Macworld Moves to Boston With or Without Apple Support

You'd think Boston had just landed the Olympics. That's how jubilant its mayor and tourism and convention officials were at a press conference in the city's North End last week. They announced the return of IDG World Expo's Macworld Conference & Expo to Boston, after having been at New York's Javits Center since 1998. But just hours later, Apple Computer Inc. announced it would not support a Boston-based Macworld, stunning those same city officials and Framingham, Mass.-based IDG. On