Motivation behind Connectix buy; Forbes: Apple's powerful mini-me; more

Exhibit fair showcase returns for WWDC 2003 Apple will run an exhibit fair at this year's Worldwide Developer conference, giving smaller vendors a chance to show off their products. Applications are now being accepted for the Exhibit Fair at Apple's WWDC 2003 in San Jose, California. For station package reservations, call Susan Worley direct at 805-435-1004. More.

Motivation behind Connectix buy CNET offers some conjecture on the motivation behind Microsoft's buyout of Connectix's major assets, including Virtual PC. "The server software drove the deal, said analysts, and will play a key role in helping Microsoft to attract users of its aging Windows NT 4 server operating system to Windows Server 2003, slated to debut on April 24." More.

Forbes: Apple's powerful mini-me Forbes is the latest media outlet to offer its opinion on Apple's 12-inch PowerBook G4. "The invariable first reaction of colleagues, friends and strangers to the new 12-inch Apple PowerBook G4 has been 'Wow! Cool!' followed by 'It's heavier than it looks.' Not that it is a heavyweight. By our kitchen-scale test it weighs in at just five pounds fully stacked with a DVD-burning SuperDrive and an Airport Extreme card for wireless networking." More.

eBay's shoddy privacy policy A Haaretz article reports that eBay is willing to hand over everything it knows about visitors to its Web site that might be of interest to an investigator. "All they have to do is ask. There's no need for a court order. The company has half a dozen investigators under contract, who scrutinize 'suspicious users' and 'suspicious behavior.'" More.

Retiring Microsoft exec warns company A retiring Microsoft executive warned in a version of his resignation letter that he posted to the Internet that Microsoft is in danger of being swept away by open source. "Microsoft faces the same embrace-or-be-destroyed alternatives with open source that it faced with the Internet years ago, argues David Stutz, Microsoft's group program manager for the Shared Source Common Language Initiative (CLI) until his recent retirement." More.

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