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April 30, 2005
Live Digitally sent a member of their web team to the San Francisco Apple store to cover the Tiger launch.
"The San Francisco Apple retail store closed its doors promptly at 5pm allowing employees one hour to prepare the venue for a 6:00pm arrival of Tiger. I showed my face in downtown San Francisco at 5:00pm to find a line of approximately 100 Mac fans patiently awaiting their entrance go-ahead.
The first person in line had smiles all the way, with "only one more short hour to go" written on his face. After a small chat with him I found out that he only used Macintosh computers (G4 at home and G5 for work), and arrived at 4:00pm to get his hands on the black box where X marked the spot."
You can read more of his experience and see exclusive pictures here .
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Thursday, the world's largest software maker , Microsoft Corp. reported a third-quarter profit that nearly doubled from a year ago, despite sales that fell short of Wall Street forecasts due to leaner licensing business and a sharp drop in the dollar's value reports the WP.
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April 29, 2005
Wednesday, Internet media giant Yahoo Inc injected their News site with a stylish new look and features to help users go deeper into subjects and to personalize headlines. The most visited online news site in the United States is aiming for a "cleaner" and more organized delivery of headlines and news content, Yahoo said.
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April 28, 2005
Apple Computer Inc. announced upgrades to its line of Power Mac workstations Wednesday. The dual-processor Power Mac line increases processor speed and the base amount of memory that the systems ship with, as well as larger hard drives and faster optical storage.
The Power Mac G5 offers 2.0GHz, 2.3GHz and 2.7GHz dual-processor models with a speed boost at the top of the line. The dual 2.7GHz model features a Apple designed liquid cooling system to counter the speed, resulting in a cool tower that runs Photoshop nearly two times faster than a Pentium 4-based system. Apple has also doubled the size of the standard hard drives that ship with dual-processor Power Macs. The new 2.7GHz and 2.3GHz systems both come configured with 250GB serial ATA hard drives as standard; the 2GHz system comes with a 160GB hard drive.
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Even though Microsoft's next Windows operating system, Code-named Longhorn is 20 months away, Microsoft is enjoying a media frenzy over the system just a few days before Apple's latest OS update is available to the general public.
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April 27, 2005
Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates demonstrated Longhorn's new graphics and other features, which include better ways to visualize data, such as seeing through windows stacked atop one another, more natural file organization and faster searching. The way people can switch from window to window and the way files are presented on a PC with Longhorn is reminiscent of Apple's operating system, according to analysts.
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In celebration of The Hubble space telescope turning 15 (years), NASA has released two new pictures: one of a new area of the Eagle Nebula, a star forming region where hot dense gas is being shaped by ultraviolet light from a group of massive hot stars; the other of the Whirlpool Galaxy, with a smaller, companion galaxy on one of its arms. Fifteen years ago Monday, at 12:38 p.m. Pacific Time, astronaut Steven Hawley directed the space shuttle's robotic arm to release the Hubble Space Telescope 381 miles above the Earth, launching an era of unprecedented scientific discoveries. The Hubble space telescope has taken over 750,000 images of the universe.
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Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The new Windows editions provide a single platform that can run new 64-bit applications and existing 32-bit applications. Microsoft says that early adopters of Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions have seen stronger, faster results for database and data-intensive server applications. The x64 version of Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services, for example, can accommodate up to 170 percent more users per server than its 32-bit predecessor.
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April 26, 2005
Hitachi, Ltd., Pioneer Corporation, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., and Sharp Corporation have developed SAFIA content protection technologies for use with digital recording media utilized by a wide range of devices, from consumer electronics to personal computers. These four companies also form the group to develop, promote and license SAFIA. SAFIA was originally developed to target the iVDR removable HDD (Hard Disk Drive) Standard, and is expected to widely contribute to developing removable HDD appliances to dramatically enhance the digital entertainment experience.
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Software Giant, Microsoft on Monday released versions of its Windows operating system running 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.
The new products, Windows XP Professional x64 and Windows Server 2003 x64 cost the same as their 32-bit counterparts, and are designed to run software written for computers with such processors as well as programs written for older chips reports AP.
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