[MyAppleMenu] Apr 12, 2002

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=== top =============

WWDC 'Will Be Best Yet' - Kerris (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4502>
"It's going to the coming of age for Apple and Mac OS X."

=== news =============

NAB Convention Boon For Apple, Bust For MPEG-4 (Ben Wilson, NewsFactor)
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&ncid=738&e=8&u=/nf/20020411/tc_nf/17231>

PowerBook Adventures (Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/11/1018333394021.html>
A couple of Titanium PowerBook computers, a video camera and a satellite telephone are among the essential items on board Kijana, the elegant 16.5-metre yacht that has set off on a two-year voyage around the world, captained by a skinny kid with a powerful personality.

Formac Shows Off External DVD-RW Drive (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2110-1040-881426.html?tag=cdshrt>

UBS Upgrades Ratings On Apple, Says Co. In 'Unique Position' (Dow Jones)
<http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/dj/?story=/news/stories/dj/20020411/on20020411000599.htm&column=P0DAR>
US Warburg doesn't expect Apple to meet March quarter expectations, but that didn't stop the investment firm from raising its rating on the stock to a strong buy from a hold.

=== opinions =============

A New Age In Personal Computing (Adam Robert Guha, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/archive/02/0412.html>
Is the all-purpose "home computer" dead?

=== reviews =============

Do-It-Yourself Wi-Fi (Owen Thomas, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,39276,00.html>
How to build a high-speed wireless home network of your own.

Teaching Your iPod Some New Tricks (Josh Quittner, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,39560,00.html>
Four crafty ways to expand the horizons of Apple's potent MP3 player.

=== internet news =============

Why Web Services Will Kill HTTP -- Eventually (Larry Seltzer, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-881592.html>

Give Your Password To Complete Strangers? No Problem... (Tim Richardson, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24812.html>

AOL Time Warner Stock Hits Post-Merger Low (Geraldine Fabrikant with Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/technology/12AOL.html>
Investors have grown concerned about the company's balance sheet, turmoil in its Internet unit, and stock sales by a big shareholder.

=== wintel top news =============

Microsoft's Mythical Man-Years (Scott Rosenberg, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/04/12/microsoft_man_months/index.html>
The company boasts that it's making Herculean security efforts -- but throwing more people at software problems rarely solves them.

Microsoft And Trust (Dan Gillmor, SiliconValley.com)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/3043434.htm>
Someday, unless Microsoft changes its ways, it will be brought down from a combination of its own arrogance, law enforcement and pure market forces. Then it will learn, too late, that it has no friends. Temporary allies, yes. But no friends.

=== wintel news =============

Why Web Services Will Kill HTTP -- Eventually (Larry Seltzer, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-881592.html>

Lots Of No-Shows At Microsoft Conference (Allison Linn, Associated Press)
<http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/356967p-2901608c.html>
Mexican President Vicente Fox can't leave his country, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev unexpectedly must return to his, and Microsoft President Rick Belluzzo quit.

Microsoft Shifts Web Services Plan Toward Companies (Reuters)
<http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/wire_story.html?uri=/dailynews/101/technology/Microsoft_Shifts_Web_Services_:.shtml>
Microsoft has reworked its Web-based services strategy, shifting tactics from an initial plan to act as the main gatekeeper for customer data, to providing basic software to let companies built their own versions of such services.

Win-XP Search Assistant Silently Downloads Files (Thomas C Greene, The Register)
<http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24611.html>
Fo rnow it appears that there' snothing here for users to worry about. But there is a question about MS playing fast and loose with people's Internet connections.

=== linux top news =============

Wireless Linux: Putting Wireless To Work (David HM Spector, O'Reilly Network)
<http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/04/11/enterprise.html>
One of the best-supported access points is also one of the first that was available: the Apple AirPort.

=== reader : world =============

The White Stuff (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/opinion/12KRUG.html>
The Bush administration has appointed a recorded number of corporation executives to high-level positions, often regulating or doing business with their former employers.

=== reader : tech =============

Microsoft's Mythical Man-Years (Scott Rosenberg, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/04/12/microsoft_man_months/index.html>
The company boasts that it's making Herculean security efforts -- but throwing more people at software problems rarely solves them.

Can Technology Foil Hijackers? (Matthew L. Wald, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/technology/circuits/11FLYY.html>
Steps that increase security once a plane is in the air may create their own saftey risks.

=== reader : life =============

Neo Is The One (Bryan Walsh, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020408-221199,00.html>
Singapore's biggest movie star has it all: he's breaking the box office and goofing on the government.

Black-Tie Pot Pies (Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-041002potpie.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dfood%2Dmanual>
Here's what happens when three Southern Califronia chefs dress up an American classic.

Checking Out The Checkpoints (Malcolm Gladwell, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064257>
The curious irrationality of airport security.

Farmer In A Cell? (Garance Franke-Ruta, The American Prospect)
<http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/04/franke-ruta-g-04-05.html>
Who Jose Bove, the anti-McDonalds vandal and sometime Palestinian liberator, really is.

=== singapore news =============

Singapore Consumer Tax Hike Worries Retailers (Jacqueline Wong, Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-99831.html>
Retailers are hoping that a rush for big items ahead of the changes, and as shoppers get used to the increase after that, will even out the initial losses in business.

Hong Kong Mulls Next Move As Singapore Unveils Tax Cuts (Andrea Ricci, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=MOGP2QY2WTDBICRBAEZSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=804659>
Tax experts disagree on how big a blow the move would be.

Neo Is The One (Bryan Walsh, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020408-221199,00.html>
Singapore's biggest movie star has it all: he's breaking the box office and goofing on the government.

Singapore Says Malaysia's Reclamation Worries Unfounded (Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=LX3YCI3MFC55QCRBAEKSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=803285>
"Mah Bow Tan has assured me that there was no basis whatsoever for the Malaysians' complaints."

Full-Time Mother Or Full-Time Career Woman? (Soh Ping Ling, Asahi Shimbun)
<http://www.asahi.com/english/op-ed/K2002041200328.html>
The biggest different [between Japan and Singapore] is the role of women inraising their children, especially during the period of infancy.

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