New & Noteworthy: QuickTime international versions; NECC; InOut Tracker; ProVue Panorama; more
New & Noteworthy: QuickTime international versions; NECC; InOut Tracker; ProVue Panorama; more
Jobs pitches Apple to Teachers At yesterday's National Educational Computing Conference Steve Jobs gave the crowd a sales pitch for Apple's current technologies with a spin on education. For more, see the Wired article, MacCentral photos, and our coverage from yesterday.
CE InOut Tracker 1.0 is a people tracking tool that works across a TCP/IP network. Employees can locate one another in a hurry, have instant access to the in/out status of employees or co-workers, find out when they will be returning, or the best way to contact them. InOut Tracker will also launch an e-mail client if that is the preferred method of contact.
ProVUE Panorama 4.0 is a RAM-based relational database package. It features extremely fast speed, Web publishing, elastic forms, a word processor, data outlines, crosstabs, and charts, a report editor, custom buttons, menus, and dialogs, and a full programming language.
Sizing Up the iBook From Pioneer Planet: "We decided to see whether Apple's digital-hub boast has merit. We borrowed an iBook from the company, then assembled an arsenal of digital gadgetry to use with the laptop. The upshot: The iBook did very well, for the most part."
The Boston Globe on security risks in a wireless world An excerpt: "From a bench somewhere in Cambridge, security consultant Jerry Brady is trolling for e-mails, passwords, and files that zip through wireless airwaves as naked as streakers. In less than 20 minutes, his laptop computer collects a heap of digital booty: files from federal agencies, a flurry of university e-mails, and business documents traveling to a hotel printer." More.
XLR8 Releases Design Specs for MPe ZIF Cards XLR8 has posted a white paper which releases into the public domain information allowing a manufacturer to enhance current Power PC 7400 ZIF processor card designs.
Macworld editor-in-chief Andy Gore moves on We have received word that Andy Gore has resigned as the editor-in-chief of Macworld. Andy has made an outstanding contribution to the Mac publishing community over the years and we wish him well in whatever he next decides to do.