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<a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=11-l8riI2-aPLsxBpEX3VynhNBuCqlR" >Macworld 2002: New iPods, bigger iMac and more</a><p>
<a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=27-z9ZmIqI14RdKMuiSkMRUVolYrBeR" >Dell squeezes Pentiums into notebooks</a><p>
<a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=3c-tK4RIcIw_GUBNEpY0VXXjhrHNHyR" >Microsoft sweetens Mac Office offer</a><p>
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<a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=66-kDH_IyWzTR6eGqgsPj9y-DzbW-9R" >Future fuzzy for Adobe camera software</a><p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica" size="-1"><a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=a5-DyaHQ7ZFS_hxQGxsIC1b2OB8OEPR" >Opera 6.04</a></font>
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<font face="arial, helvetica" size="-1"><a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=d0-vjDhQWWTQ2zt01j7c7YuNDxuyCiR" >FileMaker Pro 6.0v2</a></font>
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<font face="arial, helvetica" size="-1"><a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=fa-FmqNQhO1bOfBUIPtvDA4oSMpoLnR" >Balls of Steel Patch 1.3</a></font>
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<font face="arial, helvetica" size="-1"><a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=24-8DdMIczi7p1RRIfgeUef92iqrwyR" >Marine Aquarium 0.99.0 (for the Mac)</a></font>
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<font color="#333333"><B>Dear readers,</B></font><BR>
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The majority of PC users may run Windows, but Microsoft can't
touch the passion that Mac users bring to computing. This week,
Apple devotees gathered in New York to find out what their guru,
Steve Jobs, has in store for them. They were not disappointed,
with offerings ranging from the new iMacs, which continue to push
the boundaries of the PC form factor, to updated iPods that
include more memory, better menus, and compatibility with
Windows. Read the
<a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=e2-J1OpQhyI69zCJKOENBEZdihv9KnR" >full coverage</a> from
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<td><font face="arial, helvetica" size="-1"><b><a href="http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=c9-3OZLQpgDZBmo4WSjg0SxiPZvH6lR" >Gene Kan</a>:</b><br>
Gnutella open-source guru Gene Kan, who died on June
29 in an apparent suicide, was clearly beloved by the CNET
community. Last week, search requests for information on
25-year-old Kan far outweighed the kind of requests on
products and companies I usually see. A pioneer in the
peer-to-peer space, many credit him with legitimizing file
sharing--making it about more than music, according to Wired
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The annual Apple lovefest in New York is always a
good show, whether or not Steve Jobs has anything real to
announce. So far, it looks like Apple has already surprised a
few by announcing the release of QuickTime 6.0 (see No. 7),
which many thought would get bogged down in a licensing
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PayPal deal. Soon after eBay announced it was buying PayPal
for $1.5 billion, shareholders filed a lawsuit claiming that
PayPal's price tag was too low. This week, PayPal is being
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I'm just going to leave this common term for 802.11 up
on the Buzz Meter permanently. This time, Wi-Fi is getting
interest because of a possible pact between tech heavyweights,
including Intel, AT&amp;T Wireless, and Verizon Communications, to
build wireless access places across the nation in public areas
where people would want to launch onto the Net, such as
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This is the for-education-only computer that consumers
wanted so badly that Apple released it to them. The CNET
review is out, and here's the word: the eMac is what the iMac
used to be. Basically, it's an easy-to-use, fairly inexpensive
computer for users who don't need to do much besides word
processing and accessing the Web.
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