Year: 2002

MacMinute’s TARGET=”_top”>Executive Briefing for May 11 — a recap of all the news we have posted over the past week — is now available. If you think you may have missed something, here is your chance to catch up…

Apple today opened its 30th retail store at Lenox Square in Atlanta. MacMinute reader Grace Simms photographed the store’s opening, which is Georgia’s first. Meanwhile, reader Dino Abatzidis recently informed us that Apple will be opening a store in the former FAO Schwartz location at Roosevelt Field mall in Nassau County, NY.

The Mozilla Organization has released Mozilla 1.0 RC2, the latest release candidate build of the open-source Web browser for Mac OS 8.5 and later and Mac OS X. The new build offers a number of bug fixes and other enhancements that are all documented here.

Macromedia this evening announced that it has won its patent infringement countersuit against Adobe. The verdict included a damage award of US$4.9 million; Macromedia intends to ask the court to issue an injunction to stop Adobe’s infringement. Last week, Adobe received a favorable verdict in its patent infringement suit against Macromedia and was awarded $2.8 million in damages. Macromedia said it will appeal that verdict.

Apple today quietly kicked off a new promotion that offers customers who purchase a Power Mac G4 800MHz a US$200 mail-in rebate and those who purchase a 933MHz or dual-1GHz configuration receive a $300 mail-in rebate. No additional purchase is necessary and the promotion may be combined with Apple’s other promotions, including its Power Mac and Display promotion. Details of the offer, as well as the rebate, will be made available on the Web on Monday; purchases made from today through July 7 are eligible.