[MyAppleMenu] Nov 23, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Michael Crichton Is No Dinosaur (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001123/t000112393.html>
I started out with Macs back in the 1980s and since then I've never met anyone who could persuade me to switch or any particular piece of software that would obligate me to purchase a PC. Macs are dependable systems, but the main reason I stick with the machine is force of habit.

Desktops Are Becoming Studios (Associated Press)
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001123/tc/digital_video_boom_1.html>
Many PCs, for instance, now include an IEEE 1394, or FireWire, port for digital video transfers at a speedy 400 megabits per second. A wide range of digital video software - from a $99 DV-Editor program by Dazzle, Inc. to Adobe System Inc.'s $549 Premiere and Apple Computer Inc.'s professional-level $999 Final Cut Pro - is also available.

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

Microsoft Attorneys: What Holiday Weekend? (CRN)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001123S0003>
The long Thanksgiving weekend may prove to be an extra-long one for Microsoft's lawyers, as they gear up to deliver a critical brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday.

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

Microsoft Attorneys: What Holiday Weekend? (CRN)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001123S0003>
The long Thanksgiving weekend may prove to be an extra-long one for Microsoft's lawyers, as they gear up to deliver a critical brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday.

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

Napster To EMusic: We're Watching You! (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2657221,00.html>
CEO Hank Barry says EMusic's 'acoustic fingerprint' software technology isn't feasible and may violate Napster's privacy rules to boot.

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

Searching Questions (The Guardian)
<http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,401419,00.html>
The main obstacle to profitability is when the search engine does not have the best user experience and so it has to pay for users. Google does not pay for users and yet we grow very rapidly through word-of-mouth.

Online Ad Companies Hit With Privacy Suits (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3821026.html?dtn.head>

Some Online Grocers Give Thanks, Others Give Up (Computerworld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/11/23/001123hngrocer.xml?p=br&s=7>
Some online grocers are ringing up big sales as Thanksgiving approaches, while others are picking up the phone and calling liquidators to help them dispose of their assets in going-out-of-business sales.

Napster To EMusic: We're Watching You! (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2657221,00.html>
CEO Hank Barry says EMusic's 'acoustic fingerprint' software technology isn't feasible and may violate Napster's privacy rules to boot.

It's A Cinch To Click For Charity (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40235,00.html>
It's holiday time, and that means gift-giving. The online charity market has seen some changes and consolidation in the past year, but one thing hasn't changed: The click-here-to-donate-food Hunger Site wins the popularity contest.

Let's Make A Toast To Failure (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/22/unlaunch_party/index.html>
At a South of Market "unlaunch" party, laid-off dot-com workers celebrate the start-up that could have been.

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

Let's Make A Toast To Failure (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/22/unlaunch_party/index.html>
At a South of Market "unlaunch" party, laid-off dot-com workers celebrate the start-up that could have been.

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

Future Is Highrise: Land Report (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,5474,00.html?>
If these armchair urban planners had their way, apartment blocks would soar higher and be spaced farther apart for more privacy, and each HDB dweller would have more space.

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

CPF Restoration Takes Time: BG Lee (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,8662,00.html?>
Bosses were yesterday given an oblique assurance by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that the employers' Central Provident Fund (CPF) contribution rate would not be restored too quickly.

22 Golf Course Here 'Enough' (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,5454,00.html?>
Unveiling the focus group's interim report at a media briefing on Tuesday, Associate Professor Vivian Balakrishnan, its co-chairman, urged Singaporeans not to take extreme positions on the issue, but to view it as a matter of supply and demand.

Future Is Highrise: Land Report (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,5474,00.html?>
If these armchair urban planners had their way, apartment blocks would soar higher and be spaced farther apart for more privacy, and each HDB dweller would have more space.

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

Palm Signs On Over 20 Singapore Firms For Content (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/5/news/nsing01.html>
The local companies have developed web clipping applications which let users access Internet content by using Palm's Mobile Internet Kit, which will be available next month, with a data-enabled GSM mobile phone.