[MyAppleMenu] Jul 18, 2001

Wed Jul 18 21:05:10 EDT 2001

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Jobs Unveils Speedier iMacs, Power Macs (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6600684.html?tag=lh>
Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs unveiled speedier iMacs and Power Macs during his keynote speech Wednesday at the Macworld Expo here, though the announcements lacked the punch he usually offers at the trade show.

Mac OS 10.1 'Sneak Peek' (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/18.osx.shtml>
"You name it and it's faster."

The Real Macworld (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45313,00.html>
Has any trade show done this much advertising, ever?

IDC Claims Apple Is The Leader In The Educational Market (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/07/17.18.shtml>
Industry research firm IDC has issued a report stating that Apple is the unquestioned leader of the education market.

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

Radeon 2 Shown Behind Closed Doors (Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=3321>

Maya To Ship On September 25th (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/18.maya.shtml>
Maya Complete 3 is an industry-standard 3D rendering and animation package that was previously available for Linux, IRIX and various flavors of Windows.

OS X: Coming Soon (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001s/news/0718-expo_osx.html>
Nicknamed "Puma," the OS X 10.1 update will include a faster, multi-threading-savvy kernel to improve the OS's performance, as well as enhancements to the Aqua interface. The update also sports some additions that OS X's early adopters have been crying for--namely disk burning and the long-awaited DVD playback feature.

Think Different, Look The Same (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001s/news/0718-expo_imac.html>
Trends in music change at the drop of a hat--and so, too, do iMac colors, apparently.

The Sims Moving To OS X (Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=3310>
This carbonized version of the game is underway now at Westlake Interactive, and an initial release could be as soon as sometime next week.

Jobs Unveils New G4s, iMacs (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45319,00.html>
Wearing his trademark black turtleneck and jeans, Jobs told the packed auditorium that the key to powering through tough economic times is innovation, not fear and caution.

Jobs Unveils Speedier iMacs, Power Macs (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6600684.html?tag=lh>
Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs unveiled speedier iMacs and Power Macs during his keynote speech Wednesday at the Macworld Expo here, though the announcements lacked the punch he usually offers at the trade show.

iDVD 2 Coming To Mac OS X (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/18.idvd.shtml>
iDVD 2 will offer motion menus, new themes, the ability to add a soundtrack in slideshows and background encoding.

Mac OS 10.1 'Sneak Peek' (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/18.osx.shtml>
"You name it and it's faster."

Quicken 2002 Debuts For Mac OS X (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=8152>
The Carbonized app will be available later this summer, and sport new on-line banking functionality, as well as allowing users to download their most recent transactions from participating brokerages directly from the Web into Quicken via OFX technology.

XPress 5 In Keynote Demo (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=3198>
Quark has been working on a native version of XPress since Mac OS X shipped, and it offers all the Web-ready features promised by XPress 5, the forthcoming version of the DTP standard that's due to enter beta-testing within the next few weeks. It also offers a unique, much-requested feature - multiple undos.

Painter 7 Carbonized (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=3197>
Corel today announced its second Carbonized application – Painter 7 – and revealed its software family is now collected under the umbrella brand-name, Procreate.

Apple Says Wait For Jobs (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45327,00.html>
While the legions of Mac fans await the next visionary words from Jobs, the number-crunchers at Apple headquarters offered news that failed to set Wall Street afire the evening before the much-speculated-upon keynote.

DoubleTalk 1.1 Debuts With Printer Support (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=8144>
Connectix has released a significantly updated version of its application for accessing Windows networks, DoubleTalk 1.1.

Virtual PC Comes To Mac OS X In Beta Form (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=8143>
The new release is dubbed "Connectix Virtual PC for Mac OS X Test Drive." Registered owners of Virtual PC for the Classic Mac OS environment will be able to download a copy of the Mac OS X release immediately.

OpenDoc Resurrected On Windows (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=8145>
Apple's ill-fated OpenDoc project is being resurrected on the Windows platform by a company called Stardock.

Codewarrior And Its 'Siblings' Continue To Evolve (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/18.codewarrior.shtml>
If you like CodeWarrior for the Mac, you'll really like version 7, which is due this fall, according to the folks at Metrowerks.

IDC Claims Apple Is The Leader In The Educational Market (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/07/17.18.shtml>
Industry research firm IDC has issued a report stating that Apple is the unquestioned leader of the education market.

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

The Real Macworld (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45313,00.html>
Has any trade show done this much advertising, ever?

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

Microsoft Pulls Back On Java Support (Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2790355,00.html>
Microsoft is quietly pulling back support for Java in its new products, dealing a new blow to a rival technology that played a starring role in the software giant's continuing antitrust battle with the government.

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

Hotmail Upgrade Will Make Your Life Better (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20461.html>
When we heard of this incredible upgrade, we quickly tapped in the magic address but were dismayed to find virtually no change at all.

Microsoft Pulls Back On Java Support (Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2790355,00.html>
Microsoft is quietly pulling back support for Java in its new products, dealing a new blow to a rival technology that played a starring role in the software giant's continuing antitrust battle with the government.

DoubleTalk 1.1 Debuts With Printer Support (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=8144>
Connectix has released a significantly updated version of its application for accessing Windows networks, DoubleTalk 1.1.

OpenDoc Resurrected On Windows (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=8145>
Apple's ill-fated OpenDoc project is being resurrected on the Windows platform by a company called Stardock.

Intel Hits The Gas On Pentium 4 (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6595036.html?tag=owv>
Intel is preparing a Pentium 4 blitz for the remainder of 2001, aiming to drive the chip into the heart of the desktop PC market before the end of the year, executives said Tuesday during a conference call after the chipmaker's second-quarter earnings announcement.

Microsoft Networking Software Gets Support (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6594210.html?tag=owv>
Intel, Linksys and other network equipment makers announced Tuesday that they are supporting Microsoft-backed software that connects consumer-electronic devices together.

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

3G Bankruptcy Fears Are 'Ludicrous' (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/20457.html>

AOL Revenue Falls Short (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6596966.html?tag=owv>
Media titan AOL Time Warner on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street expectations, but its revenue missed estimates.

Razorfish's Mistaken How-(Not)-TO (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45316,00.html>
Razorfish should have known there could be days like this but they weren't supposed to happen to the Internet consulting firm itself.

Web Advertising: It's Not Dead Yet (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6594881.html?tag=owv>
Internet advertising remains an effective marketing channel, particularly for fast-moving product categories, despite the death knells now being sounded for the medium, new research showed on Wednesday.

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

Singapore Tightens Grip On Internet Content (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010718/3/19esi.html>
Sintercom -- which runs chat rooms, a speaker's platform and the "Not ST" section as an alternative to the pro-government Straits Times newspaper -- has sent in the registration forms but now faces questions of how it will comply.

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

Foreigners Make Up 20% Of Singapore's Total Population (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.cna.mediacorpnews.com/articles/2001/07/18/singaporenews66686.htm>
Foreigners are becoming a significant part of Singapore's population, with Census 2000 figures showing they make up almost 20 percent of the four million people, up from 10 percent a decade ago.

Singapore Tightens Grip On Internet Content (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010718/3/19esi.html>
Sintercom -- which runs chat rooms, a speaker's platform and the "Not ST" section as an alternative to the pro-government Straits Times newspaper -- has sent in the registration forms but now faces questions of how it will comply.

DBS Poker-Faced As Offer Deadline For OUB Looms (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010717/3/19e51.html>
Singapore's bank takeover saga nears a key deadline on Friday when the DBS Group must issue an offer document for Overseas Union Bank (OUB), but bankers said odds of an increased bid are no better than even.

Bank On DBS To Meet Service Standards (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,57979,00.html?>
At branches in Centrepoint, Liat Towers and Tampines DBS Centre, we found more tellers than customers. But at branches in Bedok and Woodlands, queues sometimes held about 30 customers and the wait could be as long as half an hour.

'Public' Operators A Misnomer (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,57904,00.html?>
They are just as private as the private-bus operators who want in on the feeder routes.

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

Police Say They Have Identified COE Hacker (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,14880,00.html?>
The Singapore Police Force yesterday said it had identified the person responsible for attempting to hack into the new COE open-bidding computerised system, and that he was 'assisting in the investigation'.