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In the Apple conference in Paris, Jobs spoke of the new 15" Powerbook, the updated 12" and 17" Powerbooks, the new Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and he re-iterated that Panther will be out before the end of the year and that G5 will reach 3GHz by the end of next summer.

Yesterday IBM published a story on their Intranet promoting their Technology Group and their relationship to Apple with regard to the PowerPC 970. This article has been made available to MacRumors. The item offers some unique insight into Apple, and their relationship with IBM as well as Apple's thoughts on the alternative, Intel.

In a weblog sponsored by the Apple Computer History website, a former Apple marketing director admits that he, assisted by everyone who worked at Apple with him, "killed" the company. He cites a culture of "individual brilliance and group stupidity." A Wired News article has more details and responses from some of his Apple contemporaries.

Chad Dickerson, CTO at InfoWorld, takes a ride with a forgotten 450 Mhz G4 Mac on his workplace and moves it home. Soon, he would be so impressed that the Mac would replace his Linux home server and one of his two Windows PCs. Last week, Chad gave us his opinion regarding Linux too.

The company lands a big customer for its Power Mac G5: Virginia Tech, which will use 1,100 G5s as part of a cluster designed to make the list of the world's largest supercomputers. In the meantime, Apple delays the shipping of its dual-processor Power Mac G5 to individual consumers, opting instead to send the first of the fast desktops to schools, Europe and selected customers.

From Mac news site MacMinute: "Victor Kulesh today announced the release of Veta Universal Palm Edition, which will turn a Bluetooth-enabled Palm PDA into a wireless remote control for your Mac. "Now users can use their Tungsten T Palms to remotely control many applications such as iTunes, Keynote, DVD Player and even the mouse on their computers." Veta Universal Palm Edition is priced at US$10."

On the 25th IBM released beta compilers for Mac OSX, there is both a c/c++ and a fortran compiler, these compilers is for use with the G5/PPC970 processor. Elsewhere, on a TechNewsWorld review it is stated that "while decidedly Apple, Xserve puts to shame many of the Linux distributions available by tying together the diverse number of applications that are needed to administer an equivalent Linux server into a simple, GUI-driven interface."

Apple news from around the web: "Apple seeds Panther build 7B44, Server, Xcode", "Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks", "Dual-2GHz G5 to reach education buyers first", "Apple forms new Enterprise sales group", "Virtual PC not compatible with G5 yet".

"A company that specializes in running Linux on Macs said Wednesday that it has landed a deal to supply the U.S. Navy with 260 Apple Xserve servers. Terra Soft Solutions said the machines will be used as part of a sonar imaging system that defense contractor Lockheed Martin is building for the Navy. Rather than using the Mac OS, the Apple servers will run Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux operating system." Read more at CNET News.com

I'm 31 and an old school geek who started on computers with an Atari 800 as a kid. Growing up moved me into PC land until I became a "Switcher" before being a "Switcher" was cool. That's right - I got an original iMac when they first came out and I never looked back. I write software, and I bought the iMac thinking it was time to expand my horizons and maybe make a few more dollars by selling software on both platforms.

Apple provided testers and developers with a new pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.3, code-named Panther. The update was marked build 7B21, the first "B" series Panther build to be seeded. A new version of Xcode Suite was also seeded, with "issues addressed in almost every component," according to the read me. Read more about it at ThinkSecret.

From the Mac news site MacMinute: It appears as though Apple has removed all of the "Switch" commercials from its web site. When trying to view the ads, which used to be available here, you are redirected to Apple's "Switching to Mac: Real Stories" page. In April, Apple removed the "Switch" tab graphic from the top of its web site navigation to make room for the "Music" tab, although all of the content remained at apple.com/switch. Several media outlets have recently claimed that the campaign was a failure, citing stagnant Apple market share numbers. Also, read our interview with a switcher here.

As reported at the Mac news site Macminute: "Apple captured 2.3 percent of the worldwide market share in the second quarter of 2003, down from 2.7 percent a year ago, but slightly up from the 2 percent it had in the first quarter, according to research firm IDC."

It has been a year, and the masses aren't switching to Macs. New ads haven't helped Apple gain market share, Mercury News report. "I can think of the following reasons why this is so" Steve Anglin, a consulting editor, expert witness, and writer specializing in Java and Web services, is presenting.