Friday, May 07, 2004
Top Stories
Apple Details More Job Cuts
A restructuring at Apple that began last quarter will result in additional job cuts this year, the Mac maker said in a regulatory filing Thursday.
News
Mum's The Word On The Man Behind Apple's iPod
The iPod was developed by a man with roots in suburban Detroit. Except he can't talk about it under an Apple company policy that avoids focusing attention on individual rather than corporate accomplishments — except when it's the company's charismatic and, some say, egocentric chief executive officer, Steve Jobs, who's doing the talking.
Highlights From Apple's Quarterly SEC Filing
After Effects On The Mac: Adobe Weighs In
Five questions with Steve Kilisky, After Effects product manager.
Opinion
MPEG-4 Is Dead; Hardware Loses And Firmware Wins
Hardware is irrelevant now; firmware is king.
Could A Worm On A Mac Or Linux Ever Get Traction?
The lack of targets is probably the reason why nobody writes mail worms for these platforms.
Review
iPod Means That iCan't Hear You — And iLike It
Despite the lack of lows and the excess upper end, I really like the fidelity of the new earphones. It's just that you have to be somewhere quiet when listening to them.
Sidetrack
Pixar Animation has announced, reports the BBC, "that for the first quarter of 2004 its net income rose to $26.7m from $8.2m in the same period last year. The San Francisco-based firm thanked the continuing popularity of the film, ["Finding Nemo"], on DVD.