Metricom, which provides high-speed wireless access in several metropolitan areas across the US, has filed for bankruptcy. The company plans to keep its 41,000 customers online, although it’s unclear for how long. In May, Metricom, which has never been profitable, announced it would need $500 million in cash to sustain its operations. The company evidently failed to raise the needed capital.
Read More[ANNOUNCE] BEST HACK CONTEST RESULTS FROM MACHACK 2001
The MacHax(tm) Group announces the results from the
Fifteenth Annual MacHax Best Hack Contest at MacHack 2001.
In its sixteenth year, MacHack convened one minute after midnight on June
24, 2001 for another solid 72 hours of sleep deprivation, hacking,
networking, and other dubiously-caffeinated endeavors.
The Macintosh Developer Center releases updated SysMenu, Droplet Builder,
and new Resources section of web site.
For immediate release
NICE, FRANCE – July 2, 2001 – The Macintosh Developer Center
(http://www.tmdc.org/) has announced updated versions of its two popular
utilities Droplet Builder and SysMenu. In addition to this, the new
Resources section of their web site debuts today.
TMDC Droplet Builder, now reaching version 2.0, is a utility for creating
droplets. Droplets are small applications that can perform a variety of
repeated tasks on files and folders dropped onto them.
More than 50% of Mac OS platform developers who attended the WWDC 2001
conference plan to release a Mac OS X product within the next six months,
according to a survey conducted by Apple.
Survey results showed that 29% plan to release Mac OS X software within one
to three months and 26% intend to release a product within four to six
months.