Monday, May 20, 2002
Top Stories
Computers The Apples Of Auburn's 'i'
Two months after the laptops arrived and just about a month before the school year ends, teachers, parents and kids are calling the program a huge success.
Apple Releases 700MHz iBook
Apple today updated its iBook with double the on-chip level 2 cache, a more powerful ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processor, larger hard drives and one model that includes a 700MHz G3 processor.
News
Apple UK's Retail Strategy Pays Off As Sales Increase
A report by IDC showed a massive 21.2 per cent year-on-year growth in the company's unit sales. This means APple's share of the UK PC market in the first quarter of 2002 jumped to 3.2 per cent, compared with 2.5 per cent last year.
Apple Market Share: Shift, But No Increase
Apple has taken bold steps in a number of directions. But so far it has seen little change in its customer demographics.
Apple's Bluetooth Adaptor Delayed 'Indefinitely'
Apple has cancelled customer orders for the USB Bluetooth adaptor, the availability of which it said has been delayed indefinitely.
Apple Releases 700MHz iBook
Apple today updated its iBook with double the on-chip level 2 cache, a more powerful ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processor, larger hard drives and one model that includes a 700MHz G3 processor.
Potent Laptops Shove Desktops Aside
As more people grow accustomed to powerful laptops with big screen and fast microprocessors, they will begin to accept them as outright replacements for old-style computers that take up so much space.
Smiles For Some But Tough For Others
New features in the Mac OS X systems like iDVD, iTunes, iMovie and iPhoto did the trick.
Opinion
Apple Laces Up Its Wing Tips
The only question is whether it's enough tiger power to get Apples arriving at offices in white boxes rather than brown bags.
No G4 iBooks, But A Decent Revision Nonetheless
What bothers us is the continued use of the G3 processor and the inability to take full advantage of Quartz Extreme.
Can Microsoft Throw A Monkey Wrench Into The AoL And Apple Relationship?
Sidetrack
Innovation in marketing, or how to sell leftover stuff that nobody eats? :-)
My MP3 player's supposedly-random playlist is mainly playing from my "Little Shop of Horrors" tracks. Maybe it is telling me something...
Are you afraid of death? I am... After all, who is going to maintain this weblog and who, more importantly, is going to pay the bills?
Wintel
Xbox Online Pricing Set
Microsoft will spend $2 billion in its effort to make Xbox the leading video game console, a company executive said Monday.
Dell Vets Get Behind Tablet PC
A group of former Dell Computer executives is putting in motion a new company to tackle the tablet PC market.
Microsoft's $1 Billion Bet On Xbox Network
On Monday, Microsoft will annnounce the next big gamble: an ambitious billion-dollar-plus investment in an online game service to be called Xbox Live.
Prisoners Go To Work For Dell
The PC giant is cutting another corner by employing prisoners to handle its new consumer recycling scheme in the US.