Maszman Speaks!

How do you like the new look? Let me know via the com­ment feature.

Not sur­pris­ingly, Palm is also tes­ti­fy­ing at the M$ trial. Being essen­tially the only com­peti­tor to the Pock­etPC, it’s sim­ple sur­vival to want a level play­ing field.

Expect to see more of this. It appears that the lat­est Celine Dion Copy-Protected CD causes prob­lems on Mac’s with the Super­Drive. Details at MacFixit.

Alter­na­tive office suite seek­ers (is that a new term?) might be inter­ested in CrossOver Office, which allows you to run Office on Linux (Wired review here). Only $54.95/user, so it’s com­pet­i­tive in one sense (you have to buy Office separately).

Well. Accord­ing to the Asso­ci­ated Press, Wal­ter Hewlett is suing to have the recent merger between HP and Com­paq over­turned, claim­ing impro­pri­eties in the vote. I bet this would be get­ting even more press were it not for Enron, it’s cer­tainly my vote for Second-Most Embarass­ing Busi­ness Story of 2002.

The new Sony PEG-NR70V and PEG-NR70 are finally avail­able in the US. Pop over to SonyStyle to get yours.