[AppleSurf Inbox] May 29, 2000

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

The Historical Roots Of Mac OS X (Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/warpcore/may00/wc-65.shtml>
Subtitle: What the heck is that "BSD" stuff, anyway?

Web Shows: Does Anybody Watch? (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36506,00.html>
Over million viewers tuned in to the latest Victoria's Secret fashion show webcast -- but will Web viewers show up in droves to watch anything other than supermodels in their underwear?

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

Music Software Firm Debuts Mac Product (Reuters)
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000529/tc/tech_musicmatch_1.html>
MusicMatch Inc., a maker of software for playing and organizing music on a computer... is set to unveil a version for [Macintosh], targeting a group of avid multimedia fans it says have been overlooked in the fast-growing space.

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

Bullpen: Of Broken Bones And Microsoft (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1974500.html?dtn.head>
Covering the Microsoft trial is a curse.

The Microsoft-free Office (Inter at ctive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2577823,00.html>
[C]an you really run a business in today's high-tech, wired world without relying in some way on Microsoft technology?

Challenge To Windows Is In Middleware (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/29soft.html>
One of the most remarkable byproducts of the government's antitrust suit against Microsoft is that a nerdish bit of computer plumbing called middleware has emerged as the star of the case.

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

Students Surf The Web To Find Money For College (Associated Press)
<http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500209817-500294061-501605864-0,00.html>
Students simply type in information about themselves, their families, their hobbies and their grades, and wait for a list of scholarships that match their profiles.

DSL's Disastrous Rollout (The Industry Standard)
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,15386,00.html>
New customers are facing interminable waits, spotty service Ð and phantom technicians. Some say forget it.

Web Shows: Does Anybody Watch? (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36506,00.html>
Over million viewers tuned in to the latest Victoria's Secret fashion show webcast -- but will Web viewers show up in droves to watch anything other than supermodels in their underwear?

Qualify For A Credit Card? Find Out On The Net (CNET Singapore)
<http://singapore.cnet.com/news/2000/05/29/20000529j.html>
Citibank's online service, to be launched this week, has a credit scoring system that will tell applicants whether they qualify for the bank's cards within a minute.

Salon Discovers Online Readers Are Opposed To Change (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/29data.html>
Salon introduced a redesigned site last week, and it did not take long before critiques started pouring in by e-mail.

Asia's Tycoons Join The Internet Rush (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/29tycoon.html>
Some critics predict that the culture of the Internet will erode the dominance of family dynasties in Asian commerce. But several Asian tycoons, including Raymond Kwok, right, are determined not to be left behind.

German Postal Service To Offer E-mail (Associated Press)
<http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500209621-500293731-501601952-0,00.html>
Trying to keep from losing business to cyberspace, the German postal system is planning to offer e-mail services to customers with and without Internet access.

== Misc (The other stuff) ====================

The Historical Roots Of Mac OS X (Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/warpcore/may00/wc-65.shtml>
Subtitle: What the heck is that "BSD" stuff, anyway?

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

Stalled In Paradise (The American Prospect)
<http://www.prospect.org/archives/V11-13/massing-m.html>
A quiet but profound revolution is taking place in suburban America, affecting the way people there think about government, taxes, property rights, the free market, and the idea of community itself, and it is being sparked by that most mundane of phenomena: the traffic jam.

Reports From Faraway Places That Brought War Home (New York Times)
<http://search1.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+site+139149+0+wAAA+roger%7Ecohen%7Ereuters>
With vivid declarative sentences this American journalist hammered out the discomfiting truths of a bloody decade.

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

Faster Speeds For Gamers On This Website (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/cybernews/cyber1_0530.html>
Singapore online computer-game players frustrated with slow connections to overseas games sites can now turn to a new local website.

Internet Made Easy For Primary 1 Pupils (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin6_0530.html>
A project at Radin Mas Primary has the school's youngest pupils using e-mail, graphics software and digital cameras.

Qualify For A Credit Card? Find Out On The Net (CNET Singapore)
<http://singapore.cnet.com/news/2000/05/29/20000529j.html>
Citibank's online service, to be launched this week, has a credit scoring system that will tell applicants whether they qualify for the bank's cards within a minute.

Singapore Virtual Bank FinatiQ.com Gets 6,000 Customers In Six Weeks (CNET News)
<http://singapore.cnet.com/news/2000/05/29/20000529o.html>
"We hope to roll out either credit card, loans or fixed deposit services in six to eight weeks," said finatiQ general manager David Tan, without elaborating.

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

Singapore's NWC Recommends Earlier Restoration Of CPF Cuts (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/articles/2000/05/29/singaporenews28534.htm>
This is in view of the robust first quarter growth and strong economic outlook.