[MyAppleMenu] Nov 13, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

DRAM Prices Rise (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/22790.html>
The spot market saw a slight price rise on Friday, and the movement has continued through today.

Apple Offers Monitor Rebate (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=3792>

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

Huge Windows XP Sales Save The World (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22791.html>
Bill seems to have said some markedly different things about WinXP sales, depending...

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

Ellison Delivers Barbs To Microsoft (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5099541,00.html>
Ellison derided Microsoft's Exchange e-mail servers as unreliable and insecure.

Pet Vs Pet: MS Opens .NET Benchmarking Wars (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22781.html>
So what does all these sound and fury signify, exactly?

Huge Windows XP Sales Save The World (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22791.html>
Bill seems to have said some markedly different things about WinXP sales, depending...

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

ICANN: To Serve And Protect (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48344,00.html>
How to guard the Net's most vulnerable portions.

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

Linux Gets A Big Boost From Big Blue (Reuters)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2824236,00.html>
IBM has begun selling groups of server computers with Linux.

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

Singapore Beefs Up Anti-Terror Laws (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-72014.html>
Singapore formally condified United Naitons resolutions adopted after the atttacks on the United States.

Americans Leaving Singapore For New York Confident About Flying (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011113/5/1rwn2.html>
If there was any concern, it was to assure their families back home that they will return safely.

American Families In Singapore Mulling Not Flying Home (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011113/5/1rxt9.html>
Many of the American families here are having second thoughts about flying home for Christmas.

Poll Shows Singaporeans Find Career Goals Elusive (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-72037.html>
Hitting career goals have proved a frustrating experience for nearly 90 percent of Singaporeans.

PAP's MP-Elect To Continue To Meet Nee Soon East Festival Organisers (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011112/5/1rih7.html>

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

COE System Hacker Let Off With Warning (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,83987,00.html?>
The 35-year-old technology officer had attempted to break into the COE open-bidding website in June.

"SingTel Mobile" Out Of Porn Business (CNETAsia)
<http://asia.cnet.com/sg/0,39002190,39001140,00.htm>
SingTel has managed to recover the "SingTel Mobile" web site, which used to redirect surfers to a porn site.

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

Orchard X'mas Light-Up To Feature 'Tropical Aurora' (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011112/5/1rjf4.html>
This will be done with 80,000 holographic tubes and 2,000 projectors.