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Virtual Training Company - The Tutor in your Computer. http://www.vtco.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's News Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Amazon Workers Stage Walkout 2) Anti-Globalists Turn To Hacking 3) AOL Time Warner Run By Goldfinger? 4) Avids Product Used at Winter X Games 5) CNet's Internal Memo 6) Emusic Records $1 Million Restructuring Costs 7) FutureBASIC3 Released 8) G4 Powerbook Review 9) Intelli Updates Server Sentinel 10) Iomega Expands Active Disk Software 11) MacDirectory Image of the Week 12) MacDirectory Letters 13) MacDirectorys Site of the Week 14) Name Game Takes Time, Net Official Tells Congress 15) Send a Pocketgram for Valentines Day 16) Sony's New Display Prototype Lets Video Shine 17) Tips for MacWorld Japan 18) Top Sites Prove Online Advertising Works 19) Tri-Edre Updates CD Folder Partitioner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full Stories Are Available Via Web Links ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) About 50 Amazon.com workers protesting recent layoffs staged a 15-minute walkout this week, chanting slogans and handing out fliers urging the company to withdraw certain conditions for receiving a full severance package, participants said. The workers are in Amazon's Seattle customer service center, which is scheduled to be closed next month. The department was at the center of a nascent union movement, where organizers were collecting signatures to take the first steps toward forming a union. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20428/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) The technicians at the World Trade Organization got a bit suspicious when ``journalists'' in an online press conference went by screen names like ``NO-TO-WTO.'' Still, WTO Director-General Mike Moore gamely answered all questions thrown at him - until he was knocked off-line by anti-globalization protesters with excellent computer skills. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20433/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) After much thought and reflection, I have surmised that AOL Time Warner Chairman Steve Case has much in common with any villain from a James Bond movie: He wants to rule the world...because, well...just because. He sits, stroking the hair on Gerald Levin's head, gazing out into the world with that deer-in-the-headlights stare that suggests even he isn't quite sure how his once tiny company managed to buy friggin Time-Warner. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20449/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Avid Technology, Inc. has announced that its products were used for ESPN's coverage of the 2001 Winter X Games the most extensive implementation of nonlinear editing systems at the X Games to date. ESPN televised the fifth annual 2001 Winter X Games, held in Mount Snow, Vermont. Six Avid Media Composer systems, all of which were connected in a shared storage network via Avid Unity MediaNet, were used to produce televised coverage. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20439/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) One of the hottest internet sites in the past few years is 'F-ed Company.' The site is a collection of internal memos, documents, rumors and insider reports from technological companies. One reason why the site is so popular because it offers shadenfreude, the ability to gain a certain perverse pleasure at the misfortunes of dotcom billionaires. Read CNets internal memo regarding recent layoffs. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20447/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Online music company Emusic.com Inc. on Wednesday reported a second quarter pro forma net loss of $8.7 million or $0.21 per share and said it will record $1 million in restructuring costs in the quarter ending March 31. The latest quarterly results compared with a pro forma net loss of $8.4 million or $0.28 per share during the second quarter a year ago and analysts consensus estimates of a loss of $0.20 for the quarter, according to First Call/Thomson Financial. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20429/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Pix & Mix are pleased to announce Release 4 of FutureBASIC3, the Macintosh development environment from Staz Software, Inc. Release 4 also introduces two new tools to assist the programmer in analysing code, to seek out and smooth out bottlenecks, and so tighten the final object code. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20442/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) G4's Juice The long awaited new PowerBook is here. After years of being out paced by Pentium machines, the PowerBook is fighting back. The PowerBook now sports a 500MHz G4 processor; much faster than the equivalent G3. Much more surprisingly, the PowerBook has a full five hours of battery life. As you will see, the G4's power is not wasted in, what could be called, a desktop replacement. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20435/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Intelli Innovations, Inc., developers of innovative Internet and productivity software for the Macintosh platform, have announced Server Sentinel 2.0, a major upgrade to the server monitoring and notification product for Macintosh computers. Server Sentinel monitors server computers, locally or across the Internet, and checks for server faults and system problems. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20434/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Iomega has launched a line of software products based on its Active Disk technology. When users slip an Active Disk software product into one of the company's Zip drives, the title automatically launches so there is no need to load or configure software on their computer. Any information generated while using the software is saved on the disk, which means that users can open and close titles without leaving a trace on the computer's hard drive. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20443/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Each week MacDirectory picks an image representative of the Mac community for aqll to see. Images are sent in by you, our readers; please fill out our form and submit your image. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20445/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) eMac Daily got two responses to yesterday's 'Unpleasant Encounter On An Apple Message Board' - a feature on e-harassment, the bane of message boards. We also received a question from Germany that, perhaps, a member of the community could help solve. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20446/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13) MacDirectory's Site of the Week for day goes to Dr. Filmgood, an irreverant site that claims to be the anitdote to boring animation. It's something alright. There are enough poo jokes and goofiness to keep you smiling through through a coffee break. Here's what the good doctor has to say about his site. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20441/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14) Critics unhappy with the way new Internet addresses are being handed out should give the process time to work, the head of the Internet's premier naming authority believes. While some people may resent the slow pace at which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is doling out new suffixes such as .biz and .coop, the Internet's structural stability is the most important consideration, ICANN Chairman Vinton Cerf said in written testimony on Wednesday. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20431/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15) Impress your Valentine big time this year by presenting them with a personalized Pocketgram greeting card for their Palm Computing or Handspring Visor Palm OS-based handheld computer. Select a cover picture, type your custom love note, and enter the lucky recipient's e-mail address - your personalized Pocketgram greeting is e-mailed directly or presented for you to download into your own handheld and then deliver yourself with a simple infrared beam. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20444/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16) Thinner, brighter, cheaper monitors may be on the way, thanks to organic electroluminescence (OEL) display technology. It's especially suited to handhelds and cell phones. Sony is looking to light up the lives of gadget lovers with a new type of display that promises to provide brighter images at a lower cost than current technologies. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20432/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17) I have posted the second article in my series on attending MacWorld Expo Tokyo to the Japanware.com Web site. This article covers getting from the airport to your hotel, what you can expect to see on the showroom floor that differs from the San Francisco experience, some available help from the largest English speaking Mac Users Group in Japan, and also more practical matters you will face in Japan. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20438/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18) The majority of the top 25 newcomer Web sites in 2000 attracted visitors through word-of-mouth and direct marketing, sweepstakes and promotions, Jupiter Media Metrix said in a report released on Thursday. Increasingly, companies that have relied on advertising as a major source of revenue are diversifying their businesses to offset the decline in ad spending seen in recent months. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20430/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19) A new version of the CD Folder Partitioner utility is available for download and purchase on the Web. Updates are free for registered users. When a folder content is too big to be directly copied into a CD-R or a Zip, CD Folder Partitioner is the easiest way to automatically split and reorganize the folder content into multiple sub-folders, each one of a maximum given size. < http://www.macdirectory.com/20437/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This space could be occupied by your ad and viewed by thoudands daily! 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