[MyAppleMenu] Oct 1, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Apple Demand Still Strong In U.K. (TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000929S0027>
Vendors of Apple Computer Corp. systems and peripherals in Britain see a future as rosy as some of the company's colorful iMacs, despite the computer maker's warnings this week of lower-than-expected demand.

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

Stocks Could Face Another Rough Week (Reuters)
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001001/bs/markets_leadall_dc_1.html>

Apple Demand Still Strong In U.K. (TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000929S0027>
Vendors of Apple Computer Corp. systems and peripherals in Britain see a future as rosy as some of the company's colorful iMacs, despite the computer maker's warnings this week of lower-than-expected demand.

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

Stocks Could Face Another Rough Week (Reuters)
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001001/bs/markets_leadall_dc_1.html>

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

Yahoo Battles... The Dot-Com Storms (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/018968.htm>
The largest Internet portal has left its competitors in the dust and pulled in growing profits while giving away its basic services and paying the bills with ads. And yet, at the very moment when it appears Yahoo Inc. has won, the Santa Clara company is being dogged by growing skepticism about the heart of its business, prompting a slide in its stock price.

Online Delivery Sites Find Manhattan To Be A Challenge (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/technology/01DELI.html>
In all the furor to bring new businesses and jobs to New York, critics say that an important question is not being asked: Can the online delivery model work in Manhattan?

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

The Dirty Little Secret Of The Dot-Com World (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001001/t000093231.html>
Drug use is rampant in the high-tech work force, experts and industry insiders say. One young Internet star's death sheds light on a frenetic culture that fuels the problem.

IOC 'Disappointed' By Internet (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_950000/950479.stm>
Senior officials of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have said they over-estimated the number of people who would log onto the official Olympic internet sites during the games. 

Yahoo Battles... The Dot-Com Storms (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/018968.htm>
The largest Internet portal has left its competitors in the dust and pulled in growing profits while giving away its basic services and paying the bills with ads. And yet, at the very moment when it appears Yahoo Inc. has won, the Santa Clara company is being dogged by growing skepticism about the heart of its business, prompting a slide in its stock price.

Online Delivery Sites Find Manhattan To Be A Challenge (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/technology/01DELI.html>
In all the furor to bring new businesses and jobs to New York, critics say that an important question is not being asked: Can the online delivery model work in Manhattan?

China's Auction Of Net Companies Flops (Reuters)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2635409,00.html>
China hosted its first auction of Internet companies on Friday night, but judging from the results -- and the comments of annoyed participants -- it may have been the last. 

Laid-Off Dot-Commer? Let's Party (WIred News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,39125,00.html>
Startups that die are leaving plenty of once-starry-eyed employees dazed, confused ... and out of work. In Manhattan, the pink-slip party is becoming quite the trendy thing.

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

Silence Is Golden (New Republic)
<http://www.tnr.com/100900/cottle100900.html>
Over the past couple of weeks, the Bush campaign has learned a critical lesson: Screw the press. For months, the Bushies tried to charm the Fourth Estate. Staffers sent the candidate to the back of his campaign plane to give journalists an intimate, unrehearsed view of the man they felt sure the newshounds would grow to love. But, after a series of unfortunate gaffes ruthlessly recorded by the media jackals, the Bush campaign had an epiphany: Don't love the press, starve it.

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

Bridging The Causeway Gap (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/analysis/cpe2_1001.html>
Lee Kim Chew: Two countries, one system? Could Singapore and Malaysia, faced with global cometition, forge more economic linkages to take on the world?

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

Deadly Virus Or Not, The Kids Are Out In Numbers (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin2_1002.html>
Parents turn a blind eye to the threat hand, foot and mouth disease poses and get out to enjoy Children's Day.

Time To Review Immigrant Laws That Jail Good Singaporeans (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/for6_1002.html>
Manjit Singh: The objective behind laws dealing with illegal immigrants is obvious. That objective is blurred when the laws are applied to landlords whose only crime is a lack of diligence.

Save Voters From Monopolies (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/for3_1002.html>
Ho Yew Kee: Another way to interpret this is SingTel would not have lowered its rates if StarHub had not entered the market. This means SingTel had enjoyed monopoly rent at the expense of the trapped customers in Singapore.

Biotech Buzz (Asiaweek)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/2000/1006/cover1.html>
With the mapping of successive genomes, biotech is on a roll again. Can Asia catch the coming wave?

Bridging The Causeway Gap (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/analysis/cpe2_1001.html>
Lee Kim Chew: Two countries, one system? Could Singapore and Malaysia, faced with global cometition, forge more economic linkages to take on the world?

All Childcare Centres Shut As 2 More Die (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/pri1_1001.html>
The week-long closure, which also applies to kindergartens, follows the deaths of four children, possibly from hand, foot and mouth disease.

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

Richmond, Chia To Sizzle On Screen (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life7_1002.html>
Mark Richmond and Beatrice Chia get physical again, this time in a film about a minister's son who is bored with the lifestyle of the rich and famous.

Hotels Cater To Needs Of New-Generation Travellers (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/cna/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001001/singapore/cna/Hotels_cater_to_needs_of_new-generation_travellers_.html>

Lux Ad Boosts Quek's Career (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life4_1001.html>
Velvety-skinned Phyllis QUek should be darn happy.