[MyAppleMenu] Jul 1, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Rumors Of New IMac Spur Apple's Stock (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0007/01.stock.shtml>
Increasingly more publications are spreading the word that due to Apple's apparent liquidation of the current iMac line, a new model is likely on the way.

Sony Refiles Patent Suit Against Connectix (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2176433.html>
A Sony representative said the company dismissed its lawsuit a day before a hearing in the case on the judge's advice to avoid "procedural issues that may have been appealable." Connectix nonetheless claimed victory yesterday.

== AppleSurf (Reviews) ====================

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

Microsoft.NET Continues Redmond's Slow, Sad Slide Toward Microsoft.NOT (InfoWorld)
<http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x7980432>
Microsoft executives should read more of Willa Cather, who famously wrote, "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as if they had never happened before."

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

Microsoft.NET Continues Redmond's Slow, Sad Slide Toward Microsoft.NOT (InfoWorld)
<http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x7980432>
Microsoft executives should read more of Willa Cather, who famously wrote, "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as if they had never happened before."

Uncertainty Surrounds Microsoft's .Net Plans (IDG.net)
<http://www.idg.net/ic_195686_1773_1-483.html>
ndustry analysts this week said Microsoft must prove that developing applications using .Net will be faster and easier than other approaches such as Enterprise JavaBeans.

Microsoft Pushes Its Smart-card Vision (InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/07/03/000703hnsmartcard.xml>
Emphasizing the mobile aspects of its new Microsoft.NET strategy, Microsoft this week released an update to Windows for Smart Cards that includes support for the GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications) standard.

New Policy At Microsoft Means Ousting Veteran temp Workers (Associated Press)
<http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x7974923>
Besieged by lawsuits and complaints, Microsoft is limiting the length of temporary workers' contracts to 365 days, and will further require that workers must take 100 days off between assignments.

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

Uncertainty Surrounds Microsoft's .Net Plans (IDG.net)
<http://www.idg.net/ic_195686_1773_1-483.html>
ndustry analysts this week said Microsoft must prove that developing applications using .Net will be faster and easier than other approaches such as Enterprise JavaBeans.

Fake E-Mail Threatens To Cut Microsoft Hotmail users (Reuters)
<http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/053401.htm>
Some users of Microsoft Corp.'s free Hotmail e-mail service are getting a bogus message, purportedly from a company official, threatening to cancel their accounts because the service is bogged down with too many customers.

Online And Unidentifiable? (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21689-2000Jun29.html>
AT&T Labs will announce the creation of Publius, a new system that could go a long way toward eliminating online censorship.

== PenguinSurf (News) ====================

Japanese Linux To Debut In U.S. Market (Nikkei BP)
<http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/cover/106358>
Digital Factory expects to form a technical partnership with Compaq Computer Corp., with the aim of jointly developing a Linux distribution to run on Compaq's Alpha microprocessor.

== The AppleSurf Reader ====================

The Jaguar And The Fox (The Atlantic Monthly)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/07/johnson.htm>
Hard as he tried, Murray Gell-Mann could never make himself into a legend like his rakish colleauge and collaborator, Richard Feynman -- even if he was probably the greater physicist. By George Johnson.

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

IDA Reduces Opening Up Of SingTel's Network To Rivals (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/6/news/nsing03.html>
the authority said certain unbundling and resale obligations that it originally proposed to impose on dominant licensees have been reduced.

== SingaporeSurf (Entertainment) ====================

Artist Ong Kim Seng Shows Recent Works In Singapore History Museum Exhibition (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/articles/2000/07/01/singaporenews30966.htm>
Singapore's best-known watercolourist Ong Kim Seng's now exhibiting some of his recent works at the Singapore History Museum.

Last Movie Show At The Old Cathay (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin28_0701.html>
The cinemas at the Cathay Building in Handy Road had their final curtain call last night.