[MyAppleMenu] Oct 3, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Making Science Sizzle With iMovie (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/hed/macsinaction/downstate/>
Now, thanks to an exciting Macintosh-based program at State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, these future MDs are picking up skills in video production and postproduction — and finding exciting new ways to communicate their ideas. In the process, they’re literally learning what it is to be a brain.

Japan FTC Warns Apple On Suspected Price Fixing (Reuters)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A98-2000Oct3.html>
Japan's anti-monopoly watchdog, the Fair Trade Commission, said on Tuesday it issued a warning to the Japanese unit of Apple Computer Inc over suspected retail price-fixing.

Schools Get Plugged In (Deseret News)
<http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,195017933,00.html?>
Southern Utah teacher creates award-winning web School for kids.

The 10 Most Important People Of The Decade (Network Computing)
<http://www.networkcomputing.com/1119/1119f1people_7.html>
Still, you're surprised to see an Apple founder on a list of networking people. Well, consider this: Apple was the first company to bundle networking with its computers. Furthermore, AppleTalk is still the easiest method of file and print sharing for casual computer users.

Apple Explained, Part 1: In Steve We Trust (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/appletrader/00/001002.shtml>
Normally, when a corporation drops a warning flare with minimal explanation it means there is more bad news ahead. Fund managers have seen this type of behavior before and believe it's far better to wash one hand's quickly of such messes rather than languish in a cat and mouse game with a management that isn't on the up and up.

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

Making Science Sizzle With iMovie (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/hed/macsinaction/downstate/>
Now, thanks to an exciting Macintosh-based program at State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, these future MDs are picking up skills in video production and postproduction — and finding exciting new ways to communicate their ideas. In the process, they’re literally learning what it is to be a brain.

Bailouts Become Microsoft Habit (Ottawa Citizen)
<http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/001003/4622207.html>
For the third time in three years, Microsoft Corp. has bailed-out a rival company that foundered after going head-to-head with the software giant from Redmond, Washington.

Japan FTC Warns Apple On Suspected Price Fixing (Reuters)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A98-2000Oct3.html>
Japan's anti-monopoly watchdog, the Fair Trade Commission, said on Tuesday it issued a warning to the Japanese unit of Apple Computer Inc over suspected retail price-fixing.

Japan Warns Apple To Stop Pressuring Retailers (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0010/03.japan.shtml>
Japan's Fair Trade Commission said it has warned Apple to stop pressuring retailers to sell its iBook and iMac personal computers at suggested prices, the Japanese news wire service Jiji Press reported Tuesday.

Schools Get Plugged In (Deseret News)
<http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,195017933,00.html?>
Southern Utah teacher creates award-winning web School for kids.

Sony Loses Appeal In PlayStation Copyright Fight (Bloomberg)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2915049.html>
Sony today lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to limit rivals from using reverse engineering to create competing products.

Apple's Original Name For 1394 Never Caught On (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/02/BU95242.DTL&type=business>
Rather than pay the extra charges, most companies adopting the technology have opted just to go with the IEEE's specification number.

Stocks To Watch: Apple, Compaq, Net Perceptions And Research In Motion (ZDII)
<http://www.zdii.com/industry_list.asp?mode=news&doc_id=ZE505790&pic=Y>
"Overall consumer demand doesn't appear to be as low as Apple's numbers indicate. It looks like sales of its G4 cubes haven't taken off they way they expected. At least so far."

The 10 Most Important People Of The Decade (Network Computing)
<http://www.networkcomputing.com/1119/1119f1people_7.html>
Still, you're surprised to see an Apple founder on a list of networking people. Well, consider this: Apple was the first company to bundle networking with its computers. Furthermore, AppleTalk is still the easiest method of file and print sharing for casual computer users.

Apple Explained, Part 1: In Steve We Trust (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/appletrader/00/001002.shtml>
Normally, when a corporation drops a warning flare with minimal explanation it means there is more bad news ahead. Fund managers have seen this type of behavior before and believe it's far better to wash one hand's quickly of such messes rather than languish in a cat and mouse game with a management that isn't on the up and up.

Microsoft Invests $135 Million In Ailing Corel (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2917375.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Microsoft has invested $135 million in Corel, a struggling rival in the software application market, under a new strategic relationship centered on Microsoft's so-called .Net initiative.

Photos Of The "Cracks" In The Cube (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2000/10/01.1.shtml>
Until we see evidence of something worse than this, don't panic. It is a cosmetic flaw, and a small one.

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

Pentium 4 Delay Due To Graphics Chip Glitch (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2915950.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Sources at PC makers, speaking under request of anonymity, confirmed that a problem with how the 850 chipset interacts with PCI graphics cards was responsible for the Pentium 4 delay.

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

Bailouts Become Microsoft Habit (Ottawa Citizen)
<http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/001003/4622207.html>
For the third time in three years, Microsoft Corp. has bailed-out a rival company that foundered after going head-to-head with the software giant from Redmond, Washington.

MS Bucks Save Linux Vendor Corel - But Save It For What? (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13683.html>
For long-term survival Corel would need to play with servers and services itself, but here the L-word would surely intervene, and again, one must doubt whether Microsoft would let it.

Bug Alert: Windows Media Player Can Crash Outlook (BugNet)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/471457.asp>

Can MS Dent Sun's Server Dominance? (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2635302,00.html>
Microsoft must prove to a largely skeptical customer base that it can meet mission-critical challenges.

Pentium 4 Delay Due To Graphics Chip Glitch (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2915950.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Sources at PC makers, speaking under request of anonymity, confirmed that a problem with how the 850 chipset interacts with PCI graphics cards was responsible for the Pentium 4 delay.

Microsoft Proposes Schedule For Antitrust Appeal (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2916421.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Microsoft today asked an appellate court to give both sides 60 days to file principal briefs and 30 days for replies in its antitrust appeal. The proposed schedule could mean the appeals court will reach a decision on Microsoft's case no sooner than six months.

Microsoft Invests $135 Million In Ailing Corel (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2917375.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Microsoft has invested $135 million in Corel, a struggling rival in the software application market, under a new strategic relationship centered on Microsoft's so-called .Net initiative.

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

Sky Surfing: I Want In-Flight Web Access And I Want It Now (Time)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/asiabuzz/2000/09/28/>
A 13-hour flight makes for a perfect customer. People are seat-bound, bored and in dire need of stimulation beyond the usual packet of peanuts.

Judges Let Napster Play On -- For Now (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2635322,00.html>
A federal appeals court hears both sides in the digital music debate. Meanwhile, Napster's CEO says the record industry has stubbornly rejected settlement offers.

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

Chinese Net Companies, Investors Eyeing New Rules' Effect (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2921414.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Chinese Internet companies and foreign investors scrambled today to assess the effect of new Internet regulations that limit overseas capital and ban politically sensitive content online.

Sky Surfing: I Want In-Flight Web Access And I Want It Now (Time)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/asiabuzz/2000/09/28/>
A 13-hour flight makes for a perfect customer. People are seat-bound, bored and in dire need of stimulation beyond the usual packet of peanuts.

Firstgov.gov Flunks Security Test (Reuters)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/471288.asp>
A one-stop gateway to all 27 million U.S. government Web pages set up last month is inadequately protected from hackers, congressional investigators told a House panel Monday.

Bug Alert: Windows Media Player Can Crash Outlook (BugNet)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/471457.asp>

Can MS Dent Sun's Server Dominance? (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2635302,00.html>
Microsoft must prove to a largely skeptical customer base that it can meet mission-critical challenges.

Judges Let Napster Play On -- For Now (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2635322,00.html>
A federal appeals court hears both sides in the digital music debate. Meanwhile, Napster's CEO says the record industry has stubbornly rejected settlement offers.

NBC Site Gets Gold, Quokka Silver (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,39214,00.html>
NBC, whose television ratings for the Olympics fell short of expectations, may have partly made up for the disappointment by taking the gold medal for its Internet coverage, beating out the official site, Olympics.com, initial data showed Monday.

Microsoft Invests $135 Million In Ailing Corel (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2917375.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Microsoft has invested $135 million in Corel, a struggling rival in the software application market, under a new strategic relationship centered on Microsoft's so-called .Net initiative.

Traiditonal Newspapers Still Rule Roost (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,4837,00.html?>
Reading e-news may be the rage but it seems the old-media newspaper still rules the readership roost.

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

MS Bucks Save Linux Vendor Corel - But Save It For What? (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13683.html>
For long-term survival Corel would need to play with servers and services itself, but here the L-word would surely intervene, and again, one must doubt whether Microsoft would let it.

Linux Firms Still Searching For Success (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001002/t000093536.html>
As the open source OS continues to build on its challenge to Windows, a quartet of pioneers struggle to ride the wave.

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

Bailouts Become Microsoft Habit (Ottawa Citizen)
<http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/001003/4622207.html>
For the third time in three years, Microsoft Corp. has bailed-out a rival company that foundered after going head-to-head with the software giant from Redmond, Washington.

MS Bucks Save Linux Vendor Corel - But Save It For What? (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13683.html>
For long-term survival Corel would need to play with servers and services itself, but here the L-word would surely intervene, and again, one must doubt whether Microsoft would let it.

Linux Firms Still Searching For Success (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001002/t000093536.html>
As the open source OS continues to build on its challenge to Windows, a quartet of pioneers struggle to ride the wave.

Microsoft Invests $135 Million In Ailing Corel (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2917375.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Microsoft has invested $135 million in Corel, a struggling rival in the software application market, under a new strategic relationship centered on Microsoft's so-called .Net initiative.

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

Winning The Spin: Al Gore Has Already Won The Post-Debate Analysis (Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/HeyWait/00-10-02/HeyWait.asp>
Why? Because the inhabitants of spin alley, and the TV reporters who serve as their echo chamber, have been overwhelmed by the speed of modern polling.

Battle For The Soul Of Hip-Hop (Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/470610.asp>
Is rap going too far? You’d be surprised who thinks so. The hip-hop elite squares off over the future of its music and videos.

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

One Step, Two Step, Three... : A Three-Way Relationship May Suit DBS (Asiaweek)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/business/2000/10/02/>
Analysts are now saying that unless they hear of big purchases from DBS in the next six months, the price could move even further southward. CEO Olds, who has just seen his former bank, J. P. Morgan, gobbled up by Chase Manhattan, must be wondering whether a similar fate awaits DBS.

Tanker Spills Oil Between Indonesia And Singapore (Associated Press)
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/southeast/10/03/singapore.indonesia.oil.ap/index.html>

New Syllabuses As MOE Takes More Control Of 'A' Levels (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/cna/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001003/singapore/cna/New_syllabuses_as_MOE_takes_more_control_of__A__levels.html>
Education Minister Rear-Admiral Teo Chee Hean told a news conference Tuesday this will allow his Ministry more flexibility in developing the syllabus and exam formats to incorporate recent initiatives and programmes in Singapore's education system.

More Accurate Utilities Estimates Soon (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/for2_1003.html>
Stephen Chew, Manager, Custom Relations, Power Supply: Should customers prefer to be billed on actual readings every month, we encourage them to read their own meters in the alternate months, when the meters are not read, and to submit them to us for billing.

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

Sky Surfing: I Want In-Flight Web Access And I Want It Now (Time)
<http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/asiabuzz/2000/09/28/>
A 13-hour flight makes for a perfect customer. People are seat-bound, bored and in dire need of stimulation beyond the usual packet of peanuts.

Traiditonal Newspapers Still Rule Roost (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,4837,00.html?>
Reading e-news may be the rage but it seems the old-media newspaper still rules the readership roost.

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

TV Stars Raise $1.8m For Charity (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/life7_1003.html>
At the Affairs Of The Heart, MediaCorp stars showed their true mettle when they bent metal rods and kissed a (fake) cobra.