[MyAppleMenu] Feb 25, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Titanium Touch Sends PowerBook Into Orbit (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/computing/stories/o25powerbook_20010225.htm>
nspiration hit an Apple engineer when Gus Grissom's Mercury space capsule rose from the depths of the Atlantic one summer day in 1999.

iTunes Patch Adds Mac OS 8.5 Compatibility (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=3745>

Mac Fans Not Happy With Jobs' Speech At Macworld/Tokyo (Nikkei BP)
<http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/cover/124094>
One user went to extremes.

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

Microsoft's Grip Is Unweakened By Changing Market Conditions (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/front/docs/dg022501.htm>
As the Microsoft antitrust case returns to the legal agenda Monday morning at the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington, wishful thinking seems to have infected the conversation. People who should know better are letting expert spin doctors convince them that the case no longer matters very much.

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

Microsoft's Grip Is Unweakened By Changing Market Conditions (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/front/docs/dg022501.htm>
As the Microsoft antitrust case returns to the legal agenda Monday morning at the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington, wishful thinking seems to have infected the conversation. People who should know better are letting expert spin doctors convince them that the case no longer matters very much.

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

Advertorial Seeps Into Search Sites (AdvertisingAge)
<http://www.adage.com/interactive/articles/20010219/article1.html>
The wall between advertising and editorial is crumbling in one of the places Internet purists hold most sacred: search engines.

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

Software Shootout: Pre-OS X Web Browsers (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/25/0931244>

Advertorial Seeps Into Search Sites (AdvertisingAge)
<http://www.adage.com/interactive/articles/20010219/article1.html>
The wall between advertising and editorial is crumbling in one of the places Internet purists hold most sacred: search engines.

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

Litterbugs Meet Their Match In Squeaky Clean Singapore (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010225/3/ib0c.html>
They come from all walks of life and spread throughout Singapore in fluorescent yellow vests, picking up garbage.

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

Litterbugs Meet Their Match In Squeaky Clean Singapore (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010225/3/ib0c.html>
They come from all walks of life and spread throughout Singapore in fluorescent yellow vests, picking up garbage.

Government Cupid Bodies Should Marry: Poll (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,25887,00.html?>

Food Costs Up In January (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,25913,00.html?>
Consumer prices rose marginally last month compared to December, with Chinese New Year festivities the biggest spur. But some items, like transport and clothing, fell.

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

New Scheme To Certify IT Workers (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,25917,00.html?>