[MyAppleMenu] Jul 9, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

InDesign And Illustrator To Be First Adobe OS X Apps (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/09.adobe.shtml>
Although Adobe is openly committed to releasing Photoshop as a native application for OS X, the company would not specify when users could expect to see the program.

Apple Acquiring DVD Software Maker (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6525229.html?tag=lh>
Apple Computer is buying privately held DVD software maker Spruce Technologies, the Mac maker confirmed Monday.

QED: Apple Number One In Education Market (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/09.education.shtml>
Dell is no longer number one in the educational computing market, nor will it overtake Apple in the next school year. This according to statistics from Quality Education Data (QED) a provider of K-12 and higher education market research.

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

Jobs' MWNY Keynote To Be Broadcast Via Satellite, QuickTime (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/09.keynote.shtml>
Contrary to other published reports, Apple CEO Steve Jobs' Macworld New York keynote will be broadcast via satellite and QuickTime streaming, Apple announced today.

InDesign And Illustrator To Be First Adobe OS X Apps (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/09.adobe.shtml>
Although Adobe is openly committed to releasing Photoshop as a native application for OS X, the company would not specify when users could expect to see the program.

OS X Gets Open-Source Porting System (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2783280,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest>
In a move that combines open-source Unix technologies from inside and outside Apple's campus, a small, independent group has brought the FreeBSD "ports system" to Darwin, the open-source core of Mac OS X.

Signs Point To New iMacs (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6524335.html?tag=lh>
Supplies of Apple Computer's iMacs are dwindling at resellers and distributors, a sign that changes could be in store for the company's venerable all-in-one computer.

Apple Acquiring DVD Software Maker (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6525229.html?tag=lh>
Apple Computer is buying privately held DVD software maker Spruce Technologies, the Mac maker confirmed Monday.

QED: Apple Number One In Education Market (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/09.education.shtml>
Dell is no longer number one in the educational computing market, nor will it overtake Apple in the next school year. This according to statistics from Quality Education Data (QED) a provider of K-12 and higher education market research.

UMAX Ships Astra 4400 USB Scanner (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=7804>

== AppleSurf (Opinion) ===============

Why Is A Power Adapter Recall A Bad Thing? (MacMonkey.com)
<http://www.macmonkey.com/editorials.php?task=view&articleID=170>
Looks like Apple isn't the only person recalling power related things for laptops.

Discussion: Installing Linux On The New Apple iBook (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01/07/09/172248>

Anti-Spam Measures Marginalize Low-End Macs (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/01/0709.html>
I appreciate why they are doing this, and I support anti-spam measures in principle, but in this case a side effect appears to be that 68K Macs are no longer supported on their network for sending POP 3 email.

The 25th Anniversay Mac (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/myturn/01/0709.html>
This has been bothering me, though I don't know why exactly....

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

Antitrust: Is Microsoft Ready To Deal? (Interactive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2783145,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest>
If the government and Microsoft can't hammer out a settlement soon, a new U.S. District Court judge will be assigned to the antitrust case next month and charged with proposing remedies.

Amazon Gives Peek At Windows XP Pricing (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6524338.html?tag=lh>
Consumers could pay more for Windows XP than for earlier versions of the operating system, according to early pricing information posted by online retailer Amazon.com.

Microsoft Fine Print Tells All (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/09/BU233058.DTL>
What was surprising about last month's ruling -- and what I think justifies Ashcroft's claim of victory -- is the extent to which an appeals court that showed little deference to Jackson during oral arguments ended up accepting (unanimously, at that) his Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.

'MS Antipriacy' Hoax Triggers Paranoia Attacks (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20253.html>
So even within the Mighty Redmond they don't entirely discount the possibility that - say - some crazy in Microsoft Research has accidentally unleashed the Enforcementbot on the world, with all that implies to them for damage-control.

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

Antitrust: Is Microsoft Ready To Deal? (Interactive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2783145,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest>
If the government and Microsoft can't hammer out a settlement soon, a new U.S. District Court judge will be assigned to the antitrust case next month and charged with proposing remedies.

Amazon Gives Peek At Windows XP Pricing (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6524338.html?tag=lh>
Consumers could pay more for Windows XP than for earlier versions of the operating system, according to early pricing information posted by online retailer Amazon.com.

Can Microsoft Weather Its HailStorm? (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6524275.html?tag=owv>
A partial outage of Microsoft's MSN Messenger service, now in its seventh day, is casting a shadow over a wide-ranging services strategy that Microsoft hopes will be its future.

Why It Pays To Embrace And Extend .NET - De Lcaza (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20270.html>
It's just that .NET provides most of the answers in an acceptable, standards-blessed (it's going through the ECMA process right now) form.

Microsoft Fine Print Tells All (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/09/BU233058.DTL>
What was surprising about last month's ruling -- and what I think justifies Ashcroft's claim of victory -- is the extent to which an appeals court that showed little deference to Jackson during oral arguments ended up accepting (unanimously, at that) his Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.

'Time Bomb' In Microsoft Visual Studio.Net Beta 2 (IDG)
<http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/07/09/ms.time.bomb.idg/index.html>
Microsoft Corp. sent attendees of its recent TechEd developer conference a notice last week stating that a 'time-bomb' bug has been found in Visual Studio.Net.

'MS Antipriacy' Hoax Triggers Paranoia Attacks (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20253.html>
So even within the Mighty Redmond they don't entirely discount the possibility that - say - some crazy in Microsoft Research has accidentally unleashed the Enforcementbot on the world, with all that implies to them for damage-control.

QED: Apple Number One In Education Market (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/09.education.shtml>
Dell is no longer number one in the educational computing market, nor will it overtake Apple in the next school year. This according to statistics from Quality Education Data (QED) a provider of K-12 and higher education market research.

Bill Gates' Nightmare (ClickZ)
<http://clickz.com/article/cz.4085.html>
Bill Gates felt he could now sleep snugly, knowing that the U.S. government would not break up his company. So one night last week he pulled the comforter over himself, sank deep into his pillow, and settled down for a well-deserved snooze. But then he began to dream.

Microsoft Sees Clear Victory On 'Bundling' (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/09/business/09SOFT.html>
The court ruling, the antitrust experts say, does not mean that Microsoft has an entirely free hand in designing its monopoly product, Windows. Instead, the appeals court said business efficiency and consumer benefit should be weighed against the anticompetitive effect of a design — a balancing doctrine called the "rule of reason."

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

Third Of U.S. Workers' Web Use Is Monitored - Study (Newsbytes.com)
<http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/11034-1.html>
The low price of monitoring software, coupled with the increasing ubiquity of Internet communication is driving considerable growth in electronic workplace surveillance.

Yahoo Adjusts Advertising Attitude (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6477561.html?tag=owv>
Once secretly reviled by many traditional advertisers and agencies for arrogance and inflexibility, the kinder, gentler Yahoo has been noticed in the industry.

So Is It Or Isn't It A Museum? Only The Web Suffix Knows (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/09/arts/09ARTS.html>
This is a tale about what it means to be a museum in the age of cyberspace.

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

Webvan Bags It For Good (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5093818,00.html>
Troubled Webvan on Monday said it has ceased operations and plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The Hard Reality Behind 3G Services (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2783260,00.html>
Mobile operators are confident in that future, investors and analysts are not as sure. One thing that is indisputable – the manner in which we use mobile devices today will dramatically change in the next several years. Who will emerge victorious and who will go belly up will be determined during this time as well.

Third Of U.S. Workers' Web Use Is Monitored - Study (Newsbytes.com)
<http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/11034-1.html>
The low price of monitoring software, coupled with the increasing ubiquity of Internet communication is driving considerable growth in electronic workplace surveillance.

Can Microsoft Weather Its HailStorm? (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6524275.html?tag=owv>
A partial outage of Microsoft's MSN Messenger service, now in its seventh day, is casting a shadow over a wide-ranging services strategy that Microsoft hopes will be its future.

Yahoo Adjusts Advertising Attitude (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6477561.html?tag=owv>
Once secretly reviled by many traditional advertisers and agencies for arrogance and inflexibility, the kinder, gentler Yahoo has been noticed in the industry.

Anti-Spam Measures Marginalize Low-End Macs (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/01/0709.html>
I appreciate why they are doing this, and I support anti-spam measures in principle, but in this case a side effect appears to be that 68K Macs are no longer supported on their network for sending POP 3 email.

Slinging Shots At Singapore (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44866,00.html>
"Here you take things for granted. You have sites like The Onion that take the mickey out of politicians. But in Singapore, because of the way they control what you can do, it's an eye-opener."

So Is It Or Isn't It A Museum? Only The Web Suffix Knows (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/09/arts/09ARTS.html>
This is a tale about what it means to be a museum in the age of cyberspace.

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

OS X Gets Open-Source Porting System (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2783280,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest>
In a move that combines open-source Unix technologies from inside and outside Apple's campus, a small, independent group has brought the FreeBSD "ports system" to Darwin, the open-source core of Mac OS X.

Why It Pays To Embrace And Extend .NET - De Lcaza (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20270.html>
It's just that .NET provides most of the answers in an acceptable, standards-blessed (it's going through the ECMA process right now) form.

Discussion: Installing Linux On The New Apple iBook (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01/07/09/172248>

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

Slinging Shots At Singapore (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44866,00.html>
"Here you take things for granted. You have sites like The Onion that take the mickey out of politicians. But in Singapore, because of the way they control what you can do, it's an eye-opener."

Singapore May Lower Growth Target As Reality Bites (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010709/3/18xy7.html>
Singapore has so far avoided sounding too gloomy about the economy despite a sharp slowdown in exports, but it faces the real prospect of having to lower its growth forecast for the year.

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

Slinging Shots At Singapore (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44866,00.html>
"Here you take things for granted. You have sites like The Onion that take the mickey out of politicians. But in Singapore, because of the way they control what you can do, it's an eye-opener."

Singapore May Lower Growth Target As Reality Bites (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010709/3/18xy7.html>
Singapore has so far avoided sounding too gloomy about the economy despite a sharp slowdown in exports, but it faces the real prospect of having to lower its growth forecast for the year.

Singapore's Rail Operator SMRT Launches Bid For TIBS (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010709/3/18ygx.html>
A joint company statement said SMRT, which runs the city state's subway system, would pay S$1.405 in cash as well as a special gross dividend of 3.5 Singapore cents for each TIBS share.

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

Broadband Rivals Likely To Do Battle (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,56106,00.html?>
Contest between Starhub-SCV and SingTel is expected to push one in four surfers to use this faster Net access.