Year: 2003

Jobs on how to succeed by creating cool technology

Business 2.0 has published an article entitled “How to succeed in 2004,” in which business leaders tell “how they do what they do better than anyone else.” Among those is Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who talks about creating cool technology. “Learning about new technologies and markets is what makes this fun for me.” said Jobs. “The truth is, we would get bored otherwise. Five or six years ago, we didn’t know anything about video editing, so we bought technology to learn how to do that.

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Apple updates Hot Deals Web site

Apple has updated its Hot Deals Web site with the latest offerings from the online Apple Store, AudioMIDI, J&R, MacZone, MacMall, and O’Reilly. Deals can be found on the El Gato EyeTV, Ableton Live 3, Epson CX3200 all-in-one printer, Canon PowerShot A80 digital camera, and “iPod: The Missing Manual.”

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Unreal Tournament 2004 coming to the Mac

MacSoft said on Friday that it will publish Epic Games’ highly anticipated Unreal Tournament 2004 for the Macintosh. “The sequel to last year’s hugely popular Unreal Tournament 2003, UT04 takes gladiator combat to a new level with the addition of land and air vehicles, an arsenal of new weaponry (including mines, rocket-propelled grenades and stationary gun turrets), daunting new arenas, epic battlefields and the challenge of the Assault and Onslaught game types.

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Pogue gives practical praise for iChat AV, iSight

In his latest column for The New York Times (free subscription required), David Pogue gives high marks to Apple’s iChat AV video conference software and iSight, the company’s Web cam. While sitting in an Internet Café in London, Pogue had the opportunity to try the video chat duo first hand to talk to his wife back in the US.

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