[MyAppleMenu] Nov 10, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

A BeOS View Of Apple's New OS X (Byte.com)
<http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20001031S0001>
Can OS X seduce BeOS faithful?

Marketing Math Doesn't Compute (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57328-2000Nov9.html>
Misleading statistics, questionable assertions and unprovable claims of what you'll get. No, these aren't campaign ads. This is how a lot of computers are marketed.

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

Epic Records Group, VIBE Online And Apple Announce Premiere Of Sade's New Album Online (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/nov/09sade.html>

AppleMasters In Asia, Two By Two (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/applemasters/asiamasters/>
At an inaugural event in Singapore, Apple celebrates 18 leading athletes, musicians, artists, educators and civic leaders from five countries Ñ Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.

Tangled Wireless Networking (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55067-2000Nov9.html>
Three different technologies for linking our gadgets and computers are starting to hit the consumer-electronics market. But although each has been pitched as the best way for our electronics will talk to one another, it looks like consumers might--just might--not have to put up with yet another standards war just yet.

Marketing Math Doesn't Compute (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57328-2000Nov9.html>
Misleading statistics, questionable assertions and unprovable claims of what you'll get. No, these aren't campaign ads. This is how a lot of computers are marketed.

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

Apple Is Back In Business (TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/macatya/TWB20001109S0006>
The online Oracle applications require Java, yet the reliability of Java on the Mac OS 9 is questionable. So how compatible are the Mac and Oracle apps really?"

Why Are Apple's Laptops A Year Behind Dell's? (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2000/11/09.1.shtml>
When will Apple offer me a laptop screen that is not a year (or two) behind what Dell is offering me today?

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

A BeOS View Of Apple's New OS X (Byte.com)
<http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20001031S0001>
Can OS X seduce BeOS faithful?

USB Flatbed Scanners (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/12/reviews/flatbed.html>
Nine new models show off advanced technology.

QuickTime Streams Past Microsoft Rival (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001109/t000107486.html>
For versatility, QuickTime rules. More than a streaming platform, QuickTime is a multimedia operating system used for everything from Web playback to video production. QuickTime also incorporates the very cool QuickTime VR, which delivers 360-degree panoramic scenes you can navigate with the mouse.

iMac And iMac DV (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/12/reviews/imac.html>
With prices this good, these machines will tempt even veteran Mac users.

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

Palm And Microsoft To Duke It Out At Comdex (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-3611466.html?dtn.head>
A debate next week between Microsoft's Pocket PC and Palm is billed as the "battle of the century," but in reality the two companies assess their differences in rather similar terms.

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

MS Goes Gold With DirectX 8.0 (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14632.html>

Casio To Adopt transmeta For Notebooks (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3613465.html?dtn.head>
Casio will introduce a notebook containing a Crusoe chip from Transmeta next year in Japan, becoming the latest small manufacturer to sign up with the chip start-up.

Palm And Microsoft To Duke It Out At Comdex (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-3611466.html?dtn.head>
A debate next week between Microsoft's Pocket PC and Palm is billed as the "battle of the century," but in reality the two companies assess their differences in rather similar terms.

Defeat For MS Shareholder Measures (Reuters)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2652319,00.html>
Microsoft Corp. shareholders on Thursday defeated the company's first-ever shareholder proposals that would have forced the software giant to detail political contributions and take a vocal stance on human rights abuses in China.

Marketing Math Doesn't Compute (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57328-2000Nov9.html>
Misleading statistics, questionable assertions and unprovable claims of what you'll get. No, these aren't campaign ads. This is how a lot of computers are marketed.

AMD Says It's On Track For Current Quarter (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-3609129.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Advanced Micro Devices, Intel's main rival in the PC processor market, reiterated its fourth-quarter sales target and said first-quarter revenue growth will be in the "high teens."

Microsoft To Hear First-Ever Shareholder Resolution (Associated Press)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3600272.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The proposals, sponsored by a political activist group and a socially conscious investment house, would have Microsoft disclose its individual political contributions to shareholders and would require it to abide by the China Labor and Human Rights Principles, designed to link investment in China to its human rights record.

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

The New Napster: A One-Hit Wonder? (Businessweek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2000/nf20001110_572.htm>
The music-file-sharing service's future is uncertain if the Bertelsmann deal forces it to largely abandon the rollicking peer-to-peer network that made it so popular.

The Other Waiting Game (The Industry Standard)
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20108,00.html>
The FTC extends its review of the AOL-Time Warner deal for fear a merger may stifle competition in some broadband-access markets.

Storming Asia (Asiaweek)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/technology/2000/1117/acom.yahoo.html>
Yahoo! captured the Internet market with first-mover speed. But global competitors are rolling in. Are Yang and Co. ready for trench warfare?

Tangled Wireless Networking (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55067-2000Nov9.html>
Three different technologies for linking our gadgets and computers are starting to hit the consumer-electronics market. But although each has been pitched as the best way for our electronics will talk to one another, it looks like consumers might--just might--not have to put up with yet another standards war just yet.

Domain-Name Expansion To Foster More Worldly Web (Associated Press)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3599645.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The master keeper of dot-com names will begin accepting non-English characters Thursday evening as the next step in making the World Wide Web truly global.

Web Plays Politics But Doesn't Take Lead (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3608697.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Predictions from only a year ago that the Web would supplant television this election season didn't pan out, but the Internet was still in the party.

Amazon Suffers Second Investment Blow With Pets.com (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3606708.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
With this week's news that Pets.com is going out of business, Amazon.com has seen the second of its more than a dozen e-commerce investments go belly up--and several others are showing signs of wear.

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

Red Hat Still On Course For Linux Profits (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14638.html>
Thompson said Red Hat would be safe from the downturn on dotcom expenditure - a key factor in VA Linux Systems' warning - because of its different business model.

Linux Firms Red Hat, Caldera Name New CFOs (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3600239.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Red Hat, a provider of Linux software and support, said Thursday that it has promoted vice president Kevin Thompson to the post of chief financial officer.

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

Red Hat Still On Course For Linux Profits (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14638.html>
Thompson said Red Hat would be safe from the downturn on dotcom expenditure - a key factor in VA Linux Systems' warning - because of its different business model.

Linux Firms Red Hat, Caldera Name New CFOs (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3600239.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Red Hat, a provider of Linux software and support, said Thursday that it has promoted vice president Kevin Thompson to the post of chief financial officer.

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

Are We Sure Lieberman Would Resign? (Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/code/kausfiles/kausfiles.asp?Show=11/9/2000&idMessage=6456>
What makes everyone so damn sure that Joe Lieberman will resign his Connecticut Senate seat should Al Gore win the White House?

The Human Touch (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life4_1110.html>
Singapore Airline's PR man Rick Clements rose to the challenge to give the tragedy a sympathetic human face, and more importantly, a helping hand.

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

After The Crash (Asiaweek)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/2000/1117/biz.airlines.html>
Good crisis management and a fine reputation can save SIA.

The Mile High Club (Time)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/asiabuzz/2000/11/09/>
With a question mark hanging over the pilot of SQ006 at Taipei, any suggestion of pilot error usually comes with serious legal consequences.

Careers Before Politics (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,7768,00.html?>
Plunging into politics in your 30s might put a break in your career.

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

After The Crash (Asiaweek)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/2000/1117/biz.airlines.html>
Good crisis management and a fine reputation can save SIA.

New Singapore Tabloid Hits The Street (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001110/singapore/afp/New_Singapore_tabloid_hits_the_streets.html>

SIA Apologises To SQ 006 Victims In Taiwanese Newspaper (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/cna/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001110/singapore/cna/SIA_apologises_to_SQ_006_victims_in_Taiwanese_newspaper__.html>
The move came after a representative of the Taiwanese victims' families earlier criticised the airline and its pilots for not apologising for the incident even after preliminary investigation reports showed the flight had taken off on the wrong runway.

Careers Before Politics (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,7768,00.html?>
Plunging into politics in your 30s might put a break in your career.

Runway Lights A "Booby Trap" For Pilots (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin7_1110.html>
New pilots simulating take-off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in bad weather often turn into the wrong runway in the aircraft simulator.

The Human Touch (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life4_1110.html>
Singapore Airline's PR man Rick Clements rose to the challenge to give the tragedy a sympathetic human face, and more importantly, a helping hand.

NTUC And SMRT To Set Up Stores At MRT Stations (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/sinb14_1110.html>
SMRT Corp president and SMRT Investments director Kwek Siew Jin said SMRT chose Cheers as a partner because "NTUC FairPrice has a longstanding reputation in Singapore for quality and competitive pricing...and it is a trusted brand".

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

Lycos Asia Starts Multi-Lingual Domain Registration (ZDNet Asia)
<http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/dailynews/story/0,2000010021,20153596-1,00.htm>
Lycos Asia and Speednames will provide a domain name registration service beyond the English language to businesses and individuals.

The Mile High Club (Time)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/asiabuzz/2000/11/09/>
With a question mark hanging over the pilot of SQ006 at Taipei, any suggestion of pilot error usually comes with serious legal consequences.

AppleMasters In Asia, Two By Two (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/applemasters/asiamasters/>
At an inaugural event in Singapore, Apple celebrates 18 leading athletes, musicians, artists, educators and civic leaders from five countries Ñ Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.

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

Saucy, Pricey And Very Classy (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,7789,00.html?>
La Fete boasts an old world charm and very fine food, as our reporter finds out.

Singapore Action Flick To Hit America (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life6_1110.html>
Action flick 2000 AD will make its way to movie theatres in the US, the second Singaporean film to be picked up for distribution by Miramax.

TV Star Lina Ng Crosses Over (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/pri12_1110.html>
Ng, 26, now in the TCS 8 sitcom The Right Frequency, handed in her resignation on Wednesday and has inked a three-year acting contract with MediaWorks.