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<a href="/article/1156"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1156', 'show')">The Sun Also Hovers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1156" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1156">Last Tuesday, the Mac world went into a tailspin when the Wall Street Journal reported on Sun Microsystems' efforts to buy Apple, saying that a deal was "imminent" between the two companies</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 29 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1158"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1158', 'show')">Word Macro Viruses Still Out There</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1158" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1158">In TidBITS-292, we reported on a cross-platform virus written in WordBasic that affected some users of Microsoft Word 6.0, mostly on non-Macintosh platforms</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 29 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1163"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1163', 'show')">Apple to Reorganize & Lay Off 1,300 People</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1163" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1163">Apple to Reorganize & Lay Off 1,300 People -- Last week Apple officially announced a $69 million loss for its first fiscal quarter of 1996 (despite increased sales) and revealed plans for a company-wide restructuring which will include laying off about 1,300 employees from administration, sales, and marketing</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 22 Jan 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1165" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1165">Netscape 2.0b6a Available -- Netscape released beta 6 and then beta 6a of Netscape Navigator last week, including fixes for a b-tree corruption problem and performance improvements for JavaScript and plug-ins</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 22 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1166"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1166', 'show')">Static Got You Down?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1166" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1166">Static Got You Down? If you have a ton of RAM and feel like balancing on the razor-sharp bleeding edge, check out the development version of Macromedia's Shockwave plug-in for Netscape 2.0b5 or higher</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 22 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1169"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1169', 'show')">Microsoft Unveils Internet Explorer for Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1169" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1169">When Microsoft became a licensee of NCSA Mosaic and later shipped a Web browser for Windows called Internet Explorer, the Macintosh world didn't even blink</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 22 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1171"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1171', 'show')">Turmoil at Apple</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1171" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1171">Turmoil at Apple -- Apple announced last week it expects to report a $68 million loss for its first fiscal quarter this year, despite growing unit shipments and revenues</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 15 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1172"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1172', 'show')">New and Rumored Machines</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1172" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1172">New and Rumored Machines -- Power Computing was showing off the PowerCurve 601/120 at Macworld, a desktop Mac with three PCI slots and a 120 MHz 601 processor on a CPU daughter card</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 15 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1173"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1173', 'show')">Apple Drops PowerTalk Until Copland</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1173" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1173">Apple Drops PowerTalk Until Copland -- According to MacWEEK, Apple has confirmed it will be moving away from PowerTalk as its core communications solution until the next major revision of the Mac OS is available, citing very low adoption by users and developers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 15 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1174"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1174', 'show')">PowerBook 5300 System Update</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1174" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1174">PowerBook 5300 System Update -- Apple has released a new set of system disks for the PowerBook 5300 series. Although this isn't the much-anticipated System 7.5 Update 2.0, it includes many components expected to be in that release; highlights include Finder 7.5.4, an improved emulator, more PowerPC native system components for better performance, and fixes to the PC Card modem extension and the application launching process (which particularly help Word and Excel).The update is available in two forms - as a net install or as 14 floppy disk images - and weighs in at a whopping 20 MB</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 15 Jan 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1181" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1181">RAM Doubler 1.6.1 Update -- Late last month, Connectix released an updater to version 1.6.1 of RAM Doubler. This update addresses a freeze during boot on some configurations using SCSI Manager 4.3.1, and is compatible with ALSoft DiskExpressII 2.20 and the PowerBook 190</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 08 Jan 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1182" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1182">Netscape 2.0b5 Available -- Netscape released version 2.0b4 of Netscape Navigator late last month, but we aren't going to talk about it much since 2.0b5 just appeared</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 08 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1183"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1183', 'show')">Java Roaster to Ship</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1183" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1183">Java Roaster to Ship -- Natural Intelligence has announced plans to ship Developer Release 1 of Roaster, the first available integrated Java development system for the Macintosh, this week at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 08 Jan 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1184" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1184">Fetch 3.0.1b1 -- In TidBITS-307 we mentioned that Fetch 3.0 has problems on 68000-based Macs (the Plus, SE, Classic, and PowerBook 100) and truncates some files uploaded on machines running Open Transport</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 08 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1185"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1185', 'show')">Metrowerks Programming Kit and Promo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1185" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1185">Metrowerks Programming Kit and Promo -- If you've wanted to learn to program the Macintosh but didn't know where to start, Metrowerks has something to think about</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 08 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1188"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1188', 'show')">Macs Scripting the Net</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1188" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1188">If you've heard anything at all about hot, emerging technologies shaping the future of the Internet, you've heard about Java, a platform-independent programming language developed by Sun Microsystems</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 08 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1192"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1192', 'show')">Gartner Tech Support Study Online</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1192" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1192">Gartner Tech Support Study Online -- Back in TidBITS-299, we reported on a study by the Gartner Group that found technical support costs for Macs lower than those for Windows machines</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 18 Dec 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1193" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1193">Symantec Announces Java Tools -- Not to be left out of the Java frenzy sweeping the Internet, Symantec announced last week it has licensed the Java language technology from Sun Microsystems and released a Java development environment for Windows called Espresso</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 18 Dec 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1194"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1194', 'show')">Not All that Flickers is Gold</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1194" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1194">Not All that Flickers is Gold -- There have recently been numerous reports of video flickering and color distortion in 5200-series Performas and LCs - particularly distressing to owners because the built-in monitors can't be detached for service</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 18 Dec 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1206"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1206', 'show')">"Day Of Protest" Against Net Censorship</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1206" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1206">"Day Of Protest" Against Net Censorship -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation - in conjunction with the ACLU, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and a host of other groups - is organizing a national day of protest on 12-Dec-95 in an effort to derail legislation before the U.S</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 11 Dec 1995</div></div>
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