[MyAppleMenu] Jan 1, 2001

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

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Michael O'Donoghue: "It's very easy to make people laugh. That's not the point." Plus, Main Street USA, useless innovation, and Lee's Crouching Tiger.

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

 Apple's Sweet Products Have Yet To ABear Fruit (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV-0101010004,FF.html>
Apple had quite a year in 2000.

 Build It And They Will Come (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2000/12/simthemepark/>
Life not treating you right? ThereÕs a place where you can trade the ups and downs of reality for a roller coaster ride of another sort: Sim Theme Park, Aspyr MediaÕs latest entry in the Sim franchise.

 Silly Site Gets Hacked (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/articles/00/12/31/2217240.shtml>

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

 New Year Resolutions (MacSingapore)
<http://www.macsingapore.com/archive/news200012a.html#newyear>
With the government pushing for services to go wired, Apple should take the initiative to make sure its products are compatible, especially for government services.

 Mac OSeX (Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/absurd/macosex.shtml>
Keep your talk of faster processors and rewritable CD drives, it's sex and attitude that sell computers.

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

 Put Brakes On Windows Upgrade Escalator, Gartner Urges MS (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15740.html>
A recent Gartner report points up the tensions between the company's objectives and those of its customers, and urges enterprises to pressure Microsoft to put the brakes on its OS obsolescence programme. Microsoft's official policy is only to support two generations of OS at a time, but if the company decides Whistler constitutes a new OS, this would mean the end of NT 4.0 and Win95 in the second half of this year.

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Michael O'Donoghue: "It's very easy to make people laugh. That's not the point." Plus, Main Street USA, useless innovation, and Lee's Crouching Tiger.

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

 Put Brakes On Windows Upgrade Escalator, Gartner Urges MS (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15740.html>
A recent Gartner report points up the tensions between the company's objectives and those of its customers, and urges enterprises to pressure Microsoft to put the brakes on its OS obsolescence programme. Microsoft's official policy is only to support two generations of OS at a time, but if the company decides Whistler constitutes a new OS, this would mean the end of NT 4.0 and Win95 in the second half of this year.

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

 Advocates Of People With Disabilities Take Online Stores To Task (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/01/technology/01ECOMMERCE.html>
While the Americans With Disabilities Act compels physical stores to make themselves reasonably accessible to disabled people, courts have not said conclusively whether the law applies to online stores. In the meantime, many e-commerce executives say they have only recently become aware of the needs of the disabled, and have begun to address the situation in a way that will not heap even more economic stress on their companies.

 E-Greetings Outpace E-Commerce (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4329494.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Americans may not have shopped online as much as e-tailers wanted during the holidays, but the Web was apparently still an important resource for many.

Advertisement: The AppleSurf Reader (The AppleSurf Reader)
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Michael O'Donoghue: "It's very easy to make people laugh. That's not the point." Plus, Main Street USA, useless innovation, and Lee's Crouching Tiger.

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

 Advocates Of People With Disabilities Take Online Stores To Task (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/01/technology/01ECOMMERCE.html>
While the Americans With Disabilities Act compels physical stores to make themselves reasonably accessible to disabled people, courts have not said conclusively whether the law applies to online stores. In the meantime, many e-commerce executives say they have only recently become aware of the needs of the disabled, and have begun to address the situation in a way that will not heap even more economic stress on their companies.

 Napster CEO Faces Challenging New Year (Reuters)
<http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/081135.htm>
Hank Barry, chief executive officer of Napster Inc., has two New Year's resolutions but they may be mutually exclusive since he plans to cut back on caffeine while maintaining the frenetic pace needed to make the controversial song-swap service loved by all.

 Will Rebels Shake The Web In 2001? (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2665694,00.html>
Distributed search, based on Napster's peer-to-peer networking, is already making its debut. But is it the killer app of the year to come?

 E-Greetings Outpace E-Commerce (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4329494.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Americans may not have shopped online as much as e-tailers wanted during the holidays, but the Web was apparently still an important resource for many.

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

Advertisement: The AppleSurf Reader (The AppleSurf Reader)
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Michael O'Donoghue: "It's very easy to make people laugh. That's not the point." Plus, Main Street USA, useless innovation, and Lee's Crouching Tiger.

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

 Falun Gongs Refuse To Post Bail (Associated Press)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/ap/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/010101/asia/ap/Falun_Gongs_Refuse_To_Post_Bail.html>
Followers of the Falun Gong spiritual movement refused to post bail Monday after being detained in Singapore for staging an unauthorized vigil in memory of fellow believers they say died in police custody in China.

 New Year Resolutions (MacSingapore)
<http://www.macsingapore.com/archive/news200012a.html#newyear>
With the government pushing for services to go wired, Apple should take the initiative to make sure its products are compatible, especially for government services.

 Singapore's Growth Last Year A Storng 10.1 Per Cent (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,14261,00.html?>
Economy beat 4.5-to-6.5% growth forecast and most Singaporeans benefited as jobs were created and unemployment fell, says PM Goh.

Advertisement: The AppleSurf Reader (The AppleSurf Reader)
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Michael O'Donoghue: "It's very easy to make people laugh. That's not the point." Plus, Main Street USA, useless innovation, and Lee's Crouching Tiger.

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

 Falun Gongs Refuse To Post Bail (Associated Press)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/ap/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/010101/asia/ap/Falun_Gongs_Refuse_To_Post_Bail.html>
Followers of the Falun Gong spiritual movement refused to post bail Monday after being detained in Singapore for staging an unauthorized vigil in memory of fellow believers they say died in police custody in China.

 MRT Borading, Alighting Times Being Reviewed (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,14357,00.html?>
Fong Seck Kong, Deputy Managing Director, Singapore MRT Ltd: On the subject of extending the stopping time for alighting passengers, we would like to explain that we monitor the train load regularly and a timetable is drawn up based on demand, the loading and the time required for the train to stop at each station.

 New PAP Man Helping Out In Potong Pasir (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,14265,00.html?>
For the past two months, Mr Sitoh Yih Pin, 37, has been making his rounds, meeting residents in the opposition-held constituency.

 Singapore's Growth Last Year A Storng 10.1 Per Cent (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,14261,00.html?>
Economy beat 4.5-to-6.5% growth forecast and most Singaporeans benefited as jobs were created and unemployment fell, says PM Goh.

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

 New Year Resolutions (MacSingapore)
<http://www.macsingapore.com/archive/news200012a.html#newyear>
With the government pushing for services to go wired, Apple should take the initiative to make sure its products are compatible, especially for government services.

 WizOffice Goes For Speedy Profit (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,14365,00.html?>
Hit by a dismal stock performance, firm begins a shake-up to achieve gains two years earlier than projected.

 MediaRing Leads Rout Of Tech Stocks (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,14368,00.html?>
The stock hit a high of $2.01 on Jan 4, but ended last year at a lowly 25 cents as investors lost patience with 'concept' stocks that are rich in potential but have no certainty in realising their potential.