[MyAppleMenu] Jan 22, 2001

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

 Big News For Macintosh Enthusiasts (JavaWorld)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_java_384664_102.html>
Mac OS X will move Java on the Mac from also-ran to serious contender.

 Apple Returns To Core Values To Save The Company Again (The Independent)
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Columnists/2001-01/gulker220101.shtml>
Apple listening to customers? Good. Apple innovating, again? Insanely great!

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On McDonald and fast food. Plus, being an atheist in America today, running a campaign against George W. and Al Gore, and remembering River Phoenix.

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

 Big News For Macintosh Enthusiasts (JavaWorld)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_java_384664_102.html>
Mac OS X will move Java on the Mac from also-ran to serious contender.

 QT5 Beta Leaves UK In The Cold (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=2371>
QuickTime 5 has reached Public Preview 2, but once again International-English (IE) Mac OS users are left waiting for the update.

 The Nuts And Bolts Of Expo Software (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2001/01/21/0120jcwmwproducts.html>

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

 Is OS X Coming Out, Too Much? (Macinstein)
<http://www.macinstein.com/pressrelease.cfm?ID=753>
So, adding $30 to the price of a new OS, is this a big deal?

 OS X Compromises (Macinstein)
<http://www.macinstein.com/pressrelease.cfm?ID=752>
Accustomed to Apple´s arrogance, I was pleased as punch to see Apple´s sphincter pucker and listen to the barrage of negative feedback about the OS X Public Beta.

 (Dis)graceful Degradation: Don't Support Bad (Beta) Browsers (MacEdition)
<http://www.macedition.com/cb/cb_20010122.shtml>

 Apple Returns To Core Values To Save The Company Again (The Independent)
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Columnists/2001-01/gulker220101.shtml>
Apple listening to customers? Good. Apple innovating, again? Insanely great!

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

 Norton SystemWorks (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0101/22.systemworks.shtml>
All of these products are fine tools. But for those just getting involved in the Mac platform -- or those who may not have bothered to purchase maintenance and anti-virus utilities (and if that's you, you're living very dangerously) -- I heartedly recommend the new SystemWorks package from Symantec.

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

 Can Bush Influence Microsoft Case? (Tampa Bay Business Journal)
<http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2001/01/22/editorial3.html>
Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall when Bush and Bill Gates meet to discuss this? There will be one man, powerful and in control, calling the shots and manipulating the situation with his savvy and fierce, focused intelligence. Bush will be there, too.

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On McDonald and fast food. Plus, being an atheist in America today, running a campaign against George W. and Al Gore, and remembering River Phoenix.

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

 Intel Founder Looks To The Future (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV-0101220001,FF.html>
There are certainly major portions of the market that are starved for performance, and I suspect as we see some of the new consumer software come on over the next few years, we'll see a resurgence, increased interest and more computing power for the consumer.

 Warning Again, Dell Says Fourth Quarter Will Disappoint (TheStreet.com)
<http://www.thestreet.com/tech/hardware/1266890.html>

 First Athlon Supercomp Gets An Airing (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/16249.html>

 Can Bush Influence Microsoft Case? (Tampa Bay Business Journal)
<http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2001/01/22/editorial3.html>
Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall when Bush and Bill Gates meet to discuss this? There will be one man, powerful and in control, calling the shots and manipulating the situation with his savvy and fierce, focused intelligence. Bush will be there, too.

 Microosft Launches New Campaign (Associated Press)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4552056.html?tag=st.ne.1005.thed.ni>
Microsoft, which dominates the operating system market for personal computers, will launch a $200 million advertising campaign Monday to compete more directly with Oracle, IBM and Sun Microsystems in selling software to businesses.

 How MS Could Make A Liar Out Of Me -- And You, Too! (ZDNet AnchorDesk)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2676738,00.html>
Microsoft's new copy-protection scheme -- which I wrote about last Thursday in an open letter to CEO Steve Ballmer -- does more than just end casual copying of Microsoft products. It threatens to turn millions of Microsoft's customers into liars. 

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

 Yahoo, Microsoft Traffic 'Hijacked' (MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/519306.asp>
A computer glitch is being blamed for cutting off Web traffic headed for Yahoo.com and Microsoft.com on Saturday. For about 12 hours, thousands of Internet users trying to visit those two popular Web sites and dozens of others were instead sent to a Web page owned by MyDomains.com. The president of the Web hosting company, Richard Lau, said he was “a little bit in shock at the ease with which this has gotten out of control.” He added that the episode proves a computer criminal could “easily” hijack all traffic on a part of the Internet.

 Rethinking Internet News As A Business Proposition (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/22/technology/22PAPE.html?pagewanted=all>
The first era of newspaper experiments on the Internet, fueled in part by the fear that the Web would devour profits, is over. A new era of newspaper experiments on the Internet, fueled in part by the fear that the Web will not generate profits, has begun.

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On McDonald and fast food. Plus, being an atheist in America today, running a campaign against George W. and Al Gore, and remembering River Phoenix.

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

 Mass Hack Takes Out Govt Sites (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16245.html>
A hacking spree last weekend saw military and government Web sites defaced on three continents in what its perpetrators claimed was the largest mass defacement in the history of mankind.

 (Dis)graceful Degradation: Don't Support Bad (Beta) Browsers (MacEdition)
<http://www.macedition.com/cb/cb_20010122.shtml>

 Anybody Home At Whitehouse.gov? (Wired News)
<http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,41319,00.html>
While the new president's speedily organized inaugural celebration concluded without incident in a chill rain, the launch of the Bush administration's Web presence was not as successful.

 Yahoo, Microsoft Traffic 'Hijacked' (MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/519306.asp>
A computer glitch is being blamed for cutting off Web traffic headed for Yahoo.com and Microsoft.com on Saturday. For about 12 hours, thousands of Internet users trying to visit those two popular Web sites and dozens of others were instead sent to a Web page owned by MyDomains.com. The president of the Web hosting company, Richard Lau, said he was “a little bit in shock at the ease with which this has gotten out of control.” He added that the episode proves a computer criminal could “easily” hijack all traffic on a part of the Internet.

 DSL Providers Dropping With Dot-Com Bust (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/21/BU104711.DTL&type=tech_article>
Like beachfront homes in a hurricane, DSL providers are becoming the latest casualties of the dot-com bust.

 Jazz Sites By The Thousands, But Where's The Music? (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/22/arts/22ARTS.html?pagewanted=all>
Television came before the Internet, and in the view of many jazz fans, it also arrived after. The nation's television screens have been aglow this month with the Ken Burns documentary series "Jazz," but on the Internet the hot links to jazz information have been illuminating computer users for some time.

 Rethinking Internet News As A Business Proposition (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/22/technology/22PAPE.html?pagewanted=all>
The first era of newspaper experiments on the Internet, fueled in part by the fear that the Web would devour profits, is over. A new era of newspaper experiments on the Internet, fueled in part by the fear that the Web will not generate profits, has begun.

 MP3.com To Turn A Profit, Go It Alone (Reuters)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2676760,00.html>
No strategic partnerships for MP3.com, says CEO Michael Robertson. The music site is headed into the black for the first time this year.

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

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On McDonald and fast food. Plus, being an atheist in America today, running a campaign against George W. and Al Gore, and remembering River Phoenix.

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

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On McDonald and fast food. Plus, being an atheist in America today, running a campaign against George W. and Al Gore, and remembering River Phoenix.

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

 MPH Online CEO Has Left (Bloomberg)
<http://singapore.cnet.com/news/2001/01/22/20010122y.html>

 Singapore Teen Holds On To Web Site Despite Legal Threat (Associated Press)
<http://asia.biz.yahoo.com/news/asian_markets/article.html?s=asiafinance/news/010122/asian_markets/dowjones/Singapore_Teen_Holds_On_To_Web_Site_Despite_Legal_Threat.html>
Christie Chan started her Web site dedicated to the Harry Potter children's book series in October 1999, but has now been asked by Time Warner Entertainment and the books' author, J.K. Rowling, to surrender the site's name.

 Career Portals Are Attracting Higher-Level Job Seekers (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/1/news/nsing01.html>
It's not just entry job seekers who suss out job prospects at Internet recruitment sites. Senior executives -- even CEOs, it seems -- tracking career alternatives are also migrating online.

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

 Bare, Naked Lady In Butterflies Are Free (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,12292,00.html?>
What's the big deal about showing some skin? That's what director Clifton Ko wants to know with Butterflies Are Free, his Mandarin play about an affair between a blind man and a jaded woman.

 Tower Records 'Quitting Pacific Plaza' (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/1/news/nsing02.html>
American music chain Tower Records will quit its Orchard Road space by March, sources say.

 Local Drama Slot Cut (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,18932,00.html?>
HK-produced programmes will replace more costly homegrown drama series like As You Like It and SNAG on TCS 8 at 10.30 pm on Wednesdays.