Year: 2002

Apple airs new celebrity “Switch” ads

Posted by | Oct 3, 2002 | |

It would appear Apple has launched a new series of “Switch” ads featuring celebrities/athletes, as a new television ad featuring professional surfer Kelly Slater has started airing. In the ad, Slater talks about using iMovie to edit surfing videos. As with the previously mentioned Tony Hawk “Switch” ad, the Kelly Slater ad does not appear on Apple’s “Switch” section, and has not yet been officially announced. Apple was unavailable for comment on this report.

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Macs in action: NASA Langley

Posted by | Oct 3, 2002 | |

An Apple Hot News article features Dr. Craig Hunter of the NASA Langley Research Center, who used AppleScript Studio and a Power Mac G4 to create a program that simulates and predicts the noise from jet engines to help manufacturers build quieter aircraft.

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Apple and Sorenson Media settle lawsuit

Posted by | Oct 2, 2002 | |

Apple and Sorenson Media today announced the settlement of a pending federal court lawsuit that had been filed by Apple in April 2002. The settlement provides the dismissal of all claims and counterclaims. Apple sued Sorenson Media in an effort to prevent the company from licensing its video compression software to Macromedia.

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Apple releases AirPort 2.1.1

Posted by | Oct 2, 2002 | |

Apple has released AirPort 2.1.1 via the Mac OS X Software Update utility. The new software includes the latest version of the snow base station firmware (v4.0.7), and adds a new checkbox in the AirPort tab of the AirPort Admin Utility that allows the base station administrator to enable or disable configuration of the base station over the WAN port.

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