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Mr. Zaret says that AOL needs a media player of its own to leverage all the music, movies, and other entertainment titles AOL/Time Warner own. With QuickTime being one of the best on the market, owning Apple offers AOL the best way to fight Microsoft and the Windows Media player. Besides, the iMac could sold…

. The Mac Observer (TMO): It is clear to see from your strips that you are not only a Mac user, but also a Mac supporter. When did you get your first Mac, and what do you use now? Bill Amend: When I was a kid our family had an Apple II+, then after college…

The effect on todayis overall trading was dubbed The Cisco Effect and most technology stocks closed in negative territory. Bargain hunters helped pick many stocks off their lows in late afternoon trading. Of the stocks we track in the Apple Stock Watch, only IBM and Microsoft traded higher. Microsoftis stock benefitted from speculation that the…

Appleis strong cash position was also cited. Mr. Lemonides said that Apple currently had some US$15 per share in hard assets, including the US$4 billion in cash on hand. This means that if the company was shut down in order to sell itis physical properties, the sale would result in some US$15 per share to…

Also impacting computer hardware stocks was Sun Microsystems. Sun announced a new initiative called OpenNet that is designed to compete with Microsoftis .Net. Note the thinly veiled attack on Microsoftis proprietary approach. Sunis CEO Scott McNealy has a long running nasty relationship with Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer. The two companies…

Officially, Dr. Amelio is joining the ADCis Board of Directors, but the companyis press release says that is "expected" that he will take the mantle of Chairman and CEO after negotiations are completed. Dr. Amelio was the CEO of Apple for some 15 months in 1996 and 1997, having taken over after taking over from…

Steven Wozniak of Los Gatos, Calif., who founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1977 to manufacture and distribute their invention, the first ready-made personal computer. Since retiring from business, he has worked on charitable projects on the arts and expanding computer literacy. The $250,000 award, bestowed annually by the Heinz Family Foundation since 1993,…

Created by Kelly Advertising & Marketing in 1977 – before the Apple logo with rainbow colors! – this one is a gem. As a side note, we were told that the creator of the rainbow logo, named Rob Janoff, illustrated the famous Apple from a bowl of fruit, while Jobs had the idea… Kelly Advertising…

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,…

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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…