[MyAppleMenu] Feb 11, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

 Sprint, EarthLink End Alliance; Apple Possible Buyer? (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0102/10.earthlink.shtml>
EarthLink Inc. and Sprint Corp. announced Friday it will amend their alliance by eliminating their exclusive Internet branding and ownership terms, which could open the door for a possible takeover by another telecom or technology company such as Microsoft or Apple, analyst speculate.

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

 Sprint, EarthLink End Alliance; Apple Possible Buyer? (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0102/10.earthlink.shtml>
EarthLink Inc. and Sprint Corp. announced Friday it will amend their alliance by eliminating their exclusive Internet branding and ownership terms, which could open the door for a possible takeover by another telecom or technology company such as Microsoft or Apple, analyst speculate.

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

 PB G4 Cautions / Observerations... (Go2Mac.com)
<http://www.go2mac.com/newswire/displaynewswire.cfm?id=231>

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

 Intel Speeds Up Launch Of Brookdale (EBN)
<http://www.ebnews.com/story/OEG20010209S0067>
Intel Corp. will accelerate the debut of its double-data-rate SDRAM-enabled chipset for the Pentium 4 microprocessor, pulling in the launch date from the first quarter of 2002 to October of this year, said sources with knowledge of the company's plans.

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

 One Dot-Com's Story: No Boom, But No Bust (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/technology/11TUTO.html>
It's not all doom and gloom among dot-coms: Tutor.com is retrenching, but not retreating.

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

 One Dot-Com's Story: No Boom, But No Bust (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/technology/11TUTO.html>
It's not all doom and gloom among dot-coms: Tutor.com is retrenching, but not retreating.

 Backslash: Emergency Exists In A Wired World (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/technology/11SLAS.html>
Virtually everywhere you go these days, there is Net access -- and, increasingly, cell phones access. Eventually, if you truly want to get away, you will have to vacation at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

 Napster Fans Brace For Bad News (Reuters)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2684422,00.html>
With a possible court-ordered shutdown of Napster's popular music swapping service looming on Monday, fans of the online song-swapping service said they planned to spend the weekend downloading music.

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

 Linux Box As Digital VCR (Slashdot)
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/11/0022210>