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

Apple Legal Doing Good Work? (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/Ask%20MacSlash/00/07/27/063230.shtml>
Think of that last Apple ad you saw... remember the music? That music is licensed.

Kermit The Frog Axed: Creative Diferences Or Statistical Miscalculation? (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2000/07/27.5.shtml>
The humor in the song, which accounts for the Macworld lay audience's love for the Kermit spot, is probably too subtle for the ad agency's statistical approach to measure.

Apple's Mac Product Guide Now Includes 18,000 Products (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2000/07/27.6.shtml>
Updated this week to reflect all of the new product releases, the Macintosh Products Guide lists over 18,000 Mac compatible goods, ranging from software to printers to mice (not that you would need one if you got a new mouse at the keynote).

Ihnatko Cubed (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0007/27.ihnatko.shtml>
The Apple that was able to invent, bring to market (and four years later, finally perfect) the Newton is no more. The budget for research and development is a fraction of what it was and perhaps more importantly, the infrastructure for wild What Ifs is largely gone.

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

EarthLink Loss WIdens On Marketing, Customer Support (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-2366214.html?dtn.head>
Internet service provider EarthLink said its second-quarter loss widened on higher marketing and customer-support costs, although sales increased 41 percent.

Apple's Mac Product Guide Now Includes 18,000 Products (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2000/07/27.6.shtml>
Updated this week to reflect all of the new product releases, the Macintosh Products Guide lists over 18,000 Mac compatible goods, ranging from software to printers to mice (not that you would need one if you got a new mouse at the keynote).

Newtek Gets The Mac Religion (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/07/23/0727newtek.html>
The 3-D developer, offering vastly improved Mac support, used the Siggraph 2000 show to demonstrate a Mac OS X version of LightWave 6 running on a dual-processor Power Mac G4.

Graphics Cards Go Pro At Sigraph (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/07/23/0727proformance.html>
Formac and 3Dlabs are demonstrating the new Proformance 4, an under-$600 graphics board featuring dual Glint R3 processors.

Jobs Tell-All Book Not Flattering (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0007/27.book.shtml>
The 301-page hardback, due out September 12, focuses primarily on Jobs' tenure at Apple, Pixar and Next from 1985 through 2000.

Wait And See For Macs At Siggraph (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/07/23/0727sigvendors.html>
Maya may be headed for the Mac, but so far other 3-D developers are lukewarm about supporting Apple hardware. The situation could change next year with the release of Mac OS X and new video cards aimed at 3-D pros.

Mac Users Getting Back In The Game (Arizona Central)
<http://www.azcentral.com/computing/steinberg/>

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

Apple Legal Doing Good Work? (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/Ask%20MacSlash/00/07/27/063230.shtml>
Think of that last Apple ad you saw... remember the music? That music is licensed.

Kermit The Frog Axed: Creative Diferences Or Statistical Miscalculation? (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2000/07/27.5.shtml>
The humor in the song, which accounts for the Macworld lay audience's love for the Kermit spot, is probably too subtle for the ad agency's statistical approach to measure.

The Good, The Bad And The Questionable (MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/macskeptic/00/07/27/index.html>
The less than stellar news was the disappointing iCube and incompatible LCD displays.

Ihnatko Cubed (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0007/27.ihnatko.shtml>
The Apple that was able to invent, bring to market (and four years later, finally perfect) the Newton is no more. The budget for research and development is a fraction of what it was and perhaps more importantly, the infrastructure for wild What Ifs is largely gone.

Netscape Ruined The Web (osOpinoin)
<http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JamesHuston/JamesHuston2.html>
I ask how is Microsoft's introduction of IE specific tags different than Netscape's introduction of Netscape only tags?

Processor Upgrade Market Never Better (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/2k0727.html>
The Mac upgrade game is far from over. In some respects, it's never been better.

For Whom (MacinThoughts)
<http://www.pbsource.com/MacinThoughts/ForWhom.shtml>
Apple cannot convince IT to put in Macs if they don't want to. But company executives can. Apple can get in the door that way. But they can't fight the battle for business until they have the computers with which to convince them.

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

Epson Stylus Color 670 (MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/news/reviews/2000_08_15.shtml>
Low cost doesn't mean low quality. Designed for home use, the Epson Stylus Color 670 prints amazingly sharp color and crisp text, at an equally amazing price tag - under $100.

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/07/23/0727voodoolook.html>
The Voodoo5 provides the best image quality we've seen in a Mac graphics card without sacrificing performance.

The Sims (MacTeens)
<http://www.macteens.com/exclusives/jul00/thesims.html>
If you want a game that is not like other games, this is the game for you.

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

Microsoft Remakes Its .Net Pitch (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2608636,00.html>
Microsoft Corp., whose stock has traded sideways for months, put on a full-court press Thursday to convince Wall Street that the future of computing is still being dreamed up in Redmond.

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

AMD Executive Predicts Record Third-Quarter Growth (Semiconductor Business News)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/finance/story/INV20000727S0009>

Lesser Of Two Evils: MS Or AOL? (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2608338,00.html>
When it comes to owning it all -- content, infrastructure and pipes -- which company would likely be the lesser of two evils: America Online or Microsoft?

Microsoft Remakes Its .Net Pitch (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2608636,00.html>
Microsoft Corp., whose stock has traded sideways for months, put on a full-court press Thursday to convince Wall Street that the future of computing is still being dreamed up in Redmond.

Microsoft Taps $4.4 Billion For Web, Wireless Research (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2363772.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>

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

Why Music Trading Won't Die (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,37831,00.html>
Even if Napster's file-sharing application will never be used again, other &quot;unstoppable&quot; Internet programs continue to enable music trading.

Why The Music Industry Has Nothing To Celebrate (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/07/27/napster_shutdown/index.html>
Napster's shutdown will only cause a thousand alternatives to bloom.

Napster Lays Claim To New Frontier, But It Doesn't Want Any Company (Wall Street Journal)
<http://interactive.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB964562968421509497.htm>
But while Napster is eager to help its users share music, there is one kind of sharing it won't tolerate. That's the sharing of anything that belongs to Napster itself.

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

EarthLink Loss WIdens On Marketing, Customer Support (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-2366214.html?dtn.head>
Internet service provider EarthLink said its second-quarter loss widened on higher marketing and customer-support costs, although sales increased 41 percent.

Lesser Of Two Evils: MS Or AOL? (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2608338,00.html>
When it comes to owning it all -- content, infrastructure and pipes -- which company would likely be the lesser of two evils: America Online or Microsoft?

Microsoft Remakes Its .Net Pitch (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2608636,00.html>
Microsoft Corp., whose stock has traded sideways for months, put on a full-court press Thursday to convince Wall Street that the future of computing is still being dreamed up in Redmond.

Napster Appeal: Don't Shut Us Down (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2608661,00.html>
A Friday deadline looming, Napster files an emergency appeal seeking to set aside a federal order that the company says puts its future at stake.

Why Music Trading Won't Die (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,37831,00.html>
Even if Napster's file-sharing application will never be used again, other &quot;unstoppable&quot; Internet programs continue to enable music trading.

AOL, Time Warner Pitch Merger's Worth To Congress (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2364814.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Top executives from merger partners America Online and Time Warner today worked to reassure federal telecommunications regulators that their union would not stifle access to the high-speed Internet.

Reno Won't Stop FBI's Email Monitoring (Associated Press)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2362943.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Attorney General Janet Reno today said she will not suspend the FBI's court-approved monitoring of some people's email messages while the law enforcement program is under review at the Justice Department.

ICAAN't Believe That Domain Name (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37801,00.html>
Microsoft's many foes and critics could have done a lot with the domain name microsoft.org, but thanks to a new domain-name dispute arbitration system, the domain is in the company's hands. Critics want the system overhauled.

The Amazon Story: July 2000 (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,37792,00.html>
It can't have been much fun to be a senior manager at Amazon.com last quarter, judging from CEO Jeff Bezos' comments during the company's quarterly earnings conference call Wednesday.

AOL To Accommodate Blind Web Surfers (Associated Press)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2358978.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
To millions of Web surfers, America Online is an easy-to-use guide to the sometimes overwhelming Internet, but to the blind, AOL has been little more than a source of frustration.

Netscape Ruined The Web (osOpinoin)
<http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JamesHuston/JamesHuston2.html>
I ask how is Microsoft's introduction of IE specific tags different than Netscape's introduction of Netscape only tags?

Court To Napster: You're Going Down (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/07/27/napster_hearing/index.html>
The judge vents her wrath on the Napster &quot;monster&quot; and closes the music-swapping service -- for now.

Why The Music Industry Has Nothing To Celebrate (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/07/27/napster_shutdown/index.html>
Napster's shutdown will only cause a thousand alternatives to bloom.

Napster Lays Claim To New Frontier, But It Doesn't Want Any Company (Wall Street Journal)
<http://interactive.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB964562968421509497.htm>
But while Napster is eager to help its users share music, there is one kind of sharing it won't tolerate. That's the sharing of anything that belongs to Napster itself.

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

IBM Mainframes To Get Linux Treatment (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2608588,00.html>
Big Blue is bringing a more 'Unix-like' pricing structure to S/390 hardware and software. Will open-source users bite?

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

IBM Mainframes To Get Linux Treatment (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2608588,00.html>
Big Blue is bringing a more 'Unix-like' pricing structure to S/390 hardware and software. Will open-source users bite?

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

Historic Route 66 Writing Down The Mother Road (Book Magazine)
<http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue11/locations.shtml>
It began in Chicago and didn't stop until it reached Los Angeles. A twenty-four-hundred-mile ribbon of concrete and asphalt that in its heyday was dubbed the Main Street of America. By Raymond Dussault.

Who Are You Calling &quot;Ms.&quot;? (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/07/27/ms/index.html>
Why have women suddenly rejected the politically charged courtesy title? By Margot Mifflin.

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

Upgrading May Be Stepped Up (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin3_0728.html>
More HDB estates will get facelift if the economy continues to do well, says PM, adding that programme has given new look to many old estates.

Haze May Return After Rainy Spell (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/pri5_0728.html>
Plantations will resume land-clearing once rain subsides.

Sing$ To Rise To Help Combat Inflation (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/pri1_0728.html>
To contain inflation, the MAS said it was prepared to allow a &quot;gradual and modest appreciation'' of the Singapore dollar against currencies of its major trading partners -- known as a &quot;trade-weighted basis'' -- in the coming year.

Revised Guidelines For Conservation Of Heritage buidlings To Be Unveiled In 2 To 3 Months' Time (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/articles/2000/07/27/singaporenews32862.htm>
A review of conservation guidelines to allow new uses for old buildings without affecting their heritage value will be ready in two to three months' time.

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

Shop Online Without Credit Cards (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/cybernews/cyber2_0728.html>
Soon, you may be able to put that Visa or MasterCard away and make your online purchases by cheque, bank transfer or Giro -- if a new payment service takes off.

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

Media Faces Swop Places (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin12_0728.html>
With competition hotting up, media giants SPH and MediaCorp have been scouting for talent -- both in each other's territories as well as abroad.

Putting The Mad Back In Womad (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life4_0728.html>
This year's arts event at Fort Canning Park promises a super-duper set for world beat fans and techno merchants.

Coming Your Way In August At Zouk (MTVAsia Online)
<http://www.mtvasia.com/News/Asia/Items/0007/0007053.html>

Michelle Chong In Controversial Play (Asia E!Online)
<http://asia.eonline.com/News/Stories/Content/0,1028,3610,00.html>
Stage actress Michelle Chong and one of Singapore's most renowned actors, Lim Kay Siu, are pairing up for Singapore Repertory Theatre's production of Oleanna.

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