Year: 2002

Audiogalaxy.com, a music file-sharing service, has reached an out-of-court settlement with the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Music Publishers’ Association whereby its future service will have its content filtered, according to The Street.com. Audiogalaxy will also pay a “substantial sum” to music publishers and the industry. Following the demise of Napster, Audiogalaxy emerged as one of the most viable alternatives for swapping music across the Internet.

Extensis has begun shipping Suitcase Server for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, its robust font management solution for sharing and synchronizing fonts across a workgroup. Suitcase Server for Mac OS X is available immediately as a free upgrade to registers owners of Suitcase Server, and otherwise sells for US$999.95 including five copies of Suitcase 10.1.

Yamaha today introduced the CWR-F1, the industry’s first CD-RW to feature 24x re-write speeds. Additional information can be found at Yamaha’s site, although pricing and availability has not yet been disclosed.

Bare Bones Software has kicked off a new promotion that offers a free AppleScript book with the purchase of BBEdit 6.5 (US$99) or Mailsmith 1.5 ($89). Customers who purchase either title before July 12 will receive a free copy of AppleScript in a Nutshell.

An article at The Register details the lack of Hebrew support in the Mac version of Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has reportedly claimed that adding such support would be unprofitable or that they lack the ability to do so, despite offers from other organizations to localize the software without any cost to Microsoft. Microsoft supports Hebrew in the Windows versions of those products.