Crucial Technology announced today a new line of USB stationary and portable flash memory card readers. The 6-in-1 Card Reader sells for US$49.99 and is compatible with MultiMediaCard, CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Memory Stic, and MicroDrive. The portable version of the 6-in-1 Card Reader is priced at US$39.99. The Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard Reader sells for $29.99 and the CompactFlash Reader sells for $19.99.
Read MoreThe Big Nerd Ranch has announced the return of “Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming,” a course which allows programmers to harness the power of Mac OS X’s Unix foundation. The class will be taught the week of March 31 – April 4, 2003 by instructor Mark Dalrymple at the Big Nerd Ranch lodge outside Atlanta, Georgia.
Read MoreCovad Communications today announced Macintosh support for its Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services, offering Mac users a simple plug-and-play broadband service. The support includes Mac-compatible installation software in all Covad self-installation kits. All recent Macintosh operating systems including 8.0, 9.0 and Mac OS X are supported by this installation software. Support also includes customer service agents trained on the Mac operating system and available for phone support 24/7/365.
Read MoreOpenLink Releases Open Source ODBC and JDBC Driver Benchmark Utilities
OpenLink Simplifies Data Access Driver and Database Engine Benchmarking
Burlington, MA, March 3, 2003 – OpenLink Software, Inc., a leading provider
of Universal Data Access and Enterprise Information Integration middleware,
announces the release of OpenLink ODBC Bench and OpenLink JDBC Bench under
the GPL Open Source license.
These cross platform, Open Source benchmarking utilities enable users to
produce their own local empirical data for objective comparison and
analysis of the performance and scalability of
The New York Times (free registration required) reports on the success of Governor Angus King’s initiative to bring iBooks to every seventh and eighth grader in Maine. “Attendance is up. Detentions are down. Just six months after Maine began a controversial program to provide laptop computers to every seventh grader in the state, educators are impressed by how quickly students and teachers have adapted to laptop technology.”
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