Apple on Friday re-released Mac OS X 10.2.8 after pulling the update last week due to ethernet problems. “The 10.2.8 Update (Build 6R73) includes an updated ethernet driver for 450MHz and 500MHz dual processor Power Mac G4 desktop systems and an update to the battery status menu,” according to the release notes. Version 10.2.8 is available via the Software Update preference pane.
Read MoreiOrganize 5.0 is the latest version of the popular organizational tool for Mac OS X. According to the developer, iOrganize is “the perfect place to store and organize notes, ideas, text extracts and web links you find while working daily, but without knowing exactly what to do with them.” Among several other improvements, this new version introduces support for multiple notepads. iOrganize is US$19.95 shareware.
Read MoreFormer US vice president and current Apple board member Al Gore is close to buying a small cable news channel from Vivendi Universal for US$70 million. “If Gore succeeds, the channel, Newsworld International, could potentially emerge as a competitor with Fox News Channel, which has unseated CNN as the most widely watched cable news outlet in the United States,” says Reuters.
Read MoreIn an interview with CNET News.com, former Apple CEO John Sculley talks about the company’s missed opportunities: “I feel responsible and disappointed that we didn’t do more with [Hypercard]… We weren’t insightful enough to recognize that what we had inside of Hypercard, essentially, was everything that later was developed so successfully by Tim Berners-Lee with HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)…
Read MoreJapan’s University of Tokyo has decided to purchase 1,150 iMacs as part of an upgrade that will replace 1,600 computers running Linux that have been in use for five years. The iMacs will be made available to all students, professors and instructors next March. University officials said the decision to go with Macs over PCs came down to a matter of maintenance. Mac OS X, they said, is easier for staff to maintain because of its Unix-based underpinnings.
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