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Effective immediately, LaCie announced an end user price of only $299 — after $30 rebate — on the firmis high-performance 16x10x40x CD-RW drive that features”BURN-Proof” (Buffer Under RuN) technology. Equipped with LaCieis unique U&I interface, the new drives are the first true 16X CD-RW drives to offer both Universal Serial Bus (USB) and FireWire (IEEE…

"Even though the earnings that are going to come out in this next quarter are pretty weak, thereis a sense that maybe tech land is bottoming out," said Michelle Clayman, chief investment officer at New Amsterdam Partners. IBM is about to announce a new technology that will increase processor speeds by up to 30-35% without…

Blueberry iMac "Sapphire" E-Power

Version 3.6 of FUNDimensions fundraising software is now shipping, with a new integrated word processor and other features.The word processor is an optional plug-in that facilitates mail merge by making database information readily within the word processing environment. To add a donoris name, gift amount or any other information to a word processing document, you…

If you are reading this site, you probably do not need any convincing of the PowerMac G4 Cubeis stunning style. Despite poor sales, the machine generates a relatively high “drool factor” in those that see it. The photographers and Web site designers at Dessy, a company that makes bridesmaid dresses, agree. For at least one…

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…

Volume was light on both the Dow and the Nasdaq as the selling sent the Nasdaq off by 3% and the Dow by 1.35%. Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of the PC hardware sector today. The firm offered Dell a fat "Recommended" rating, while Apple, Gateway, and Compaq all got "Market Outperform" ratings. Our old friend…

Steve Jobs demonstrates wireless connectivity through AirPort. This is merely a screen shot, for the real movie, hit the link below.

Apple today announced that its first two retail locations welcomed over 7700 people and sold a combined total of $599,000 of merchandise during their first two day weekend. The stores, located in Glendale, California and McLean, Virginia are the first of 25 stores the company is opening across the U.S. in 2001. “We are blown…

iPeople are looking ahead for when earnings are going to turn, because it appears the Fed is insistent on getting the economy moving," said John Davidson, chief investment officer at Circle Trust Co., which has $8 billion under management. "People believe this is eventually going to work." All of the stocks we track in he…

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…

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…

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…

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,…