[MyAppleMenu] Sep 29, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Apple, Investors Brace For Worst (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/apple092900.htm>
For the first time in quite a while, investors in Apple Computer Inc. should expect to have a very bad day.

Apple Computer Falls In Japan On Earnings Warning (Bloomberg News)
<http://www.cnetinvestor.com/newsitem-fd-bloomberg.asp?symbol=103911746>
Apple Computer Inc. shares slid as much as 13.5 percent on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after the personal-computer maker warned fiscal fourth-quarter profit will lag analyst expectations on slow sales of new products.

Apple's Fall Shaking Up The PC Tree (TheStreet.com)
<http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/hardware/1102857.html>
That story about the turtlenecked marketing genius who brought an upstart and innovative company back from the brink of extinction -- you won't be hearing that again for a while.

Apple Hit By Lower Sales; Shares Plunge (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2888711.html>
"The first thing you want to say -- is this because people aren't responding to the iMac design? It may be that has run its couse, and they need to be focused on some of those other feature sets."

Apple Issues Q4 Earnings Warning (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/09/24/0928earnings.html>
Citing slow sales, Apple said it will report substantially lower-than-expected earnings for the current fiscal quarter. Apple stock plunged 45 percent in after-hours trading.

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

Apple, Investors Brace For Worst (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/apple092900.htm>
For the first time in quite a while, investors in Apple Computer Inc. should expect to have a very bad day.

Apple Computer Falls In Japan On Earnings Warning (Bloomberg News)
<http://www.cnetinvestor.com/newsitem-fd-bloomberg.asp?symbol=103911746>
Apple Computer Inc. shares slid as much as 13.5 percent on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after the personal-computer maker warned fiscal fourth-quarter profit will lag analyst expectations on slow sales of new products.

Apple Slump Rattles Tech Sector (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_947000/947328.stm>
Confidence in US technology firms took another battering as Apple became the second IT giant in a week to announce a profits warning.

Apple's Fall Shaking Up The PC Tree (TheStreet.com)
<http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/hardware/1102857.html>
That story about the turtlenecked marketing genius who brought an upstart and innovative company back from the brink of extinction -- you won't be hearing that again for a while.

Apple Hit By Lower Sales; Shares Plunge (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2888711.html>
"The first thing you want to say -- is this because people aren't responding to the iMac design? It may be that has run its couse, and they need to be focused on some of those other feature sets."

Apple Issues Q4 Earnings Warning (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/09/24/0928earnings.html>
Citing slow sales, Apple said it will report substantially lower-than-expected earnings for the current fiscal quarter. Apple stock plunged 45 percent in after-hours trading.

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

Wanted: PowerBook Lite (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/ibook/notebook.html>
If I wanted a field computer to supplement my desktop, I'd want something small, light, and moderately rugged. Although heavy, a PowerBook 1400 with a G3 upgrade could do it for me, especially with a wireless networking card in the PC Card slot.

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

Power Mac G4 Cube (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/11/reviews/cube.html>
The G4 Cube is a computer to be lusted after for its innovative design, but one that may require mainstream and power users to make some compromises.

I've Seen The Fuure, And It Is Aqua (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/future/2k0929.html>
Wow. That's really all I can say. It is amazing.

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

Judge Speaks Out On Microsoft Ruling (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/29/technology/29SOFT.html>
Judge Jackson said he would have preferred not to order the the company broken up. Instead, he said, that remedy was a last resort. "Microsoft's intransigence was the reason," the judge said.

PC Makers Report Pentium 4 Delay (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2889788.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Two PC makers said today that Intel notified them the processor would not be ready for delivery around Halloween, as expected, while sources at a third manufacturer said Intel indicated it may not arrive by then. The Pentium 4 is not expected until the week of Nov. 20 and possibly later.

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

Judge Speaks Out On Microsoft Ruling (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/29/technology/29SOFT.html>
Judge Jackson said he would have preferred not to order the the company broken up. Instead, he said, that remedy was a last resort. "Microsoft's intransigence was the reason," the judge said.

Salaries For Gates, Ballmer Change Little (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2891182.html?dtn.head>
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates received a 2.6 percent increase in salary and bonus and no new stock option grants from the world's largest software maker in fiscal 2000.

Paul Allen To Step Down From Microsoft Board (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2889241.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Allen, 47, left the day-to-day operations of the company in 1983 to pursue independent investments. He will leave the board this year, according to a proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Allen will remain a "senior strategy adviser" to the company, the filing said.

PC Makers Report Pentium 4 Delay (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2889788.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Two PC makers said today that Intel notified them the processor would not be ready for delivery around Halloween, as expected, while sources at a third manufacturer said Intel indicated it may not arrive by then. The Pentium 4 is not expected until the week of Nov. 20 and possibly later.

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

Dot Coms Do Bankruptcy Faster (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38944,00.html>
Internet companies take less time than other firms to close cases in bankruptcy court. It helps that dot-coms don't have many hard assets to sort through, says a top Silicon Valley bankruptcy regulator.

AOL, NTT Marriage Could Change Wireless Web (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-2887823.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The deal announced yesterday between America Online and Japan's NTT DoCoMo to create a range of wireless Internet services is the most ambitious of AOL's various forays into the wireless world. It also serves to give NTT a strong ally in the United States, a market it has long had its eyes on.

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

Dot Coms Do Bankruptcy Faster (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38944,00.html>
Internet companies take less time than other firms to close cases in bankruptcy court. It helps that dot-coms don't have many hard assets to sort through, says a top Silicon Valley bankruptcy regulator.

AOL, NTT Marriage Could Change Wireless Web (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-2887823.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The deal announced yesterday between America Online and Japan's NTT DoCoMo to create a range of wireless Internet services is the most ambitious of AOL's various forays into the wireless world. It also serves to give NTT a strong ally in the United States, a market it has long had its eyes on.

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

VA Linux Trying To Make Inroads Into Japan (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2889236.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
VA Linux Systems and Sumitomo have created a subsidiary to help VA establish a toehold in the notoriously hard-to-enter Japanese market.

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

VA Linux Trying To Make Inroads Into Japan (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2889236.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
VA Linux Systems and Sumitomo have created a subsidiary to help VA establish a toehold in the notoriously hard-to-enter Japanese market.

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

Fast-Food Chain Recalls Taco Shells Here (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin29_0929.html>
Move prompted by tests showing US shells contain genetically-modified corn approved only for animals.

It Pays To Read Your Own Utilities Meters (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/for3_0929.html>
Mohamad Rosle Ahmad: Although I empathise fully with Mr Gan Peng Hoei's unhappiness with Power Supply's method of computing estimates, I would not go to the extent of calling it an "exploitation of consumers".