X

New & Noteworthy: PC Logic Doomsday; The Internet

New & Noteworthy: PC Logic Doomsday; The Internet

CNET staff
Capacity "glut"; Kodak offers first 35 mm digital camera

PC Logic Doomsday Wired News is reporting that Monday is doomsday for the 70,000 composers and producers using Logic on a PC. "Apple Computer bought Logic's developer, Germany's eMagic, earlier this summer. Almost immediately, Apple said it would stop offering Logic -- one of the leading music-creation programs -- as well as other eMagic programs for Windows users, at the end of September.Logic's PC users, who paid up to $949 for a 'platinum' version of the product, are furious." More.

The Internet Capacity "glut" The Wall Street Journal reports that network providers jumped in too soon, offering mounds of capacity that are no going unused. "Of all of the myths that drove the 1990s technology boom - dot-coms made good investments, the New Economy would never experience a recession, small telecom companies could beat the mighty Bells - the most damaging may have been the fallacy that Internet traffic was doubling every three months." More.

Kodak offers first 35 mm digital camera Kodak Professional,gas announced the latest addition to its camera family, the DCS Pro 14n digital camera, an SLR with the industry's first 35-mm size CMOS sensor (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) in an SLR camera. The new camera boasts a 13.89 million pixel CMOS sensor and provides variable resolution raw files. The estimated street price is near USD$4,000. More.