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Apple has put together a commercial for QuickTime Live!, its annual QuickTime convention that will take place February 11-14, 2002, at the Beverly Hills Hilton. Frank Cassanova, director of QuickTime marketing, offers a number of reasons for interested parties to attend.

Adobe has posted Acrobat 5.0.5, an update to its PDF software for Mac OS 8.6 and later and Mac OS X, as noted by VersionTracker. The new version “provides additional compatibility and fixes known issues, including support for Mac OS X and Macintosh versions of Microsoft Office, and additional updates.” Acrobat Reader, Adobe’s free application for viewing PDF files, has not been updated.

Qualcomm plans to released a Mac OS X version of its Eudora email client in early 2002, according to MacCentral. The company had released beta versions of the OS X client earlier this year, but further development had come to a stand still until recently.

Chaotic Software has released MP3 Rage 4.0, a new version of its versatile MP3 utility. MP3 Rage allows users to perform a number of tasks, from using Internet sharing services like Gnutella to find music, to organizing their collection. The new version adds the ability to normalize sound volumes while exporting to AIFF for CD burning, new ID3 tag information, ID3 sort name, Windows-compatible MP3 file naming, and more. MP3 Rage is US$24.95 shareware.

EarthLink founder and chairman Sky Dayton plans to unveil his latest company today, a wireless Internet service provider dubbed “Boingo,” according to c|net. The company will employ Wi-Fi technology, which provides wireless access to computers up to 300 feet away (generally employing the 802.11 standard), with subscribers paying US$75 a month for unlimited access to any of the networks.