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Tuesday, April 27, 1999   
Updated Tuesday at 4:33 p.m. PDT

Adobe readies ATM Deluxe 4.5
Adobe will release the newest version of Adobe Type Manager Deluxe sometime next month, offering streamlined font management features and a revised user interface.

Apple finally gets some respect
Apple's stock rallied Tuesday after the investment firm Goldman Sachs upped the PC maker from a market perform rating to its recommended list -- giving analysts a chance to reconsider their lukewarm projections.

On The Register: Ahead of the game?
Id Software's decision to post a beta version of its forthcoming Quake 3 Arena game for Macs was a major milestone, but Contributing Editor Tony Smith says Apple can't rest on its laurels.

Teen surrenders 'appleimac'
A Canadian high school student whose made international headlines earlier this year in a trademark dispute with Apple has pulled the plug on his "appleimac" domain name.

France rethinks cryptography
News of the World: Univers Macworld says the French government's move to lift restrictions on Internet cryptography should encourage the rise of e-commerce among security-conscious companies.

Tech Corner: Tools, news and views
From the editors of MacTech and NetProfessional: WebStar Server Suite 4.0 ... Text Cleaner Lite 1.51 ... Works-in-a-Draw ... MindSpring upgrades client tools ... Lasso Web Data Engine for OS X Server ... GL4Java ... and more.

The Darwinist: Following Al Gore's example?
Contributing Editor Stephan Somogyi warns that Apple's idea of open-source code has more in common with the vice president than with the open-source community -- and that's after Apple updated its Public Source License.

Imation spins new CD-R drives (04.23)

RFI Report: Forget PCI slots (04.23)

Letters to MacWEEK (04.23)

Tamte quits Apple for Bungie (04.22)

FutureTech: Let a million flowers bloom (04.22)

MS delivers FileMaker plug-in (04.22)

Judge freezes Connectix VGS (04.21)

Mac the Knife: Going south (04.21)

Avid confirms shift to NT (04.21)

On The Register: Who's the competition? (04.21)

The O'Grady Files: Digital means less is more (04.21)

OS Xing: Making the buy (04.21)

Avid excites NAB crowd (04.20)

Newer Tech preps new FireWire products (04.20)

Scenes from NAB (04.20)

ICE heats up NAB show (04.20)

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