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Nvidia Corporation released their fiscal first quarter results ending April 29. The company announced that net income rose 41 percent and sales rose 62 percent. “The first quarter of fiscal 2002 represents the beginning of our next growth phase,” stated Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia. “We have successfully extended our graphics franchise into the mobile and Apple markets, while strengthening our position in our core desktop PC and workstation markets.”

Steve Jobs and Avie Tevanian acknowledged the speed issues plaguing Mac OS X since its release, reports The Register. In fact, Jobs said it was the number 1 requested feature both users and developers wanted to see fixed — the Dock was number 2.

ScheduleOnline released a Mac version of their sync program today. The utility enables Mac users to synchronize their ScheduleOnline Web calendars, reminders, to do lists, and address books with those of Palm OS-based devices, such as Palm Pilots and Visors. ScheduleOnline Sync for Macintosh can be downloaded from the company’s Web site.

VMGEAR announced their plans today to make Optimizeit 4.0 available for Mac OS X. Optimizeit Profiler enables Java technology developers to understand and solve performance issues such as memory leaks, excessive object allocation, inefficient algorithms and unproductive processor use in their Java programs. “Providing support for Mac OS X was a great opportunity for VMGEAR,” said CEO, Gerard Laurent.

Digimarc and the TWAIN Working Group announced support today for Mac OS X with the developer pre-release version of the industry standard TWAIN interface. More information and a download link for the pre-release version of the TWAIN application program interface (API) for the Mac OS X platform is a free download online.