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Apple REleases Mac os X version 10.4 Tiger 
with "Flytecomm powered" Flight Tracker widget


Widget may be most popular one!

 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. April 29, 2005 Flight Tracker - Find and follow flights with the Flight Tracker widget. Enter an airline, flight number and destination or departure city. For flights in progress, a map displays the flight’s approximate location.

 

CUPERTINO, California—April 28, 2005—Mac OS® X version 10.4 “Tiger,” the next major release of the world’s most advanced operating system, will go on sale Friday at 6:00 p.m. at participating Apple® Authorized Resellers and Apple retail stores worldwide. All 105 Apple retail stores will host “Tiger World Premiere” events from 6:00 p.m. to midnight offering workshops and hands-on demonstrations of Tiger’s hottest features, plus giveaways at every store including a chance to win a PowerBook® G4, iPod® and more.

“Starting tomorrow night, features like Spotlight and Dashboard will change the way millions of people use their computers,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Our competitors will be trying to copy Tiger’s more than 200 new features and innovations for years to come.”

Tiger delivers more than 200 new features and innovations including Spotlight™, a revolutionary desktop search technology that lets users instantly find anything stored on their Mac®, including documents, emails, contacts and images; and Dashboard, a new way to instantly access important information like weather forecasts and stock quotes, using a dazzling new class of applications called widgets.

Apple will also release Mac OS X Server version 10.4 “Tiger” at the same time. Based on the same core technology as the desktop operating system, Tiger Server integrates over 100 leading open source projects and standards-based applications with easy-to-use management tools that make it easy to deploy for Mac, Windows and Linux clients.

 

About FlyteComm

FlyteComm is a premiere information services company, uniquely aggregating multi-dimensional, real-time and static data from multiple sources.  FlyteComm provides intelligent travel security, logistics information and services designed to meet the needs of aviation, corporate travel, and government markets.  Founded in 2000 as a Delaware “C” Corporation, FlyteComm’s corporate headquarters are located in Mountain View , California . FlyteComm’s patented technology solves critical problems, associated with tracking planes, weather, and flight logistics.