[MyAppleMenu] Mar 11, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Good Critic Is Missed; Bad Titanium Doesn't Spoil Barrel (Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:COMP64/1:COMP640309101.html>
So don't make too much of the fact that the sample machine Apple sent me happened to have a bad DVD system. Nevertheless, this defect is particularly worrisome because Jobs rushed the machine into production in an effort to attack the company's badly sliding sales figures.

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

Service Allows Users To Easily Add Updated Headlines To Their Web Site (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/03/09.4.shtml>
Applesurf has announced a new service that allows users to add updated headline news content to their Web site.

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

Good Critic Is Missed; Bad Titanium Doesn't Spoil Barrel (Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:COMP64/1:COMP640309101.html>
So don't make too much of the fact that the sample machine Apple sent me happened to have a bad DVD system. Nevertheless, this defect is particularly worrisome because Jobs rushed the machine into production in an effort to attack the company's badly sliding sales figures.

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

Survey: Microsoft "Running Scared" Over Linux (ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/dailynews/story/0,2000013063,20208149,00.htm>
A staggering 73 percent of 1250 respondents disagreed with Microsoft's stance on the open-source software movement, according to a ZDNet readership survey.

Windows XP Shows Promise (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/11/BU227691.DTL&type=tech_article>
There is hope.

Microsoft Eyes Content Management (CRN)
<http://www.crn.com/sections/news/top_news.asp?ArticleID=24635>
Microsoft is working with NCompass Labs to fill a gaping hole in its Web applications portfolio: content management.

AMD Downgraded Because Of Intel Warning (Reuters)
<http://www.ebnonline.com/digest/story/OEG20010309S0035>

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

How Dot-Coms Joined The Old Economy (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/10/opinion/10SHIR.html>
What the Internet brought to the economy — the ability to move information worldwide instantly, at low cost and on demand — is still revolutionary, but it is now a revolution within, rather than against, the old economy.

Do You Kick Yahoo? (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2001/03/10/yahoo_down/index.html?CP=RDF&#38;DN=310>
The company has the best name in its business, enviable market share and $1.7 billion in cash. So why is there suddenly a Yahoo deathwatch?

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

A Tangled Web Of Hope And Fear (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010311/t000021305.html>
The Internet has eased adoption in some cases, but it can also be a minefield of unscrupulous child-brokering.

Napster: Court Deadline Approaches (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2694730,00.html>
By the end of Monday, music-swapping company Napster must prove to the court, the record labels and the world that it is officially blocking songs from being traded with the help of its service.

How Dot-Coms Joined The Old Economy (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/10/opinion/10SHIR.html>
What the Internet brought to the economy — the ability to move information worldwide instantly, at low cost and on demand — is still revolutionary, but it is now a revolution within, rather than against, the old economy.

Do You Kick Yahoo? (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2001/03/10/yahoo_down/index.html?CP=RDF&#38;DN=310>
The company has the best name in its business, enviable market share and $1.7 billion in cash. So why is there suddenly a Yahoo deathwatch?

Microsoft Eyes Content Management (CRN)
<http://www.crn.com/sections/news/top_news.asp?ArticleID=24635>
Microsoft is working with NCompass Labs to fill a gaping hole in its Web applications portfolio: content management.

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

Survey: Microsoft "Running Scared" Over Linux (ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/dailynews/story/0,2000013063,20208149,00.htm>
A staggering 73 percent of 1250 respondents disagreed with Microsoft's stance on the open-source software movement, according to a ZDNet readership survey.

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

Survey: Microsoft "Running Scared" Over Linux (ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/dailynews/story/0,2000013063,20208149,00.htm>
A staggering 73 percent of 1250 respondents disagreed with Microsoft's stance on the open-source software movement, according to a ZDNet readership survey.

Linuxgruven.com Lays Off 100 Employees (St Louis Business Journal)
<http://stlouis.bcentral.com/stlouis/stories/2001/03/05/daily41.html>

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

Surf And Turf (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/1/fbzit/fbzit97.html>
Singapore-based Bluengine Holding Pte Ltd said it will offer wireless broadband networks in 13 A&W fast-food outlets, as well as Bluengine's 32 cybercafes, giving diners access to the Internet and corporate Intranets through laptops, pocket PCs and other handheld devices.

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

Surf And Turf (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/1/fbzit/fbzit97.html>
Singapore-based Bluengine Holding Pte Ltd said it will offer wireless broadband networks in 13 A&W fast-food outlets, as well as Bluengine's 32 cybercafes, giving diners access to the Internet and corporate Intranets through laptops, pocket PCs and other handheld devices.

Upgrade Your PC At A Discount By Donating It To CDC (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010311/5/jv4f.html>
The latest effort to recycle personal computers has received good response.

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

Two New Mega Bookstores Hit Heartland (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,29055,00.html?>
Popular opens at Choa Chu Kang Centre; myepb goes to Kovan City.