At Macworld show, Apple turns out new products and plenty of promises
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Apple's Jul 1998 Macworld trade show offered fewer top new attractions than in previous trade shows, but visitors seemed more optimistic about the Macintosh's future. Interim CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs, in a surprise keynote address, hoped the new iMac computer could reverse the annual 10% loss of Macintosh users to Windows. The consumer-friendly and streamlined iMac, whose 'I' stands for Internet, is scheduled to retail in Aug 1998. Macworld briefly demonstrated the Mac OS 8.5, which Jobs and marketing chief Phil Schiller touted as the most significant Macintosh OS upgrade in years. Mac OS 8.5 users can deploy its impressive Sherlock search engine to analyze a document and summarize a file's contents rather than limiting themselves to the first few lines of text. A file transfer showing fizzled when a Mac OS 8.5-enabled computer froze while sending a file to another Apple computer.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Who should be afraid of Good Times virus?
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The Good Times virus that threatened hard disk erasure and monitor explosion is a hoax. The virus was rumored to be sent via E-mail. Warnings were spread via E-mail attesting to the horrors of the virus, including a Federal Communications Commission warning. Despite all the feared hype, the virus is imaginary and only an electronic chain mail message of warnings. Some computer security experts fear that blatant disregard of the messages will lead to an individual actually creating such a virus. New generation and Trojan Horse viruses are the biggest threats to computer systems today. They are spread over the Internet and often attached to downloaded files. These viruses are rare and not yet destructive. Unfortunately every technology that improves the ease-of-use for the Internet also facilitates the spreading of Trojan Horse and other viruses.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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