In his “State of the Art” column for The New York Times today, David Pogue looks at Microsoft Office 2004, which was officially released for the Macintosh yesterday. Pogue sums up his article by saying, “…Microsoft’s Mac team appears to be reaching the same point of feature saturation as its Windows counterpart.
Read MoreJim Brock, senior VP for consumer services at Yahoo!, has said that a revamped Yahoo! email service will begin rolling out this summer that will offer unlimited email storage for premium users, reports Mercury News. The company announced the move at its annual analysts meeting in San Francisco. Details on the new service were scarce, but Yahoo!
Read MoreSix Apart, makers of Movable Type software and TypePad weblogging service, today announced a contest intended to give developers a place to showcase and sell their Movable Type plug-ins while competing for US$20,000 in prizes, including a first prize of a “dream $7,000+ desktop system (Apple Macintosh or Dell PC). Contestants can enter anytime between now and June 18, 2004.
Read MoreGoogle announced its new, free 1GB email service on March 31, 2004 without support for Safari, Apple’s Web browser. However, Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, has said that this will change before the service is publicly available. “We’re going to make it work with Safari and that’s one of the high priority things,” Brin told MacCentral in an interview. “I’ve heard that you can sort of get it to work if you’re desperate.
Read MoreCompression Labs, a subsidiary of Forgent Networks, has initiated litigation against 31 companies (including Apple, Adobe, Dell, IBM and Macromedia) for infringement of United States Patent No. 4,698,672 (the ‘672 Patent) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division.
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