[MyAppleMenu] Nov 13, 2000

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

Aple Embarks On Mac OS X For Intel Project (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14678.html>
Intellectual exercise or carrot-and-stick for Motorola, this still doesn't mean Apple is actually going to ship MacOS X for Intel.

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

Aple Embarks On Mac OS X For Intel Project (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14678.html>
Intellectual exercise or carrot-and-stick for Motorola, this still doesn't mean Apple is actually going to ship MacOS X for Intel.

Macromedia Upgrades Dreamweaver, Fireworks (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/11/12/1113dwfw.html>
Responding to the latest versions of Adobe GoLive and Photoshop, Macromedia has taken the wraps off Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 4 and Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, touting tighter integration and improved coding features in its Web-authoring trio.

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

Will Windows 2000 Rescue Microsoft In 2001? (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2000/nf20001113_046.htm>
The new operating system's slow start isn't helping the company's stock price. One analyst, however, sees the program gaining rapidly next year.

Gates Unveils Tablet PC (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/special/stories/comdex/0,12245,2652746,00.html>
Microsoft's latest software-to-software message is overshadowed by a two-pound prototype of one of its next-generation form factors.

Gates Defends PC In Comdex Speech (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3650896.html?dtn.head>
With no major software debuts imminent, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates used his state-of-the-computing-world address Sunday to call for a greater role for desktop PCs.

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

Will Windows 2000 Rescue Microsoft In 2001? (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2000/nf20001113_046.htm>
The new operating system's slow start isn't helping the company's stock price. One analyst, however, sees the program gaining rapidly next year.

Gates Unveils Tablet PC (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/special/stories/comdex/0,12245,2652746,00.html>
Microsoft's latest software-to-software message is overshadowed by a two-pound prototype of one of its next-generation form factors.

Gates Defends PC In Comdex Speech (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3650896.html?dtn.head>
With no major software debuts imminent, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates used his state-of-the-computing-world address Sunday to call for a greater role for desktop PCs.

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

Weblogs.com (Apple iReview)
<http://ireview.mac.com/WebObjects/iReview.woa/wa/GoReview?u=4183921&site=793&cat=405>
Meet the Weblog. It looks like a personal Web page and sounds like oneÕs mind chatting.

The Web Pays: New Market Recasts Industries (Interactive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2652328,00.html>
A new study from Forrester Research found that e-commerce - both business-to-business and business-to-consumer - will continue to grow and will account for 8.6 percent of worldwide sales of goods and services in 2004, with online sales reaching $6.8 trillion.

Beating Napster At Its Own Game? (Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2652781,00.html>
Get ready for 'spoofing' -- fake music files that may help the music industry snag online copyright offenders.

The Promise And Pitfalls Of Interactive TV (Associated Press)
<http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500279175-500437909-502798414-0,00.html>
Will consumers truly crave interactive TV, the new media product expected to be the most valuable fruit of this and other similar unions? Will they be willing to pay much for it? And will the programming be as laced with advertising as what they're now watching?

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

Beijing Accused Of Retarding Internet Growth (SCMP)
<http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/dailynews/story/0,2000010021,20154259-1,00.htm>
Government interference is hampering the growth of electronic commerce and the Internet in China, experts speaking at a high-level conference in Seattle have warned.

Weblogs.com (Apple iReview)
<http://ireview.mac.com/WebObjects/iReview.woa/wa/GoReview?u=4183921&site=793&cat=405>
Meet the Weblog. It looks like a personal Web page and sounds like oneÕs mind chatting.

Open Source Of Woe (Interactive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2652633,00.html>
Netscape Communications used to worry about Microsoft trying to annihilate it. These days, its bigger problem seems to be appeasing the Web developer community.

Dissecting The AOL Time Warner Deal (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/13/technology/13DEAL.html>
So what exactly is this new entity, AOL Time Warner, which is intent on completing its long-planned merger in the coming weeks — unless the Federal Trade Commission decides to block it?

The Web Pays: New Market Recasts Industries (Interactive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2652328,00.html>
A new study from Forrester Research found that e-commerce - both business-to-business and business-to-consumer - will continue to grow and will account for 8.6 percent of worldwide sales of goods and services in 2004, with online sales reaching $6.8 trillion.

Beating Napster At Its Own Game? (Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2652781,00.html>
Get ready for 'spoofing' -- fake music files that may help the music industry snag online copyright offenders.

The Promise And Pitfalls Of Interactive TV (Associated Press)
<http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500279175-500437909-502798414-0,00.html>
Will consumers truly crave interactive TV, the new media product expected to be the most valuable fruit of this and other similar unions? Will they be willing to pay much for it? And will the programming be as laced with advertising as what they're now watching?

The Jukebox Mainfesto (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/13/jukebox/index.html>
Record companies should stop worrying about security and start giving people what they really want: Music, anywhere, anytime.

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

"Politics" (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/11/13/finley/index.html>
An artist who challenged Jesse Helms and George Bush's "decency clause" 10 years ago remembers what it was like to be called the "chocolate smeared young woman."

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

Singapore's Baby Step Toward A "Livelier Press" (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2000/nf20001113_999.htm>
But with the competition limited to government-controlled companies, it may be a long time before Singaporeans truly experience freedom of choice.

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

Censorship Of Talaq (Sintercom)
<http://www.sintercom.org/notstf/talaq.html>
Dana Lam: All who reject the idea that domestic violence is a part of every Muslim household must support Talaq. Talaq is a play about the social problem of domestic violence. It is not a commentary on the Muslim religion. To suggest otherwise is to offend all Muslims.

Singapore's Baby Step Toward A "Livelier Press" (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2000/nf20001113_999.htm>
But with the competition limited to government-controlled companies, it may be a long time before Singaporeans truly experience freedom of choice.

Cathay Building And McDonald House Chosen As National Monuments (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/cna/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001113/singapore/cna/Cathay_Building_and_McDonald_House_chosen_as_national_monuments.html>
Information and the Arts Minister Lee Yock Suan announced the new category of national monuments early this month. Under it, buildings can be redeveloped or even torn down partially, as long as certain distinctive portions of the buildings are kept.

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

Burn Rate, Baby, Burn Rate (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/1/fbzit/fbzit02.html>
As cash dries up and budgets shrink, Singapore dotcoms are now more careful with ad dollars.

>From Boom To Gloom? (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/1/fbzit/fbzit01.html>
Online adspend made up just 0.5% of total spending on all advertising in the Asia-Pacific last year, and will form just 3% of total adspend by 2004.