Author: mactech

The latest column by Business Week’s Charles Haddad discusses the appeal that the Cocoa programming environment for Mac OS X will have for new developers. “Scott Forstall, a senior Apple engineer, demonstrated Cocoa’s ease-of-use before thousands of developers at WWDC. He fashioned a video editor in three minutes. ‘Imagine what you can do in 90 days,’ he teased his audience. It’s talk like that sends tingles down the spines of developers.”

The recovery of IBM during the 90s, attributed much to the success of the now-outgoing CEO Louis Gerstner, is “nothing short of miraculous,” says an article at The Standard that discusses the company’s turnaround. Today, IBM is a leader in several fields and manufacturers countless products, including PowerPC chips and hard drives used by Apple.

PC-maker Acer has announced that it has licensed the Palm operating system and will offer a Palm OS-based handheld to the Asia-Pacific market later this year. Palm and Acer will also work together to translate Palm application to other Asian languages; at present, Palm has only translated applications to Japanese.

As noted on MacNN, Mac OS Runtime for Java 2.2.5 is available via Apple’s Software Update Control Panel. Mac OS Runtime for Java is Apple’s implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), based on Sun’s Java 1.1.8.

Virus definition updates for June have been posted by both Symantec and Virex. Get these files to keep your Mac virus protection up-to-date.