Year: 2004

Apple said to be muscling in on Australian vendors

An article in ARNnet, an Australian publication, says that Apple’s increased direct touch with enterprise customers is putting the vendor in competition with its channel, according to some resellers. One reseller claimed the vendor had poached $250,000 worth of its accounts in the last 12 months, while some resellers claim that the vendor’s push to get its business development team in front of customers is coming at a cost to partners.

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Harvard professor questions Apple’s long term success

David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School, thinks the jury is still out on prospects for Apple’s long-term success, according to a Working Knowledge article. He says that Apple CEO Steve Job’s track record is hit or miss and the Mac’s market share continues to decline, but that the iPods and iTunes Music Store are big hits.

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Script Software updates products

Script Software has updated several of its products. Updates have been posted at the company Web site for: iClock, a replacement for the Mac OS clock; iWaterMark, which lets you sign digital photos for recognition and protection; Easy Card; an electronic greeting card creation tool; Project Timer Pro, time tracking software; and CopyPaste, a multiple clipboard editing and display utility.

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Free version of PC-Mac PasswordVault v2.0 released

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Free version of PC-Mac PasswordVault v2.0 released

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA — February 3, 2004 — Lava Software is now shipping
PC-Mac PasswordVault Lite v2.0, a free product which securely stores
website access information, Internet banking data and software registration
details for convenient and easy access in a central location on your
Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP, MacOS X or MacOS classic computer.

This new version adds Windows XP style buttons, import and export of
service data (for easy backup, printing or transfer to another computer), a
fast lockout but

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ADHOC: The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ADHOC: The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference
http://www.adhocconf.com/
Formerly MacHack

July 21-24, 2004 Dearborn, MI-

ADHOC sessions!

We talk about things of interest to Mac OS X Developers at ADHOC, and that
covers a lot of ground.

Some sessions are going to be about projects which use specific Mac OS X
technologies, or talk about the technologies themselves. This bring to mind
names such as Cocoa, Quartz, and Carbon.

Other sessions will cover subjects that are likely to be found running on
other operating systems.

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