Year: 2002

The folks at Iconfactory have announced the winners of this year’s Pixelpalooza Icon Design Contest. The Grand Prize, Runner-Up and People’s Choice Winners have been determined and the results are now posted for public viewing and download at the factory.

OQO, a company founded by engineers who formerly worked on Apple’s PowerBook G4, has unveiled a pocket PC — not to be confused with Microsoft’s PocketPC handheld. OQO’s pocket PC is only slightly larger than most handhelds but packs an 800MHz Crusoe TM5800 Transmeta chip, four-inch color LCD display, 256MB RAM, 10GB hard drive, FireWire, USB, 802.11b, and Bluetooth.

Motorola this evening reported a first-quarter loss of US$449 million, the company’s fifth consecutive quarterly loss, as revenues plunged 21 percent to $6.02 billion. Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Segment, responsible for the PowerPC processor, posted an operating loss of $226 million. Meanwhile, RealNetworks posted a first-quarter profit of about $1 million, the company’s first profitable quarterly in more than two years.

Along with the Office v.X Security Update released earlier this evening (see item below), Microsoft also posted an Office 2001 URL Security Updater as well as Outlook Express 5.0.4, an update to its email client for Mac OS 8.6 and later that addresses security issues.

Microsoft has posted a security updates for Microsoft Office X. The combined update includes the previously released Entourage X Hotmail Update and Network Security Update, as well as the new URL Security Update addresses a security vulnerability that could be exploited to allow malicious code to run on your computer.