[MyAppleMenu] Dec 26, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

== AppleSurf (Top Stories) ==============

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This week: the Christmas episode. Plus, lights in Times Square, South Park in Taiwan, and sign language in America.

== AppleSurf (Opinions) ==============

 Ode On A Blue G3 (MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/content/news/2000/12/26/24043>
Apple shot themselves in the foot with the Blue & White G3 (it's that damn good ), then Motorola helped them empty the gun with that whole G4 processor debacle (yet another long story).

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

 Microsoft Waits For Bush's Position On Its Antitrust Case (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/26/technology/26SOFT.html>
If statements by President-elect Bush and his advisers are any indication, the new administration is unlikely to fight hard to sustain the Justice Department's antitrust victory over Microsoft.

 Complacency Of Consumers Leaves PCs On Store Shelves (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001225/t000122774.html>
Sales for the quarter are expected to plunge as users keep older models and wait for more price cuts.

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This week: the Christmas episode. Plus, lights in Times Square, South Park in Taiwan, and sign language in America.

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

 W2K For Alpha Lurks In MS Cubicles (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15689.html>
It will never become a product the likes of you or us can get our mitts on, but it still exists.

 Microsoft Waits For Bush's Position On Its Antitrust Case (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/26/technology/26SOFT.html>
If statements by President-elect Bush and his advisers are any indication, the new administration is unlikely to fight hard to sustain the Justice Department's antitrust victory over Microsoft.

 Complacency Of Consumers Leaves PCs On Store Shelves (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001225/t000122774.html>
Sales for the quarter are expected to plunge as users keep older models and wait for more price cuts.

== Breaking Barriers (Top Stories) ==============

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This week: the Christmas episode. Plus, lights in Times Square, South Park in Taiwan, and sign language in America.

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

 Online Advertisers Fail To Sell Their Own Stories (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4238084.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Internet advertising didn't click this year with investors, whose concerns about slowing ad sales dragged down valuations of content-related sites such as Yahoo and America Online.

 Net Retailers Take Ax To Price Tags (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-4273986.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
eToys and other Internet retailers are slashing prices by as much as 75 percent to get rid of unsold merchandise after a mixed holiday sales season.

 Realnetworks Hasn't Mastered Revenue Streaming (Red Herring)
<http://www.redherring.com/investor/2000/1226/inv-real122600.html?id=userland>

 Dot-com Parties Dry Up (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001225/t000122802.html>
Even a legendary gate crasher has a hard time getting to the food and freebies as excess gives way to belt-tightening.

 Reality Dampening The Dot-com Hoopla (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/25/technology/25FLAK.html>
As many high-technology companies consolidate or just plain go out of business, more frequently than not it is the reporter who makes the initial phone call to a publicist -- to ask about the gory details.

 Rivals Want AOL To Share Messaging Service Users (Associated Press)
<http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500293447-500466136-503132208-0,00.html>

== PenguinSurf (Top Stories) ==============

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This week: the Christmas episode. Plus, lights in Times Square, South Park in Taiwan, and sign language in America.

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

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This week: the Christmas episode. Plus, lights in Times Square, South Park in Taiwan, and sign language in America.

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

 Singapore Urges Thailand To Be Prepared For Cina WTO Accession (People's Daily)
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200012/25/eng20001225_58773.html>

 Explain And Revise Pump Prices, CASE Tells Oil Companies (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/cna/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001226/singapore/cna/Explain_and_revise_pump_prices__CASE_tells_oil_companies.html>