Year: 2002

Responding to an April lawsuit from Apple alleging breach of contract, Sorenson has filed a countersuit, the company announced today. The dispute stems from Sorenson’s license of its compression technology to Macromedia, which Apple claims it has exclusive rights to. “Apple’s lawsuit claims that Apple has exclusive rights to the very same things to which Mr.

Digital Video Editing has published a second feature comparing PC performance with that of Apple’s dual-1GHz Power Mac G4. The feature stacks a single-processor 2.54GHz Pentium 4 and a dual-processor AMD Athlon 2000+MP against Apple’s system. A number of real-world benchmark tests revealed that “the dual Athlon is still the fastest PC we’ve tested, but the single Intel P4 2.53 GHz machine runs a close second…

We have posted a small gallery of photos from Macworld Expo, including the keynote, Apple’s booth, and others. We’ve also put together a gallery of photos from Apple’s SoHo store.

In his latest column, ZDNet’s David Coursey discusses the prospect of Apple becoming more of a “software company” by distancing itself from relying on Microsoft Office. “With the new Mail features, iCal, and iSync, Apple is competing directly with Mac Office–and winning. If Apple spends time making AppleWorks more competitive, the thought of Macintosh without Mac Office might not only become thinkable but, perhaps, even a good deal,” Coursey said.

Feral have released Black & White 1.1.6, an update to the award-winning “god” game, which adds support for the multiplayer GameRanger service, improves performance with GeForce video cards, adds support for multiple USB mice on Mac OS 9, and includes several other enhancements and bug fixes.