New & Noteworthy: Apple stocking its own shelves first?;
New & Noteworthy: Apple stocking its own shelves first?;
Is Apple stocking its own shelves first? Shortages of a hot new product have Macintosh dealers grumbling that Apple Computer is showing preferential treatment to company-owned retail stores--something the company promised would not happen. [More]
Chained melodies A salon.com article discusses ways that users are defeating the copy protection built-in to some new audio CDs. For example: "...after rebooting his computer, he discovered that the protection was easy to thwart. The copy protection worked by introducing a false value for the start time of the CD -- Cianessi used a function of AudioGrabber to reset that start time to zero, and then was able to encode the music without a glitch." [More]
AOL testing new Netscape as alternative to Explorer AOL is expected to start testing soon a Web browser using the guts of its Netscape technology, a source close to AOL said on Wednesday, opening up the possibility that the media giant plans to drop rival Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer. [More]
Netscape Navigator Browser Snoops On Web Searches Netscape unit is snooping on searches performed by users of its latest Navigator browser at Google and other search sites. [More]
Wireless to get faster, more secure Atheros Communications on Monday began shipping the first silicon chip that uses a new wireless networking standard known as 802.11g. [More]
Benchmarks supposedly "demolish Apple speed boasts" An article in The Register describes some speed tests conducted by C't that found the Mac to be less than a speed-demon. The article states: "These are specialized tests, it's true, but they're the most closely watched by the kind of scientific and visualization users Apple has been trying to woo." [More]
Update: Jonathan Greenberg notes: "In the tests they performed, they disabled second CPUs and the AltiVec processor!" However, Scott Boone noted: "Yes, the tests do not incorporate AltiVec. But the Intel tests did not incorporate the SSE extensions. That was the point! And yes, they turned off the second processor. They did so because Apple claims that single processors are faster too."
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