[AppleSurf Inbox] May 16, 2000

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== Top Stories ====================

Apple Stock Gains On Optimism For New Software (Reuters)
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000516/tc/apple_stock_3.html>
Shares of Apple Computer Inc. gained on Tuesday amid optimism that its next-generation operating system will generate renewed interesting in writing software programs for the Macintosh.

Despite Delay, Apple's New OS Wows Mac Faithful (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1881173.html?dtn.head>
A final version of Apple Computer's new OS X won't be in consumers' hands until January, but the crowd at Apple's Worldwide Developers Forum seemed plenty impressed with the operating system's new features and the industry players lining up to support the software.

Jobs 'Revival' Draws Macintosh Developers (Inter at ctive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2569965,00.html>
How long does it take to seat a crowd of 3,500? At Apple Computer's Worldwide Developer's Conference - an annual gathering for die-hard Macintosh developers that kiced off Monday in Silicon Valley - the answer was about two minutes.

== Seize the Day! (Great news for Mac users) ====================

Apple Stock Gains On Optimism For New Software (Reuters)
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000516/tc/apple_stock_3.html>
Shares of Apple Computer Inc. gained on Tuesday amid optimism that its next-generation operating system will generate renewed interesting in writing software programs for the Macintosh.

WWDC Sales, Hardware Keynotes (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/feature.php?id=5>
In a presentation filled with Apple's forward advertising plans, Mitch Madich announced that Apple will be adding the Wiz as one of its national resellers. By adding Apple products to both the Wiz stores and the wide-spreading Wiz brochures. The move, which actually came into fruition more than a month ago, should help to broaden the ability of people who wouldn't otherwise be presented with Apple products buy Apple products. 

Mac OS X Goes Online (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/05/14/0516acosxtab.html>
Until now, Apple has kept Mac OS X close to its chest, offering presentations at trade shows--and previews to developers who have signed nondisclosure agreements--but little information for the general public. That changed on Monday when Apple added a new Mac OS X section to its Web site with links to developer information, screen shots and QuickTime movies that show the new OS in action.

Despite Delay, Apple's New OS Wows Mac Faithful (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1881173.html?dtn.head>
A final version of Apple Computer's new OS X won't be in consumers' hands until January, but the crowd at Apple's Worldwide Developers Forum seemed plenty impressed with the operating system's new features and the industry players lining up to support the software.

Jobs 'Revival' Draws Macintosh Developers (Inter at ctive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2569965,00.html>
How long does it take to seat a crowd of 3,500? At Apple Computer's Worldwide Developer's Conference - an annual gathering for die-hard Macintosh developers that kiced off Monday in Silicon Valley - the answer was about two minutes.

== Listen Up! (Opinions around the web) ====================

Phil Schiller Says No Handheld, No How, No Way (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/news/00/may/000516/wwdcnohandheld.shtml>
Well well well. Something definitive from an Apple executive about a handheld. This marks a first.

No New Hardware Product Announcements (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/news/00/may/000516/wwdcnonewhardware.shtml>
Today's keynote did include a demonstration of a dual-processor PowerMac G4 billed as a technology demonstration. Dual-processor machines were predicted by the various rumor sites, but while shown, they were not officially announced. Indeed, nothing at all was announced in the way of new products.

OS X Looks Like A Mac (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/05/14/0515lookatosx.html>
Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Monday demonstrated new features in Developer Preview 4 (DP4) of Mac OS X. Developers attending his WWDC keynote cheered as Jobs showed a more Mac-like OS along with sophisticated graphics capabilities, including tight integration between the Quartz 2-D display environment and the OpenGL API for 3-D applications. 
 

Mac OS X Delayed (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/05/14/0516osxsmith.html>
Now that Microsoft has "won the OS wars"--Jobs' words, not mine--it doesn't matter when Apple ships. Public beta or shrinkwrap, many Mac users will lap up Mac OS X up just the same, and the rest - all those still running System 7.5, for instance, and there are more of them than you might think--won't. But since none of them are likely to switch over to Windows at any time in the future, so what? 
 

Weasels Ripped My AAPL (Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2000/05/20000516041854.shtml>
Give Steve Jobs and Apple credit for the monumental achievements of the last two years and give 'em a break, too.

Does Size Matter? (The Keeper Of The iBook)
<http://homepage.mac.com/ibook_keeper/k11.html>
One of the criticisms of the iBook is that it is too big, referring to both its size and weight. I have found this to be untrue. I use the iBook every day, and have found it to be the perfect companion on my commute.

Beauty Is In The Eyes Of The Beholder (osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/Dran/Dran1.html>
No, people, Macs and Linux boxes weren't spared because they were more secure. They were spared because they're small fish.

== Thousand Flowers (News on Macintosh third-parties) ====================

Corel's Linux Plans In Doubt (Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000516DFBA>
Today's announcement that Corel's planned acquisition of Inprise/Borland Corp. is being canceled (see story) puts a big wrench in the Ottawa-based software vendor's strategy for turning itself into a dominant Linux vendor, some analysts said. 

Micromat To Ship First OS X Drive Repair Utility (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0005/16.micromat.shtml>
Micromat announced the first Macintosh disk repair and utility recovery product for Mac OS X. Drive10 will purportedly sport an Aqua interface, repair drives, and recover data. 
 

MindVision Announces Big Plans (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0005/16.mindvision.shtml>
MindVision will ship Installer VISE (IVISE) 7.0 at this week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. VISE 7.0 can build both Classic installers (the kind that users and developers are accustomed to) and a Carbon installer that run natively on Mac OS X. 
 

== Know Thy Enemy (Keeping track of the Wintel empire) ====================

Too Little Too Late From Microsoft? (Sm at rt Reseller)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2569799,00.html>
Security experts were sounding the alarm about Outlook and Microsoft's bad habit of confusing data with active code for ages. It's a shame that it took something as disastrous as ILOVEYOU to make Microsoft stand up and pay attention. 

Should Microsoft Be Stopped? Part 1 (MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/intelligence/00/05/16/index.html>
Microsoft has made a big thing of how stopping their predatory, monopolistic practices would stifle innovation. Let's look at the reality.

Critics Blast MS Security (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36336,00.html>
If you're a Windows 2000 user, be warned: Your security software may not work the way you think it does. 

Microsoft Covers Political Bases To Fight Antitrust Case (Bloomberg)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1882020.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Microsoft is intensifying lobbying and will give the Republican and Democratic national conventions about $1 million each in money, software and services as political contributions toward fighting the U.S. government's antitrust case, according to a report.

Who Deserves The ILOVEYOU Blame? (Sm at rt Reseller)
<http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/column/0,4712,2568954,00.html>
Microsoft isn't taking any blame for ILOVEYOU. Do you want to take it for them?

Microsoft's Gamble Of A Lifetime (osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/StephenVanEsch/StephenVanEsch16.html>
If Microsoft is indeed broken up as requested, collaboration between Office, Browser and OS teams could be severely compromised.

== Breaking Barriers (About the internet and the web) ====================

Mad Staffers Scrutinized On Net (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36338,00.html>
So you think the company you work for sucks and you want the world to know it.  Is it your right to say so online, hiding behind a pseudonym, free from the threat of reprisal from your boss?

Lycos Bailed Out While It Could (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1883892.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Although Lycos has maintained its status as a top-five Web portal in terms of audience reach, many analysts have doubted the company's ability to close the gap with market leaders America Online, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN.

Panasonic To Use RealNames Keywords In Ads (InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/05/16/000516hnpanasonic.xml>
The days of including a "www" internet address at the bottom of advertisements may already be coming to an end, if a deal announced Tuesday by Panasonic Consumer Electronics is anything to go by.

What Does Lycos Offer Terra Networks? (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1883997.html?dtn.head>
It seems likely that Terra sees Lycos as a valuable foothold in the United States and that it will seek to extend the commercial partnerships the portal has formed with Internet-savvy U.S. enterprises to its European and Latin American bases of power. This part of the deal would make Terra bigger--but not necessarily better. 

Lycos To Combine With Terra Networks In A $12 Billion Deal (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/16net.html>
Lycos, one of the nation's biggest Internet portals, has agreed to be acquired by Telefónica of Spain in a sweeping deal across borders and languages worth more than $12 billion, a top executive close to the talks said yesterday.

== Press Release (Spreading the news) ====================

Apple And Wolf Camera Team Up To Offer Complete Desktop Video Experience (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/may/16wolfcamera.html>
Apple® today announced it is teaming with Wolf Camera to offer complete desktop video solutions, based on Apple’s iMac™ DV, in Wolf Camera stores throughout the United States. iMac DV systems running iMovie™ and the just released Canon ZR-10 camera, will be in 70 Wolf Camera “Digital” stores nationwide providing customers with the opportunity for a hands on desktop video experience. Apple’s desktop video solutions will be available for purchase in all 700 Wolf Camera stores throughout the United States. 

== The AppleSurf Reader (Great Reads!) ====================

All Media, All The Time (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/media/col/elde/2000/05/16/inside_com/index.html>
Inside.com wants your undivided attention, and $19.95 a month.

Inside The Millionaire's Lair (Inside)
<http://www.inside.com/story/Story/1,1514,4248,00.html>
Geeks are good at minutiae and fast with technology. Geeks are a mostly white male demographic. And that's why even though the show's viewership is diverse, its contestants have remained mostly white men.

== Technology (The Technology Scene In Singapore) ====================

Lycos Asia Offers Net On WAP In Singapore, Malaysia (Bloomberg, CNET News.com)
<http://singapore.cnet.com/news/2000/05/16/20000516q.html>
Lycos Asia Pte Ltd, which plans to set up Internet sites for 10 Asian markets, said it is offering Internet access on mobile phones in Singapore and Malaysia. 

Singapore Man In Trouble Over Rage Emails (Agence France-Press)
<http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500204711-500284381-501526579-0,00.html>
A Singaporean executive who deluged a government agency with thousands of emails after encountering poor service has been charged by the authorities in what could be a test case of "cyber-rage."

== Entertainment (The Entertainment Scene In Singapore) ====================

PCK Still As Funny As Ever (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life3_0517.html>
Chu Kang and gang try hard to speak proper English but some choice words in Singlish do make their way into the first episode of the new season.

== Around Town (News out of Singapore) ====================

Those DBS Charges (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/3/views/views01.html>
T
 The loud public furore over the proposed charges on small account--holders by DBS Bank has yet to die down, if letters to the press are any indication. It points to a number of lessons for companies and banks, and also raises some policy concerns.