Year: 2003

Palm CEO says handheld market recovering

Posted by | Jan 23, 2003 | |

Palm said today that the market for its handheld devices and software was close to moving back into growth after more than a year of declining sales. “We’re already in positive territory for PalmSource,” Palm Chief Executive Eric Benhamou told Reuters. PalmSource is Palm’s operating system software unit, due to be spun off and made independent later this year. Palm’s hardware stands to benefit from increasing capital investments in technology, Benhamou said.

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CNN to interview researcher for carrying Human Genome on iPod

Posted by | Jan 23, 2003 | |

Will Gilbert, a researcher at the Hubbard Center for Genome Studies at the University of New Hampshire, let us know that he has been invited to be interviewed on CNN Headline News regarding an article which appeared last Fall on Apple’s Web site. “This story came to their attention because of my using an iPod to carry the Human Genome database from one system to another, but the real story is using the OS X UNIX underpinnings to run a biological application called BLAST.

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OmniOutliner 2.2b1 adds XML export and Keynote compatibility

Posted by | Jan 23, 2003 | |

The Omni Group has released OmniOutliner 2.2b1, a new beta version of its popular Mac OS X outlining tool. The beta adds XML export, which allows users to present outlines in many new formats through XSLT, a language for transforming XML documents into other types of documents. This means you can use a stylesheet to transform the XML into HTML that Word can understand as an outline.

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