New and Noteworthy: City officials fear Apple expo may not return; More support for HyperTransport; more
New and Noteworthy: City officials fear Apple expo may not return; More support for HyperTransport; more
City officials fear Apple expo may not return The Boston Globe reports "The firm responsible for Macworld Expo, the former $60 million crown jewel of Boston's convention industry, said Friday the show may not make its much-awaited return to Boston next year, leaving Greater Boston tourism officials 'disappointed' and without a well-known event to open the city's new $600 million convention center." In an apparent reversal of a decision made in October by former IDG World Expo president Charlie Greco, the company's new chief executive, David Korse, has launched an internal study to determine whether the show should be returned to Boston. More.
New York Times comments on iTunes authorization issues The New York Times reprots on the iTunes de-authorization issue when leaving the country, first noted by PolitechBot. "Issues are arising about how online music-selling services deal with customers abroad; Shawn Yeager comments on problems he had gaining access to song he downloaded from Apple's iTunes service before he moved to Canada from United States, interview; holds Apple's automated e-mail implied problems stemmed from international licensensing rights; Apple blames systems error, not Apple policies; says consumers must have credit card with United States billing address to use service." More.
(For more on iTunes authorization issues, see these articles: Replacing your logic board can cause problems with iTunes-purchased music; Reminder: Back up your User folder to preserve iTunes purchases; Troubleshooting iTunes Music Store: Songs not available if you leave the country.)
Panther due in September? Though Apple has been mum on a specific release date, some media outlets are reporting that Panther may ship in September. "While Apple Computer Inc. will say only that Mac OS X 10.3 (a k a Panther) will ship by year-end, sources said the company is still on track to let the cat of the bag this September." says Microsoft Watch. More.
More support for HyperTransport News.com reports that "IBM, Texas Instruments, EMC and four other companies are joining the HyperTransport consortium this week, a move that will likely expand the places where the chip-to-chip connection gets used." HyperTransport is a protocol that, when embodied in silicon, shuttles data at a high rate of speed--6.4 gigabytes to 12.8 gigabytes per second--between different chips in the same box. It could be used to link a microprocessor with a chipset that organizes input/output functions, for example, or two communications processors in a router. The standard is used in the Power Macintosh G5. More.Resources