Apple manufacturing plant changes hands; Adobe jumps into DVD authoring; Anti-Spam Research Group to meet; more

Apple manufacturing plant changes hands Dow Jones Business News reports that Asustek Computer Inc, the world's largest maker of computer motherboards, said its board has approved the purchase of a manufacturing plant in Chungli, Taiwan, from rival Elitegroup Computer Systems Co. The company's say the deal doesn't include the transfer of any customers even though the Elitegroup plant is currently used to make notebook computers for Apple. More.

Adobe jumps into DVD authoringAdobe has announced Encore DVD, a collection of tools for organizing video and other content on a DVD, creating interactive menus and burning the final product to a disc. CNET reports: "Adobe has offered basic DVD authoring tools in some of its video-editing products, including Premiere. But with recordable DVD drives becoming increasingly common in new PCs, the company saw a need for a full-featured application that integrates easily with other Adobe products, said Giles Baker, an Adobe product manager." More.

Anti-Spam Research Group to meetThe Anti-Spam Research Group holds its first physical meeting in San Francisco next Thursday. Members have already been discussing the problem over e-mail with such gusto that some participants complain they're getting more messages on anti-spam than from spammers. According to the San Mateo times, Jupiter Research estimates the average e-mail account received 2,200 spam messages last year. The anti-spam firm Brightmail Inc. estimates nearly 40 percent of all Internet e-mail is unwanted, an increase of 8 percent from 2001. More.

Sun to bundle Java with shipping systems Sun Microsystems expects major PC makers soon will begin bundling Sun's software for running Java programs on their computers, Sun executives said Friday. If successful, the move would bypass some of the legal wrangling between Sun and its arch-rival Microsoft. Microsoft has been variously adding and removing Java from Windows throughout the course of an antitrust suit Sun brought against the software colossus. ZDNN has more.

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