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Why does Mr. Galloway suspect Macsoft? The company, which is a leader in publishing Mac ports of PC games, recently announced a mammoth deal with Take Two. It will publish Tropico, Fly! II, and Myst III, among other highly-anticipated titles. While most Mac Web sites reported this as a major coup for Macsoft, few immediately…

Ms. Herera noted that Dell Computer had so far resisted the move to open its own retail stores, unlike Gateway and Apple, and asked Mr. Dell if his company would ever consider doing so. “No, you know, we figured out 10 or 15 years ago that you don’t need stores to sell computers,” replied Mr.…

Casady & Greene announced today the release of Zone Warrior II, version 2.0.2, for Mac OS 7-9.1. Zone Warrior II is a 3D space flight simulator in which you, the pilot, defend your space station from attack by blasting away incoming asteroids and enemy ships. The game has over 100 levels and offers intense action…

Mr. Jobs said that Appleis goal was to locate their stores in high-traffic gathering places where those people (the other 95 out of 100) were concentrated. "Weire going to make it so that those customers only have to walk a few feet into our store," he said. "Once they get in our store, weire going…

MacPlay 2001 Summer Line-UpBalduris Gate II: Shadows of AmnThis critically acclaimed RPG of the year is progressing at a rapid rate thanks to Chris Jacobson of MumboJumbo Games. Balduris Gate II: Shadows of Amn will “officially” enter the beta testing phase pending the inclusion of GameRanger support. We fully anticipate receiving a GM candidate in…

Itis possible that most of our readers may not be familiar with your company, could you give us a bit of its background? Well, we are located in Tokyo, Japan and have eight employees. The company was established in 1994. Besides Cookieis Bustle, we develop two other non-game products for the Japanese market. Was this…

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…