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MWSF 2003 Rumor Tidbits

Thursday January 2, 2003 1:02 am PST by Arnold Kim

For the rumor hungry, a few morsels to tide you over...

sebimeyer reports that MacWorld posted a group of predictions from various writers and editors including one interesting bite from Bruce Fraser regarding software news: "I'm under NDA (but it will have something to do with processing pixels)."

mpeg4rules found that a Friday MPEG-4 in 2003 conference will demonstrate "several products for authoring MPEG-4 on Mac, including QuickTime Player Pro, Discreet's Cleaner, and hopefully at least one exciting, currently secret tool."

Meanwhile, MacBidouille curiously reports that MWSF will reveal eleven (11) announcements.

The only info we can gather is that we will be surprised...

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