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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4126" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4126">Netscape Communications has released version 4.03.1 of the stand-alone version of Netscape Navigator (not Communicator, there is no Netscape Communicator 4.03.1)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4127"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4127', 'show')">WorldCom Buys CompuServe, Customers Go to AOL</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4127" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4127">H&R Block has agreed to sell its 80 percent share in CompuServe to telecommunications giant WorldCom in a stock swap worth roughly $1.2 billion. In a separate deal, WorldCom will trade CompuServe's consumer customers and $175 million to America Online for AOL's ANS Communications network services division</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4130"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4130', 'show')">Newton Reabsorbed, Apple Moving to NCs?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4130" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4130">According to a rumor from a generally reliable source, Apple plans to reabsorb Newton, Inc., possibly to satisfy Steve Jobs's (and Larry Ellison's?) desire for Apple to sell an inexpensive network computer (NC)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4132"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4132', 'show')">PowerTools and Umax License Mac OS 8</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4132" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4132">PowerTools CEO Victor Wong today confirmed that clone manufacturer PowerTools has been "offered the license to ship Mac OS 8 with its machines," and is doing so as of 08-Sep-97 with its infiniti T2 Mac clones</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4133"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4133', 'show')">Motorola CHRP Mac on Hold, Power IPO Pulled</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4133" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4133">According to Henry Norr's MacWEEK column, Motorola has put its CHRP-based StarMax Pro 6000 on hold pending resolution of the licensing dispute with Apple over Mac OS licensing for CHRP</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4134" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4134">Rumors have been flying fast and furious today, but there's little confirmation for most. The preponderance of rumors would seem to indicate that Apple is taking everything a day at a time, rather than proceeding along a carefully thought-out path</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4135"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4135', 'show')">Power Sales Up, PowerHour Sale Today</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4135" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4135">Yesterday, Power Computing spokesman Mike Rosenfelt confirmed that sales have been up since the buyout announcement this week. Although we've heard tales of Macintosh fans giving up on the platform in response to Apple's withdrawal of clone support, a strong contingent continues to purchase Power Computing Macs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4136"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4136', 'show')">Apple Claims Financial Hardship in Power Buyout</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4136" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4136">Two sources of information, a press conference yesterday and a purported memo from Steve Jobs to Apple employees, add details to the clone licensing situation</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4137"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4137', 'show')">Clone Licensing on Hold</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4137" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4137">Apple said yesterday that it plans to honor existing contracts held by other clone manufacturers. Unfortunately, Apple offered little hope for clone manufacturers to create up-to-date machines, stating that it would not license a version of Mac OS for CHRP machines or portables, such as those CHRP machines already shown by Motorola and UMAX, without significantly higher licensing fees</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4138"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4138', 'show')">Apple to Acquire Power's Mac Assets</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4138" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4138">Early today, Apple Computer and Power Computing announced plans for Apple to purchase important Macintosh-related assets from Power Computing in exchange for $100 million in Apple common stock</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2169"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2169', 'show')">Shootout at the Searching Corral</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2169" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2169">The deadlines for our TidBITS Search Engine Shootout contest announced in TidBITS-368 have come and gone, and it's time to share the results. To begin, we want to thank each and every entrant personally</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/714"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('714', 'show')">Eight is Enough (and More Apple News)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_714" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_714">In an unexpected move, Apple announced last week that Tempo, the next incremental release of the Mac OS due this July, will ship under the moniker Mac OS 8 instead of Mac OS 7.7</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 10 Mar 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_771" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_771">Macworld Expo brings out not just the best and the worst in the Macintosh industry, but also the strangest. Besides, after four days of walking around the cavernous Moscone Center, surrounded by 70,000 Macintosh fans, it's hard to keep a firm grip on reality</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 13 Jan 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_787" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_787">Welcome to our 1996 gift issue! This is a special issue of TidBITS, so it falls outside of our normal distribution schedule and has no sponsors. We've long made a habit of publishing an article in mid-December with holiday gift suggestions from TidBITS readers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 Dec 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_788" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_788">RAM, Wonderful RAM -- Perhaps the most commonly suggested item this year was more RAM, which is still quite affordable. Kate Norem said it best when she wrote, "You know, one can never have too much RAM."Scott agrees, or at least he thinks he does:As I get older I find that my memory isn't what it used to be</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 Dec 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/789"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('789', 'show')">Input Devices and Accessories</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_789" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_789">3M Precision Mousing SurfaceI helped a neighbor with his Mac a couple of weeks ago and in an effort to thank me he gave me a "3M Precise Mousing Surface" (that's really what they call it)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 Dec 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_790" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_790">SundialSundial looks like a perfect gift for one Mac friend I know. It replaces the desktop pattern with a scenic picture. So? That picture changes with the time of day! Their Web site has small QuickTime movies to show the effect</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 Dec 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_791" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_791">TelePort Speakerphone EditionMy suggestion is the new Global Village TelePort Speakerphone Edition modem. Along with all the standard modem features (and an upgrade path to 56 Kbps speeds some time in 1997), the device acts as a speakerphone even when your computer is turned off and enables full-duplex conversation and simultaneous voice and data transmissions</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 Dec 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_792" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_792">SinkhaSinkha is a multimedia graphic novel along the lines of Heavy Metal, an adult comic book, wherein a young girl is presented with the opportunity to escape the hellhole of a planet she was born on by joining some aliens, the Sinkha, who are intent on uncovering her planet's secrets.Marco Patrito, Sinkha's author, has done a great deal of impressive work for this CD</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 Dec 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/793"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('793', 'show')">Business Software and Hardware</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_793" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_793">SpeechPrompterAs a gift for the public speaker or lecturer - including any businessman, academic, or scientist who goes to meetings - think of SpeechPrompter</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 Dec 1996</div></div>
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