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iBrotha: Be Incorporated, the creator of the BeIA and BeOS operating systems, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its intellectual property and technology assets to Palm, Inc. The purchase price is $11 million, to be paid in common stock of Palm, which Be currently intends to liquidate as soon as…

I have a big complaint about the Apple Store. No, itis not about the products in stock. I love the fact that this is a store where thereis nothing but things Macintosh. Itis not about the employees. What better way to sell Macs than to staff the store with energetic Mac users? No, itis not…

Huge Mac sighting! Just got back from the movies, and away we go! American Pie 2 – Jim (the nerdy guy) has what appears to be either a 7100, 8100, or Desktop G3 at his home, and a Grape iMac in his college dorm. The first one was also seen in the first movie. Trailer/Teaser…

Just got the e-mail a little bit ago. Apple has officially closed the CQF program. Here is the main snippet: "Apple thanks you for your loyalty and participation in the Customer Quality Feedback Program (CQF). CQF was a part of Appleis Hardware Engineering Division. Recently, Apple has decided to permanently discontinue the CQF Program and…

SETI@home is a research project from some graduate students at UC Berkeley who are taking data from a radio telescope in Peurto Rico and searching for a signal that might be coming from another planet. The researchers made a breakthrough in what is called distributed processing and broke that data up into 350K chunks that…

While you are checking out this movie, notice the controls in the upper right hand of the movie. Those allow you to stop the animation, play it again, or to step forward and backward, frame by frame.

Iid swallow my class envy and spend a few hours with the "cheese eaters," shocking my digestive system by imbibing "adult beverages" that didnit, for once, come from bottles with screw-off caps commonly sold in six packs for a buck-ninety-five. Couple this with suffering hours of listening to people with way too much disposable income…

The movie is 45 seconds in length, with a total file size of 1.1 MB. The audio sounds like it was recorded with an on-board condensor-mic inside a hugely crowded Mall, but thatis only because it was. Inside The Mall of America Apple Store <embed src=”https://homepage.mac.com/tmo12/.Movies/RodneyInterview.mov” width=”260″ height=”200″ autoplay=”true” controller=”true” cache=”true”></p>

Uh oh! Whatis this? It turns out you are *still* in that line that stretches 3 times around the Mall of America! Or maybe you live in Oklahoma where there isnit much chance that you will get an Apple Store within a dayis drive. Maybe you just canit get to one of the locations that…

Whatis that? You werenit there? Or, if you were, you were the guy at the very end of the line who had to wait for 3 hours to get in, and you couldnit even hear the cheer when the gate went up? Never fear, because we bring you another great movie from Observer André Benassi…

The movie is 1 minute and 56 seconds in length, with a total file size of 6.3 MB. The Line at The Mall of America Apple Store <embed src=”https://homepage.mac.com/tmo10/.Movies/TheLine10AM.mov” width=”260″ height=”200″ autoplay=”true” controller=”true” cache=”true”></p>

Observer André Benassi (or Retro as we call him the TMO Forums), an engineer from Minneapolis, attended this weekendis opening of the Apple Store in The Mall of America with Rodney O. Lain and Randy Hanson and offers the following images from the store opening. This series includes the first three people in line, some…

For example, Observer “mambamac” alerted us to a link at The Register containing hilarious QuickTime footage of M$ CEO Steve Ballmer doing an ugly imitation of “Thade” from Tim Burtonis “Planet of the Apes.” After viewing this, you will agree that no Micro$oft devotee should ever again utter a single disparaging word against the Mac…

Intel is reportedly about to initiate a price war against AMD that sent shudders through the chip sector today. Dan Niles of Lehman Brothers issued a report this morning saying that Intel would be making a move to recapture lost market share from AMD this Fall. From a Reuters report: For those who thought the…

What: Adobe will present the latest information about their extensive line of products at the August meeting of the Houston Area Apple Users Group.When: Saturday, August 18, 2001, 9 AM – 4PM, the Main Presentation begins at 11:00AM.Where: Rice University Campus, Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium. See http://dacnet.rice.edu/maps/space/, then select “Duncan Hall” for directions. The primary…

The show started off with the MACWORLD Expo keynote by Steve Jobs, and included footage of Mr. Jobs, the new PowerMac G4s, OS X 10.1, iDVD2, and more. Interviews with people waiting for the keynote, and from attendees after the keynote, followed. From there, the showis hosts gave us a our of the QuickSilver PowerMac…

Kaidan Incorporated announced today panoramic tripod head support for Nikonis popular Coolpix 880 digital camera and Nikonis latest high-end prosumer digital camera, the Nikon Coolpix 995. With the introduction of the Kaidan KiWi 995, KiWi 880 and corresponding upgrade kits, content creation professionals, web developers and photographers can create immersive imaging content with a variety…

The world was created in 7 days, VistaPro can do it in 7 seconds. VistaPro is an ultra fast landscape generating program that uses DEMs (Digital Elevation Maps) to turn 2D topographical data, into beautiful 3D terrains. Create scenic fly-throughs, explore distant planets, or create your own landscapes all in a fractal of a minute.”Full…

Sure, the increased speed of the new 867MHz G4s could make a slight difference. But there goes Jobs again, saying something that is simply not true: 867 MHz G4s are not "available now" as he exhorted to the adoring crowd, resulting in considerable ooo-ing and ahhhh-ing. A quick phone call to the Apple Store reveals…

Appleis stock squeaked out a 2 cent gain or 0.10% to close at 19.98 on volume of 7.8 million shares. All totaled AAPL delivered its worst MWNY week performance in memory, falling over 22% since Tuesday. In the Mac media, pundits are bitterly arguing whether the Mac faithful expect too much from Mac World Expositions…

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Mac game industry-heavyweight Macsoft is enjoying the release of its country-building simulation Tropico as well as the announcement that the company will publish Duke Nukem Forever. Tropico, which shipped last Wednesday, puts you in control of a small “remote Carribean island. (No, we did not say Cuba, thank you very much.) Playing the role of…

Chaotic Software just released MP3 Rage 3.6 to add support for ID3v2.4 tags, improve renaming for cross-platform use, and improve usage on Mac OS X.MP3 Rage 3.6 change history:Added support for ID3v2.4 tags.Add support stripping diacritics and removing non-standard characters when renaming files.Added support for live window resizing on Mac OS X.MP3 Rage is the…

Mr. Jobs followed that up by asking the reporter "Do you know who the biggest supporter of the Mac is at Microsoft? Itis Bill Gates." Observer Call: We missed part of the CNNfn article. If you saw more of it and can add details about the interview, please post it in the comments.