[MyAppleMenu] Oct 2, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

How Apple Blindsides Wall Street (CBS MarketWatch)
<http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/20001002/news/current/aapl.htx?source=htx/http2_mw>
Why didn't somebody tell investors about Apple turning sour?

Going Sour After Hours (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39167,00.html>
Apple and Intel both waited until after the market closed to tell investors about recent financial troubles. But their stocks still tanked in after-hours trading at speeds analysts described as remarkable.

Why Is Apple In Trouble? (AskTog)
<http://www.asktog.com/columns/041ApplesLatestWoes.html>
Apple is once again down, but hardly out. Steve will make some adjustments, and the company will go on. As for the future, should the Justice Department prevail in its efforts to clip Microsoft's wings, Apple might finally regain the market share it deserves.

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

Apple Shares Fall Victim To 'Multiplier Effect' (Bloomberg)
<http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?s=AOdhgXxW.QXBwbGUg&T=marketsquote99_news.ht>
Apple's plunge, the biggest one-day decline in its 20-year history as a public company, equaled 1.7 times the shortfall in earnings. It also amounted to 6.5 times the difference between the company's sales estimate for the September quarter and analysts' expectations.

How Apple Blindsides Wall Street (CBS MarketWatch)
<http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/20001002/news/current/aapl.htx?source=htx/http2_mw>
Why didn't somebody tell investors about Apple turning sour?

Apple Sauces PC Sector (Red Herring)
<http://www.redherring.com/investor/2000/1002/inv-apple100200.html?id=yahoo>
It looks like Apple Computer's earnings warning was what it took for investors to finally concede that the personal computer market is rotten to the core.

Road To Mac OS X: Of AppleWorks, X, And Mail (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0010/02.macosx.shtml>
As I take the applications that come with Mac OS X for a drive around the block, it occurred to me that the combination of AppleWorks 6 and OS X are the of suite components that users wanted to see in the last version of Apple's top selling software product.

The People V. Apple, Priceline And The Supreme Court (Upside)
<http://www.upside.com/On_Trial/39d4d95c0.html>
Come on, it's not as if we've never seen sluggishness in business during late summer/early fall. Cyclically things can tend to get a little tough right about now. But it's more a stuffy nose than a full-blown flu. And a shot of Afrin usually clears things up for the holidays.

Going Sour After Hours (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39167,00.html>
Apple and Intel both waited until after the market closed to tell investors about recent financial troubles. But their stocks still tanked in after-hours trading at speeds analysts described as remarkable.

Asian Stocks Head Downward After Apple Jolt (Economic Times)
<http://www.economictimes.com/today/bn01.htm>

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

Why Is Apple In Trouble? (AskTog)
<http://www.asktog.com/columns/041ApplesLatestWoes.html>
Apple is once again down, but hardly out. Steve will make some adjustments, and the company will go on. As for the future, should the Justice Department prevail in its efforts to clip Microsoft's wings, Apple might finally regain the market share it deserves.

== AppleSurf (Reviews) ==============

iMac FYI: Get More From Your iMac (Macs Only!)
<http://www.macsonly.com/imacfyirev.html>
iMac FYI is a terrifically infomative book for anyone new to the iMac and Mac OS 9. Despite the rapid evolution of the iMac and the Mac OS, it is still current and will remain so until Mac OS X replaces Mac OS 9 as the bundled operating system.

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

Apple Sauces PC Sector (Red Herring)
<http://www.redherring.com/investor/2000/1002/inv-apple100200.html?id=yahoo>
It looks like Apple Computer's earnings warning was what it took for investors to finally concede that the personal computer market is rotten to the core.

Going Sour After Hours (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39167,00.html>
Apple and Intel both waited until after the market closed to tell investors about recent financial troubles. But their stocks still tanked in after-hours trading at speeds analysts described as remarkable.

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

Napster Likely To Be Shut Down (USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/crh572.htm>
Whether it's ordered closed Monday or in the next few weeks, most observers give Napster little chance of survival.

No Porn Wanted At .Kids (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39169,00.html>
A company wanting to become the registrar of family-friendly domains -- where only porn-free websites would roam free -- has applied to ICANN to operate the .kids top-level domain.

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

Napster Likely To Be Shut Down (USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/crh572.htm>
Whether it's ordered closed Monday or in the next few weeks, most observers give Napster little chance of survival.

China Hits Net Companies With Sweeping Rules (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2914293.html?dtn.head>
China published sweeping new regulations on Internet companies today that limit foreign investment, require strict surveillance against "subversive" content, and threaten to close down any unlicensed firms.

Report: Web Firms Burning Through Cash (Reuters)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2635493,00.html>
Barron's reports on a survey that shows 273 of 339 Web firms outspend their revenues and 86 are due to run out of cash within a year.

Amazon's Partner Program Under Stress (Inter at ctive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2635268,00.html>
The Sept. 25 collapse of Gear.com, a company in which Amazon had a strategic investment, followed the August bankruptcy of Living.com, a member of the Amazon Commerce Network. Those failures, plus the poor prospects for some other network members, casts uncertainty on the value of Amazon's big retail portal strategy for itself and its partners.

eBay Calls On AOL To Help It Sell Online Ad Space (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2914620.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Today, the San Jose, Calif.-based company will launch its first real effort to sell advertising on its Web site, partnering with online giant America Online, which will use part of its huge advertising sales force to sell promotions on eBay, a company spokesman said.

No Porn Wanted At .Kids (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39169,00.html>
A company wanting to become the registrar of family-friendly domains -- where only porn-free websites would roam free -- has applied to ICANN to operate the .kids top-level domain.

Vignette And John Tesh Back In Tune With Software Suit Settlement (Inside)
<http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,10249_13_12_2,00.html>
"After John Tesh Productions purchased the Vignette software, they reassessed their needs and realized that the StoryServer was not a good fit for them at that time."

ABC To Bring Logo Into Prominence With A New Campaign (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/02/technology/02ADCO.html>
The ABC television network is making its longtime logo the focus of an ambitious promotion to encourage viewers to interact with its Web site.

Study: Millions Risk Net 'Illiteracy' (Reuters)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/470998.asp>
As many as 50 million U.S. adults are in danger of becoming functionally “illiterate” in coming years because they lack knowledge of or access to the Internet, a study released on Monday said.

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

Chain Saws, Drugs And Lesbians (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/business/col/shalit/2000/09/30/olympic_ads/index.html>
Olympic advertising deserves a gold medal -- in confusion.

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

Singapore's Elder Leader Opens Up In Online Chat (Associated Press)
<http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,2669,SAV-0010010172,FF.html>
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's outspoken elder statesman, gave his first online chat Friday, musing over the Internet on everything from God to bigamy to whether the government has the people's well-being at heart.

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

Mac Or PC? (MacSingapore)
<http://www.macsingapore.com/archive/editorial/macvspc/>