Author: mactech

Apple is presently trading down $1.80 today, or 8.4 percent, as the tech-sector is getting battered following an earnings warning from Sun Microsystems. This marks the first time in more than two months that Apple has fallen below $20; during that same time it has traded as high $27.

The June 21, 2001 issue of Rolling Stone magazine features an article titled “Moby’s Laptop Studio” (p. 63) that describes the artist’s mobile set up. “I use two Apple [PowerBook] G4s — one for Pro Tools and one for Cubase,” Moby says. An additional, brief article describes how anyone can build their own mobile studio, and also recommends the PowerBook G4.

Aladdin Systems today introduced the StuffIt OneSource Volume License Program, a new licensing approach designed to make it easier for businesses, schools, and other organizations with mixed-platforms to make volume purchases of the company’s StuffIt compression utility. The licensing agreement, which requires a minimal purchase of 100 seats, allows IT managers to split the licenses between Mac, Windows, Linux, and Solaris systems as they see fit.

Owendo, which two months ago published a 279-page report testing 33 Web application servers, has translated the report from French to English. The English version is available for US$2,000. Of note, Owendo awarded very high marks to Apple’s WebObjects 4.5.

QPS today began shipping its 8x8x32x external, US$249 USB 2.0 CD-RW drive. USB 2.0’s backwards-compatibility enables the drive to function with USB 1.1-equipped Macs (at a slower 4x write speed). Otherwise, Mac users will have to wait for Adaptec to update Toast with USB 2.0 support. USB 2.0 is a new USB protocol that’s 40 times faster than USB 1.1. At present, the technology is only available to Macs through third-party PCI cards.