Year: 2002

Your Mac Life, an Internet-based Mac radio show hosted by Shawn King, has announced its lineup for tonight’s broadcast (21:00 – 23:00 ET), which will feature David Pogue, Columnist for the New York Times, and Stan Flack, Publisher of this Web site, about Apple and the Mac and where they are headed. In addition, Richard Kerris, Apple’s Director of Developer Technology will be on hand to talk about OS X and WWDC, which kicks off with the Steve Jobs Keynote next Monday.

May virus definitions have been released for both McAfee Virex and Norton AntiVirus for the Mac. Both of these products feature automatic update abilities from within the program. In addition, updated definitions for Intego’s VirusBarrier were posted a few days ago.

Apple is suing Sorenson Media in an effort to prevent the company from licensing its video compression software to Macromedia, according to a report on Bloomberg today. Apple claims that Sorenson is in breach of contract, as the company previously signed an agreement with Apple preventing them from “developing, marketing, or licensing” any form of their compression technology used in QuickTime.

Aspyr Media, which recently began shipping Return To Castle Wolfenstein, has announced that Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and The Sims: Hot Date have entered final candidate status and should begin shipping in just weeks, according to Inside Mac Games.

Apple’s has released the developer notes for the new eMac and updated PowerBook G4. The notes offer a plethora of technical information regarding both systems. Apple is officially referring to the latest PowerBook G4 as the “PowerBook G4 (DVI).” Previous PowerBook G4s are referenced as Titanium (400MHz, 500MHz) and Gigabit (550MHz, 657MHz).