Japanese scientists at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan have discovered a way to bypass an optical-electricity bottleneck that slows down communications systems. According to an article in NewScientist, “Japanese scientists say their ‘optical transistor’ could eventually lead to all-optical networks that will dramatically improve the speed of Internet connections.
Read MoreAdaptec has posted driver update for their 2906 SCSI card. VersionTracker notes that Adaptec 2906 1.3 offers “added support for PowerManagement on the Power Macintosh G4s with 133 MHz system bus and 466, 533, 677, 733 MHz or faster G4 Processor. These systems can now go into ‘Deep Sleep’ mode when put to sleep and will awaken properly.”
Read MoreIomega has pulled IomegaWare 3.0 from their servers — which was just released last week — reverting back to version 2.8. A MacMinute reader forwarded us a note sent by Iomega regarding the issue, which in part reads:
Read More4D, Inc. news for immediate release
4D v6.7 for Mac OS X – Free to all 4Dv6.7 Customers
4D, Inc., publishers of the 4th Dimension v6.7 RAD/RDBMS Environment and
WebSTAR Server Suite 4, announced today that it will be providing the
native Mac OS X upgrade versions of 4D v6.7 products at no charge to
registered 4D 6.7 product owners.
“We wanted to support Apple’s move to fast track Mac OS X uptake; we
decided the best way to do this was to provide the upgrade at no charge,”
stated Brendan Coveney, president and CEO, 4D, Inc.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
[ANN] WAVES IN MOTION ANNOUNCES THE DRAGON WEB SURVEYS 6.0 BETA
Powerful new features add faster processing time and branching capabilities
Phoenix, AZ — May 23, 2001 — Waves in Motion today released the beta
version of Dragon Web Surveys 6.0, a powerful, cross-platform FileMaker Pro
web survey tool, which allows users to create, publish and tabulate
internet-based surveys with no web programming needed.
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Among its new features, Dragon 6.0 has a 300 % fast
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