Year: 2001

Planet Rainbow Six has released a Mac demo of Black Thorn, the upcoming expansion pack for the anti-terrorist combat game, Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear. The demo requires a full version of Rogue Spear. MacSoft, the Mac publisher of Rogue Spear, has not confirmed whether Black Thorn will be released for the Mac.

In one of its many efforts to curtail spending, Amazon.com has spent much of 2001 migrating some of its systems from Windows to Linux. In the most request quarter, Amazon spent US$54 million on technology, down from $71 million during the year-ago period, a drop of nearly 25 percent. The company remains tight-lipped on how exactly it’s using the open-source operating system that lacks licensing fees.

Extensis today announced that it has sold its Creativepro.com vertical portal to PrintinfforLess.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “PrintingForLess.com is very excited to enter the media arena through theacquisition of creativepro.com,” said Andrew Field, Founder and President ofPrintingForLess.com in statement.

The Apple Store is now taking orders for the iDVD 2 software upgrade, and is showing a two-day estimated ship time for the product. The upgrade includes “a DVD disk with all upgrade installers; includes the application with all new motion and audio themes, plus new tutorial sample files (the downloadable version of iDVD 2 does not include the themes or tutorial.).” iDVD 2 requires Mac OS X 10.1. The software was originally expected to ship in September.

Netscape has released Netscape 6.2 for Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X, as noted by VersionTracker. Changes and improvements with this version are not yet known.