Year: 2002

Palm’s next operating system upgrade, Palm OS 5, will be implemented gradually and will rely on many current applications and tools during the transition, according to c|net. Despite the major release, which will incorporate support for the ARM-based processors that Palm will be migrating to, Palm OS 5 will rely primarily on PACE when it is initially released, an emulator that will allow it to run current software — similar to Apple’s approach during the PowerPC transition.

MacPlay and Crave Entertainment today announced that they have reached an agreement that will see Crave’s top three gaming titles ported to Mac OS X. The first title to be released will be Freedom Force, a unique, comic book-inspired role-playing game, which will be released in the Fall for US$39.95.

Archos Technology has introduced what they say is the world’s smallest CDRW — the Archos Cesar CDRW/MPM (Micro Power Management). The unit, which requires no power adapter, is circular in shape and measures just slightly larger than the CD itself. Under USB 2.0 and FireWire, the drive burns CDs at 8x, rewrites CDs at 8x, and reads CDs at 24x.

An article posted today by Arik Hesseldahl on Forbes.com discusses Apple’s recent product announcements — including the new bumped-up iMacs, Xserve, Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar) — Macworld Expo New York and interestingly enough, the suggestion of a new touch-sensitive input device that will work with any computer. “Given Apple’s recent updates to all its product lines, it certainly has something truly noteworthy up its sleeve for July that is not necessarily a new computer per se, but something else.