[MyAppleMenu] Jul 6, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Apple Speaks Of Challenges And Rewards In Wedding MacOS And BSD At USENIX 2K (32BitsOnline.com)
<http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200006/mac_usenix2k&page=1>
Moving forward, the Mac OS will combine the best features of both platforms while (hopefully) addressing their shortcomings.

MacHack Presents Challenge, Opportunity (Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/andy06.html>
No MacHack has offered a more important opportunity for reflection than this one. Mac OS X is in the hands of developers, and in mid-August will be in the hands of users, in public-beta form.

Palmtop Suffers; Microsoft, Too (Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/188/business/Palmtop_suffers_Microsoft_too+.shtml>
Microsoft doesn't make computer hardware, so it tried to keep it simple for consumers by ordering PC makers not to touch anything. Looks like they can't do that anymore. And so we end up with the user interface of the HP Jornada.

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

USB 2.0 Vs FireWire: The Debate Heats Up (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/08/news/usb_vs_firewire.html>
Intel pushes USB for high-speed consumer peripherals.

Apple Speaks Of Challenges And Rewards In Wedding MacOS And BSD At USENIX 2K (32BitsOnline.com)
<http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200006/mac_usenix2k&page=1>
Moving forward, the Mac OS will combine the best features of both platforms while (hopefully) addressing their shortcomings.

Diablo II In Production, To Ship By &quot;End Of July&quot; (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/news/00/july/000706/diabloii.shtml>

Nvidia Plans To Enter Mac Graphics Chip Market (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2212639.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>

Apple To Webcast Jobs Keynote (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=1537>

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

Do The Best With What We've Got (MacDisucssion.com)
<http://www.macdiscussion.com/article_show.php3?article_id_var=204>

MacHack Presents Challenge, Opportunity (Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/andy06.html>
No MacHack has offered a more important opportunity for reflection than this one. Mac OS X is in the hands of developers, and in mid-August will be in the hands of users, in public-beta form.

Apple's Consumer Relations Death Wish (The Macjunkie)
<http://www.themacjunkie.com/archives/moore.7.4.00.html>
It's beginning to look like the bright lights at Apple Legal must get up each morning and ask themselves which friends and supporters of the Mac platform they will harass, antagonize, and alienate today.

Do The Best With What We've Got (MacDiscussion.com)
<http://www.macdiscussion.com/article_show.php3?article_id_var=204>

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

Apple's Subnotebook PowerBooks: A Retrospective (MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/00/07/06/index.html>
The PowerBook Duo Series and PowerBook 2400c covered a segment of the portable market that Apple has apparently withdrawn from, which is a pity.

Three User Accelerators (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/back%26forth/2k0706.html>
Three tips to improve the Macintosh experience.

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

Palmtop Suffers; Microsoft, Too (Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/188/business/Palmtop_suffers_Microsoft_too+.shtml>
Microsoft doesn't make computer hardware, so it tried to keep it simple for consumers by ordering PC makers not to touch anything. Looks like they can't do that anymore. And so we end up with the user interface of the HP Jornada.

Windows Me, Microsoft's Latest, Is A Less Than Millennial Upgrade (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/circuits/articles/06pete.html>
Unless you have an urgent need for the new features, it is probably a good idea to wait until you need to replace your computer, or at least until Microsoft finds and fixes potential software conflicts.

I Remember Microsoft (Fortune)
<http://library.northernlight.com/LH20000629020000311.html?cb=13&sc=0#doc>
Once computing's red-hot center, Microsoft now has a tough time retaining its best and brightest employees. Here, some who left reflect on what they learned--and why they find life on the outside so much more alluring.

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

Microsoft To Make Component Available Online (Computer Weekly)
<http://www.computerweekly.co.uk/cwarchive/daily/20000706/cwcontainer.asp?name=C5.HTML&SubSection=6>
Microsoft plans to use the new MSDN Online Component Resource to build what it describes as a vibrant community for software components.

IE's Lead Over Netscape Lengthens With New Version (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2206561.html?dtn.head>
Microsoft this week quietly made available for download international versions of its Internet Explorer 5.5 browser.

Windows Partners Also Do Linux (TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000706S0002>
Dell, Gateway, Intel, and Compaq -- industry powerhouses that once courted Microsoft and its Windows operating system -- are turning toward Linux in a flirtation that has escalated into a full-fledged affair.

Palmtop Suffers; Microsoft, Too (Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/188/business/Palmtop_suffers_Microsoft_too+.shtml>
Microsoft doesn't make computer hardware, so it tried to keep it simple for consumers by ordering PC makers not to touch anything. Looks like they can't do that anymore. And so we end up with the user interface of the HP Jornada.

Via Agrees To End Legal Squabble With Intel (TechWeb)
<http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x8067433>

Windows Me, Microsoft's Latest, Is A Less Than Millennial Upgrade (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/circuits/articles/06pete.html>
Unless you have an urgent need for the new features, it is probably a good idea to wait until you need to replace your computer, or at least until Microsoft finds and fixes potential software conflicts.

I Remember Microsoft (Fortune)
<http://library.northernlight.com/LH20000629020000311.html?cb=13&sc=0#doc>
Once computing's red-hot center, Microsoft now has a tough time retaining its best and brightest employees. Here, some who left reflect on what they learned--and why they find life on the outside so much more alluring.

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

W3C Proposes XML Linking Technology (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2208628.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Currently, a Web surfer can use the familiar HTML hyperlinks to get to and from XML pages. But XLink provides a more sophisticated way of linking that accounts for the multilayered structure of XML documents.

Microsoft Compares Wap With Dos (vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1105882>
Microsoft won't support Wap in its handheld device software because it says the mobile internet protocol's functionality is limited and has compared it with the text-based Dos operating system.

Voyeur-Cams Come To Home Furnishings (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/circuits/articles/06shop.html>
The Idea Is to Check Out the Wares, but Other Shoppers Are Fair Game, Too.

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

W3C Proposes XML Linking Technology (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2208628.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Currently, a Web surfer can use the familiar HTML hyperlinks to get to and from XML pages. But XLink provides a more sophisticated way of linking that accounts for the multilayered structure of XML documents.

AOL, Time Warner Near High-Speed Cable Plan (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2212722.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
America Online is close to announcing a deal to offer a high-speed version of its service over Time Warner's cable lines, according to analysts familiar with the plan.

330-Year-Old Retailer To Give E-Commerce A Try (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2212923.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Hudson's Bay, Canada's oldest retailer, said today a joint venture it has formed with three technology heavyweights will be its ticket into the e-commerce world.

OK, What's NUG30 Times Pi? (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37414,00.html>
It was a 32-year-old math problem designed to test the most powerful computers. Last week, more than 1,000 Net-connected workstations finally figured it out.

IE's Lead Over Netscape Lengthens With New Version (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2206561.html?dtn.head>
Microsoft this week quietly made available for download international versions of its Internet Explorer 5.5 browser.

Free To Be P-To-P (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/07/06/alphabet_soup/index.html>
Napster is a peer-to-peer? The tech sector is drowning in an alphabet soup of meaningless acronyms.

Microsoft Compares Wap With Dos (vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1105882>
Microsoft won't support Wap in its handheld device software because it says the mobile internet protocol's functionality is limited and has compared it with the text-based Dos operating system.

Will E-voters Ever Cast Their Ballots? (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2597347,00.html>

BBC Has Web World Up In Arms (Guardian)
<http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,340051,00.html>
Commercial publishers say the BBC is steamrolling into areas already well served by the private sector, and using licence-fee money to snatch traffic away - even making it difficult for private sites to secure that oxygen of online business, venture capital.

Voyeur-Cams Come To Home Furnishings (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/circuits/articles/06shop.html>
The Idea Is to Check Out the Wares, but Other Shoppers Are Fair Game, Too.

Glitches Let Net Shoppers Get Free Goods (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2208733.html?dtn.head>
The Fourth of July meant freedom from paying for goods at some online sites, where botched coupon deals let shoppers waltz out with free or nearly free deals.

Content Goes To Pieces (Internet World)
<http://www.internetworldnews.com/article_bot.asp?inc=070100/7.01Cover1&issue=7.01>
By changing the way users get at Web content and services, companies like Yodlee could change the nature of the whole Web business.

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

Windows Partners Also Do Linux (TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000706S0002>
Dell, Gateway, Intel, and Compaq -- industry powerhouses that once courted Microsoft and its Windows operating system -- are turning toward Linux in a flirtation that has escalated into a full-fledged affair.

Why Desktop Linux Has to Succeed (LinuxToday)
<http://www.linuxtoday.com.au/article.jsp?sid=665297>
A wounded 500lb gorilla is potentially more dangerous. All the more reason for the Linux community to act now.

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

At Least It Hasn’t Been Renamed Linux 2001 (TechnologyEvaluation)
<http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x8087369>

Windows Partners Also Do Linux (TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000706S0002>
Dell, Gateway, Intel, and Compaq -- industry powerhouses that once courted Microsoft and its Windows operating system -- are turning toward Linux in a flirtation that has escalated into a full-fledged affair.

Why Desktop Linux Has to Succeed (LinuxToday)
<http://www.linuxtoday.com.au/article.jsp?sid=665297>
A wounded 500lb gorilla is potentially more dangerous. All the more reason for the Linux community to act now.

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

After 12 Years In Exile, Twyla Tharp Shifts Gears Again (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/dance/070600tharp-dance.html>
&quot;How many ballet companies today are headed by a woman?&quot; Twyla Tharp asked over a bitter cup of coffee.

The Human Genome (Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/framegame/entries/00-07-05_85757.asp>
As the two scientists embarked on a media blitz, however, the questions turned tricky.

They Don't Buy It (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/07/06/jazz/index.html>
Baby boomers are purchasing more CDs than ever -- but not jazz or classical. Can these genres survive in an increasingly bottom-line business? By Eric Boehlert.

Let Them Eat Big Macs (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/07/06/frenchfood/index.html>
Will the unappetizing plans of McDonald's, the WTO and the European Union spoil classic French cuisine? Not if a 50-year-old dairy farmer from Roquefort can help it. By David Downie.

What Is Golf? (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/sports/bounds/2000/07/05/bounds/index.html>
The PGA says it's hitting the ball in the hole, plus walking; disabled golfer Casey Martin says the walking doesn't matter. The Supreme Court will be asked to decide. By Gary Gary Kaufman.

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

Singapore's Elder Statesman (BBC)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from_our_own_correspondent/newsid_820000/820234.stm>
Perhaps it's now time for this workaholic, shop-aholic nation to change its nature once again. That anyway is the Senior Minister's message.

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

Govt May Raise Penalty On Unfair Telecom Practices (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/5/news/nfrnt05.html>
IDA says penalty must be commensurate with kind of damage done.

SPH To Raise Ad Rates For 3 Papers (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/sinb3_0707.html>

POSBank Customers Puzzled By $2 Fee (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin4_0707.html>
This fee is levied on current account holders as the monthly account fee and is not the $2 fall-below fee.

SMRT Faces $1m Fine For Major Breakdowns (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/pri1_0707.html>
The new penalty is mentioned in a preliminary prospectus which SMRT gave out to fund managers yesterday at a presentation for its listing later this month.

We Can't Be Driven Just By Money (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/for7_0707.html>
George Wong Seow Choon: Money alone will not bring us greatness. Enthusiasm and dedication are needed to bring out greatness in our people.

SMRT Will Be Much More Than Just Trains (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/5/news/nfrnt01.html>
New activities range from newspapers to supermarts to telecommunications.

Singapore Blow For Sogo (Reuters)
<http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT328FT5CAC&live=true&useoverridetemplate=ZZZUGORQ00C&tagid=ZZZNSJCX70C&subheading=global>

Singapore's Elder Statesman (BBC)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from_our_own_correspondent/newsid_820000/820234.stm>
Perhaps it's now time for this workaholic, shop-aholic nation to change its nature once again. That anyway is the Senior Minister's message.

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

That www.leekuanyew.com Sale It's A Prank, Says Owner (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/cybernews/cyber1_0707.html>
Programmer denies that he was the person who put the Web address up for auction over Yahoo! Singapore.

Singapore Gets Good Ratings For Internet Banking Web Sites (CNET Singapore)
<http://singapore.cnet.com/news/2000/07/06/20000706k.html>
Five Singapore banks were named in the top 20 list of leading Internet banking Web sites in Asia Pacific.

AsiaOne Investment Portal To Launch Soon (CNET Singapore)
<http://singapore.cnet.com/news/2000/07/06/20000706y.html>
Despite delaying the launch of its supposed joint venture with Australia's Reckon Ltd, SPH AsiaOne is expected to go ahead with its other financial portal, AsiaOne Markets.

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

Digital Films Hit The Mark In Singapore (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life8_0707.html>
Experimental, bold and low-cost, the three short films are the second such venture here in digital video.

Starry Night For Newspapers (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin17_0707.html>