Brand: MacNews

ATI Technologies, which supplies the graphics chips for most Apple systems, this morning reported an adjusted profit of US$2.2 million for its fourth quarter (unadjusted, the company posted a net loss of $45.2 million). Revenues for the quarter came in at $229.1 million, a 6.7 percent decline from the previous year. For fiscal 2001, ATI posted an adjusted net loss of $16.3 million ($54.2 million unadjusted) as revenues declined 19.1 percent to $1.04 billion.

Epson has posted new printer drivers for the Epson Stylus Pro 9500 (v6.73Es) and the Epson Stylus Pro 7500 (v6.73Es).

VersionTracker notes that Netopia has posted Timbuktu Pro 6.0.1b3 today. This release offers support for Mac OS X 10.1, as well as several other changes. This beta version expires in 30 days, at which time the final release should be ready.

Apple is planning to open retail stores in Albany, New York, at Crossgates, and Germantown, TN, at Saddle Creek, on October 13, according to graphics on Apple’s Hot News page. Neither store’s opening date is highlighted on Apple’s retail page, however.

Activision has begun shipping Quake III Gold, a new game bundle that includes both id Software’s Quake III Arena and the expansion set Quake III: Team Arena. The $30 title contains two hybrid CDs that offer both Mac and PC installers; a welcomed change for Mac users that were forced to extract data from the PC version of Team Arena and download a separate Mac application.