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BusinessWeek Online has included Apple CEO Steve Jobs among the 25 people who revitalized e-business in recent months. The magazine says the people were named to the list "because of their vision, tenacity, new ideas, and ability to deliver on promises." [MacCentral] .< 6:22:04 PM  >Jobs: Vertical integration part of Apple's success CEO Steve Jobs says that Apple is the "only vertically integrated technology company left" -- and it's a formula that obviously works, according to an Independent UK article. When asked why Apple generates a religious-like fervor among its customers, Jobs said the question should be "... why don't the other computer makers inspire the same sort of excitement?" [MacCentral] .< 6:20:39 PM >Apple Power Mac G5: Neck-and-Neck with Intel PCs “When Apple's Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Power Mac G5 this summer as the fastest personal computer any company had built to date, we took it with a grain of salt...
” writes Troy Dreier in PC Magazine, “After testing a loaded ($4,349 direct, after we opted for more RAM and upgraded graphics) dual 2.0-GHz Power Mac G5 on a range of high-end content creation applications and comparing the results with a similarly configured (and priced) Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors, we see that indeed the G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available.” [Sep 19] [Apple Hot News] .< 6:17:37 PM >Apple to Webcast 24-hour women's baseball game Apple will Webcast a 24-hour women's baseball game that's planned as a fundraising event for combatting AIDS in Africa, according to the New York Times. Rob Novotny, vice president of American Women's Baseball, is currently recruiting players for the event, which he plans to schedule sometime this fall. [MacCentral] .< 6:15:59 PM >Virginia Tech prepares to deploy Apple supercomputer Virginia Polytechnic and State University is racing to deploy its new supercomputer cluster based on Apple Computer Inc.'s G5 desktops by Oct. 1 in order to make the next ranking of the Top 500 list. Faculty and students hope to set up the 1,100-node Terascale Computing Facility by the end of this week, said Lynn Nystrom, a Virginia Tech spokeswoman. The university thinks the new cluster will rank among the top 10 fastest supercomputers deployed at academic institutions, and among the fastest overall in the world, she said. [MacCentral] .< 6:15:28 PM >Apple releases Mac OS X v10.2.8 update Apple on Monday released an update to Mac OS X to bring it up to version 10.2.8. The new version can be downloaded through the Software Update system preference pane or from Apple's Web site. Apple notes that the Mac OS X v10.2.8 update works only with Power Mac G3 and G4-based desktop and portable computers, including iMac, eMac and iBook. This update is not intended for Power Mac G5 systems. [MacCentral] .< 6:13:42 PM >Terascale Cluster 'Combining the power of 1,100 Apple computers, the Terascale Cluster project is bringing Virginia Tech to the forefront in the supercomputing arena.' .< 6:11:52 PM >US soldier kills rare tiger 'An American soldier shot and killed a rare Bengal tiger in Baghdad zoo during an apparently drunken party, the head of the zoo said on Saturday.' .< 6:04:27 PM >Newspapers Try 'Really Simple Syndication' 'The New York Times launched its first RSS in March 2002. "Web logs are an important distribution channel for our high-quality content, and providing RSS feeds generates both traffic and user registrations for nytimes.com," said Christine Mohan, spokeswoman for New York Times Digital. The paper currently offers 19 feeds to bloggers using Radio Userland software.' |
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