[MyAppleMenu] Jan 24, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

 Apple's iTunes: Best Of Show (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2001/nf20010124_897.htm>
The new digital-music player, part of a plan to make the Mac an entertainment hub, is easier to use than its many competitors.

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

 Hispanics' PC Buying Tops Curve (Orange County Register)
<http://www.ocregister.com/business/pcs00123cci4.shtml>
For Hispanics, the fastest-growing brands of choice are Gateway and Apple, but the most popular brand is Compaq, which can be found in 18 percent of Hispanic homes.

 New MSNBC Service Does Not Support Macs (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=2583>

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

 Don't Waste Your Time Telling Apple What To Do! (Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2001/01/20010123203039.shtml>
Let there be news, how-to articles, and other things Mac enthusiasts can use... why try to run the company?

 No Mac Software? Be Glad (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/myturn/010124.html>
PC users have access to an almost unlimited variety of the most worthless stuff imaginable.

 Burning CDs, Watching DVDs (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/musings/burning.html>
What's even more disappointing is that Apple has no CD-RW/DVD options, even though such drives have been available for months.

 The Mac And The Restless (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/scope/010124.html>
Announcements at more regular intervals might help Apple in the long run. I'm sure that Steve Jobs' showmanship leans more towards slam dunks and home runs, but throwing Mac users something between shows (beyond speed bumps and minor upgrades) would help keep the press and investors happy.

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

 Apple's iTunes: Best Of Show (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2001/nf20010124_897.htm>
The new digital-music player, part of a plan to make the Mac an entertainment hub, is easier to use than its many competitors.

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

 Intel To Slash Chip Prices By Over 40 Percent (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4578963.html?tag=unkn>
Intel will kick off aggressive chip pricing this weekend amid high PC inventories and slow sales.

 Microsoft, Sun Settle Java Dispute (MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/520583.asp>
Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it had settled a three-year-old lawsuit brought by Sun Microsystems Inc., agreeing to pay its rival a lump sum of $20 million for use of its Java technology in Microsoft products over the next seven years.

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

 Microsoft Officials Hail "Orchestration" (InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/01/23/010123hnorchestration.xml>
Orchestration, enabled by BizTalk, "lets you rapidly build and define a business process," said Michael Risse, general manager of Microsoft's .NET enterprise servers group, during an informational session at corporate branch offices in Mountain View, Calif.

 Hispanics' PC Buying Tops Curve (Orange County Register)
<http://www.ocregister.com/business/pcs00123cci4.shtml>
For Hispanics, the fastest-growing brands of choice are Gateway and Apple, but the most popular brand is Compaq, which can be found in 18 percent of Hispanic homes.

 Intel To Slash Chip Prices By Over 40 Percent (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4578963.html?tag=unkn>
Intel will kick off aggressive chip pricing this weekend amid high PC inventories and slow sales.

 Microsoft, Sun Settle Java Dispute (MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/520583.asp>
Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it had settled a three-year-old lawsuit brought by Sun Microsystems Inc., agreeing to pay its rival a lump sum of $20 million for use of its Java technology in Microsoft products over the next seven years.

 Guidance Puts Compaq In A Delicate Balancing Act (TheStreet.com)
<http://www.thestreet.com/tech/hardware/1271096.html>
While investors were bidding up those shares, the company was quietly turning its guidance for fiscal 2001 into a high-wire act.

 Intel, 4C Still 'Lying' About CPRM - Gilmore (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/16300.html>
Gilmore points out that far from being mechanisms that ensure honest punters pay honest artists, the newest technologies drive roughshod over existing social practices and legal entitlements.

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

 Netscape.com To Get Merger Makeover (The Industry Standard)
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,21627,00.html>
The new portal (Pathfinder 2.0?) will combine magazine and film content from AOL Time Warner. Don't expect any shouts of joy from the America Online employees who were laid off Tuesday.

 To Vignette Or Not To Vignette (Silicon Alley Daily)
<http://www.siliconalleydaily.com/issues/sar01222001.html#Headline7482>
"I think they're putting out good software that I can implement simply," Pero says. "Clearly, Vignette is a very good environment to develop in. But their product also gives you enough rope to hang yourself with. And by that I mean it's very easy to build a site in Vignette that is difficult to maintain from a data or template standpoint, and probably not reliable."

 Intel, 4C Still 'Lying' About CPRM - Gilmore (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/16300.html>
Gilmore points out that far from being mechanisms that ensure honest punters pay honest artists, the newest technologies drive roughshod over existing social practices and legal entitlements.

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

 Netscape.com To Get Merger Makeover (The Industry Standard)
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,21627,00.html>
The new portal (Pathfinder 2.0?) will combine magazine and film content from AOL Time Warner. Don't expect any shouts of joy from the America Online employees who were laid off Tuesday.

 Fear Of A Web Planet (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/letters/2001/01/24/carr_response/index.html>
Author Caleb Carr calls criticism of his proposal for government regulation of the Internet "puerile, naive and rather sophomoric."

 To Vignette Or Not To Vignette (Silicon Alley Daily)
<http://www.siliconalleydaily.com/issues/sar01222001.html#Headline7482>
"I think they're putting out good software that I can implement simply," Pero says. "Clearly, Vignette is a very good environment to develop in. But their product also gives you enough rope to hang yourself with. And by that I mean it's very easy to build a site in Vignette that is difficult to maintain from a data or template standpoint, and probably not reliable."

 Merger Over, The New AOL Will Lay Off Over 2,000 (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/24/technology/24AOL.html>
The job cuts — representing slightly more than 2 percent of the company's 85,000 workers — come less than two weeks after America Online, the No. 1 Internet provider, completed its acquisition of Time Warner, one of the giants of traditional media. The cuts come atop the 400 jobs the company said last week that it would eliminate at its cable news network, CNN.

 Intel, 4C Still 'Lying' About CPRM - Gilmore (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/16300.html>
Gilmore points out that far from being mechanisms that ensure honest punters pay honest artists, the newest technologies drive roughshod over existing social practices and legal entitlements.

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

 Linux Lovers Launch Large Lab (Wired News)
<http://www.wirednews.com/news/technology/0,1282,41372,00.html>
The industry's first independent, nonprofit lab for developers who are adding business-oriented capabilities to Linux and Linux-based software opens for business Wednesday.

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

 Why Linux Will Succeed On The Desktop (osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/6935.html>
Here is an example of an OS that succeeded without applications paving the way. Windows gained its lead by providing for consumer desires at a better price point than the competition and by providing backward compatibility with older systems.

 Linux, Take Over The Desktop Now! (osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/6937.html>
Stop claiming that each version of Linux is an evolutionary improvement on the previous version. The computing populace has been trained to believe that throwing out a design because of serious flaws, and starting over with a "complete re-write" that turns into a new version, makes the software even more desirable.

 VA Linux Still Suffering From Post-Earnings Woes (Upside)
<http://www.upside.com/Open_Season/3a6decb21.html>
The growing disconnect between the success of Linux technology and the success of Linux technology companies hit its widest mark last week when analysts and attorneys decided to pile on flagship company VA Linux Systems.

 Linux Lovers Launch Large Lab (Wired News)
<http://www.wirednews.com/news/technology/0,1282,41372,00.html>
The industry's first independent, nonprofit lab for developers who are adding business-oriented capabilities to Linux and Linux-based software opens for business Wednesday.

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

 Singapore's Goh In New Race Row (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1134000/1134136.stm>
Singapore's prime minister, Goh Chok-Tong, has sparked a new row with neighbouring Malaysia by saying that ethnic Malays are treated better in Singapore than in Malaysia.

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

 Malaysia Party Leaders Rap Goh's Comments On Malays (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/010124/singapore/afp/Malaysia_party_leaders_rap_Goh_s_comments_on_Malays.html>
Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, head of the youth wing of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), accused Goh of undermining -- intentionally or otherwise -- the achievements of Malays in Malaysia. "The comparison, based on 400,000 Singapore Malays in the urban (area) and 13.5 million bumiputeras (Malays and other races considered indigenous) in urban and rural Malaysia, is inappropriate and clearly imbalanced," said Hishammuddin, quoted by Bernama news agency late Tuesday.

 Lee Kuan Yew's Son Singapore PM's Preferred Successor By 2007 (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/010124/singapore/afp/Lee_Kuan_Yew_s_son_Singapore_PM_s_preferred_successor_by_2007.html>
Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in remarks published Wednesday he has chosen Lee Hsien Loong, his deputy and the son of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, as his preferred successor. But Goh said in an interview with the Straits Times he still wants to lead his government into another victory at the polls, scheduled for August 2002, before handing over leadership to a new team by 2007.

 Singapore's Goh In New Race Row (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1134000/1134136.stm>
Singapore's prime minister, Goh Chok-Tong, has sparked a new row with neighbouring Malaysia by saying that ethnic Malays are treated better in Singapore than in Malaysia.