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Aided by continued strong sales of its iPod digital music player, Apple Computer on Wednesday posted second-quarter sales and earnings that topped expectations.
For the quarter ended March 27, the Mac maker said it earned $46 million, or 12 cents per share, on revenue of $1.91 billion. That compares with earnings of $14 million, or 4 cents per share, on revenue of $1.48 billion for the same quarter a year earlier. Apple actually sold more iPods than Macs. ZD Net chimes in at:
http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1103_2-5191631.html?tag=printthis
and more can be seen at UGN News
Apple has updated the eMac to a 1.25 GHZ PowerPC G4 system and now sell the one with a superdrive for less than $1K -- it's Apple's most affordable SuperDrive-equipped system yet! Read more...
I am surprised that has taken them this long, but Apple announced that they are going to close their last manufacting facility in California and it will affect about 250 employees. It is getting harder and harder not to do the manufacturing in China. Read more...
InfoManager coeditor Fred Showker (SMUG/UGN) draws from twenty years of experience in the user group community to share these tips for making your user group a better club to belong to -- and a better organization in your community. Try these tips in your group...
According to The Register, the music companies want to charge us more for downloads. Make the price about what it would cost in the store for full CDs and $2.49 or more per song. Can you say "greedy." But then what should we expect.
Online music will eventually make someone a ton of money. But with these kinds of attitudes is going to take awhile. Read more...
Glass Bead Software which makes the SnapMail and SnapTalk software I have talked about before now has released an employee status tracking tool called: "In-Out Board" which uses their proven peer-to-peer networking engine to provide very simple and user-friendly employee status tracking". Sounds like a winner for the small business, especially since it is priced at about $9 per user. For a fully functional demo version and detailed information see glassbead.com
According to RCR Wireless News on the 14th, "Verizon Communications Inc. said it will start offering new digital subscriber line customers a full rebate on the $100 price of new wireless routers, allowing users to hook up multiple devices to the company's broadband service." I know that SBC in my neighborhood has offered routers for awhile, but only recently agreed to provide wireless and support for them. The full Verizon story is at: rcrnews.com
Our friend Ilene Hoffman has started setting up the Hess Memorial list for Boston's MacWorld in July, 2004. It now includes some tidbits about Boston to aid in your tourist plans. More to come Check it out regularly to make your plans at: ilenesmachine.com
Over a week ago, Canon announced that it would invest about $93.99 million, to nearly double its annual production of ink-jet printers in 2005 compared 2003.
It is going to build new plants to boost production. The idea is to make it more competitive in the printer industry. Read the story at: zdnet.com
The AppleMugStore.com has MS Office v.X for Mac OS X for $366.88 and comes with a free upgrade to Office 2004. But I can't give you the passwords here. You will have to see your MUG leader. However, our friends at MegaMacs has a better offer. Just let them know you read about it here and you can get the same product from them for $359. It to is upgradeable to the new version for FREE. Their number is: 918-664-MACS (6227) or Read more...
This web site will let you check off the countries you have visited and then print out a map that shows those countries in red. The limitation that I see is that a small visit can be over represented. I have been to Hong Kong, but that would indicate a visit to China. Read more...
If you've ever accidentally lost music files then you know how it feels. SubRosaSoft's MP3Restore is an easy to use application designed to recover music files that have been deleted intentionally or accidentally from your portable MP3 player or your hard disk. Click and all your tunes are restored to the hard drive. Any hard drive. MP3Restore
Two years ago, Mike Swope (Kansas MUG) reviewed MenuMachine. Now, MaMug's Dan East reviews this cool pull-down menu generator for Adobe GoLive. You won't have to spend hundreds of dollars on animation or design classes to get some very cool web page effects. Read more...
We've showed you Xupport before... now Xupport arrives at the final release as the "Swiss Army Knife" for Mac OS X , with its graphical user interface to configure many hidden Mac OS X and Unix options. Read more...
... for game developers and graphic designers -- Visual artists can quickly put complex 3D objects together and export high resolution JPG images from scenes. Very cool powers include a multiple step undo and an open source file format! Check it out. Read more...
Here comes Super Collapse! II0 for the Windows and Macintosh. More addictive than the first one -- if that's possible -- the new game modes will keep even veteran Super Collapse players burning the midnight oil as they ponder strategies. Read more...
Got a mini? You need this iPod skin -- built like the one that made the iSkin eXo2 and eVo famous, the iSkin Mini gives your iPod Mini complete surface protection and ergonomic construction without sacrificing the appearance, size or functionality! Protect that investment
XPlay 2 provides a variety of new features for Windows users who don't want to miss the coolness of using an iPod! Plus compatibility with Audible files, AAC files, and even automatic WMA-to-MP3 conversion. Read more...
O'Reilly opens registration for Open Source Convention with an impressive, blue-ribbon line-up of industry celebrities. Portland, OR from July 26-30, register NOW. Read more...
The Economy.com has a new section that gives all kinds of consumer and governmental statistics. I have found it useful. Check it out at freelunch.com ... Read more...
"Procrastination is the active assassin of opportunity."
- Roy H. Williams.
Have a great week...
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