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AlphaMask AGL: Portable 2D Graphics

Posted by | May 25, 2001 | , |

For Immediate Release

New portable graphics for OS X

AlphaMask, Inc. announces the Mac OS X version of its portable 2D graphics
engine AGL.

Boston

Following Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose,
AlphaMask is announcing the immediate availability of its portable 2D
graphics engine, AGL, for developers on OS/X and OS/9.

AGL is a high end graphics library, with features like antialias text and
graphics, gradients, matrix transformations and transparency.

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New iBook rumors dismissed by Apple

Posted by | May 25, 2001 | |

Despite a report on Bloomberg yesterday which quoted Wang Hsin-wu, a spokesperson for Apple’s Taiwan contractor Alpha-Top, Apple is denying that a new larger screen iBook is in the works. “The Alpha-Top spokesperson quoted in the article was incorrect in regard to Apple’s iBook plans. What he said is not true,” an Apple spokesperson told MacCentral.

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Internet at the speed of light

Posted by | May 25, 2001 | |

Japanese scientists at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan have discovered a way to bypass an optical-electricity bottleneck that slows down communications systems. According to an article in NewScientist, “Japanese scientists say their ‘optical transistor’ could eventually lead to all-optical networks that will dramatically improve the speed of Internet connections.

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