Apple offers WWDC Scholarships; IBM to broaden PowerPC licensing; Google buys Pyra; more
Apple offers WWDC Scholarships; IBM to broaden PowerPC licensing; Google buys Pyra; more
Apple offers WWDC Scholarships Apple is offering ADC Student Members scholarships to attend this year's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, California, May 18-23, 2003. Winners of a student scholarship receive a free student e-Ticket to the conference. To put that in perspective, the regular attendee price is a cool US $1,595. Scholarship winners attend a full day of exclusive student activities on Sunday, May 18, resulting in six days stuffed full of Mac OS X technical information. More.
IBM to broaden PowerPC licensing CNET reports that IBM will begin offering one of its PowerPC chips to interested third parties under a new licensing plan. Don't get too excited that Apple will be a licensee, however. The article states that while IBM is open to licensing across the product road map, the 400-series (a chip generally used for embedded purposes) is the only one that will be available at first. "Other Power PC chips, such as those in IBM's PowerPC 700 family, are designed with more specific applications in mind and are also more expensive than the PowerPC 400 family," said and IBM rep. More.
Google buys Pyra Leading search engine Google has bought Pyra, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals. The Mercury News writes "Part of (the vision), shared by other blogging pioneers, has been to help democratize the creation and flow of news in a world where giant companies control so much of what most people see, hear and read. Weblogs are also becoming a valuable communication tool for groups of people, and have begun to infiltrate the corporate, university and government spheres." More.
Microsoft 'loosens' Apple grip on schools A New York Times article describes a very real threat to Apple's education sales, in the form of Microsoft's underhanded proposed class-action legal settlement that could result in the donation of hundreds of millions of dollars of Microsoft software to needy schools throughout California. "And these days the company faces another threat in the education market: a proposed class-action legal settlement by Microsoft that could result in the donation of hundreds of millions of dollars of Microsoft software to needy schools throughout California." More.Resources