[MyAppleMenu] Dec 23, 2000

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

== AppleSurf (News) ==============

 Apple Computer's Shares Aren't Flying Like Jobs (Bloomberg)
<http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?s=AOkLgGBXfQXBwbGUg&T=marketsquote99_news.ht>
Parents learn anew each Christmas that if you give a kid a toy he really loves, you may have a hard time getting him to focus on anything else. Apple Computer Inc.'s stockholders have learned a similar lesson the hard way. Chief Executive Steve Jobs got a shiny new jet as this year began, and the company's shares have plummeted since then.

 What's Ahead For OS X (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/12/17/1221moveten.html>

== The Wintel Empire (Top Stories) ==============

 Christmas Isn't Coming For PC Makers, Retailers (CNET New.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4238279.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Plummeting PC sales shocked manufacturers and retailers in October and November, but analysts say December sales are even bleaker.

== The Wintel Empire (News) ==============

 Christmas Isn't Coming For PC Makers, Retailers (CNET New.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4238279.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Plummeting PC sales shocked manufacturers and retailers in October and November, but analysts say December sales are even bleaker.

 Microsoft Selects DVD Software For Xbox (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4237941.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Ravisent Technologies said Friday it has won the contract to supply DVD playback software for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox game console.

 Secret Project May Be Microsoft's Next Big Deal (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4243862-0.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..sf>
According to sources, Netdocs is a single, integrated application that will include a full suite of functions, including email, personal information management, document-authoring tools, digital-media management, and instant messaging. Microsoft will make Netdocs available only as a hosted service over the Internet, not as a shrink-wrapped application or software that's preloaded on the PC.

== Breaking Barriers (News) ==============

 Flames Fly Over '.biz' Addresses (Reuters)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2668172,00.html>
ICANN approved the .biz domain last month, but Atlantic Root Network says it already has the rights to it.

== SingaporeSurf (Top Stories) ==============

 Eight Digits For Fixed-Line Phones (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,12507,00.html?>
Come 2002, all fixed lines will be prefixed with '6' to up system's numbering capacity, say sources.

== SingaporeSurf (News) ==============

 Singapore In World Trial For Myopia Drug (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,12572,00.html?>
It is major clinical trial centre to test pirenzepine for shortsightedness; 40 myopic children here tested so far.

== SingaporeSurf (Technology) ==============

 Eight Digits For Fixed-Line Phones (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,12507,00.html?>
Come 2002, all fixed lines will be prefixed with '6' to up system's numbering capacity, say sources.