Year: 2003

BugBear virus slows .Mac e-mail service

Apple has responded to complaints of slow .Mac e-mail delivery times: “Due to a high volume of incoming mail, there is currently a delay in the delivery of messages sent to .Mac members,” said Apple on the .Mac Web site. “The mail is being processed and will be delivered as quickly as possible.

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LaCie drops prices on 19, 22-inch CRT displays

LaCie today lowered pricing on its 19 and 22-inch electronblueIV CRT displays to US$379 and $799, respectively. “The cross platform CRTs were engineered to deliver state-of-the-art color accuracy and increased brightness and contrast. The LaCie electronblueIV CRTs provide astounding picture quality required for demanding design applications… The LaCie electronblueIV monitors feature the most advanced Natural Flat Aperture Grille technology for a geometrically perfect picture and minimal reflection.

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Sybase ASE gains data charting, reporting

Sybase and Quadbase today announced that the companies are working together to provide charting and reporting to transactional systems and applications powered by Adaptive Server Enterprise, Sybase’s enterprise-class relational database management system. Quadbase will integrate EspressReport, its Java reporting tool, with Sybase ASE, and WebObjects 5.2, Apple’s leading application server.

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Apple Store coming to Santa Monica, CA

MacMinute reader Rick Bleicher wrote in to tell us about a new California Apple Store: “For the past several weeks a store in Santa Monica on the Third Street Promenade (between Wilshire and Arizona) has had a black facade with a huge, white Apple logo and “www.apple.com” printed on the outside. The personnel from the Apple Store at The Grove (Los Angeles) don’t know a date for it’s opening. It is currently under construction.”

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