Forte for Java 2.0 ready for the New Year

Featuring support for just-in-time upgrades and the latest JavaServer Page technology, Sun Microsystems has announced the release of Forte for Java 2.0. It's still in beta, but a full release is scheduled for January 2001. ...more

QuarkXpress patches performance

Quark has released an update to its QuarkXpress desktop publishing application that addresses a number of issues in version 7 and provides several performance enhancements. The update provides substantial improvements to the performance of actions involving text selection, such as scrolling, spell checking and Find/Change, general layout manipulation where images have clipping paths and flattening of layouts that use transparency. Resolved issues include: slow printing, PDF export and EPS saving where layouts include tables that use opacity, numerous or highly blurred drop shadows and drop shadows over lines of text; slow text editing, especially in multi-column text boxes; slow zooming and scrolling when displaying a clipping path with a large number of points and in layouts with a large quantity of selected text; incorrect resolution when printing low-resolution drop shadows when they occurred over high-resolution images; failure to apply clipping-path runarounds when printing to non-PostScript printers; failure to apply the Accents for All Caps preference setting; incorrect spelling of Ukraine by the spelling checker; and several cosmetic issues relating to control placement, text truncation and stylistic inconsistencies. ...more

Apple Expo cancelled

Next week's Apple Expo in Paris has been cancelled. CEO Steve Jobs said in a brief statement that, "We're cancelling Apple Expo in the wake of last week's devastating and tragic events. We're sorry to disappoint our users and developers, but their safety is our primary concern. ...more

The Timelord returns, online

The BBC is bringing back Dr Who, but not to terrestrial TV - a one off audio broadcast will be appearing on the Web. The Dr Who section of the BBC Web site will carry the 30-minute story on 13 July (a trailer will be online 15 June for those who just can't wait). Death Comes to Time features Sylvester McCoy playing the Doctor, and famous names such as Stephen Fry (good Timelord) and John Sessions (bad Timelord) will cross his path. ...more

EU Microsoft probe will continue

Having dealt with media players and servers, the EU will now turn its attention to two further areas in which Microsoft has been accused of acting unfairly. Competitors in both instant messaging and mobile phones markets have accused the company of using Windows XP to strengthen its position. Any future ruling will be based on the precedent set today, said EU competition commissioner Mario Monti. ...more