Year: 2001

MacMinute’s Executive Briefing for July 14 — a recap of all the news we have posted over the past week — is now available. If you think you may have missed something, here is your chance to catch up…

CNN is carrying an interesting article about the issue of movies being pirated online. Napster has received the brunt of the attention surrounding the trading of copyrighted music via the Internet, but movies are also an issue.

VersionTracker notes the release of Autodessys formZ 3.8.0g3, a 3D modeling and rendering application from autodessys, Inc. Changes in this update are not noted.

Business Wire has posted Exhibitor Profiles for thirty companies who will be showing at Macworld Expo next week in New York City. The report provides a small description of each along with booth numbers, contact information, Web site addresses and more. MacMinute will be covering the show of course, with news and multimedia features direct from The Big Apple. Stay tuned!

In a report sent to clients (not available to the public), Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Fortuna says the brokerage firm expects sales of iBooks to remain strong as Apple readies a 14-inch display iBook that they expect will be introduced at Macworld Expo next week. In late May, c|net quoted a source at AlphaTop, the manufacturer of Apple’s iBooks, as saying that a new iBook with a widescreen display and colored case was in the works. Apple denied the report.