Year: 2005

Aspyr to ship Medal of Honor, The Sims bundles

Aspyr Media announced today that it will begin shipping two new Mac game bundles next week–Medal of Honor Warchest and The Sims Party Pack. Medal of Honor Warchest features Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Spearhead and Breakthrough. The Sims Party Pack includes The Sims, Hot Date, House Party and Livin’ Large. Both are expected to retail for US$49.99 each.

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Prosoft Engineering introduces Drive Genius

Prosoft Engineering has announced the availability of Drive Genius, a new US$99 hard drive maintenance utility. “Drive Genius is packed with powerful tools such as a drive optimizer, a comprehensive repair facility for analyzing, repairing and rebuilding volumes, plus excellent testing capabilities with media surface scanning, performance benchmarking and data integrity checking. It can be used to initialize drives, create and delete partitions, and erases them securely as per Department of Defense’s standard.

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Dell calls iPod a ‘fad’, dismisses Mac mini

Dell CEO Kevin Rollins says that Apple isn’t “in the same league” as Dell, and that he isn’t worried about the iPod and Mac mini. “It’s interesting the iPod has been out for three years and it’s only this past year it’s become a raging success. Well those things that become fads rage and then they drop off. When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman–a rage, everyone had to have one,” he said. “Well you don’t hear about the Walkman anymore.

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MacCommerce Designer and MacCommerce Server Upgrades

NetStores announces MacCommerce Designer and MacCommerce Server Upgrades.

Major Upgrade Features of MacCommerce Designer and MacCommerce Server

NetStores today announced MacCommerce Designer and MacCommerce Server
version 1.03. The upgraded features are among the first to add Dynamic
Currency Conversion (DCC), International Merchant Account acceptance, and
additional international Gateway Support.

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