[MyAppleMenu] Nov 26, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Tech-Savvy Web Users Are Taking Indoor Wireless Technology Outside (Wall Street Journal)
<http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB975000515459708837.html>
Wireless LANs have significant limitations that make it extremely unlikely they will compete with the next-generation cellular services.

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

Tech-Savvy Web Users Are Taking Indoor Wireless Technology Outside (Wall Street Journal)
<http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB975000515459708837.html>
Wireless LANs have significant limitations that make it extremely unlikely they will compete with the next-generation cellular services.

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

P4: Total Dog Or Really Cooing? (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/14982.html>
Some say no because its FPU doesn't have enough grunt. Others say yes because that FPU is optimised for 144 new SSE2 instructions and performs extremely well - when code has been optimised to use them.

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

What's Next For 'Dot-Com' Casualties? (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001126/t000113403.html>

The Napster Master Plan (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40261,00.html>
Bertelsmann's media publishing empire wants to take over the world -- one distribution system at a time. With Napster and their Digital World Services division, they might do just that.

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

As Reviewed On Amazon (The American Prospect)
<http://www.americanprospect.org/archives/V11-23/perlstein-r.html>
Our Amazonians, ourselves--honorable, vulnerable, both.

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

Indonesia's Wahid Launches Tirade Against Singapore (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001126/singapore/afp/Indonesia_s_Wahid_launches_tirade_against_Singapore.html>
Speaking to Indonesian journalists at the Indonesian embassy in Singapore on Saturday, Wahid accused the small republic of trying to go its own way and only thinking of profit, the Kompas daily said.

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

Endangered Species (Asiaweek)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/2000/1201/nat.singapore.html>
Singaporeans need to have more babies. But success breeds selfishness.

Indonesia's Wahid Launches Tirade Against Singapore (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001126/singapore/afp/Indonesia_s_Wahid_launches_tirade_against_Singapore.html>
Speaking to Indonesian journalists at the Indonesian embassy in Singapore on Saturday, Wahid accused the small republic of trying to go its own way and only thinking of profit, the Kompas daily said.

Technical Constraints Will Restrict Height Of Buildings: Minister (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/cna/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001126/singapore/cna/Technical_constraints_will_restrict_height_of_buildings__minister___.html>
"I'm talking about height constraints imposed by flight paths or height constraints imposed by may be microwave links. So apart from the technical constraints and, of course, subject to buildability. In other words subject to escalators, your lifts, your construction technology, it's feasible."

Driver-Less MRT Trains In 5 To 6 Years? (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,6028,00.html?>
LTA is doing feasibility studies as fully-automated trains are 'safer, more efficient' and are cheaper to run.

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

Kings Of The Wok (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,5950,00.html?>
The golden legacy of the Big Four in Singapore's Chinese restaurant business has taken a new turn.