eMac for Everyone
Originally offered only to education customers, the eMac is now available in a new CD-RW and modem configuration through all Apple retail channels. ��Consumers have pounded on the table demanding to buy the eMac, and we agree,�� said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. [Jun 4]

QuickTime 6 Public Preview
The public preview of QuickTime 6 is now available as a free download for both Mac and Windows. QuickTime 6 is the industry��s first mainstream MPEG-4 solution for streaming media to compliant players. In addition, Apple announced the public preview of QuickTime Broadcaster. [Jun 4]

Live Music for Late Night
Julie Perez gets to meet all the cool new bands �� and mix with them. She records and mixes bands for NBC��s Late Night with Conan O��Brien show. The pressure to get the mix and the performance right is extremely high. [Jun 3]

��Blue Car�� Arrives
First-time feature director Karen Moncrieff��s movie ��Blue Car,�� a critical hit at Sundance 2002, was the first film bought out of the festival, by indie rainmaker Miramax Studios, for a reported $1.5 million dollars. [May 30]

��Priced to Move��
��Not only is the Xserve powerful,�� writes Charles Haddad in BusinessWeek Online, ��it��s also priced to move, as they say in retail. Starting at $3,000, the line features Apple��s powerful G4 processors and comes with up to 480 gigabytes of storage. As one information technology manager gushed to me, ��I can buy two of these babies for what it would have cost for one comparable IBM server.���� [May 30]

FireWire Brand Identity
The 1394 Trade Association and Apple announced that the FireWire trademark, logo and symbol have been adopted as a brand identity for the IEEE 1394 connection standard. [May 29]