macmoguls.com news archive: February 2002

Tuesday, February 26, 2002

More and more news companies confirm that Apple's newest hardware product seems to be recreating the same (or even more) sales than its original.
NewsFactor.com predicts that the flatpanel iMac will beat its greatest low-cost competitors again - like the original iMac did before.
Yahoo! even says that the new flatpanel iMac is Amazon's fastest-selling computer.
Seems that Apple did a great job with its newest consumer Macintosh.

Posted by Corley @ 10:27 AM CST [Link] [No comments]

Friday, February 22, 2002

We updated the URL section. Now there are some more interesting links for Macintosh users.
To guarantee quality, we decided to list only really relevant and useful links. If you think you know a great link which you want to share with other Macintosh users, don't hesitate to inform us.
Have a look at the updated URL list here.

Posted by Corley @ 10:11 AM CST [Link] [No comments]

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

Be Incorporated, the company that fails with it's futuristic operating system BeOS, now claims that the Microsoft Corporation is responsible for the destruction of Be's business. Above all, Be has the opinion that Microsoft dealed with anticompetitive and illegal exclusionary acts to maintain it's monopoly on Intel compatible PCs. Be says that Microsoft did everything to make sure that Microsoft Windows is the only preinstalled operating system on PCs, so there wasn't any chance for BeOS to spread.

Read Be's press release about that and download the complaint here.

By now BeOS - the operating system made by Be Inc. - is sold to Palm, Inc. In late 1996, Jean-Louis Gassée (who formerly was "President of Apple Products"), CEO of Be, tried to sell BeOS to Apple in order to save the company he formerly worked for. Gil Amelio, Apple's CEO in 1996, thought the price for BeOS was much too high, so Apple bought NeXT's OPENSTEP, and rumours say Apple had to pay twice the price it would have paid for BeOS. Nice sideeffect: NeXT's CEO in 1996 was Steve Jobs - founder of Apple Computer and now Apple's CEO. [Author's opinion]

Posted by Corley @ 10:44 AM CST [Link] [No comments]

Saturday, February 16, 2002

Bungie, a company that developed a lot of great games for the Macintosh platforms (such as the Marathon series, the Myth series and Oni), now closes the doors on the Myth gaming servers for all time. In a press release Bungie (which now is part of the Microsoft Empire) says that developers can get the raw Myth II metaserver source code, if they want to build up a Myth II gaming server on their own.
And there is already a place for the Myth Game Server Development Community - the Myth Vault.
At the moment, Myth freaks are able to play Myth II on Mariusnet.com, a Myth TFL and SB server emulator. To learn more about the difference of Mariusnet and the old Bungie Gaming Servers, read this article.

Posted by Corley @ 12:57 PM CST [Link] [No comments]

Saturday, February 9, 2002

Apple announced the new results for the year 2001: QuickTime added about 80 million new users, while about 75 million new users downloaded the products of RealNetworks, RealOne and RealPlayer.
The new version of QuickTime -QuickTime 5- was released about 10 months ago, and Apple believes that the existing user group of QuickTime will expand to 100 million until April 2002.

Read the full story here.

Posted by Corley @ 09:32 PM CST [Link] [No comments]

Friday, February 1, 2002

Apple Computer is one of the recipients of the 2002 Technical GRAMMY Award. This award honors individuals and companies that made banbreaking contributions to the recording field.

GRAMMY.com says that Apple Computer is the leading architect according to combining computer technology and sound studios, because it helped and revolutionized the way music is written, produced, mixed, recorded and creatively imagined.

"The creation of the Macintosh sparked a flurry of creativity that continues today. With the Mac's powerful new processors and new, Apple-driven applications - such as DVD Studio Pro - Apple continues to build on its historic role in moving studio technology forward."

The awards will be presented on Feb. 26 at a ceremony a day before the 44th Annual GRAMMY Awards.

Read the full story at GRAMMY.com.

Posted by Corley @ 04:55 PM CST [Link] [No comments]

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