[MyAppleMenu] Dec 11, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Dec 11, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple's QuickTime Phones Japan (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-976829.html>
Apple's QuickTime is poised to make headway as an audio and video delivery platform for mobile phones in Japan, with new standards-compatible software on its way and a fresh endorsement by leading wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple To Exhibit At BETT 2003 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/12/11/applebett>
BETT is the world's leading event for Information and Communications Technology in Education.

FileMaker Pro Update Tweaks XML Operations, More (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/11.filemaker.php>
With version 6.0v4, FileMaker Pro gets tweaked in the way it handles import/export XML operations involving remote XML/XSL data sources or files generated multiple HTTP requests.

Man Arrested For Leaking Apple Documents (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/11.powermac.php>
Apple on Wednesday filed a civil complaint in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara against a former contract employee for leaking documents.

Fetch 4.0.3 Released (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/11.fetch.php>
The update offers improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.2 ("Jaguar"), along with enhancements in AppleScript support, Kerberos security, and the use of SOCKS gateways.

Mac Users Share In Another First (Graham Rogers, Bangkok Post)
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/11Dec2002_datacol10.html>
Apple adds Bluetooth technology to its list of pioneering innovations.

Where Technology And Art Collide (Nancy Eaton, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/12/alfred/>
As multimedia technologies and computers become almost as accessible to aspiring artists as paint and brushes, these contemporary media and tools are transforming the way many fine arts students view and approach art itself.

Apple Aims To Get iPod "Into The Groove" (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-976827.html>
Apple has started selling versions of the iPod from its Web site that have Madonna's lasered autograph engraved on the back of the device.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Jaguar On The 800 MHz iBook (Korin Hasegawa-John, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/myturn/02/1211.html>
Jaguar is an excellent OS that is (mostly) a pleasure to use.

Smarter Than Your Average Keyboard (Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/11/1039379870710.html>
As standard keyboards go, the Macintosh variety is good: solid, well-designed, cool to view and nice to use. But if you wish for more, there are others, among the better of them those made by Logitech, creators of the first commercially made mouse.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Mono Trudges On With .Net Alternative (Matt Berger, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/11/021211hnmonoteam.xml?s=IDGNS>
Developers from the loosely-knit Mono project this week made available more bits and pieces of their technology, as they slowly plug away at creating an open source version of Microsoft Corp.'s .Net initiative. Meanwhile, plans for a complete release of the technology have been put on hold.

IBM Does VoIP, Finally (Scott Tyler Shafer, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/11/021211hnibmvoip.xml>
IBM on Wednesday announced it has begun offering a full set of services for migrating separate enterprise voice and data networks to a single IP- based network.

Sexism 'Rife' In Cyberspace (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2562601.stm>
A survey conducted by search engine AltaVista found that male chauvinism is alive and well on the internet.

Denmark Bills Users For Downloads (Peter Rojas, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,56717,00.html>
A group affiliated with the Danish music, film and software industries has been sending out invoices to users of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like Kazaa and eDonkey, demanding payment for downloaded copies of songs, movies or video games.

Verizon: Not Yet Time For Fancy Wireless (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-976975.html>

Bigger Web Ads Endorsed By Industry (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-976933.html>
Seeking to raise the profile of online advertising, an industry trade group that includes members such as MSN, AOL and Yahoo endorsed a new set of ad sizes that are larger than standard Web banners.

Internet Filters Block Many Useful Sites, Study Finds (John Schwartz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/technology/11FILT.html>
Teenagers who look to the Internet for health information as part of their "wired generation" birthright are blocked from many useful sites by antipornography filters that federal law requires in school and library computers, a new study has found.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Trying To Buy Our Way Out Of Trouble (Lizabeth Cohen, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/opinion/11COHE.html>
As we embrace brisk sales as an answer to economic ills, the ties between mass consumption and inequality should be noted.

'Kill Kurds, Not Mumia' (Napoleon Cole, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110002741>
Having fun at Seattle peaceniks' expense.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Fluent In French, With A West Coast Accent (Amanda Hesser, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/dining/11FRAN.html>
After decades on the culinary frontier, defining a new American cuisine on a foundation of local foods and seasonal cooking, San Francisco has shifted into reverse, with more than a dozen new bistros settling in neighborhoods from Potrero Hill to the Financial District to the East Bay.

Men Come, They Go (Rebecca Eckler, National Post)
<http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id={272B312C-3151-43C7-AE65-1E1C55ADF062}>
I always thought that when you had a boyfriend, that meant you had a relationship, but New York women have taught me otherwise.

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