Year: 2001

Corel has posted Bryce 5.0.1 an update to the 3D software that addresses a number of outstanding bugs with the software, as well as other improvements. Bryce is available for US$299.

On December 12, 1991, physicist Paul Kunz installed the first Web server in America on an IBM mainframe computer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Designed to give physicists around the world access to the university’s vast catalog of physics research information, Kunz had no idea then that the technology would spawn a new way of communication, commerce and communities for people worldwide.

Judge Frederick J. Motz, who is charged with deciding whether the US$1 billion settlement proposed by Microsoft is a fair agreement, has urged both sides in the suit to meet with a mediator in hopes of reaching an agreement outside the court, according to the Associated Press. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 18.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will present the Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote on Monday, January 7—a day earlier than previously scheduled—according to MacCentral. No reason was provided for the change in date.

Ircle 3.1b12 is the newest pre-release version of the popular IRC client for Mac OS 7.5 and later and Mac OS X. The new beta corrects a few bugs from the previous version; version 3.1 has been in development for more than two years and is expected to be completed before the end of the year. Ircle is US$15 shareware.