Year: 2002

TARGET=”_top”>WiebeTech has announced five new preconfigured versions of FireWire KeyChain, the company’s line of extremely small FireWire storage devices. Storage capacity and pricing is as follows (all ship from stock): 32MB-US$119.95, 64MB-$139.95, 128MB-$169.95-256MB $219.95, and 1GB-$399.95. FireWire KeyChain uses the Oxford Semiconductor 911 FireWire bridge to provide real world transfer rates of up to 5MB per second, according to the company’s press release.

The Apple Store has launched a new promotion titled “TARGET=”_top”>Finish Your Movie Under Budget.” Customers who purchase Final Cut Pro and DVD Pro will receive a US$300 mail-in rebate from Apple. The offer expires May 31, 2002.

eWeek‘s Matthew Rothenberg serves up his assessment of Apple’s WWDC announcements and what they and other recent moves may hold for Apple’s future success in the ever-important enterprise market.

OpenOffice.org has released the first Mac OS X Developer Build of OpenOffice, the open source suite of productivity applications. The alpha software uses the X11 Windowing System to run under either Mac OS X or Darwin and is currently available in English only.

Adam Iser has released the final version of Adium 1.6, the popular alternative AIM client for Mac OS X. Version 1.6 sports log searching, warning support, improved contextual menus, and several other improvements.