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June 06, 2005

Apple to switch to Intel CPUs?

[GoldSounds] The blogosphere is ablaze with rumours today that Apple plans to announce a switch to the Intel architecture at the WWDC this Monday. Circumstantial evidence seems to back this up, with Apple hiring ACPI BIOS developers, among other moves.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Reidsrow.com] reidsrow.blog: I have to throw out some mad props to my wife, the proprietor of wendy-ware for her latest achievement. Coming this July 16th in Davis Square, Somerville, she will have a booth at the 19th annual juried Art Beat 2005, a huge art festival one of the best cities for artists in the country! She was selected from among the pool of applicants to ply her books on the mean streets of Boston. So, if you are in the area in July, swing by Davis Square and look for the wendy-ware booth, or for those farther out in the world, stop by her website and buy a little sumpin’!

Onlineblog.com[Onlineblog.com] Onlineblog.com - Guardian Online's weblog: "In a multicity press conference, Jim Allchin, group vice president of Microsoft's Platforms Group, said via a satellite broadcast that Windows XP Media Center 2004 provides 'experience computing,' where software, hardware and services are shaped around particular user experiences and tasks, such as downloading music, viewing digital photos and accessing online content. With Windows XP Media Center 2004, he said, consumers now have a seamless, integrated solution for engaging in multimedia experiences, rather than having to perform different tasks on various IT and consumer-electronics devices and applications," reports CRN.

Weblogsky.com[Weblogsky.com] Weblogsky - industrial-strength weblog: David Weinberger is blogging the conference here and here (so far; I'm sure he'll blog more). Community network people have been talking about universal access for years, but as VoIP and other technologies progress, more and more recovering telco people are getting into the conversation, understanding that we must ensure pervasive freedom to connect, in developing as well as developed nations – and at the same time we have to think through the implications of Internet technology, the need for a "stupid network" with intelligence at the edges, and the fact that it will be increasingly tough for monolithic corporations to sustain revenues by providing access to commun