Jobs outlines Apple strategy

CEO Steve Jobs addressed Apple's semi-annual meeting for financial analysts yesterday and, despite 15 minutes spent trying to get his PowerPoint presentation to work, made several announcements and confirmations concerning the company's future. Jobs assured the audience that the new 667MHz and 733MHz Power Macs are on schedule for shipping at the end of this month, though availability will be limited due to a shortage of the faster G4 chips. Phil Schiller, vice president of worldwide product marketing, added that the titanium PowerBook has started shipping, a fact confirmed by US retailers. ...more

Intel introduces new Mobile Celeron for value notebooks

Intel has introduced a new Mobile Celeron processor. Clocking 2.5GHz it is aimed squarely at the 'value' end of the market. ...more

A handheld to organise your health

When is a PDA really an essential piece of kit? Maybe, when it is monitoring your health. Targeting the potentially huge medical market, 'Freestyle Tracker' is a new Handspring PDA module that provides a full blood-sugar monitoring system for diabetics. Made by the US company TheraSense, Freestyle Tracker combines the hardware of blood glucose monitoring technology with PalmOS-based diabetes management software. ...more

Novell challenges SCO's slander case

Novell has asked for dismissal of SCO's 'Slander of Title' suit. SCO filed the suit alleging that Novell had made false statements that it owned Unix copyrights and that Novell's public statements caused potential customers to doubt SCO's Unix rights and take their business elsewhere. Novell says in the motion that: 'Without conclusively establishing that it owns the Unix and UnixWare copyrights, SCO cannot show that Novell's statements to the contrary are false, and cannot prevail. ...more

Symantec warns Mac users of a false sense of security

Mac users are living under a false sense of security, according to Symantec. The company, which makes security software for the Mac, said that although there have yet to be any widespread exploits of vulnerabilities in OS X, the system is increasingly becoming the target of malicious hackers. 'It is now clear that the Mac OS is increasingly becoming a target for the malicious activity, contrary to popular belief that the Mac OS is immune to traditional security concerns,' Symantec says in its latest Internet Security Threat Report 'As Mac OS X users demand more features and implement more ports of popular UNIX applications, vulnerabilities and exploits targeting this operating system and its underlying code base are likely to increase,' it adds. ...more