Year: 2005

Absoft today announced a new SDK for 64-bit Tiger

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

Absoft Corporation today announced a new High Performance Computing Software Developers Kit (HPC SDK) for Mac OS X Tiger. The HPC SDK is optimized for Power Mac G5 clusters running Apple’s new 64-bit operating system, and is a solution for software developers to compile, run, debug, and optimize high-performance applications. The HPC SDK Basic Edition will be available in the second quarter of 2005. Complete details are available in the press release.

Read More

Survey: ‘Apple Faithful Pass 50% Mark of Apple Households’

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

According to a recent survey conducted by MetaFacts, more than half of households with Apple computers are planning to buy one, or have previously owned one. “The Apple-faithful make up more than half of Apple’s customers for the first time in more than a decade and up slightly from last year,” said Dan Ness, Principal Analyst with MetaFacts. “This is good news for Apple.

Read More

‘The Five Stages of Intel Macs’ on Joy of Tech

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

Continuing their comic look at WWDC, Nitrozac and Snaggy have released a new Joy of Tech comic that will undoubtedly hit home with many Mac fans. “The Five Stages of Intel Macs” pokes fun at the PPC-to-Intel chips grieving process, with illustrated feelings of Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. The Joy of Tech comic series routinely delivers a humorous look at technology and the issues surrounding it.

Read More

Piper Jaffray maintains ‘outperform’ rating on Apple

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

A report on Forbes today reports that Piper Jaffray has maintained an “outperform” rating on Apple, giving it a US$52 target price, citing the “long-term positive of an Intel partnership will outweigh the negatives associated with the transition.” The research firm added however, that the “most visible risk is that there could be some pushback in the developer community, as the move would require programmers to rewrite some applications.” In addition, Piper still believes the iPod will be the “foundation of

Read More

REAL Software to support Mac OS X on Intel processors

Posted by | Jun 7, 2005 | |

REAL Software today announced that REALbasic will add support for Mac OS X on Intel processors, announced at WWDC yesterday. The company says that most applications will require nothing but a simple re-compile, with no code changes at all, as REALbasic is cross-platform by design. REALbasic’s cross-platform compiler has supported the Intel processor since 1999 and will soon support the creation of Mac OS X applications. It will be included in both REALbasic Standard and Professional Editions.

Read More