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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…

New Ceres Solutions today announced the release 1.2 of NCS MagiSign, its collection of plug-inis for Adobe Illustrator 8.0 and 9.0, and that SignofNCS, its first collection of plug-inis for Adobe Illustrator, will now be available as a free download on its web site ). French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian language versions of SignofNCS will…

As has already been reported, the invitations have the Apple logo on the front in the form of a bar code, and the announcement of the companyis first store which opens in McLean, Va. on May 19th. Ms. Wells also reports that the store will "most likely" be modeled after the company store at Appleis…

Intel Corporation today introduced the Xircom SpringPort(tm) Wireless Ethernet module, the first wireless local area network (WLAN) device for the Handspring(tm) Visor(tm) handheld computer. The new module complements Intelis existing line of WLAN products and is the first product announced after the companyis acquisition of Xircom. Slightly smaller than a deck of cards, the module…

Important Information for Our Customers Casady & Greene, Inc. will cease publication of SoundJam MP as of June 1, 2001 at the request of the developers. We believe that SoundJam MP will continue to give our customers long and useful service, and, in keeping with our philosophy of putting our customers first, Casady & Greene…

Sapphire Innovations, today announced Sapphire Pack 4, a new 10-in-1 plugin for Illustrator 8/9. 10 new additions to the Illustrator toolbox in one: Drag paths or selected paths to duplicate rows and columns of paths create a checkerboard of paths create circular patterns .. and repeat Drag/scale/bounce/twists and turns… and more. spirals random paths for…

Unlike todayis PDAs, a category of devices that the Newton itself gave birth too, the Newton was a true handheld computer. It did just about everything, including handwriting recognition at a time when Macs and PCs were running at 33 MHz, and while that made the Newton extraordinary, it also helped doom it to the…

All of us geeks or wannabe geeks tend to get hung up in technical details, like the number of ports, specific megahertz, blah blah blah. And even there, the iBook is doing well. But what counts is this: A very great number of people have been pining for an Apple portable but not gotten one,…

Apple® today announced an agreement with Henrico County Public Schools to supply 23,000 iBooks™ to the district. This initiative will give every middle and high school student and teacher access to their own laptop computer with plans to eventually provide every teacher and student throughout the district with an iBook. "This is the mammoth–the single…

Apple? today announced that QuickTime 5, Appleis industry-leading software for creating, playing and streaming high-quality audio and video over the Internet, has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times during its first week of availability. QuickTime 5 is available as a free download to Mac and Windows users at www.apple.com/quicktime. “QuickTime 5is quality, speed and…

Magellan 1.8.2 is minor update of Magellan 1.8.1: Major changes are: Better mailer compatibility of non ascii language. Speeding up for non roman languages. Fully Ukrainian supported. bug fixes. Features: Send and receive multilingual e-mail. Any languages will correctly be sent and received. Send and receive e-mail message containing any plural languages. Not only unicode…

Observers Lex Jenkins and Fred Turner each sent us some great scans of Appleis advertising from this year. In particular we love the ad for the Mac IIfx. The Mac IIfx was one of the most powerful computers of its day. It was also a truly innovative computer for the time, and we might remind…

The PandaWare Company has released an update to TimeCache, its popular time and expense tracking application for Macintosh users who bill clients for project work. PandaWare(r) TimeCache(tm) 4.07 includes a number of improvements, a new feature and bug fixes. Features: TimeCache makes it easy to enter data. It has an “Enter Job” window where you…

Apple has announced the much anticipated release of the next version of their multimedia player, QuickTime 5. QuickTime 5 is the latest upgrade to Appleis popular and powerful QuickTime technology. Version 5 shipped with Mac OS X, but this announcement marks the availability of QuickTime 5 for Mac OS 9 and Windows. Apple has also…

Eolake Stobblehouse [TMO]: David, you have long been a best-selling author of Mac books like iMac for Dummies and Mac Secrets. Now you write books about Palm and Windows too, and the latest is that you have become a New York Times columnist. Congrats on that. Tell us a bit about how you got that…

There is a war brewing, on these shores and abroad, that threatens our most basic need for security and autonomy. On one side is a tremendous superpower wielding political might with all the subtlety of a Cosa Nostra henchman. Squaring off against this formidable behemoth is a similarly large collective whose processes, shrouded in mystery…

when Apple announced the company had seen a major decrease in sales during the beginning of the December quarter (Appleis 1st fiscal quarter). The consensus since that announcement is that Mr. Mandich was ousted from his position, though Apple has been playing it straight. Mr. Mandich has apparently decided that he would rather rid himself…

Currently, the stand alone product is priced at US$499. Adding it to the high-end PowerMac G4 models will now cost US$250 extra (in place of a GeForce2MX), while adding it to the low end model will cost US$350 (in place of the less expensive ATI Rage 128 Pro). NVIDIAis Web site does not have pricing…

With the further weakness in consumer PC demand in March, we see moderate risk that Apple Computer will fall short of its heavily sought goal of a "slight profit" in the March quarter and see high risk that Apple will fall short of consensus estimates for the June quarter. We are maintaining our Street-low March…

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Group Logic, the leading vendor of network workflow software and services to the print media industry, announced today that it has released version 4.0 of its MassTransit Enterprise file transfer, remote proofing, and remote workflow software for beta testing by leading print media companies. The new product will be demonstrated at booth #2028 at Seybold…

Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I by himself motivated by the desire to make something he could show his geek buddies. Steve Jobs was able to sell 50 of the machines to a local computer store (one of the only ones in the country at that point), and Apple Computer was born. Back to CNBC:…

4D SA, publishers of the 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment and WebSTAR Server Suite, announced today that it has bundled Adobe? GoLive(tm) 5.0 software with several of its products to provide complete Web Server Solutions which will enable the integration of dynamic database content into HTML pages created with Adobe GoLive 5.0. The products bundled with…