[MyAppleMenu] Apr 17, 2002

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

Flat-Panel iMacs Lift Apple Earnings (Ian Fried, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-885392.html>
Buoyed by strong demand for the new flat-panel iMac, Apple's second-quarer earnings were in line with what the company had forecast in January.

Apple Publicly Betas Mac.com Webmail Service (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/17.webmail.php>
Th new service enables you to check and manage your Mac.com e-mail account online, using a secured connection through a Web browser.

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.1.4 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/17.1014.php>
Changes to Mac OS X include improved network, security and additional disc recording device support.

Apple Polishes Up For Earnings (Joanna Glasner, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51829,00.html>
After a difficult year for technology shares, Apple's stock remains in better shape than most of its PC-industry rivals. The company's upcoming quarterly earnings report is expected to offer some insights into whether that trend will continue.

Mac-Gaming Enters New Era (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4522>
UK technology firm Coderus has announced its innovative games-development solution, MacDX, bringing DirectX support to the Mac.

Apple Presses The Emotional Buttons (Simon Sholl, The Times)
<http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,802-269285,00.html>
"I like it -- I want it -- what is it?"

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

Apple Stores Should Be Profitable Before Year's End (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/17.stores.php>

SuperDrive Now BTO Option For Power Mac/800 System (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/17.superdrive.php>

Apple Reports $40 Million Profit (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/17.profit.php>

Apple 1 Goes Up For Auction (Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108552,00.html>
Motherboard for sale: no graphics, no hard disk, 8K memory. $50,000 ONO.

Apple Books MacExpo 2002 (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4526>
Apple UK has confirmed it will be a major presence at MacExpo 2002, the show's organizers confirmed today.

The Secret Of Steve Jobs's Survival (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2002/nf20020417_0307.htm>
Whenever Apple loses its way, the CEO's inspired innovations help it surge ahead of the PC pack. The latest example: DVD technology.

Is Apple's QuickTime King Of The Digital Media Hill? (Ben Wilson, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17274.html>
According to analysts, the key to the success of any streaming media format is the support of third-party developers.

Security Flaw In Microsoft Office For Mac (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-884364.html>
Microsoft acknowledged on Tuesday that its popular Office applications for the Macintosh have a critical security flaw that leaves users' systems open to attack by worms and online vandals.

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

The All-Purpose Home Computer Is Alive And Well (Jesse Mathewson, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/myturn/02/0417.html>

Grading Steve Jobs (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2002/nf20020417_3781.htm>
Apple's fortunes seem to have mirrored those of its co-founder and guiding spirit, Steve Jobs. How do you rate his performance?

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

Entourage Or Palm Desktop On OS X? (Evan Kleiman, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/macdan/02/0417ek.html>

Apple: Give Me Back My Pixels (And Fix The Finder) (Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2861569,00.html>
Aqua feels like a mudle of new interface elements thrown together with the primary goal of looking maximally different, both to minimize comparisons with Mac OS 9 and to engender lots of oohing and aahing about its eye candy-ness.

Software Shootout: OS X Mail Clients (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=02/04/16/2044238>

The IDEs Of Mac (Daniel H. Steinberg, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/04/16/osx_java.html>
In this article, I'll look at JBuilder, IDEA and a few other IDEs. There's a bigger issue here that I'll address in the Pre-ramble: look at the number of choices you have for developing in Java on Mac OS X.

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

Another Big MS Browser Hole Found (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,51899,00.html>
Internet Explorer users who click their browser's back button open the Windows operating system to a malicious hack attack.

Apple Publicly Betas Mac.com Webmail Service (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/17.webmail.php>
Th new service enables you to check and manage your Mac.com e-mail account online, using a secured connection through a Web browser.

More Static For 3G (Jim Erickson, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020422-230451,00.html>
A cheaper, faster technology might give third-generation cellular networks a run for the money.

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

Another Big MS Browser Hole Found (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,51899,00.html>
Internet Explorer users who click their browser's back button open the Windows operating system to a malicious hack attack.

Survey: MS Passport Required, Not Wanted (Joe Wilcox, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-884832.html>
Microsoft has doubled the number of people signed up for its Passport authentication service, but the majority of people are doing so because of product requirements rather than the allure of new features, Gartner said Wednesday.

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

AMD Trots Out Athlon XP 'Throughbred' (John G. Spooner, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-884725.html>
The chiopmaker launched its line of new Mobile Athlon XP processors.

Test Time For Microsoft's Wireless .Net (Matt Berger, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/17/020417hnnet.xml>
Microsoft on Wednesday is expected to release the first public beta version of a software product that will help extend it .Net initiative to mobile devices and to elaborate on its strategy for bringing .Net services and applications to wireless users.

Microsoft Preparing For High-End Windows (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-884391.html>
Microsoft is builidng a high-end feature into Windows for speeding up data access in multiprocessor servers &madsh; a feature that to date has been available only in high-end Unix servers, the company said Tuesday.

Security Flaw In Microsoft Office For Mac (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-884364.html>
Microsoft acknowledged on Tuesday that its popular Office applications for the Macintosh have a critical security flaw that leaves users' systems open to attack by worms and online vandals.

Intel Meets Q1 Forecasts But Future Still Foggy (James Niccolai, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/16/020416hnintelq.xml>
Intel reported first-quarter earnings Tuesday that matched analysts' predictions but saw net income decline from a year earlier thanks partly to continued weak spending on IT products in both Europe and the U.S.

The Microsoft Penalty That Isn't (Bruce Perens, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-883627.html>
Let the U.S. Department of Justice and the nine U.S. states that want to settle with Microosft know that you won't tolerate a sham. The remedies in the antitrust case must not exclude Microsoft's only real competitor.

=== linux news =============

Linux Kernel Captain Deported (James Middleton, vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130948>
Marcelo Tosatti, the 18 year-old Brazilian Linux kernel hacker and Linus Torvalds's right hand man, was deported from the US last week because of visa problems.

The Microsoft Penalty That Isn't (Bruce Perens, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-883627.html>
Let the U.S. Department of Justice and the nine U.S. states that want to settle with Microosft know that you won't tolerate a sham. The remedies in the antitrust case must not exclude Microsoft's only real competitor.

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

My Man Pervez! (Walter Shapiro, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064361>
How Bush makes foreign policy too personal.

Broadcasting The War (Max Rodenbeck, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/17/opinion/17RODE.html>
The new power and reach of the Arab media has taken the graphic imagery of Israel's reinvasion of the West Bank into millions of Arab households.

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

Magic Pots (C. Thi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-041702teacup.story>
Yixing or Gaiwan? The right choice can make tea sipping an adventure.

Sexy Specs (Charles Taylor, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/04/17/glasses/index.html>
Glasses, like small breasts, seem to be one of those things that women automatically assume men find unattractive.

Sweathing Through Spring's Mercurial Mood Swings (Phil McCombs, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62552-2002Apr16.html>
A couple nights there last week you wanted the heat on, and Tuesday it was a record 92 degrees on the Mall and kids were having to eat their ice cream, like, really FAST.

An Asian Odyssey In Los Angeles, Seconds From The Freeway (R. W. Apple Jr., New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/17/dining/17ASIA.html>
Here in the San Gabriel Valley, northeast of downtown Los Angeles, more than 500 Chinese restaurant vie for your business.

Lost On 'Mulholland Drive' (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-ftr-drive16.html>
We have finally met defeat. A film ahs resisted our efforts to pound it into submission.

=== reader : expressions =============

The Performance (Arthur Miller, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?020422fi_fiction>
Harold May would have been about thirty-five when I met him. With his blondish hair parted in the exact middle, and his horn-rimmed glasses and remarkably round boyish eyes, he resembled Harold Lloyd, the famous bespectacled movie comic with the surprised look.

The Famous Poet Lives Secretly Next Door (Bryan Narendorf, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064132>

=== singapore top news =============

Why PM Goh Did Not Receive His Baby Bonus (Susan Long, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/analysis/story/0,1870,114817,00.html?>
Was anyone surprised that the Singapore stork failed to bite the Baby Bonus bait?

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

Lowering Land Costs: Governemnt's Dilemma (Jeffrey Ho Loon Poh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,114751,00.html?>
If the committee is serious about coming up with bold measures to reduce business costs, it should look at ways to reduce high land costs.

Let Me E-File By Apple Mac (Paul Huang, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,114752,00.html?>
The Interne tis ubiquitous and end users should not be forced to use a particular platform or device.

Why Do Ez-Link Card Buyers Have To Give NRIC? (Felix Ser Cherk Yen, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,114756,00.html?>

One-Cent Coins to Go to Charity (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,114831,00.html?>
Singapore mint wants to collect one-cent coins to give to charity.

Queueing For Four Nights, To Get Flat Of Choice (Neo Hui Min, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,114837,00.html?>
The process begins only on Saturday but early birds have been camping outside the Sengkang HDB office since Tuesday.

Catch-All Centre For The Arts (Tan Shzr Ee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,114734,00.html?>
Regional arts research gets a boost with the formation of the new Contemporary Asian Arts Centre.

Budget Day: All The News, Before 5pm (Ignatius Low, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,114835,00.html?>
The entire budget statement will be delivered when financial markets are still open - allowing investors to react immediately to market-sensitive announcements.

'Malaysia And Singapore Can Lead The Way' (The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/4/17/nation/rafi16&sec=nation>
Singapore and Malaysia, with its experience and know-how, can together penetrate the Asean market.

Getting To The Root Of Declining Singapore Demand (The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/4/17/nation/jbgreens&sec=nation>
"It so happens that the recent drop in demand seemed to coincide with the strained Malaysia-Singapore relations over the reclamation issue but the connection between the two factor shas yet to be proven."

Gurkhas Guard Singapore From Terror (Maria Golovnina, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=ETY015J11FT44CRBAEKSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=827675>
There days, Nepalis not Singaporeans guard some of the city's most sensitive sites.

Wrong Target (Barry Wain, Far Eastern Economic Review)
<http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0204_18/p014region.html>
The US has returned to Southeast Asia in search of villians but is finding itself involved in local disputes that may have little to do with international terrorism.

More Static For 3G (Jim Erickson, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020422-230451,00.html>
A cheaper, faster technology might give third-generation cellular networks a run for the money.

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