Daniel Drew Turner

America Online Inc. announced its purchase of privately held Santa Monica, Calif.-based Xdrive Inc., which offers online storage and backup services. With this acquisition, AOL seeks to provide to its subscribers remote media storage and backup similar to Apple Computer Inc.s .Mac feature. The terms of the purchase were not made public. According Nicholas Graham, […]

Web designers greeted the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 1 with heated criticism when they learned it would not include full support for the CSS 2 standard. Since the Beta 1 release, however, the program manager for Internet Explorer, Chris Wilson, has made the unprecedented move of promising at least partial Cascading Style […]

Industry watchers have noticed a “halo” surrounding Apple Computers iPod: The popular music player is helping to bring new users to the companys Macintosh line of computers. However, could the uncertainty surrounding the Macs upcoming switch from PowerPC to Intel processors take the shine off that halo? When Apple Computer Inc. made that dramatic announcement […]

Industry analysts examining Apples Wednesday earnings statement concurred that the most interesting information revealed was the strong growth of Macintosh computer sales. As discussed in Apple Computer Inc.s fiscal third quarter conference call, sales of Macintosh computers have risen 35 percent over the year-ago quarter, which gave the Apple products triple the sales rate of […]

Apple Computer on Wednesday reported the financial results of its third fiscal quarter, characterizing the numbers as “the highest revenue and earnings in the companys history.” The reported net quarterly profit of $320 million beat Apples estimate of just under $250 million and an estimate of $274 million that was compiled by 18 analysts surveyed […]

Open Door Networks this week shipped DoorStop X 1.0, a software-based firewall for Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X Server 10.3 and later versions. According to Open Door, the companys product offers security functions for home and small office users not available from Mac OS Xs built-in firewall. Although Apple Computer Inc.s Mac OS […]

At the Macworld Conference and Expo show that opened Monday, software and hardware vendors including Red Rock Software, Exabyte and MetaCommunications introduced new products targeted at the Macintosh market. The show, at Bostons Hynes Convention Center, runs through July 14 and features user conferences and a floor exhibition of more than 40 vendors, magazines and […]

Industry analysts are downplaying speculation as to whether AMDs recently filed lawsuit against Intel will have any effect on Intels relations with Apple, which recently announced that future Macintosh computers will be based on Intel processors. On June 27, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. filed suit in Delaware, claiming that Intel Corp. violated provisions of the […]

Major milestones were recently announced for two Mac OS X-compatible software suites that could provide an alternative to the near-ubiquitous Microsoft Office. The free NeoOffice/J, an open-source software development project created by Patrick Luby and Edward Peterlin, has reached its “first stable release,” and South Korea-based Haansoft has announced that it will ship a Mac […]

With its release of a design and illustration application this week, Microsoft appears ready to battle leaders such as Adobe Systems and Corel in the market for professional design tools. But the verdict from analysts and early beta testers is still out on whether Microsoft Corp.s software, code-named “Acrylic,” will attract defectors from Adobe Systems […]

Apples announcement that it will migrate its Macintosh line of computers away from the PowerPC architecture in favor of CPUs from Intel came as a surprise, not just to fans and developers, but to retailers, who have long carried the Mac torch as Apples market share declined in the 1990s. Though there are concerns about […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The aftershocks of Apple Computer Inc.s plan to transition from IBM PowerPC processors to Intel Corp.s Pentium chips have begun rippling through the Mac makers software developer base. Attendees at Apples Worldwide Developers Conference here—some of the first people outside of Cupertino, Calif., to learn that Intel processor Macs will debut in 2006—expressed a […]