Year: 2002

The Apple Developer Connection Web site has published “Using the Mozilla SOAP API,” a new article walking you through the process of identifying a SOAP service’s methods, creating and invoking the SOAP call, and handling the results. A downloadable sample application, which targets the popular Google SOAP API, demonstrates programmatic access to a live Web service.

What could be better than learning more about using Mac OS X; learning more about Mac OS X from the likes of Andy Ihnatko, Bob LeVitus, John Welch, and Shawn King. TackyShirt has announced that they are taking preorders for their new Mac OS X training DVD set, which consists of 4 DVDs covering 16 hours (64 lessons). The full set is priced at US$49.95 and those who preorder get a free TackyShirt t-shirt. A demo of the TackyShirt teaching style and the full “Dock” lesson is available for $4.95 shipping and handling in the US — $9.95 elsewhere.

Apple has noted a few new deals on their Hot Deals page recently. In particular, CompUSA has discounts on multi-function machines, edutainment software, digital cameras, flat panel displays, PDAs, Microsoft Office X, and Symantec products, while Outpost is offering deals on Belkin UPS systems, Sonnet portable flash drives, MacAlly joysticks, and more.

Adobe this afternoon warned that third-quarter earnings will fall short at about US$0.18 to $0.23 per share, down from previous estimates of $0.24 to $0.27. Revenues are expected to come in between $270 million and $290 million, down from $300 million to $320 million. Adobe said revenue in July was “down across all business segments and geographic markets,” but cited especially weak sales in Europe and Japan. Adobe’s third-quarter ends August 30.

IDG World Expo is considering moving Macworld Expo out of New York and back to Boston due to rising rent costs at the Javits Center where the conference takes place, according to the New York Post, as noted by MacCentral . Macworld Expo was moved from Boston to New York five years ago. IDG is seeking a few years of free rent at Boston’s new convention center, which is expected to be completed in 2004, and guaranteed hotel rooms.