By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 19, 2006
Wednesday, 19 April 2006
- Apple Plans to Build New 50-Acre Campus in Cupertino ★
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Reuters:
“What’s happened at Apple is that our business has basically tripled in the last five or six years,” Jobs said on Tuesday evening at a Cupertino city council meeting, which was recorded and viewable as an archived Webcast.
Jobs said that it would likely take three to four years to design and build the campus and that it could accommodate 3,000 to 3,500 employees.
A lot (most?) of Apple’s current campus was built in the late ’80s and early ’90s, during Jobs’s exile. I’m guessing the new campus will feature much more Jobsian design and architecture.
- Burst.com Sues Apple for Patent Infringement ★
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I’d be more willing to write Burst off if they hadn’t extracted a $60M settlement from Microsoft last year. However, Apple has seen this coming, and Burst’s announcement today is in fact a countersuit against a declaratory relief complaint Apple filed against Burst back in January. Apple asked that Burst’s patents be invalidated, and declared that even if they’re valid, Apple’s products don’t infringe upon them. Burst’s countersuit claims, not surprisingly, that their patents are valid and that Apple’s products (iTunes, iPods, and QuickTime) do infringe upon them.
- Parallels Workstation 2.1b4 ★
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New beta of Parallels Workstation introduces full-screen mode and dual-monitor support.
- Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3 ★
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Apple’s new version of Bonjour (formerly “Rendezvous”) for Windows includes a plug-in that allows Internet Explorer to discover HTTP servers advertising on Bonjour. Also includes a “Bonjour Print Wizard” to allow Windows to connect to Bonjour networked printers. Pretty useful for Boot Camp users on a mostly-Mac network, I’m thinking.