Year: 2002

Apple’s stock, which ran up US$1.40 yesterday alone, could decline after Monday’s Macworld Expo keynote, according to a Wall Street Journal [subscription required] article that suggests any new products will have just a marginal impact on Apple’s market share and bottom line. Morgan Stanley analyst Gillian Munson reveals that in three of five cases after Apple launched a new computer since 1997, its shares slipped.

Unsanity has released Dock Detox 1.0, a freeware haxie for Mac OS X that suppresses the bouncing icons in the dock. Dock Detox also includes a software developer kit for developers who would prefer to provide visual feedback in their application rather than the default bounce.

Apple has released the satellite coordinates for the Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote, which will be broadcast at 09:00 PT on January 7. The keynote will be available on the KU and C bands. Details are available in the press release.

MacMinute has learned that a security hole in AOL Time Warner’s Instant Messenger, which can let a hacker take full control of a victim’s computer, only affects Windows-based PCs and not those using Macintosh computers or Palm devices. The hole is a “buffer overflow,” like the problem recently found in Microsoft’s Windows XP. By sending a stream of junk messages to the program, a hacker can make AIM vulnerable to other commands and control.

Wired calls Connectix’ recently released Virtual PC 5.0 “virtually perfect” in its review of the application, which praises ease of use, performance, and refinement.