Reporter's Notebook: Closing thoughts on Macworld Boston

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Reporter's Notebook: Final thoughts on
MWSF – and Boston

Reporter's Notebook: Final thoughts on
MWSF – and Boston 01/09/2004 10:08 PM
by Dennis Sellers - Today winds up Macworld San Francisco 2004...

Reporter's Notebook: A dreary start to
Macworld

Reporter's Notebook: A dreary start to
Macworld 07/12/2004 10:24 PM
by Dennis Sellers - As I dropped by the new, US$800 million Boston Convention Center late Monday afternoon, I was struck by the lack of "signage" proclaiming the event...

Icons: Reporter's Notebook

Icons: Reporter's Notebook 08/19/2004 11:06 PM
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Lotusphere 2004: Reporter's notebook

Lotusphere 2004: Reporter's notebook 01/27/2004 01:44 PM
A slew of new products is aimed at helping companies complete their Lotus Notes and Domino deployments.

Reporter's Notebook: Notes from NAMM

Reporter's Notebook: Notes from NAMM 07/26/2004 07:26 AM
by Dennis Sellers - The NAMM expo which, strange as it seems, is the short title of the International Music Products Association expo -- has concluded its run here in Nashville, and it's been a hot week -- in more ways than one...

Reporter's Notebook: Impressive Storage
at IDF

Reporter's Notebook: Impressive Storage
at IDF 09/09/2004 01:52 AM
While apparently grappling with his own sanity, our intrepid showfloor reporter, Mark Hachman, discovers the latest in super hard drive technology, external SATA RAID and 3-GBits/s Serial ATA 2.

Reporter's Notebook: Keynote
Observations

Reporter's Notebook: Keynote
Observations 01/07/2004 06:15 PM
If Bruce Springstein and Beyonce were giving a free joint concert, the line couldn't have been any longer. By Dennis Sellers (MacMinute via MyAppleMenu)

Reporter's Notebook: On the LinuxWorld
Floor

Reporter's Notebook: On the LinuxWorld
Floor 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
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A Few Closing Thoughts

A Few Closing Thoughts 08/29/2004 11:38 PM
What particularly strikes me in reading over the comments (not that I've been able to read carefully all of them) is the challenge of managing uncertainty. It is uncertainty that pervades the topics that I've touched on in my postings and that have provoked many of the comments. I started...

Reporter's Notebook: the Apple store and
winding down

Reporter's Notebook: the Apple store and
winding down 06/04/2004 05:57 AM
by Dennis Sellers - The weather in Chicago has been great for the second annual Mac Design Conference...

Reporter's Notebook: MWSF musings and
predictions

Reporter's Notebook: MWSF musings and
predictions 01/05/2004 03:46 AM
by Dennis Sellers - The weather in San Francisco is relatively warm (high 40s) with enough of a breeze in the air to make a jacket well recommended...

Reporter's Notebook: Lost in the Windy
City

Reporter's Notebook: Lost in the Windy
City 06/02/2004 05:41 AM
By Dennis Sellers - Sometimes colossal blunders get made –- and they usually involve Yours Truly and traveling...

WWDC closing thoughts

WWDC closing thoughts 06/17/2005 03:22 PM
I know we're not supposed to talk about things that happen at WWDC, but I figure that it's okay for me to quote myself. As would probably surprise no one that knows me or reads this blog regularly, I appear...

Reporter's Notebook: Rain, parties and
Ukrainian vodka

Reporter's Notebook: Rain, parties and
Ukrainian vodka 07/14/2004 04:57 AM
It's rainy and dreary here in Boston. The sky's overcast and it drizzles constantly...

Reporter's Notebook: People, Lions and
the Sunflower Cafe

Reporter's Notebook: People, Lions and
the Sunflower Cafe 01/06/2004 03:18 AM
by Dennis Sellers - Gosh, I love covering Macworld expos...

Reporter's Notebook: user groups,
tornados and protestors

Reporter's Notebook: user groups,
tornados and protestors 07/15/2004 10:30 AM
by Dennis Sellers - The rain just keeps on trickling down, which crimps my usual style of hoofing it around a city I'm visiting...

Reporter's notebook: At the DHS National
Cyber Security Summit

Reporter's notebook: At the DHS National
Cyber Security Summit 12/04/2003 05:58 PM
If there was a central theme running through the remarks of three senior DHS officials, it was the need to create a sense of urgency about cybersecurity.

Reporter's Notebook: Apple Expo Eyes
iMac G5

Reporter's Notebook: Apple Expo Eyes
iMac G5 08/31/2004 07:16 PM
Apple's new PowerPC G5-based iMac model makes a splash on the floor of the Apple Expo in Paris. Mac OS X "Tiger" also makes the scene.

Reporter's Notebook: Lots of yuks in Mac
Design keynote

Reporter's Notebook: Lots of yuks in Mac
Design keynote 06/03/2004 03:48 AM
by Dennis Sellers - Before yesterday's Mac Design Conference keynote started, the big screens at the front of the auditorium showed a laugh-inducing list of items being "downloaded" for use in the keynote...

Reporter's Notebook: Mini iPod prices
and Mac BU's timeline

Reporter's Notebook: Mini iPod prices
and Mac BU's timeline 01/08/2004 07:17 PM
by Dennis Sellers - The new iPod Minis are certainly cool, but the constant refrain I'm hearing around the Moscone Center is that they're just too expensive...

Closing Thoughts on the Resignation of
Eason Jordan

Closing Thoughts on the Resignation of
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"Bloggers, journalists, news executives and everyone else: For any of this--blogging, journalism, citizens media, a free press, transparency--to work, the solution when you mis-communicate has to be more communication, not ex-communication."

Reporter's notebook: HP World users
disdain offshore support move

Reporter's notebook: HP World users
disdain offshore support move 08/20/2004 04:36 PM
This week's HP World is over, and users at the event had a lot of things on their minds.

Boston Archdiocese Closing 65 Parishes
(AP)

Boston Archdiocese Closing 65 Parishes
(AP) 05/25/2004 01:07 PM
AP - The Boston Archdiocese will lose 65 of its 357 parishes, a massive restructuring brought on partly by the clergy sex abuse scandal that aggravated already shrinking Mass attendance and weekly collections.

Boston Archdiocese Closing 65 Parishes

Boston Archdiocese Closing 65 Parishes 05/25/2004 05:47 PM
BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Archdiocese will lose 65 of its 357 parishes, a massive restructuring brought on partly by the clergy sex abuse scandal that aggravated already shrinking Mass attendance and weekly collections.

Boston archdiocese closing 60 parishes

Boston archdiocese closing 60 parishes 05/25/2004 01:27 PM

Boston Plans Biggest U.S. Catholic
Church Closing (Reuters)

Boston Plans Biggest U.S. Catholic
Church Closing (Reuters) 05/25/2004 05:51 PM
Reuters - Boston's Archdiocese said on Tuesday it will shutter nearly a fifth of its parishes in the largest single round of U.S. Roman Catholic Church closings ever as it seeks to overcome a devastating sex abuse scandal.

Thoughts on MacWorld San Francisco

Thoughts on MacWorld San Francisco 01/07/2004 04:41 PM

I must admit I wasn't expecting anything earth-shattering from Steve Jobs yesterday and for the most part I wasn't disappointed. While unveiling some pretty cool toys, both hardware and software, he failed to deliver anything that on it's surface will immediately sway a consumer to purchase a Mac over a PC.

I say 'on it's surface' because Garage Band may become another one of those things that people fall in love with. The fact that he added it to the $49 iLife package is amazing. Face it, human beings love to create things and that includes music. Today's musical offerings are pretty bland so creating your own might be a good alternative. Garage Band now puts professional level music composition in the hands of the average consumer. A demo I saw last night showed a $99 keyboard hooked up to it and it sounded exactly like a grand piano. Not that cheesy midi sound you'd expect. Pretty impressive.

Other announcements included improvements to iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD as well as new iPod Minis. The knock against the new smaller iPods will be that for the capacity they aren't much cheaper than a slightly larger iPod. Keep in mind you are not paying for capacity, but rather the physical size of the unit. It's the size of a business card. It's the same reason Sony is able sell those tiny Vaios. People want smaller rather than bigger. It's not the $100 iPod everybody was hoping for, but they do come in five fashionable colors. Give him credit, Steve Jobs knows how to sell to your vanity.

The one thing that caught my eye yesterday was not mentioned at MacWorld. iTunes Music Store added lists of Billboards Top 100 songs for every year going back to 1946. While the lists are not complete they are fairly comprehensive. I must admit the fuel behind my Napster addiction a couple of years ago was how easy it was to find music I remembered from high school and college. I was never terribly interested in finding new albums on Napster or Kazaa because the vast majority of new music is rather unappealing. This is the kind of small enhancement that I think will keep Apple and iTMS ahead of Walmart and Napster in the online music biz.

All in all, not a bad day for Apple. Since these announcements focused primarily on software I'd expect some new hardware sometime this summer. Possibly G5 Powerbooks or 3Ghz Power Macs. It's the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh this year so I have no doubt that Jobs has something good in the pipeline.

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MacWorld Boston 2004

MacWorld Boston 2004 07/11/2004 03:06 PM
Without much fanfare or anticipation, MacWorldExpo is kicking off tomorrow (July 12th, 2004) in Boston, MA. This year's summer MacWorld Expo marks ...

Other News: Macworld Boston

Other News: Macworld Boston 07/12/2004 11:01 AM
Steve Jobs is absent, but Macworld Boston 2004 opens today and there's a big party on Wednesday.

Macworld Boston Set To Go On Without
Apple

Macworld Boston Set To Go On Without
Apple 06/25/2004 08:39 PM
What's an Apple Computer show without Apple Computer? Just fine, say the presenters of the Macworld Conference & Expo. By W. David Gardner, TechWeb (via MyAppleMenu)

My Boston, My Macworld Expo

My Boston, My Macworld Expo 07/17/2004 02:54 AM
I am satisfied that Macworld has returned to Boston, my home, that is synonymous with the Macworld Expo, and I am confident that this is the start of something insanely great in the years to come. By Ming Chow, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

MUG News: Bus trips to Macworld Boston

MUG News: Bus trips to Macworld Boston 06/03/2004 07:00 PM
Three Macintosh User Groups – the Connecticut Macintosh Connection, the Main Line Macintosh Users Group and the Bux-Mont Macintosh Group -- have announced they will continue the tradition of hosting bus trips to July's Macworld Conference & Expo in Boston, according to the MUG Center, an online resource for Mac User Groups (MUGs)...

Macworld Boston a success? Depends on
whom you ask

Macworld Boston a success? Depends on
whom you ask 07/15/2004 03:43 PM
by Dennis Sellers - Was Macworld Conference & Expo Boston 2004 a success? Some vendors and end users interviewed by MacMinute felt it exceeded expectations, while others were much less kind in their thoughts about the show...

Macworld Boston registration open

Macworld Boston registration open 04/05/2005 02:24 PM
Registration is now open for this year's east coast Macworld Conference & Expo...

Apple to be at DV Expo during Boston
Macworld

Apple to be at DV Expo during Boston
Macworld 05/12/2004 02:31 PM
Apple will be an exhibitor at Digital Video Expo East 2004, the July 14-16 show for the professional digital community at the Jacob K...

Macworld Expo Boston looking to be
desolate

Macworld Expo Boston looking to be
desolate 06/02/2004 10:13 AM
With the Boston Macworld Conference & Expo a little more than a month away, only 40 companies have signed up to show off their products at the event, according to the official exhibitors list...

Macworld Boston: Photo Gallery

Macworld Boston: Photo Gallery 07/14/2004 06:41 PM
By MacNN (via MyAppleMenu)

Followup on MacWorld Boston 2004

Followup on MacWorld Boston 2004 01/23/2004 04:16 PM
ThinkSecret provides an update to the MacWorld Boston IDG-Apple showdown. In mid 2002, reports began emerging that IDG was considering moving the s...

Macworld Expo Boston photos: Day 2

Macworld Expo Boston photos: Day 2 07/13/2004 05:22 PM
The folks at Inside Mac Radio have posted a new photo gallery from the second day of Macworld Conference & Expo in Boston, including pictures from today's "Mac at 20" event with David Pogue, Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Jerry Manock and Jef Raskin...
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