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It must be confessed that this is somewhat of a vent, but there is nothing more annoying while surfing the Web than viewing invasive and irritating advertising. A reader sent us a link for this Web site yesterday, noting the outrageous floating ad for Intel. Maybe Apple’s ad campaigns are getting to them…

Motorola debuted a new PowerPC chip at the Smart Networks Developers Forum in New Orleans yesterday. The PowerPC 7440 is a lower-power version of the company’s 7450 chip used in Macs, and is designed specifically for smaller networking devices. The PowerPC 7740 is expected to ship later this year in 600MHz and 700MHz flavors.

The Business Software Alliance, whose members include Adobe and Microsoft, released a report yesterday stating that 37 percent of software programs used by businesses around the world are pirated. CNN has the report from AP.

While certainly not Mac related, this is just one of those news items that make you go “hmmm.” With the help of Russian food scientists, Pizza Hut has created the world’s first space-consumable pizza — a development project that took nearly a year. Cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station enjoyed a six-inch pizza with tomato sauce, cheese and salami.

Apple has updated their QuickTime Streaming Server software for Mac OS X to version 3.0.1. This release offers Skip Protection, Web-based Administration, Strong Authentication and Enhanced broadcasting support. Version 10.0 or later of Mac OS X Server is required to use this software.