Year: 2002

Apples latest Hot News feature tackles the Mars Odyssey spacecraft and the various 5th to 12th graders across the country who are able to study the images it sends back to Earth. At Arizona State University, the students use Macs to explore the planet.

Ulead Systems has released Photo Explorer 2.0 for Mac, an application for acquiring, organizing, and sharing image, video, and other media files. Ulead bills Photo Explorer 2.0 as the “next step” for iPhoto users, offering more image enhancement tools. The software is available for download for US$24.95 and is compatible with Mac OS 8.6 and later and Mac OS X.

Struggling semiconductor giant Motorola, which developes the PowerPC G4 processor, announced today that it will cut an additional 7,000 jobs and take a US$3.5 billion charge in the process, Dow Jones reports. Motorola cut 4,000 jobs earlier this year in an effort to curtail expenses and return to profitability. By the end of the year, Motorola expects to have about 100,000 employees — down significantly from its peak of 150,000.

Avid Technology has announced the release of Avid Xpress DV 3.5, the company’s portable digital video studio for Mac OS X and Windows XP. New to the Avid Xpress DV product is an expert color correction toolset, featuring patent-pending technology capable of automatically matching skin tones between scenes with a single click.

Iconfactory has announced the release of a set of highly realistic Aqua-style icon interpretations of the five fictional team hovercraft from the Wipeout 2097 game. In addition, you can pick up a free custom Wipeout 2097 desktop picture at the Pixelhaus Web site.