Monday, June 16, 2003

MS releases Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for OS X [The Macintosh News Network] 5:26:17 PM

Apple to introduce new Mac OS X Server at WWDC. Apple Computer Inc. will use its upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) to introduce developers to the next major version of Mac OS X Server. In the session dubbed "Apple Solutions in Enterprise" the company will introduce the new version of OS X Server based on Panther and discuss how Apple products and technologies fit into today's IT environment. [MacCentral] 5:25:56 PM

Network World: Manila weblogs in the Connecticut Department of Information Technology. Connecticut state CIO Rock Regan speaking at the ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies Conference: "As an example, IT staffers who focus on law-enforcement and social-services projects say they have "completely different" issues, even though the underlying core technologies they use are the same, he said. Weblogs are proving a way for employees to realize what they have in common. He's using UserLand Software's Manila to give users Weblogs." [UserLand Product News] 5:25:37 PM

SCO pulls AIX license, calls for permanent ban. IBM to ship on [The Register] 5:25:12 PM

SCO claims IBM Unix contract void. The company says it has revoked Big Blue's license to sell its version of Unix, called AIX, and requests that a judge permanently block IBM's Unix business. [CNET News.com] 5:24:58 PM

Monday: WAIDING IN DEEPER. Well, I've read Marvel's response to the Waid situation (which appears on Newsarama and is also posted way down in ... [PeterDavid.net] 5:24:24 PM

Sunday: WAIDERS OF THE LOST COMIC. Word on Newsarama is that Mark Waid was fired off FF for refusing to take the series in the direction dictated by Marvel higher-ups: i.e., ditching the high adventure tone (which Mark's been doing a great job with) in favor of, according to Waid, "making the FF a wacky suburban dramedy where Reed's a nutty professor who creates amazing but impractical inventions, Sue's the office-temp breadwinner, the cranky neighbor is their new "arch-enemy." [PeterDavid.net] 9:49:13 AM

Computing's Big Shift: Flexibility in the Chips. An emerging type of chip architecture known as adaptive, or reconfigurable, computing, could transform technology. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] 9:47:19 AM

'Nano' Suddenly a Gigantic Label. Nanotechnology used to mean building tiny machines. Now many fields, including study of the Earth, are considered 'nano.' Is the renaming frenzy just a grab for money? By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News] 9:47:06 AM

Internet Explorer update due today. As MacCentral first reported last week, Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) on Monday will make available an update for Internet Explorer for Macintosh. The MacBU also told us that an update will be available for the OS 9 version of the Web browser in the next month. [MacCentral] 9:46:39 AM

MS Mac Browser: Fuhgeddaboutit. Internet Explorer 5 will be the last Microsoft browser developed for Macintosh computer systems. A company rep says Mac users should have better luck with Apple's Safari Web-browser. [Wired News] 9:46:13 AM

MS to release IE 5.2.3 for OS X later today [The Macintosh News Network] 9:45:52 AM