Year: 2002

C|net takes a look at what changes might be made to the PC in the coming years, as Intel explains its vision at its Developer Forum. Among the items set to take hold next year are more compact and stylish case designs, as well built-in wireless networking — features that Macs have touted for years. From the more technical standpoint, Intel expects 8x AGP slots, USB 2.0, and serial-ATA hard drives will be standard by the second-half of 2003.

Casio announced the GV-10 earlier this week, a 1.23 megapixel digital camera designed to withstand water, dust, dirt, and drops. The GV-10 complies with IEC standards for water resistance, meaning that water will not enter the camera when it is submerged in 1m of water for 30 minutes, as well as dust resistance. The DV-10 also features a 2x digital zoom and 8MB CompactFlash card, and will ship in March for US$349.99.

Microsoft said in a legal brief filed with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly late Wednesday night that it will modify its antitrust settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, according to Reuters. Microsoft said that the changes, which the company describes as “refinements,” would address criticism that the settlement contained loopholes and would allow the company to seize computer makers’ patented technologies.

Unsanity has released WindowShade X 1.5.1, a new version of its popular Mac OS X “haxie” that restores traditional Window Shade functionality to the operating system. Version 1.5.1 adds support application-specific settings and several other small refinements and bug fixes. WindowShade is US$7 shareware. Updated 12:15 – Unsanity has also posted new versions of FruitMenu, DockDetox, and Xounsds.

Apple is considering adding a set of REALbasic sessions to their Worldwide Developer Conference depending on how many REALbasic users will be attending. As such, REALbasic users who will be at WWDC and would be interested in the sessions are asked to send an email to wwdc-yes@realsoftware.com so that Apple and REAL may gauge interest.