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Microsoft announced it would no longer be offering its trademarked US$400 rebate offers for signing up for MSN when purchasing a new computer. That immediately set off rumors of a buyout of Earthlink by MSN and ELNK became the only stock we track that closed higher. More information below. Apple has been slowly losing ground…

Part I of our analysis involves Appleis effort at delivering the message. Most of the meeting was spent giving the same presentation we saw in the keynote at MACWORLD San Francisco, though in a much more informal manner. The biggest difference in the two events was that Steve Jobsi was plagued by hardware difficulties with…

NVIDIA has made a big splash into the Macintosh market with the recent announcement that NVIDIA based graphics cards will be included in the higher end Power Macintosh G4 machines. Apple has long relied on ATI as the sole provider of for graphics acceleration. While Apple did not sign an OEM deal with the now…

All of the execs in attendance talked about the companyis efforts to reduce their inventory, control their, and ship the companyis new products now. Demand for the companyis new PowerBook G4 (which has begun shipping) and PowerMac G4 lines has been strong, and the company is on track to begin shipping the new high end…

Welcome back to Notes from the Henna Gaijin! This is the second article on how to travel to MACWORLD Conference & Expo/Tokyo 2001 for about the same cost as going to MACWORLD Expo San Francisco, and having a great time doing it. In this issue, we will cover getting to your hotel, an introduction to…

The results for the market were that many stocks were up, especially in the tech sector. Appleis stock took off early and never looked back, trading up more than 10% on almost twice the normal volume. Disney announced today that they would be terminating their Go.com "Internet Portal," and converting stock in that company into…

Buena Software, Inc. is pleased toannounce the release of Effects Pack 1 v1.5 today. This update to EffectsPack 1 increases the quality of the effects, and significantly increasesthe processing speed of the effects. Also included in this update issupport for the AltiVec unit for maximum processing speed on G4 basedcomputers when you purchase the full…

Iive heard many stories of techies around the world posting this in their local work areas and can imagine that this is happening even at Microsoft. I am not directly slandering the company or any of the products, just a totally fictional construct of my own. Disclaimer: Windows CE, Windows ME, and Windows NT are…

Ever viewed a movie in your browser, only to find out you could not save itto keep (i.e. donit have QuickTime Pro)? Ever wanted to browse your cacheand extract images, video, and text? Want to grab media files from internetweb sites (even if they are ilockedi)? WebXTractor (formerly just calledCacheXTractor) from Infamus Software allows you…

Have you ever had to call for tech support on a product only for them to ask you for your serial number or registration code or when you bought it? Have you ever visited a website where you needed to enter a user name and password to access some feature only to return at a…

Carrot Software is pleased to announce the latest release of MegaMinesweeper for the Mac OS. MMS is a modern version of minesweeper thatsupports extreme fields sizes, plug-in based themes and sounds, the abilityto save games, and much more. MMS is a carbonized application designed for OS X Public Beta, or OS8.6/9.x with the CarbonLib 1.2…

"The expectation is that the worst could very well be over and that results from here continue to go higher," said George Godfrey, an analyst at ING Barings, who rates the shares "buy." Not much happening on the Apple front other than rumors of an update to Mac OS X Server expected in the spring.…

Infamus Software has just released AlbumWrap (shareware) and AlbumWrapExtractor for Macintosh and Windows platforms:Ever been searching for several tracks from one album? Itis hard to find oneperson that has every track… Considering the quality, bit rate, anddownload speed you desire, the time it takes to complete the task isconsiderable. AlbumWrap archives solve this program by…

It offers a host of new features, some of which are outlined below: Mac OS 9 and OS X compatible. MediaPro is the only media browser capable of full PDF & EPS rendering. Other import formats include HTML, Quark, Canvas, Painter, Live Picture, Freehand, PageMaker, Illustrator, GIF, JPG, TIFF, PICT, GX, BMP, Targa, EPS, fonts,…

Caught you looking for the same thing. [But] itis a new thing. –Public Enemy, "Donit believe the hype"

Analysts had warned that without a version of Office, or a similar productivity suite, running natively under Mac OS X, Apple would face problems getting businesses to switch to the new operating system. "This is a very significant announcement for Apple," Gartner analyst Chris LeTocq said. "Frankly, this is the endorsement they needed." Until Wednesdayis…

Yesterdayis keynote speech included the pleasant surprise of brand new 733MHz G4 processors from Motorola. Rather than these chips simply being overclocked versions of the old chip (MPC7410), the new chip, the MPC7450, includes a host of new features and performance enhancements. Not only do the new chips run at a higher clock speed, but…

Ever since the introduction of FireWire-enabled Macs and iMovie, folks have had the ability to generate their own digital movies with relative ease. But this digital solution still leaves folks, especially those that donit have a computer, out of the action. There are many more people that have the ability to view good oli VCR…

Mr. Steinis game show on Comedy Central pits him against three players who win money for beating Ben to the buzzer with the correct answer to a variety of questions. That money comes from a pool of US$5000 that ostensibly belongs to Mr. Stein, hence the name of the show. The final round is comprised…

Power Windows is a small control panel that taps into your Macis unusedprocessor power to perform amazingly cool effects with windows and menus.Power Windows was originally conceived to let you drag the entire contentsof windows instead of just a dotted outline. It offers both solid andtranslucent window dragging, and you can even enable multitasking with…

The first Mac Show of the new millennium is certainly going to set astandard difficult for following shows to achieve!Not only is it the show before next weekis Macworld Expo in San Francisco,but itis also the traditional “Macluminaries Show”.5 of the most recognizable names in the Mac industry will join Shawn andHilary on Wednesdayis show.…

The Nasdaq owes todayis continued downtrend to investors dumping beaten down stocks in order to shave some taxes off their big capital gains made last spring. By the end of 2001 tech stocks should be partly recovered from the current bear market. However, there is at least another quarter of pain left for technology businesses…

Not much can be drawn from this weekis market performance. Institutional and private investors alike are rushing to square their portfolios for the year, emphasizing trends that may not hold in the new year. Appleis stock traded flat at 14 13/16 on volume of 5.4 million shares. With no sign of a pre-MacWorld bounce and…

On the bright side, in years of strong tax loss selling —such as 1994 — a true "January effect" often kicks in, powered by institutions plowing recently withdrawn capital back into beaten down stocks. Williams Co. (WMB), an energy trading company involved in the emerging bandwidth market, announced earnings well above Wall Streetis expectations. In…