[MyAppleMenu] Nov 9, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Apple Abandoned Innovation (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/scope/2k1109.html>
What's next? It's the big question that just won't go away. We've gone from Model T's to Formula 1 racers, but the next big step is still unclear. This is a space that Apple occupied in 1984 with the introduction of the point-and-click interface. How will we move beyond this interface? Does Apple have the answer? Is it working on the answer?

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

FCC May Seek Rule Changes To Free Up Scarce Airwaves (Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/487615.asp>
Federal regulators are expected to propose rule changes that would make it easier to buy or lease airwaves, as part of an effort to make spectrum more available to the burgeoning wireless industry.

Oracle Certifies Mac E-Biz Client (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2651718,00.html>
In a move to hone the Mac's business acumen while extending Oracle Corp.'s software, Oracle and Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday announced certification of the Apple Macintosh client on the Oracle E-Business Suite of Web- and Java-based applications for the enterprise.

== AppleSurf (Opinions) ==============

Apple Abandoned Innovation (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/scope/2k1109.html>
What's next? It's the big question that just won't go away. We've gone from Model T's to Formula 1 racers, but the next big step is still unclear. This is a space that Apple occupied in 1984 with the introduction of the point-and-click interface. How will we move beyond this interface? Does Apple have the answer? Is it working on the answer?

Innovating Greed (MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/00/11/08/index.html>
Apple may not like the flak it gets for cracks in the Cube or slow repair service, but the truth is Apple needs to held to a higher standard than other companies. Apple needs to polish its crown jewels until they're gleaming so brightly Bill Gates is purple with jealousy.

The Age of EveryMan Tech: Like a Redheaded Stepchild (osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JohnHolmes/JohnHolmes2.html>
The assertion that change of Apple's Classic GUI is needed is wrong. While Apple needs to expand its user base, it doesn't necessarily require the complete destruction of the Classic Interface and with it, its core group of users.

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

MS Hacked By Dimitri Again, Perhaps (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14567.html>
The hacker that gained access to several Microsoft servers through a known security hole on Friday claims he did it again yesterday (Tuesday). Dimitri says he uploaded a file called oopsididitagain which mocked MS' security policy.

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

Yahoo's Scheme To Stream Music (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39968,00.html>
Yahoo's search for a music strategy could lead to a showdown with the recording industry.

Is It AN Encyclopedia Or A Web Site? (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2000/nf2000119_074.htm>
An author-publisher dispute about material posted online raises tough questions about copyright on the Net -- and is headed to the Supreme Court.

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

FCC May Seek Rule Changes To Free Up Scarce Airwaves (Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/487615.asp>
Federal regulators are expected to propose rule changes that would make it easier to buy or lease airwaves, as part of an effort to make spectrum more available to the burgeoning wireless industry.

Web Hits Election Jackpot (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2651693,00.html>
The confusion and uncertainty surrounding the presidential race results could truly make this the Internet Election.

Yahoo's Scheme To Stream Music (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39968,00.html>
Yahoo's search for a music strategy could lead to a showdown with the recording industry.

Analysts: AOL Time Warner Could Gain From Open Access (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3598295.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Merger partners America Online and Time Warner could benefit from letting AOL's rivals use Time Warner's cable pipeline, Goldman Sachs analysts said Wednesday, as the companies quibbled about the terms for access.

Is It AN Encyclopedia Or A Web Site? (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2000/nf2000119_074.htm>
An author-publisher dispute about material posted online raises tough questions about copyright on the Net -- and is headed to the Supreme Court.

PSINet, AT&T Get Caught Serving Spam (The Industry Standard)
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20018,00.html>
An organization posts proof that the companies allowed others to send unsolicited commercial e-mail over their networks.

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

Neither Bush Nor Gore Ends The Night A Loser. But The Networks Are Another Story (Inside)
<http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,14205_7_5_3,00.html>
Random-metaphor generator Dan Rather on CBS turned on a dime and still pretended to know what he was talking about. MSNBC's Brian Williams made like Wile E. Coyote and longingly eyed the ledge behind him -- only to see the vast abyss below. The sage panel on CNN passed around a plate of crow. Peter Jennings's brat-pack ease fell away in between bites of humble pie on ABC. Tom Brokaw's head was on a swivel, looking for an expert, any expert, to explain how NBC and the other networks had been so wrong. Fox News's Brit Hume sniffed the wind for a fix.

DNS: A Safe Haven For URLs And Internet Identifiers (Bob Frnakston's Writings And Musings)
<http://www.frankston.com/public/Essays/DNS%20-%20A%20Safe%20Haven.asp>
It's one thing to discover that the film stock used to make movies in the 1970's is deteriorating. It's another to entrust much of our knowledge and societal memory to a mechanism that is certain to decay. It is the inverse of copyright — after the name expires your work is effectively destroyed instead of being made more widely available.

Media Madness (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/08/media/index.html>
Everything the press has said about Gore, down to Christopher Matthews' spittle-flected call fo rhim to concede, has been wrong.

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

Singapore Broadcaster MediaCorp Launches Newspaper (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001109/singapore/afp/Singapore_broadcaster_MediaCorp_launches_newspaper.html>

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

PCCW Launches Broadband Network In Singapore (Asia Pulse)
<http://asia.biz.yahoo.com/news/asian_markets/asiapulse/article.html?s=asiafinance/news/001109/asian_markets/asiapulse/PCCW_Launches_Broadband_Network_in_Singapore.html>