Stories about: Wolfram Research

Apple has re-released a mammoth security patch after the original update broke 64-bit applications.

Macintosh computers using Intel chips will be on the market by this time next year with all Apple Computer Macs moved over to Intel chips by the end of 2007, Apple said Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.

With $12 million in funding and a consulting chief scientist from Los Alamos whose research field is efficient computing, high-performance networking and bioinformatics, two of Transmeta's co-founders have reinvented the technical workstation, coming up with a completely new kind of box that's actually a "Personal Cluster" or even a "Personal Supercomputer" - a widget that puts 12 nodes in the space of a classic desktop or 96 nodes in a knee-knocking deskside - both configurations playing to the emerging rage for commodity Linux clusters.

Calling it the "most crash proof operating system in the world," Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs in his Macworld Expo keynote Monday said that Mac OS X was a raging success and that over 2,500 native apps are available today.

Linuxlab (not to be confused with another company, Linuxlabs), announced new 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 servers. MathSoft has released a Linux version of S-PLUS -- a statistical data mining package that analyzes large sets of numbers such as Web traffic, sales numbers, and virtually anything else numerical. API Networks, which as the former Alpha Processor made the Digital Alpha processor, has released a new dual-processor model for OEMs that fits into a 1U chassis. ZeroG, makers of InstallAnywhere, an application software distribution package, released version 3.5 of its Enterprise Edition.

The last year of the 20th century was, all in all, a great year for the Macintosh. As we head into year 17 of the Macintosh Era, it's time for Macworld's annual look at the products that improve the lives of Mac users -- products that make using your Mac easier, let you do your job more effectively, or simply give you freedom you never had before.