Stories by: Dennis Sellers

Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduced an Apple-built Web browser, dubbed Safari, during his Macworld Conference & Expo keynote today. Dubbed as the "turbo browser for Mac OS X," it's the first major new browser in five years and "it's sweet," Jobs said.

GTK+OSX is a native Mac OS X port of the Linux-based GTK+ open source graphical user interface library. GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) is a widget library supporting graphical applications for Linux.

Now is the time for Apple Computer Inc. to go after Windows users full force, it seems. Though Windows desktop operating systems will remain the dominant client desktop standard "for the foreseeable future," you shouldn't count Mac OS X and Linux out, concludes anew report, "The Desktop OS: Are There Real Alternatives to Microsoft?," from the Yankee Group, a company that specializes in technology research and consulting.

Now that Apple Computer Inc. is shipping their new Xserve hardware, XserveRack.com, a new Mac OS X-based US Web hosting service using Apple's new Xserve rack-mount server hardware is getting ready to open for business.

Weblicon Technologies AG -- a firm that develops and licenses Web-based applications for portals, ISPs, ASPs and telecommunications companies -- has released Calmeno, a complete messaging and Personal Information Management (PIM) system for small to medium enterprises that the company said is a "true contender for Exchange."

Opera Software ASA has started a Global Donations Program, which donates registered versions of the Opera Web browser for free to organizations for the physically challenged, elementary schools, as well as Web designer schools and programs. Organizations can apply for free registered versions of Opera online.

Michael DeMaria, associate technology editor for Network Computing writes that Mac OS X 10.1 is what Linux-on-the-desktop people crave - a Unix-based OS with an interface even a novice can handle, despite some 'quirky parts'