Year: 2001

Watson Released for Mac OS X – With Open Architecture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Watson Released for Mac OS X – With Open Architecture for developing new
modules

ALAMEDA, CA, USA, November 27, 2001 —

Today, Karelia Software released Watson (http://www.karelia.com/watson/),
an extendable application for Mac OS X that gives an “Aqua” user interface
to a number of Internet-based services such as stock quotes, telephone
lookup, and movie schedules. Watson functions much like Apple’s Sherlock in
that it bypasses the Web Browser for specific functionality.

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Acrux Releases iBuild Lite/Pro/Site/Developer 1.1

Acrux Software is pleased to announce iBuild Lite/Pro/Site/Developer
version 1.1.

iBuild is now a “carbonized” Macintosh application. Applications which you
build with it are also carbonized. This means that they run natively under
OS X and take full advantage of the “Aqua” user interface. But iBuild will
also run under MacOS 8.6 – 9.2 where Carbon lib is installed.

iBuild is a rich, powerful and easy-to-use multimedia authoring and
presentation tool for the Apple Macintosh.

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digital.forest merges with Infoasis

digital.forest, a leading Internet hosting and co-location company based in
Seattle, WA, is excited to announce the acquisition of the Internet
business of Infoasis, a San Francisco Bay Area-based Macintosh-centric
Internet Service Provider.

Infoasis and digital.forest teamed up because the companies have
identical cultures and similar histories, and roots firmly in the Macintosh
community.

Founded in 1994, digital.forest pioneered online hosting of
FileMaker Pro databases, and has grown to be the largest Macintosh hosting
and colocation facility on the Internet.

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Government already monitor cable modem users

The U.S. Department of Justice is already using some of its new anti-terrorism powers obtained from the controversial USA Patriot Act to monitor cable modem users without obtaining a judge’s permission first, according to Wired. The Patriot Act also allows members of law enforcement to obtain a user’s IP address as easily as their phone number.

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