[MyAppleMenu] Sep 3, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Back To School 2001: All Digital, All The Time (Post-Gazette)
<http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010903digital0903p2.asp>
Quaker Valley's approach is built on a wireless network that was installed in all four of its school buildings during the summer.

Apple Still Dominates, But Dell Is Quickly Catching Up (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/03/BU175536.DTL>
Little by little, the Texas computer-maker starting winning over schools.

Outlook 'Sanguine For Apple' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=3439>
Leading IT-industry analysts AG Edwards has struck an optimistic note for the future of Apple – while warning of further turmoil for Wintel companies.

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

Back To School 2001: All Digital, All The Time (Post-Gazette)
<http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010903digital0903p2.asp>
Quaker Valley's approach is built on a wireless network that was installed in all four of its school buildings during the summer.

Apple Still Dominates, But Dell Is Quickly Catching Up (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/03/BU175536.DTL>
Little by little, the Texas computer-maker starting winning over schools.

Apple Boss Puts Health, Family First (Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://it.mycareer.com.au/opinion/macman/2001/09/04/FFXCE3L55RC.html>
"I am going to miss Apple like crazy."

Outlook 'Sanguine For Apple' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=3439>
Leading IT-industry analysts AG Edwards has struck an optimistic note for the future of Apple – while warning of further turmoil for Wintel companies.

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

Snapz Pro X 1.0 (ATPM)
<http://www.atpm.com/7.09/snapz-pro-x.shtml>
While SPX still has a few small glitches, mostly due to the unfinished nature of OS X, Snapz Pro X is even more indispensable for OS X than Snapz Pro 2 was for the old Mac OS.

iBook First Impressions (MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/intelligence/01/09/03/index.html>

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

New PCs Could Use A 'Killer App' (Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/pluggedin/bal-pl.himowitz03sep03.column?coll=bal%2Dhome%2Dcolumnists>
The sad truth is that for average users, new PCs have become boring.

Oops! Dell Gives Away Win2K Product Key On Web Site (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21431.html>
Microsoft's favourite OEM seems to blotting its copybook big-time.

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

New PCs Could Use A 'Killer App' (Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/pluggedin/bal-pl.himowitz03sep03.column?coll=bal%2Dhome%2Dcolumnists>
The sad truth is that for average users, new PCs have become boring.

Intel Quietly Ships 1.1, 1.0GHz Celerons (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/21423.html>

Oops! Dell Gives Away Win2K Product Key On Web Site (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21431.html>
Microsoft's favourite OEM seems to blotting its copybook big-time.

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

Internet Replacing Libraries For Homework (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7039672.html?tag=owv>
Thanks to the Internet, research projects and other school assignments are being completed at home, on-line, replacing last-minute trips to the library, according to a study released Saturday.

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

E-Biz Pubs Feel The Pain (Knowledge at Wharton)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-7024400-0.html?tag=owv>
"Strangely enough, I think if 2000 hadn't existed, maybe The Industry Standard would still be around."

Internet Replacing Libraries For Homework (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7039672.html?tag=owv>
Thanks to the Internet, research projects and other school assignments are being completed at home, on-line, replacing last-minute trips to the library, according to a study released Saturday.

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

Egenera To Debut $250,000 Linux Server (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7027294.html?tag=owv>
Server start-up Egenera will debut its high-end Linux server Sept. 11, a model for financial-services customers that will cost at least $250,000.

Compaq Boosts Red Hat Ecommerce Suite (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21415.html>
The suite is to be bundled with a host of configurations and servers and pushed out to customers through a joint initiative.

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

Singapore 'Set For Year Of Decline' (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1522000/1522549.stm>
Efforts by the government to bolster demand will prove insufficient to save the economy from ending 2001 smaller than at the beginning of the year, economists surveyed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore concluded.

Reveal The True Picture To The Average Singaporean (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/views/story/0,2276,20035,00.html?>
I am perturbed that the government is not so forthcoming on bad omens which can have a profound negative impact on the life of the average Singaporean.

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

Channel U Wins 1/3 Of Chinese Viewership (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,20158,00.html?>
It had average prime time rating of 4.9% in Aug, against Channel 8's 10.4%.

Singapore 'Set For Year Of Decline' (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1522000/1522549.stm>
Efforts by the government to bolster demand will prove insufficient to save the economy from ending 2001 smaller than at the beginning of the year, economists surveyed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore concluded.

Singapore GDP Seen Shrinking To 0.5% In 2001: MAS Survey (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,20059,00.html?>
Singapore's gross domestic product is expected to contract to 0.5 percent this year, according to the mean, or average, forecast of 29 economists participating in a survey by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Development Is In Hands Of Private Enterprise: SM Lee In KL (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010902/5/1e00q.html>
In this different world, he said, countries like Singapore must try to move a step ahead, and this is why Singapore is in a pensive mood as it realises it cannot do what it has been doing for the last 30 years.

Give The Young A Chance To Live On Their Own (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/views/story/0,2276,20015,00.html?>
I am still unsure how living at home with extended families will enhance the chances of young people to build relationships that will lead to healthy new families being established, when many of the skills that they require to be good parents are undertaken by their own parents and maids.

Reveal The True Picture To The Average Singaporean (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/views/story/0,2276,20035,00.html?>
I am perturbed that the government is not so forthcoming on bad omens which can have a profound negative impact on the life of the average Singaporean.

Singapore Has To Squeeze Between Giants (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,68057,00.html?>
Singapore has about five to 10 years to manoeuvre on its highway of growth, before it is overrun by huge convoys coming from China and India, said Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew last night.