[MyAppleMenu] Mar 5, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

New Ads, Products Help Apple Polish Its Business Image (BtoB)
<http://www.btobonline.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=5249>
Company targets corporate enterprise buyers with titanium laptop, Mac OS X.

Advertisement : New Feeds On MyAppleMenu (MyAppleMenu)
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/tools/feed/>
There are two new feeds into MyAppleMenu added: Artificial Cheese provides the Mac community with reviews and opinions, while OS X Talk brings you all your news on the next generation of Mac OS. On the other hand, an existing feed, MacWEEK, has been removed.

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

Alternative Browser Running Hard At Netscape, Microsoft (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
<http://www.bergen.com/biz/browse0520010305.htm>
Hailing not from Silicon Valley but from Oslo, Norway, Opera Software A.S. has developed an Internet browser that's fast becoming a favorite among computer cognoscenti

New Ads, Products Help Apple Polish Its Business Image (BtoB)
<http://www.btobonline.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=5249>
Company targets corporate enterprise buyers with titanium laptop, Mac OS X.

Apple Revamps MUG Section Of Their Site (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/03/05.2.shtml>

Two More sites Join Apple Retail Chain (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/17328.html>
Littleboro, Colorado and New York City have joined Chicago; Glendale, California and Palo Alto as unofficially confirmed sites for outlets in Apple's soon-to-be-opened retail chain.

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

One Brain Or Two? (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/1or2.html>
We're not buying -- we're just thrilled with our Titanium PowerBook -- but if we had a reason to buy a high-end production machine, we'd give the nod to the "two brains are better than one" dual-processor Power Mac G4/533.

Zero Click Web Surfing (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/backnforth/010305.html>
How many clicks or keystrokes did it take you to get to Low End Mac?

Opera's Browser Rocks Mac (Macinstein)
<http://www.macinstein.com/pressrelease.cfm?ID=821>
Normally I shy away from alpha and beta software, but the condition of Mac web browsers is in trouble and I figured an alpha of Opera couldn't be any worse than Netscape 6.0's final version.

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

Microsoft Finishes OfficeXP On Time (Associated Press)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/techwr/20010304/tCB00V5497.html>
Microsoft Corp. is poised to announce that it has completed its latest version of Office -called "XP" -on time, a relative rarity in the setback-prone technology field.

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

Maxtor Picks Windows, Dumps Open Source (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5009496.html?tag=owv>
Maxtor has switched from the open-source FreeBSD version of Unix to a special-purpose version of Windows 2000 for a new storage system it's introducing Monday.

Sharp To Challenge Palm, Pocket PC With Linux PDA (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5023907.html?tag=owv>
Sharp, which leads Japan's market for handheld electronic organizers, said it will challenge Palm and Microsoft on their home turf by introducing a device running on the free Linux operating system.

Microsoft Finishes OfficeXP On Time (Associated Press)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/techwr/20010304/tCB00V5497.html>
Microsoft Corp. is poised to announce that it has completed its latest version of Office -called "XP" -on time, a relative rarity in the setback-prone technology field.

Intel Takeover Of Xircom Gets Antitrust Green Lights (ComputerUser)
<http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/03/04/news1.html>

Microsoft May Delay Xbox Game System In Japan, Analysts Say (Bloomberg)
<http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Technology%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_tech&T=markets_fgcgi_content99.ht&s2=blk&bt=ad_bottom_tech&bt2=ad_position1_technology&middle=ad_frame2_technology&s=AOqI.TBT1TWljcm9z>
Microsoft may face delays in Japan because many game companies there have yet to embrace Xbox, executives said. Only Tokyo-based Konami Corp. has publicly identified game titles it's developing for the system. Microsoft needs home-grown games because Japanese users have different tastes than users in the U.S.

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

Alternative Browser Running Hard At Netscape, Microsoft (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
<http://www.bergen.com/biz/browse0520010305.htm>
Hailing not from Silicon Valley but from Oslo, Norway, Opera Software A.S. has developed an Internet browser that's fast becoming a favorite among computer cognoscenti

Zero Click Web Surfing (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/backnforth/010305.html>
How many clicks or keystrokes did it take you to get to Low End Mac?

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Plus: the trouble with fries, the mystery of sleep, and the excitement of the swimsuit issue.

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

New Tools Hatch For Sniffing Out Web Bugs (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5008849.html?tag=owv>
A handful of companies are arming Web surfers with tools for finding and repelling so-called Web bugs--invisible pieces of code that can be used for everything from secretly tracking people's Web travels to pilfering computer files.

Alternative Browser Running Hard At Netscape, Microsoft (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
<http://www.bergen.com/biz/browse0520010305.htm>
Hailing not from Silicon Valley but from Oslo, Norway, Opera Software A.S. has developed an Internet browser that's fast becoming a favorite among computer cognoscenti

Zero Click Web Surfing (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/backnforth/010305.html>
How many clicks or keystrokes did it take you to get to Low End Mac?

Opera's Browser Rocks Mac (Macinstein)
<http://www.macinstein.com/pressrelease.cfm?ID=821>
Normally I shy away from alpha and beta software, but the condition of Mac web browsers is in trouble and I figured an alpha of Opera couldn't be any worse than Netscape 6.0's final version.

Copyright.net Fight May Get Ugly (Business 2.0)
<http://www.business20.com/content/channels/technology/2001/03/02/27329>
Aggressive new anti-piracy technology sets the stage for another digital music legal fracas. Will ISPs reveal customer names to music industry?

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

Sharp To Challenge Palm, Pocket PC With Linux PDA (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5023907.html?tag=owv>
Sharp, which leads Japan's market for handheld electronic organizers, said it will challenge Palm and Microsoft on their home turf by introducing a device running on the free Linux operating system.

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Plus: the trouble with fries, the mystery of sleep, and the excitement of the swimsuit issue.

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

Sharp To Challenge Palm, Pocket PC With Linux PDA (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5023907.html?tag=owv>
Sharp, which leads Japan's market for handheld electronic organizers, said it will challenge Palm and Microsoft on their home turf by introducing a device running on the free Linux operating system.

Community: Microsoft's New Strategy Against Open Source (Linux Today)
<http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-03-03-007-20-OP-CY-MS>

Kernel 2.4.3-pre1 Is Out (Linux Today)
<http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-03-04-012-04-NW-KN>

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

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

Singapore MPH Unit To Sell And Lease Back MPH Building (Dow Jones)
<http://asia.biz.yahoo.com/news/asian_markets/article.html?s=asiafinance/news/010305/asian_markets/dowjones/Singapore_MPH_Unit_To_Sell_And_Lease_Back_MPH_Building.html>

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

M1 To Offer Location-Based Services (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/1/fbzit/fbzit18.html>
Mobile operator MobileOne will introduce location-based services on mobile phones by the middle of this year that can alert M1 customers when their friends are within a specifed distance range, or be notified of news, sales, or prices of products that they may have chosen as preferences.

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

Act 3 Stages Arts Festival Just For Kids (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010305/5/j485.html>