InfoWorld has published a special report on Apple, consisting of four articles: Apple’s playing in the big leagues now (“The company gets aggressive to pull in enterprise IT”), Apple’s G5: More than a pretty face (“This machine may bring home the superiority of bandwidth over megahertz”), Apple RAIDs
Read MoreThursday’s widespread power outages in the Northeast US struck IBM’s chip fabrication plant in East Fishkill, NY, affecting production of the PowerPC G5, which is used in Apple’s latest Power Mac. “IBM officials said Friday that the plant had been shut down by the blackout, halting the production lines for about two days,” reports eWeek. “With power restored, IBM engineers on Friday afternoon were bringing up the tooling equipment, and preparing to begin production.
Read More“Why aren’t Apple Macintosh computers more popular in large mainstream organizations?” asks PBS’ Robert Cringely. “I think Macs threaten the livelihood of IT staffs. If you recommend purchasing a computer that requires only half the support of the machine it is replacing, aren’t you putting your job in danger?…
Read MoreREAL Software has released REALbasic 5.2.1, a maintenance update to its cross-platform visual development environment. The company also announced that it will be a sponsor of the uDevGame 2003 Mac game development contest. REAL Software will donate prizes of software licenses for REALbasic Professional Edition and REALbasic Standard Edition to winning entrants.
Read MoreAkumen today announced the Ascent XHD 800, a new external hard drive with both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 interfaces. The Ascent XHD 800 is available in the following capacities: enclosure-only (US$139), 80GB ($229), 120GB ($249), 200GB ($369), 250GB ($439), and 320GB ($549).
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