Year: 2005

Bare Bones to offer free T-shirt upgrades at MWSF

Posted by | Jan 3, 2005 | |

Bare Bones Software today announced a free “T-shirt upgrade” to be held at next week’s Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Bones T-shirt will receive a brand-new “BBEdit 8: Habit-forming” shirt for free while supplies last. “Bare Bones Software T-shirts, like our finely crafted software, require periodic revision and updates,” said Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones. “Now is the perfect opportunity to upgrade or just add to your collection. So don’t forget to pack your old shirt!”

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TiVoToGo service to gain Mac support

Posted by | Jan 3, 2005 | |

TiVo today announced that its new TiVoToGo service enhancement is now available. TiVoToGo allows subscribers to transfer TV shows and movies from their TiVo box to their desktop or laptop computer. TiVo customers will also be able to burn programs to DVD in the near future. TiVoToGo requires TiVo Desktop 2.0, which is currently only available Windows XP and 2000 operating systems. However, TiVo officials said a Mac OS X version is planned.

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Napster begins trading as ‘NAPS’

Posted by | Jan 3, 2005 | |

Apple rival Napster began trading as its own company today on Nasdaq under its new ticker “NAPS.” Based on “subscriber acquisition initiatives and strong holiday sales,” the company expects to achieve revenue growth in the third quarter of fiscal 2005 and reiterated its guidance for revenues of approximately US$11 million. Napster closed the calendar year with a net balance of cash and investments of more than $130 million.

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Apple wins two InfoWorld awards

Posted by | Jan 3, 2005 | |

InfoWorld today announced the recipients of its 2005 Technology of the Year Awards, which recognize “significant technologies of the past year that promise to make the greatest impact on enterprise IT strategies as well as the products that best exemplify the implementation of those technologies.” Apple was honored for the best operating system (Mac OS X 10.3 Panther) and best server hardware (Xserve G5).

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FileMaker helps ‘manage all that you create’ at MWSF

Posted by | Jan 3, 2005 | |

At next week’s Macworld Expo, FileMaker will spotlight how FileMaker Pro 7 helps workers within creative organizations–advertising, entertainment, graphics arts, photography and publishing–“to manage all that you create.” The FileMaker booth (#817) will feature demonstrations of the FileMaker 7 product line, along with demos of the free solutions available within the FileMaker 7 Creative Pro Starter Kit. Solutions for small business and education will also be available with a free FileMaker Pro 7 trial software CD.

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