New & Noteworthy: Apple Q2 Webcast; MicroNet back; Roxio and Adaptec split; TidBITS anniversary; more

Apple's 2nd quarter conference call Apple will Webcast its conference call with analysts when it reports Q2 performance numbers on Wednesday, April 18 at 5 PM Eastern.

MicroNet Technology Acquired by Fantom Drives We first reported in February that longtime Mac storage vendor MicroNet technologies would be shut down. Today we see that MicroNet is back, this time as part of Fantom Drives. Read more about it in this press release.

Adaptec approves spin-off of Roxio The Roxio split from Adaptec is almost finished. The board approved the spin-off, and the deal is set to close in mid-May. The new company's primary products are Easy CD Creator for Windows and Toast for the Macintosh.

These TidBITS go to eleven Longtime internet publisher and Mac writer Adam Engst is celebrating TidBITS eleventh year of publication with this retrospective.

VST UltraTek 66 RAID card and G4/733 conflict We have added an additional report to yesterday's item on this topic.