[MyAppleMenu] Jul 3, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Is Apple's Four Cornered Hardware Strategy A Done Deal Or A Foundation? (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/appletrader/00/000703.shtml>
The complexities of the next wave in the PC biz will require the game strategy tactics of a grand master. Apple's strategy is completely opaque at this point. Either Steve Jobs is a Kasparov or he's a chump.

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

Microsoft Hacks IE 5.5 For Mac (MacWEEK.com)
<http://www.macweek.com/2000/07/02/0703msievv.html>
Microsoft programmers at the recent MacHack 2000 conference offered a peek at possible new features slated for Internet Explorer. Among the additions: Extensible toolbars that can include graphics dragged from Web pages.

== AppleSurf (Opinion) ====================

Journalism, Ethics And Sacred Cows (Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/html/Moore/articles/moore_cave001.html>
George Orwell said honest writers would admit to two motivations: the habit of noticing unpleasant facts, and a desire to show off.

Is Apple's Four Cornered Hardware Strategy A Done Deal Or A Foundation? (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/appletrader/00/000703.shtml>
The complexities of the next wave in the PC biz will require the game strategy tactics of a grand master. Apple's strategy is completely opaque at this point. Either Steve Jobs is a Kasparov or he's a chump.

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

Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition (Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/00/war2_bne/>
Welcome back to the land of Azeroth. Warcraft II Ñ one of the most popular and successful computer games of all time Ñ is here again with a new and improved version.

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

Microsoft Retains Supreme Court Expert For Legal Team (Associated Press)
<http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?o1796_BC_WA--Microsoft-LegalTe&&news&newsflash-financial>
Carter Phillips, a top litigator before the U.S. Supreme Court, has been retained by Microsoft Corp. to assist with appeals in its landmark antitrust case.

Microsoft To Reward Its Technical Elite (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/03soft.html>
To reward its brightest technologists, Microsoft is introducing a distinguished engineer program, initially honoring 16 of the company's best designers.

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

Microsoft Retains Supreme Court Expert For Legal Team (Associated Press)
<http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?o1796_BC_WA--Microsoft-LegalTe&&news&newsflash-financial>
Carter Phillips, a top litigator before the U.S. Supreme Court, has been retained by Microsoft Corp. to assist with appeals in its landmark antitrust case.

Microsoft Hacks IE 5.5 For Mac (MacWEEK.com)
<http://www.macweek.com/2000/07/02/0703msievv.html>
Microsoft programmers at the recent MacHack 2000 conference offered a peek at possible new features slated for Internet Explorer. Among the additions: Extensible toolbars that can include graphics dragged from Web pages.

Microsoft Patches IE Browser Security Hole (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2196730.html?tag=st.ne.1003.ttext.ni>
Microsoft today issued a patch for an Internet Explorer bug that uses files from the software maker itself to crash computers.

New Pentium For Power Users Only, Analysts Say (Computer Weekly)
<http://www.computerweekly.co.uk/cwarchive/daily/20000703/cwcontainer.asp?name=C4.HTML&SubSection=6>
Intel's new Pentium IV processor will give a performance boost for office PCs, but only for power-hunger users, according to a US analyst.

Let's Not Spare The Rod (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/columns/0,4164,2597279,00.html>
What appears to matter here is not competition between Oracle and Microsoft, but some amorphous popularity contest or battle for mind share.

Microsoft Challenges Java With C Sharp (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2597408,00.html>
Microsoft appears to be ready to give up on its efforts to be a Java language vendor and is substituting a new language of its own, C Sharp, that captures some of Java's precision and productivity features.

A Break In Moore's Law, But, Hey, Who's Counting? (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/03spee.html>
Ever-faster computers are just in the nature of things. Yet recently, computer scientists have begun to fret that the end may be in sight.

Microsoft To Reward Its Technical Elite (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/03soft.html>
To reward its brightest technologists, Microsoft is introducing a distinguished engineer program, initially honoring 16 of the company's best designers.

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

Wireless Porn... Of Course (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37202,00.html>
Sexually explicit stories featuring small, fuzzy pictures of naked people are now available to anyone, anywhere, 24 hours a day.

Napster: Downloading Music For Free Is Legal (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2198482.html?dtn.head>
Citing internal documents Napster attorney says show the labels have abused their market power to block alternative channels of music distribution, along with an obscure antitrust law, the attorney says the labels have lost the legal ability to enforce their copyrights.

Turner Plans $1.2 Billion Expansion And More CNN Online (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/03cnn.html>
Spurred by declining ratings during slow news periods, CNN will broaden the network's online presence to include research tools and more in-depth coverage.

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

Wireless Porn... Of Course (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37202,00.html>
Sexually explicit stories featuring small, fuzzy pictures of naked people are now available to anyone, anywhere, 24 hours a day.

Airlines To Fight For Cheap Seats Online (The Industry Standard)
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16516,00.html>
Six major airlines form Hotwire.com, an online discount ticket site, but the plan may cross other flight paths.

Napster: Downloading Music For Free Is Legal (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2198482.html?dtn.head>
Citing internal documents Napster attorney says show the labels have abused their market power to block alternative channels of music distribution, along with an obscure antitrust law, the attorney says the labels have lost the legal ability to enforce their copyrights.

Microsoft Hacks IE 5.5 For Mac (MacWEEK.com)
<http://www.macweek.com/2000/07/02/0703msievv.html>
Microsoft programmers at the recent MacHack 2000 conference offered a peek at possible new features slated for Internet Explorer. Among the additions: Extensible toolbars that can include graphics dragged from Web pages.

Microsoft Patches IE Browser Security Hole (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2196730.html?tag=st.ne.1003.ttext.ni>
Microsoft today issued a patch for an Internet Explorer bug that uses files from the software maker itself to crash computers.

Japanese Phone Giant Inks Web Content Deal (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-2196558.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Two units of Japanese telecommunications giant NTT today announced an alliance with a major Japanese television broadcaster to marry NTT's high-speed broadband network with a steady source of content for Web delivery.

Sheriff Hopes To Snare 'Most Wanted' With Web (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/wanted070300.htm>
10 cases posted online offer $1,000 reward.

Turner Plans $1.2 Billion Expansion And More CNN Online (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/03cnn.html>
Spurred by declining ratings during slow news periods, CNN will broaden the network's online presence to include research tools and more in-depth coverage.

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

Zealots See Linux Poised For Global Domination (Fairfax IT)
<http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/software/20000704/A48743-2000Jul3.html>
The barefoots and suits both agreed that open-source code was essential for fixing today's problems and that there was now a real opportunity for Linux to become an international standard and the dominant operating system.

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

Zealots See Linux Poised For Global Domination (Fairfax IT)
<http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/software/20000704/A48743-2000Jul3.html>
The barefoots and suits both agreed that open-source code was essential for fixing today's problems and that there was now a real opportunity for Linux to become an international standard and the dominant operating system.

Divided It Stands (LinuxWorld)
<http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-06/lw-06-penguin_5.html>
Linux's open source nature could be its greatest weakness.

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

Violent Media Is Good For Kids (Mojo)
<http://www.mojones.com/reality_check/violent_media.html>
Bloody videogames, gun-glorifying gansta rap and other forms of 'creative violence' help far more children than they hurt, by giving kids a tool to master their rage.

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

Work On North-East Line Right On Track (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin9_0704.html>
New MRT line is more than half way towards completion and work above ground will be done by early next year, freeing up roads in the north.

Good Pay, Yes, But Not Market Pay (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/for9_0704.html>
Dennis Chua Soon Chai: There is no way for us to differentiate between those who take up political office as a form of public service and those who take it up as merely a career move unless there is an element of personal sacrifice.

What About Pay Rises For Workers? (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/for6_0704.html>
Cong Wee Lee: Ministers, especially, should only take a pay rise after the general population's gross salary has risen beyond that of the pre-crisis level.

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

Singapore Museum To Go Digital Soon (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/cybernews/cyber1_0704.html>
A digital tour of its outgoing show called Chinese Culture and Civilisation for those who missed it.

SIA Aircraft Soon To Get "Cyber Cabins" (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/pri4_0704.html>
Internet access on board flights is, for the time being, limited to pre-loaded content ranging from online newspapers to entertainment websites.

Singapore Portal WAP-Enables Shopping District (Newsbytes)
<http://singapore.cnet.com/news/2000/07/03/20000703s.html>
Singapore start-up, The WebWap Company, has made 166 stores in Holland Village accessible through one Web site.

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

Flirting With Danger For Charity (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life1_0704.html>
Stars tangled with snakes and played with poles of fire. Were they put to too much risk in the name of charity?