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<a href="/article/992"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('992', 'show')">Connectix and America Online</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_992" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_992">Connectix and America Online have announced a joint project to bring rudimentary videoconferencing to AOL users. AOL will begin selling the Connectix Color QuickCam (now available for both Macintosh and Windows) in its online store, and Connectix will implement technology to allow AOL users to exchange still images and even video while communicating online</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 20 May 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1027"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1027', 'show')">Free Email, but not for Us</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1027" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1027">Free Email, but not for Us -- D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. today launched Juno, a nationwide free email service sponsored by advertiser dollars, claiming the model used by free TV and radio stations ought to work on the Internet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 22 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1028"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1028', 'show')">Connectix Ships Color QuickCam</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1028" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1028">Almost two years after bringing video input capability within financial reach of ordinary Mac users with its attractive, spherical QuickCam video camera, Connectix recently upped the ante with the new Color QuickCam, available shortly from dealers and mail-order firms for about $230</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 22 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1073"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1073', 'show')">Larger Newton Due This Spring</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1073" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1073">Just weeks after the release of Apple's latest MessagePad model, offering on-demand backlighting and on-the-fly orientation switching, sources at Apple have revealed that the company is poised to release a long-awaited larger tablet-sized model</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1121" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1121">Smart Licensing Move -- On 19-Feb-96 Apple announced a licensing agreement that allows Motorola to distribute the Mac OS with computer systems based on Power Macintosh designs and the PowerPC Platform specification</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 19 Feb 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1129"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1129', 'show')">Man Wins... This Time</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1129" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1129">If he hadn't lost the first game, world chess champion Garry Kasparov says, a false sense of security might have gotten him in trouble in last week's historic man-versus-machine chess match against a massively parallel IBM SP supercomputer</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 19 Feb 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1147"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1147', 'show')">Amelio Sits Down in Spindler's Chair</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1147" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1147">Just days after Apple Computer chairman A. C. Markkula told concerned shareholders that Apple's Board of Directors supported Michael Spindler, the board "agreed that it was in the best interest of Apple Computer to have a transition in leadership." Last Friday evening, Apple's board announced the replacement of company president Michael Spindler, effective immediately, by National Semiconductor boss Gilbert Amelio</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 05 Feb 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1157" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1157">As part of their Power Payback promotion, Apple has begun a "Performa + Printer = Payback" rebate offer that returns $150 to anyone in 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/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 29 Jan 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1234"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1234', 'show')">Billions of Happy Astronomers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1234" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1234">Billions of Happy Astronomers -- Famed astronomer and Cornell University professor Carl Sagan has reached an amicable settlement with Apple Computer in their argument over Apple's internal use of Sagan's name as a codename for a new computer model</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 20 Nov 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1263"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1263', 'show')">Save Time with NotifyMail</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1263" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1263">Although a client/server approach to email has several advantages, it's not without drawbacks. One disadvantage that wastes lots of time is the inability of a POP server to tell you there's mail waiting</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 06 Nov 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1272" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1272">Macjordomo 1.0b6 has been released by its author, Michele Fuortes. The free mailing list server software for Macintosh includes many of the popular features of products like LISTSERV, ListSTAR, and Majordomo (for which Macjordomo is named), including automatic or manual subscribe and unsubscribe features, message digests, and file retrieval</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 30 Oct 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1276" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1276">It's not the first cellular modem PC Card for PowerBooks and other laptops, but the AirGo PhoneCard, announced today, is the first with a unique combination of data, fax, and voice capabilities for cellular and land-line communications</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 30 Oct 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1318" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1318">Pinehill Software Corporation has announced a new version 3 of its AppGen software for Apple's Newton handheld organizers, scheduled to ship in early October</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 25 Sep 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1324"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1324', 'show')">Thanks to Terry Worley</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1324" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1324">Thanks to Terry Worley (a former Radius staffer) who checked out our statement in TidBITS-291 that Portrait Display Labs developed Pivot monitor technology before Radius marketed it</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 18 Sep 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1340"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1340', 'show')">A good night's sleep</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1340" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1340">A good night's sleep can always be sabotaged through judicious use of the latest computer game, and Rick Holzgrafe knows it. He's just released version 2.1 of his $20 shareware game Solitaire Till Dawn (see TidBITS-246), offering sound effects, clever new display features, and a wonderful "magnetic mouse" option to move cards without clicking, which should reduce aggravation of repetitive stress injuries</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 04 Sep 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1348" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1348">Frank Imburgia probably didn't anticipate a flood of calls from TidBITS readers when he gave us his office phone number for T-shirt inquiries (see TidBITS-291)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 28 Aug 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1350"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1350', 'show')">Cross-Platform Virus Strikes Word Users</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1350" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1350">Though the possibility of a cross-platform virus moving as interpreted commands in data documents has been considered by computer experts, none had been seen in the user community until this month's discovery that a new virus was spreading within document macros interpreted by Microsoft's WordBasic macro language</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 28 Aug 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1356"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1356', 'show')">Where Do You Want To Go Today?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1356" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1356">Where Do You Want To Go Today? As the computing world braces for a Windows 95 onslaught, Apple comes out swinging with a no-holds-barred campaign reminding potential buyers of the still-significant Macintosh advantage</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 21 Aug 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1359" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1359">At a trade show with thousands of products, it's impossible to see everything - or even all the important things. Some of these products may receive more in-depth coverage in future TidBITS issues, but we figured you'd want to hear about them sooner rather than later.Neat Paging Software -- Isn't it nice when a company tops itself? Ex Machina has done so, adding to its line of paging software with Reach Me!, a customizable utility pager users can give their friends and clients</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 21 Aug 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1385" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1385">Antiviral utility developers today announced the recent discovery of a virus that infects HyperCard stacks. The "HC-9507" virus infects HyperCard's Home stack when an infected stack is executed, and from there spreads to other running stacks and randomly-chosen stacks on the startup disk</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 31 Jul 1995</div></div>
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