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The Stock Marketis Catch-22: Many market observers see the stock market in a no win situation. If Alan Greenspan gets his way and the Federal Reserveis interest rate hikes cool the economy it will mean lower earnings for many companies. This could hit high flying tech stocks hardest, since we all know what happens if…

Did you know that Napster has a company song? It goes: "Iim fighting for freedom. Trade laws? We donit need iem! Especially when living in the Information Age." While having a company fight song is an embarrassment in itself, whatis really horrible is that the folks at Napster donit believe a word of it. Like…

Design and creative professionals from around the world will gather in Boston this September for the “Creating for the Web” conference to be held September 28-30 at the Hynes convention center in downtown Boston. The conference will educate all levels of graphic designers and web site developers on the latest tools and techniques for creating…

Nokia (NOK), the worldis largest mobile-telephone maker, led the tech stocks lower after beating earnings estimates with a 62% surge in pretax profits, but then predicted earnings would slow going forward. A skittish Wall Street punished the stock cutting it back by 14 9/16 to 41 1/4. In Finland where Nokia is the largest stock…

The Wall Street Journal chimed in, "Investors are worried about continued growth in corporate profits if the U.S. economy cools down. Bonds edged higher and the dollar was mixed." Even in the latest quarterly results period where earnings are generally better than expected on the surface, with closer inspection many of the results announced have…

MACW ORLD is over, the dust has settled, and it is time to take a look back and try to figure out what it is that exactly happened. There are some obvious things, like the long overdue announcement of a new mouse and keyboard. And not only did they announce a new mouse, it is…

Havi ng missed MACWORLD SF 2000, the last Expo I attended was in New York last year. Upon walking into the Javits this time around, I immediately felt the Expo was huge. It takes up both sides of one floor of the Javits Center as it did last year, but this year itis full. Really…

CNET news reports that some analysts think the new dual processor Power Mac G4 is going to flop. Weire making a list of those analysts and checking it twice, in case the occasion arises in the next few quarters to recall who has been naughty and who been right. ; – ) In other news:…

Finally, what appears to be the answer to every abandoned QuickBooks useris prayers! MYOB held a press conference at MACWORLD Expo today to show off their new product, Account Edge. With this product, MYOB is now catering to the small business crowd using a “non-accountants” approach and streamlined interface. Perhaps accounting will once again be…

Mr. Greenspanis original words always deserve close inspection by serious investors. In essence, Mr. Greenspan said he believes that the economy shows signs of slowing as interest rates have been pushed to the highest level in almost a decade. However, he didnit rule out the possibility that more rate hikes may be appropriate later this…

Mr. Jobs announced refreshed product families that account for 75% of the companyis unit volume and a fifth element — the Power Mac G4 Cube — was added to the Macintosh four quadrant hardware strategy. Did we mention two new models of G4s, the first ever PC to come standard with dual processors? Not to…

MP3 Rage 2.6 change history: Added Volume Adjuster feature to analyze MP3 files and automatically adjust the volume of each MP3 file so they all play at a similar sound level. This also supports specifying a reference file so you can have the volume of each MP3 file adjusted to play at a sound level…

For those in the local area, you may entertain the thought of driving in the city, but your humble author definitely doesnit recommend it. Once you see how people drive around here, and notice the amazing lack of parking, youill understand why. Best to take advantage of the train and subway service offered by the…

<body> MACWORLD Expo kicked off today with the fun filled Warm Up Rally. With over 400 vendors, and show goers from 70 countries, this expo promises to be memorable. Expo director Paul Kent started things of with a near immediate reference to forthcoming hardware announcements at tomorrowis big keynote speech. Although he did not offer…

Keyspan has let The Mac Observer know that they will be showing two FireWire products at this weekis MACWORLD Expo. The company will be showing a FireWire CardBus card for laptops and a FireWire PCI card for Desktop Macs and PCs alike. According to Keyspan: Keyspan (Booth 1419) will announce and demo two brand new…

. Appleis stock continued to trend higher. Tomorrow after the bell Apple reports earnings. Analysts expect our favorite computer company to meet or beat earnings expectations of $0.44 per share and to report higher gross margins. The Mac Observer will have a preview of Appleis earnings tomorrow morning, followed by a report after the conference…

The second broadcast of the MacOS Radio Network will begin tomorrow at a special time, 3:55 pm Eastern Time (the time change is to accomodate host and guest travel to MacWorld … the broadcast will return to its regular time of 6:55 pm Eastern Time next week). The broadcast will include Gretchen Steckel, Channel Manager…

Last August, Ambrosia Software, Inc. threw down the gauntlet by stating that it would force Marketing Director Jason Whong to eat real insects if any Fall/Winter 1999 or Spring 2000 Ambrosia product shipped with bugs. The moment of truth has arrived, and it looks like Mr. Whong will have a full plate of creepy crawlies…