Karl-Peter Gottschalk: BusinessBusiness is not just for businessmen - those grey-suited grey-faced people in old movies on TV. Business is for people who want to control their own destiny in a way that working for the Man does not allow.Amazon Light.- July 18, 2002 Web services have been all the talk of the high tech industry for ages, and Microsoft&8217;s .NET was supposed to be the Web services platform. But .NET is still vapourware&8212;wind, hot air and empty speculation with nothing to show for it yet. &160; &160; &160; Of course UserLand Radio did it all before anyone else. Apple released its Web services lat night, named .Mac. And now Amazon has got into the Web services game. &160; &160; &160; Here is an example of using Amazon&8217;s Web...http://www.kokogiak.com/amazon/ Apple Out-Geeks Microsoft (& Linux & Sun).- July 18, 2002 It has been a long, long time since Windows-using geeks could slag off Macs as &8220;only good enough for those arty types&8221; with any degree of justification, however slight. Back then, hard-core programmers stuck to their Windows machines like flies. &160; &160; &160; Then Linux came along and the real geeks flocked to it instead of an operating system that was a toy by comparison. When Mac OS X appeared, and showed that Apple had outdone the Linux geeks by making a Unix far better than.http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53923,00.html 3,000 New Computers Being Placed in 33 US County Schools.- July 17, 2002 Source: The Gainesville Sun $5.1 million in interest-free Federal loans made the purchases possible. Pity that some school districts are buying Dells as well as Macs, though. I guarantee the kids in these mixed computer schools will gravitate towards the iMacs in preference to the Windows machines. &160; &160; &160; Kids aren&8217;t stoopid. They know what works right and what doesn&8217;t.http://www.gainesvillesun.com/articles/2002-07-15c.shtml Apple Still In Profit.- July 17, 2002 Not bad for one of the hardest quarters for quite some years&8212;recession at home and abroad, the Switch ad campaign only just starting in the States and not having reached other territories yet. Apple announced a net profit of $32 million, or $.09 per diluted share, for the quarter. These results compare to a net profit of $61 million, or $.17 per diluted share, a year ago. Revenues for the quarter were $1.43 billion, down 3% from a year ago, and gross margins were 27.4%, down from 29.4% a...http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/jul/16results.html |