[MyAppleMenu] Mar 30, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Titanium Strengthens Apple Laptop Sales (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5383620.html?tag=owv>
Apple Computer bucked sluggish retail notebook sales in February, with sales up 31 percent year over year.

OS X Update Circulating Before Official Release (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5382612.html?tag=owv>
Apple would not comment on the update circulating on the Web, other than to say it is pirated.

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

Casady & Green's Carbonized Games (The Macjunkie)
<http://www.themacjunkie.com/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid985970918,51138,?x>

Jump In, The Streaming's Fine (Gannett News Service)
<http://www.starnews.com/business/articles/streaming0326.html>
Some advances in technology improve Web reception of audio and video, even over dial-ups.

Appel's Next Step (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/22/BU175500.DTL&type=tech_article>
OS X is an eye-catching, smooth-working rebirth of the Macintosh operating system.

Titanium Strengthens Apple Laptop Sales (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5383620.html?tag=owv>
Apple Computer bucked sluggish retail notebook sales in February, with sales up 31 percent year over year.

OS X Update Circulating Before Official Release (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5382612.html?tag=owv>
Apple would not comment on the update circulating on the Web, other than to say it is pirated.

Apple VP Clent Richardson Leaves For Cellular Company (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0103/29.richardson.shtml>

Toast 5 Titanium Now Available (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0103/29.toast5.shtml>
The new version of Toast incorporates a brand new graphical user interface, and also sports the ability to do background printing, regardless of whether or not your drive has buffer underrun (or "burnproof") protection.

Users Have Their Say On Mac OS X (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5080355,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest>
Apple Computer's Mac OS X launch shook the earth for many of the company's die-hard fans last weekend. But aftershocks may cause some Mac enthusiasts unexpected trouble.

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

Old Mac Users Not Nuts (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/macdan/010330mm.html>
There still seem to be people in the world that have use for these machines and also lack the US$1,000 to get a modern replacement.

OS X & Respected Macs (Macinstein)
<http://www.macinstein.com/pressrelease.cfm?ID=862>

The Death Of HyperCard? (O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/03/29/mac_dev.html>

Del Miller: Rope and Chain (Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/abacus/rope_and_chain.shtml>
Because of MacOS X, the Macintosh community will be going through some interesting times: Were part of the Unix world now and the rules are much, much different. How will the merging of the Unix world into ours change the Macintosh culture?

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

The Agony Of Making Home DVDs (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2001/03/21/idvd.html>
Suffice it to say that I'm not a big fan of iDVD's Slideshow interface.

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

Microsoft Won't Discuss Downturn (Reuters)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/551987.asp>
Microsoft Corporation declined to say on Friday whether the sputtering U.S. economy would have an impact on its earnings outlook for the second half of its current business year, which ends in June.

Microsoft's Cheerful Desperation (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2702563,00.html>
Microsoft wants the next generation of personal computers to be more usable. Who could disagree? But PC buyers may be more than a little surprised, and not entirely pleased, to learn the full extent and direction of Microsoft's influence over the capabilities and design details of the next generation of business and home machines.

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

Microsoft Won't Discuss Downturn (Reuters)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/551987.asp>
Microsoft Corporation declined to say on Friday whether the sputtering U.S. economy would have an impact on its earnings outlook for the second half of its current business year, which ends in June.

Microsoft's Cheerful Desperation (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2702563,00.html>
Microsoft wants the next generation of personal computers to be more usable. Who could disagree? But PC buyers may be more than a little surprised, and not entirely pleased, to learn the full extent and direction of Microsoft's influence over the capabilities and design details of the next generation of business and home machines.

Emachines Cuts Jobs, Retrenches (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5383813.html?tag=owv>
Discount-computer seller Emachines will cut 16 percent of its work force and pull back its efforts aimed at getting revenue from online advertising.

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

If You Post It, Will They Pay? (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5382552.html?tag=owv>
Online publishers can't sell enough ads to make ends meet, so they're taking a stab at another way to make money that many had once rejected: subscriptions.

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

Business Ups And Downs At Internet Speed (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/30/technology/30INFO.html?pagewanted=all>
With all the information supposedly at their fingertips, why were executives so out of touch?

Dotgone (The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=550644&CFID=1639338&CFTOKEN=260060>
Downturns have always brought layoffs, but this time the downsizing is different. For a start, it is coming more quickly and with less warning.

Jump In, The Streaming's Fine (Gannett News Service)
<http://www.starnews.com/business/articles/streaming0326.html>
Some advances in technology improve Web reception of audio and video, even over dial-ups.

If You Post It, Will They Pay? (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5382552.html?tag=owv>
Online publishers can't sell enough ads to make ends meet, so they're taking a stab at another way to make money that many had once rejected: subscriptions.

Consumers Fail To Make CueCat Purr (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5381233.html?tag=owv>
As advertising sales go to the dogs, an offbeat marketing scheme aimed at bridging print and online media with CueCat digital scanners is getting bitten.

WSJ.com Set To Cut Staff (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5378457.html?tag=owv>
Internet news site WSJ.com intends to lay off some of its staff as part of a restructuring plan to reduce costs amid the Net advertising slowdown, parent company Dow Jones confirmed Thursday.

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

Linux Loves The Slow Economy (LinuxWorld.com)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-03/lw-03-penguin_4.html>
The main barrier to open source in the enterprise is CIO psychology.

More Linux Developers Select Red Hat (IDG)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.publish.com/ic_493107_4894_1-2748_138_11.html>
77.2% of those surveyed chose Red Hat Linux over other distribution choices.

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

Debian Linux Gets A New Leader (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5383831.html?tag=cdshrt>
Ben Collins has been named new leader of the project developing the Debian version of Linux, according to voting results announced Thursday. Collins replaces Wichhert Akkerman, who had been Debian project leader for the two most recent terms.

Questioning Linux Community Commitment (LinuxWorld.com)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-03/lw-03-geek_2.html>
Business and the open source community: Can one support the other?

Linux Loves The Slow Economy (LinuxWorld.com)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-03/lw-03-penguin_4.html>
The main barrier to open source in the enterprise is CIO psychology.

More Linux Developers Select Red Hat (IDG)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.publish.com/ic_493107_4894_1-2748_138_11.html>
77.2% of those surveyed chose Red Hat Linux over other distribution choices.

'Forgotten' Distros Stealing Linux Developers' Mindshare (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17973.html>
Money may pour in and out of commercial Linux vendors, but that does little to diminish the enthusiasm for the less well-known distros. Results from a survey of Linux developers seem to prove the diversity of the distro market.

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

Singapore Rights Activists Lose Appeal To Stage Rally (AFP)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010330/1/llyg.html>
One of the organisers of the "Save JBJ Rally," James Gomez, said Friday a new application would now be filed under the name of an organisation.

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

Singapore Rights Activists Lose Appeal To Stage Rally (AFP)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010330/1/llyg.html>
One of the organisers of the "Save JBJ Rally," James Gomez, said Friday a new application would now be filed under the name of an organisation.

Singapore Police Deny Targetting Falungong (AFP)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010330/1/llsp.html>
Singapore police denied Friday they had singled out the Falungong spiritual movement after seven members of the Buddhist-inspired sect were jailed for obstruction and illegal assembly.

Singapore Laws Fair And Equal To All: Police (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010329/5/lkj9.html>
The statement follows the sentencing of 15 Falungong members on charges of obstructing a public servant in the discharge of his duty, and also for participating in an illegal assembly.

Singapore Airlines Attendants Get New, Safer Shoes (Associated Press)
<http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/03/29/singaporeairlines.ap/index.html>

Staff At NUS Not Bound By Gag Order (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,33319,00.html?>
Lawrence Loh, Director of Corporate Communications, National University of Singapore: NUS is more consultative now than it ever has been. There is regular dialogue between university management and faculty and staff members.

Sing $ Falls Past S$1.80 Against US Dollar (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/5/news/nfrnt04.html>

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

Financial Portals Learn The Hard Way (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/0,1381,15448,00.html?>
Faced with overcrowding, unsustainable burn rates and poor revenue models, some of these sites began gasping for breath.

WizOffice Loss Widens 14.5 Times To $18.9m (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,33318,00.html?>
The e-commerce provider tried to stem its losses by commencing a restructuring exercise last October, involving the trimming of manpower and slashing of other overheads.

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

Singapore Film-Makers Explore Growth In Documentary Genre (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2001/03/30/singaporenews55500.htm>
Documentaries are the focus of this year's Singapore International Film Festival which opens in April.