|  Wednesday, January 03, 2001
 
 
 
 
 
  
    | MacWEEK: New Macs in the pipeline? "Apple Computer will unveil faster, single-processor G4 towers and redesigned G4-equipped PowerBooks at Macworld Expo next Tuesday, according to a report by Cnet. Sources contacted by MacCentral confirmed the main facts in the report, calling it 'right on the money.'"
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    | David Coursey: Do Apple's megahertz matter?. "Of all the reasons to buy or not to buy a Mac, the difference between a 500 MHz G4 and a 750 MHz Pentium should be well down the list."
      5:00:39 PM   |  |  
 
 
  
    | Dale Dougherty: "Low bandwidth and poor quality continue to limit the successful distribution of audio and video on the Web. There may be a better way, however, to distribute multimedia content online, by scheduling downloads of high-quality content for appointment viewing or listening." Yes.
      4:01:02 PM   |  |  
 
 
 
  
    | Apple Reaction: Bring Back Woz?. Apple's decision to slash prices on many of its computers created predictable, disgruntled reactions from Mac supporters and critics. Some grumblers are even calling for a return of the old guard. By Michelle Delio.
      12:00:19 PM   |  |  
 
 
 
  
    | MacNN: Holiday season hits Apple hard. "While retail PC sales in December fell by 24 percent from the year-ago period, according to PC Data, sales of Macs suffered far worse than the industry average, falling by nearly 40 percent."
      10:00:57 AM   |  |  
 
  
    | MacWEEK: Improved inventory picture?. "Despite holiday Mac sales some 15 percent lower than those of Windows-based PCs, Apple's after-Christmas product inventory is between six to seven weeks--much less than the 11.5 weeks reported at the first of December, a leading market research firm reported. If the projection holds true, it would be a good sign that Apple is slowly hacking away at an inventory problem that has plagued the Mac-maker since October."
      9:01:18 AM   |  |  
 
 
  
    | Bård Farstad: Communicating with XML-RPC. "This is an implementation of the XML-RPC spesification written in object oriented PHP."
      8:01:05 AM   |  |  
 
  
    | Khosla talks money, tech, and modesty. Vinod Khosla gets introspective about his role mentoring companies to the top. He prefers to think of himself as a coach, despising the take-the-money-and-run approach of many of his fellow VCs. Relationships with companies are nearly as important to him as his relationship with his family, we found.
      12:00:24 AM   |  |  
 
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