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Rob Jackson IV 1 min read

Tech stocks are volatile. It doesn’t take a financial analyst to tell you that. Wall Street is on a giant rollercoaster ride that won’t stop or level out. In a volatile market computer manufactures are hoping that one day they can get back to business instead of worrying whether or not they have a business to work at.

But one company has set themselves up for a rough road ahead, and has been prepared since the 2000 tech bubble burst. Apple’s financial stability and worst case senario planning, Apple has still had to report short earnings. But what Apple Computer is doing different is innovating, designing, inventing, and adding new toys to the tech

Apple launched .Mac, a new suite of Internet services and software that provides Mac users with powerful tools for their life on the Internet. .Mac features email service, web-based access; 100MB of Internet storage seamlessly integrated with the Mac OS X, and always-on hosting for personalized homepages and digital photo albums that can be shared with anyone on the Internet.

.Mac introduces the ability to share calendars from Apple’s innovative iCal software with colleagues, friends and family members. To protect users’ personal information, .Mac includes McAfee’s Virex antivirus software with online updating, and Backup, Apple’s easy-to-use solution for backing up important data to CDs, DVDs and even automatically to Apple’s iDisk Internet servers.

With the availability of Mac OS X version 10.2 “Jaguar,” the next major release of Mac OS X, .Mac members will also be able to take advantage of Apple’s new iCal calendar sharing application, that allows users to publish and automatically update family or group calendars to the web so group members can all keep track of upcoming events and activities. Mac Slides, a new service that lets users turn sets of photos into dynamic screen savers.

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