Chief financial officer talks about Apple's reinvention. Though Apple's products are popular now, a few years ago the company was perceived as being in a disastrous situation, Fred Anderson, Apple's chief financial officer, said during a speech Thursday. He was the premiere speaker in a year-long series sponsored by the Business School's High-Tech Club at the University of Michigan. [MacCentral] comment []5:44:47 PM
IBM's first 64-bit blades to use G5 chip. IBM Corp. on Tuesday will unveil a new line of low-power blade servers based on the same 64-bit PowerPC 970 processor that Apple Computer Inc. uses in its Power Mac G5 computers. The new system, called the eServer BladeCenter JS20 will be IBM's first 64-bit blade offering, joining the 32-bit Xeon HS20 systems IBM is already shipping. [MacCentral] comment []4:36:38 PM
