weive heard the reports from various government agencies, Bush…
Time Tracking App Release From Malus
Malus Software released today Sambucus 2.0.0, the multi-task time-management application for the Macintosh. This new version is a major rewrite of version 1, integrating many user requests. Sambucus is a time-tracking application that is flexible and easy to use. It is aimed at freelancers, small buisnesses or anyone else who might have the need to…
Apple Claims To "Lead The Industry" In DVD Burning
Apple has released a press release designed to get a bit of free PR concerning its DVD-R products. In a release titled "Apple Leads the Industry in DVD Burning," the company is announcing that it has shipped more than 500,000 SuperDrive equipped iMacs and PowerMacs. More importantly, the company has also shipped more than 2…
Apple & Panasonic Announce FireWire In Professional Tape Decks, Support For 24 FPS Mini-DV Camcorder
Apple and Panasonic have jointly announced two important announcements at NAB for the Mac platform as a DV editing platform. First up is built in FireWire in two of Panasonic’s professional tape decks, the DVCPRO50 and DVCPRO HD. Panasonic also announced the AG-DVX100 24P mini-DV camcorder, which the company is touting as the first mini-DV…
Big Blues
The markets were sent into a tail-spin this morning by a profit warning from IBM. It was the first profit warning from Big Blue in over a decade. The global computer giant announced that quarterly revenue would be down over $1 billion from previous forecasts to about $18.6 billion and net earnings would be off…
Apple Prunes 375 Jobs, 50 More To Go
There are fewer sales and support folks at Apple these days, according to a C/NET article, which states that Apple cut 375 of those positions in the quarter ending in December of 2001. The C/NET article, by Ian Fired, titled Apple pares a small number of jobs, says: The cuts, which are the latest in…
TMO Short Take: Ozzy Osbourne, I. T. Job Security & The ?Ease of Use? Myth
Since I been in show business and got some money, I bought a house. First house I ever had, and those [expletive delete] can kill ya. Everything be $500 when [repairmen and salesmen] come to your house: "What you want is $500." I said, "I ainit even told you what I…" "I donit give a…
IRC 101: What Is It & How Do I Use It?
So you’ve got friends who’ve invited you to chat with them in IRC, but what is IRC? Neglected by many after the advent of AOL’s Instant Messenger service and its spin-offs, IRC is a gigantic and diverse chat community where people with common interests can chat on any topic imaginable. Once you learn the basics,…
Apple Buys FireWire Developer Zayante, & What It Means [Corrected]
[Editor’s Note: We originally reported USB 2.0, 1394a, and 1394b throughput incorrectly, as pointed out by Observers "algr" and Matt in the comments below. The article has been corrected with the proper figures.] Apple has announced a new acquisition today, the purchase of Zayante. Zayante is the developer of low-level FireWire technologies, including controlling software…
High Tech: Low Volume
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,198.29, off about 1.1% on the day. The Nasdaq Composite dropped to 1,784.35 and the Nasdaq 100 Index fell to 1,394.21. Both Nasdaq indicators mirrored the Dowis 1.1% decline. The tech market continues to suffer from low investor interest and concerns that recovery in the technology sectors will…
Search Google Service Menu Item Now Available
A simple background service to allow you to select text in (nearly) any application and press “Shift-Apple-G” to launch a Google search for that text. This release is context aware. When you select text from Project Builder, a browser opens up searching developer.apple.com instead of Google. You can define your own contexts (application-grain) and choose…