[MyAppleMenu] Nov 28, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Apple's FireWire Is Blazing A New Trail (Dallas Morning News)
<http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/companies/watch/apple/docs/fire112600.htm>
FireWire, says film instructor Bart Weiss, represents the final step to putting professional-quality productions into the hands of home users.

Microsoft Argues That Apple Breaks Its Monopoly (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0011/28.microsoft.shtml>
Microsoft's lawyers told the appeals court that Windows is not a monopoly if the market is "properly defined" to include Apple Computer in particular. The company also cited Palm Inc. and developers of Linux systems as viable competitors.

Apple Gets Christmas Spirit (Fairfax IT)
<http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/columns/macman/20001127/A41021-2000Nov27.html>
Just in time for Christmas and lasting until New Year's Eve, Apple Australia is matching the factory rebates being offered in the US on most of the range.

Mac Is The Apple Of Canada's Eye (The Star)
<http://www.torontostar.com/apps/AppLogic+FTContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTenseContentServer=f76ac3596950e32e&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=975099001699&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News>
Our politics and buying habits often resemble each other, he said, noting that buying one of the new, colourful iMacs - as opposed to just another beige computer - was a way of showing your individuality.

iListen Chats Us Up (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/11/27/macspeech.html>
MacSpeech chief evangelist Chuck Rogers recently stopped by the Demo Room to show off iListen 1.0, a new voice-recognition product that's set to go head-to-head with IBM's ViaVoice for the Macintosh, Enhanced Edition.

Ambrosia Bundles Killer Titles At A Killer Price (The Mac Observer)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,8942,00.html?>
Escape Velocity Override and Mars Rising are available for a limited time on one CD at a super discounted price.

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

Apple's Retail Strategy (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/11/26/1128retailedit.html>
In a fast-moving industry that defies prediction, Apple stores could be vehicles for extending the company's reach well into the new century.

Mac OS X: Whi9ers (Zerologic)
<http://www.zerologic.com/neologic/article.html?ID=7>
What else do you miss from Mac OS 9? Check to see if there is a shareware author that has already built it for you. I'm sure they can use your money.

Mac Things (And Other Things) I Am Thankful For (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/butidigress/2000/20001127.shtml>

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

Microsoft's Latest Move Has Ring Of Familiarity (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/28/technology/28TRUS.html>
In the last five years, Microsoft's lawyers have twice persuaded the appeals court here to disqualify other judicial officers after complaining that they were biased.

MS Office: A Snag In The .Net Plan? (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2657464,00.html>
Microsoft is encountering some user resistance to Office Online, one of the first tangible components of the software giant's expansive .Net plan.

Microsoft Comes Out Swinging In Antitrust Appeal (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3869557.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Microsoft dropped the legal equivalent of a bomb on a federal court Monday in a legal filing that argues that the judge presiding over the software maker's antitrust case misinterpreted the law in his decision to split the company.

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

Microsoft Argues That Apple Breaks Its Monopoly (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0011/28.microsoft.shtml>
Microsoft's lawyers told the appeals court that Windows is not a monopoly if the market is "properly defined" to include Apple Computer in particular. The company also cited Palm Inc. and developers of Linux systems as viable competitors.

Microsoft Brief May Be To The Taste Of Appeals Court (InfoWorld)
<Singapore yesterday maintained a diplomatic silence in response to bitter comments from President Abdurrahman Wahid, as diplomats and Indonesian officials expressed bewilderment and shock. >
The appeals brief filed Monday by Microsoft in its ongoing antitrust battle with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) may sit well with the U.S. Court of Appeals, legal experts said. However, those same observers weren't swayed by all of the vendor's legal arguments.

Microsoft's Latest Move Has Ring Of Familiarity (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/28/technology/28TRUS.html>
In the last five years, Microsoft's lawyers have twice persuaded the appeals court here to disqualify other judicial officers after complaining that they were biased.

MS Office: A Snag In The .Net Plan? (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2657464,00.html>
Microsoft is encountering some user resistance to Office Online, one of the first tangible components of the software giant's expansive .Net plan.

Microsoft Comes Out Swinging In Antitrust Appeal (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3869557.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Microsoft dropped the legal equivalent of a bomb on a federal court Monday in a legal filing that argues that the judge presiding over the software maker's antitrust case misinterpreted the law in his decision to split the company.

Microsoft Wants Children To Play It Safe Online (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3879250.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The Los Angeles Lakers basketball star, along with Olympic ice skating gold medalist Tara Lipinski, is promoting Microsoft's Internet privacy and safety portal for children.

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

Net Radio Companies Await Decision On Webcasts (Bloomberg)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3875247.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Infinity Broadcasting, Clear Channel Communications and other radio companies may face new fees for playing music over the Internet, pending a decision as early as this week by the U.S. Copyright Office.

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

Stephen King's 'Plant' Uprooted (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,40356,00.html>
The announcement was met with angry responses from readers, some of whom said they felt cheated after paying $7 for a book that has no ending.

Microsoft Wants Children To Play It Safe Online (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3879250.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The Los Angeles Lakers basketball star, along with Olympic ice skating gold medalist Tara Lipinski, is promoting Microsoft's Internet privacy and safety portal for children.

E-Tail Sites Crash Over Holiday Weekend (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3876264.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Amazon.com and BestBuy.com had a rough start to the holiday buying season, ringing up site outages just as customers were flocking online after Thanksgiving.

November Especially Chilly For Dot-Com Employees (Bloomberg)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3875368.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Job cuts at Internet companies rose 55 percent between October and November, according to job-placement company Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Net Radio Companies Await Decision On Webcasts (Bloomberg)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3875247.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Infinity Broadcasting, Clear Channel Communications and other radio companies may face new fees for playing music over the Internet, pending a decision as early as this week by the U.S. Copyright Office.

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

Linux Happened By Accident, Torvalds Autobiography Says (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3879816.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The French Revolution wasn't planned, and apparently the open-source one wasn't either.

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

Linux Happened By Accident, Torvalds Autobiography Says (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-3879816.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The French Revolution wasn't planned, and apparently the open-source one wasn't either.

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

English Language (The Independent)
<http://www.independent.co.uk/argument/Leading_articles/2000-11/leaderc251100.shtml>
Are we really going to take lessons in language from the land whose president came up with "It depends what the meaning of 'is' is".

Are Barnes & Noble And Gemstar Really Talking? If So, What About? (Inside)
<http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,15922_8_11_1,00.html>

Stephen King's 'Plant' Uprooted (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,40356,00.html>
The announcement was met with angry responses from readers, some of whom said they felt cheated after paying $7 for a book that has no ending.

Ebert, Roeper Acknowledge Tradition In An Industry That's All Thumbs (Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/leisure/columnists/sjohnson/0,1122,SAV-0011220033,00.html>
People like Ebert -- or Siskel in the early days -- were not only going to movies and talking about them, but also then doing the grunt work of trying to shape their thoughts into a coherent, defensible, engaging piece of writing, one that takes into account movie history and contemporary culture.

Katherine Harris Pulls The Helpless Routine -- Again! (Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=11/27/2000&idMessage=6559>
For Harris to pretend, on top of that, that she was unable to count any of the hand-counted Palm Beach County ballots goes a long way toward explaining why Democrats have taken to comparing Harris to Cruella DeVil.

Mad As Hell (Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/Earthling/00-11-24/Earthling.asp>
What foreigners were seeing on television was the strength of our system: The rule of law, naturally, involves lawyers. But footage of Miami's "bourgeois riot" is something I truly am ashamed for the world to see.

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

Singapore Breaks Silence On Wahid's Tirade (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001128/singapore/afp/Singapore_breaks_silence_on_Wahid_s_tirade.html>
There was no direct reply to Wahid's comments that Indonesia should cooperate with Malaysia to choke Singapore's water supply, which is being piped in from Johor.

Singapore Greets Wahid Outburst With Silence (South China Morning Post)
<http://www.scmp.com/news/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20001128032217120.asp>
Singapore yesterday maintained a diplomatic silence in response to bitter comments from President Abdurrahman Wahid, as diplomats and Indonesian officials expressed bewilderment and shock.

Officials Downplay Gus Dur's Outburst (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,6347,00.html?>
No change in attitude towards Singapore, say officials as they launch damage-control operation.

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

Singapore's Vulnerabilities Exposed After Wahid's Criticisms (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001128/singapore/afp/Singapore_s_vulnerabilities_exposed_after_Wahid_s_criticisms.html>
Even if Singaporean leaders employ the best economic policies, they have little influence on the external factors.

Singapore To Get City Air Terminal By Early 2002 (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/cna/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001128/singapore/cna/Singapore_to_get_City_Air_Terminal_by_early_2002.html>
The location of the City Terminal still has not been decided.

Singapore Breaks Silence On Wahid's Tirade (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001128/singapore/afp/Singapore_breaks_silence_on_Wahid_s_tirade.html>
There was no direct reply to Wahid's comments that Indonesia should cooperate with Malaysia to choke Singapore's water supply, which is being piped in from Johor.

Singapore Greets Wahid Outburst With Silence (South China Morning Post)
<http://www.scmp.com/news/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20001128032217120.asp>
Singapore yesterday maintained a diplomatic silence in response to bitter comments from President Abdurrahman Wahid, as diplomats and Indonesian officials expressed bewilderment and shock.

Case Calls For Review Of LRT Safety (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,6383,00.html?>
Case president Teo Ho Pin told The Staits Times last night the SLRT had yet to tell the public what led to the procedural error - systems or human failure.

Participants At Dialogue Felt AMP Idea Was Dangerous (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,6430,00.html?>
Wang Kai Yuen, Member of Supervisory Panel Feedback Unit: Many of the participants felt that the pitfalls of collective leadership are so obvious it begs the question why the AMP would propose it in the first place. It is in this context that two AMP representatives explained the background leading to the paper on collective leadership presented at the AMP seminar.

Officials Downplay Gus Dur's Outburst (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,6347,00.html?>
No change in attitude towards Singapore, say officials as they launch damage-control operation.

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

Netizens Welcome Chance To Speak Up (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,8942,00.html?>

Dotcoms In A Jiffy (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,8896,00.html?>
The Registry of Companies and Businesses (RCB) has cut down the processing time for name approvals and incorporations from five to two working days.

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

A Top 10 List Of Restaurants (Chowbaby)
<http://www.chowbaby.com/tools/article.asp?X=143>
If the range of food is vast so are the locations for eating it. From the simple and cheap hawker centres which scatter the city to five star world-class restaurants.