[MyAppleMenu] Sep 1, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Steve Jobs Shows Up With Henrico iBooks (Times-Dispatch)
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBZF7T62RC.html>
The motivation behind Steve Jobs' appearance here is not difficult to identify.

Apple To Add Market Share On New Products; Disinterest In Wintel PCs (Pawtucket Times)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2299980&BRD=1713&PAG=740&dept_id=226964&rfi=6>
"Apple will be in the face of the consumer and education markets like never before and is not participating in the brutal price ar going on with the wintel platform."

Opera, Carbonized For Mac OS X, Now Available In Beta (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0108/31.opera.shtml>
Opera 5 is the company's small, fast, standards-compliant Web browser.

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

On Being A Mac User (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/archive/01/0831.html>
When you are thinking different, you have that extra power inside you to try and continue to be that way, to prove everybody wrong, to become the best.

The Mysterious Case Of The Free Mac OS X Upgrade That Will Cost You US$20 (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/thebackpage/2001/20010831.shtml>
US$19.95 is just plain highway robbery, even if Apple was justified in not offering a free avenue.

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

Connectix Virtual PC 4.0 (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/pipreviews/0,8827,534027,00.html>

Apple iBook (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22125-2001Aug30.html>
The iBook goes a long way toward becoming a portable computer that actually lives up to that name.

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

Code Red Cost Estimated At $2.6 Billion (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7026411.html?tag=owv>
While hefty, that was just a part of the total cost of attacks on computer systems this year.

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

Linux: A Chipmaker's Best Friend (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096500,00.html>
In a sign of how strategic Linux has become, AMD and Intel are angling to lure open-source programmers to their future chip designs.

Compaq To Drop iPAQ Bomb (InfoSync)
<http://www.infosync.no/en/news/n/559.asp>
Guess what's happening on September 4th and 6th? Oh, not much - except for Compaq launching its new iPAQ, and Microsoft officially announcing Pocket PC 2002, respectively.

Costco Trims Price Of Windows XP (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7027145.html?tag=owv>
It's not too early to start comparison-shopping for Microsoft's new operating system, as at least one retailer has already marked down Windows XP.

Code Red Cost Estimated At $2.6 Billion (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7026411.html?tag=owv>
While hefty, that was just a part of the total cost of attacks on computer systems this year.

DOJ Asks High Court To Turn Away Microsoft (Associated Press)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7023475.html?tag=owv>
The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court on Friday to reject Microsoft's request for review of the antitrust case against the computer software giant.

Microsoft's One-Two Punch For Handhelds (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-7025389.html?tag=owv>
Microsoft will hit Palm with a double whammy next week when it announces two new versions of its operating system for handheld computers, sources say.

Microsoft Fights New Battles In The Same War (Red Herring)
<http://www.herring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=%&doc_id=450020045&rh_special_report_id=>
As Microsoft awaits the courts' remedies for its antitrust violations (a settlement involving a fine seems most likely), the company is simultaneously trying to reinvent itself as a broad-services and media company.

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

Opera, Carbonized For Mac OS X, Now Available In Beta (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0108/31.opera.shtml>
Opera 5 is the company's small, fast, standards-compliant Web browser.

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

Linux: A Chipmaker's Best Friend (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096500,00.html>
In a sign of how strategic Linux has become, AMD and Intel are angling to lure open-source programmers to their future chip designs.

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

UOB Takes OUB And Is Now No. 1 (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,67720,00.html?>
After a nail-biting final few days, United Overseas Bank (UOB) has scraped through to have its offer for Singapore's No. 4 bank, Overseas Union Bank (OUB), in the bag.

Opposition Promises Livelier Speakers' Corner (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,67717,00.html?>
Party officials say they'll go there to practise public-speaking and introduce new faces in run-up to elections.