[MyAppleMenu] Dec 13, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Dec 13, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Bridging The Education Gap (Tanya Mitchell, The Republican Journal)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1466&dept_id=182766&newsid=6368139&PAG=461&rfi=9>
In the week since seventh-graders have had the computers for in-class use, teachers of core subjects have found ways to incorporate the machines in their itineraries on a slow-but-sure basis.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Nine Lives For Mac OS 9 (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-977881.html>
Apple said Friday that it will continue to sell schools some Macs capable of booting up into Mac OS 9, and will continue to sell a Power Mac G4 geared toward professionals such as graphic designers until June.

Apple Sees Web Traffic Decline, Ranks No. 41 (MacNN)
<http://macnn.com/news.php?id=17707>

IP Over FireWire Released Again, For ADC Members Only (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/13.ipfirewire.php>

UD Students Ready For Antarctica (Sean O'Sullivan, Delaware News Journal)
<http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2002/12/13udstudentsready.html>
Heading for the continent at the bottom of the world.

Spaceward Ho! 5 Adds Internet Play, OS X Support, More (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/13.ho.php>

Adobe Revenues Take Upturn (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=5691>

IBM Confirms AltiVec To Be In New PowerPC 970, Tightens Up Time Table For Production (Daniel Miller, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/12/12.13.shtml>
IBM has confirmed what most Macintosh fans have been hoping for: The vector processing unit in the PowerPC 970 is indeed AltiVec.

You Won't Find These Videos At Blockbuster (Carol Strickland, The Christian Science Monitor)
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1213/p13s02-alar.html>
Video is taking over as the medium of choice for artists, reinventing the language of art.

Mac Fraud Bust: The Inside Story (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/28548.html>
The arrest is the result of extraordinary perseverance and pluck from a 21 year old New Orleans student, aided by the online Mac community.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Sues Two People For Posting Trade Secrets: A Closer Look At The Issues (Bryan Chaffin and Vern Seward, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/12/11.16.shtml>
When this stuff gets published, it often blurs the line between "news" and "leaked trade secrets."

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Windows XP Spills The Beans On Wireless Access Points (Bret Glass, ExtremeTech)
<http://www.computeruser.com/news/02/12/13/news1.html>
XP's Wi-Fi software may tell hackers an access point's hidden SSID. But it doesn't stop there, it's possible to "spoof" the XP machine into believing it has connected to a familiar network.

More Wintel News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Alternative Web Browsers: Revenge Of The Lizard (Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20228.html>
Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's chief lizard wrangler, told NewsFactor that the software's open source nature helps the browser development team avoid Internet Explorer's many security issues.

Life On The Edge (Scott ROsenberg, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/12/13/supernova/index.html>
The geek-driven world of new "decentralized" technologies like Wi-Fi, blogging and Web services is more about cutting out the middleman than finding a business model.

Piracy Is Progressive Taxation, And Other Thoughts On The Evolution Of Online Distribution (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html>
The continuing controversy over online file sharing sparks me to offer a few thoughts as an author and publisher. To be sure, I write and publish neither movies nor music, but books. But I think that some of the lessons of my experience still apply.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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America As Wi-Fi Nation? Not So Fast (Jane Black, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2002/tc20021213_6091.htm>
Startup Cometa Networks has bold plans to put 20,000 wireless "hot spots" in 50 big cities. Too bad it might take 250,000 or more.

The Big Boys' Mad Dash Into Wi-Fi (Heather Green, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2002/tc20021213_7773.htm>
The wireless Internet is all the rage. The question now: Can tech giants turn it into a bona fide, billable business?

Spam Saturation Hits 40 Percent (Will Sturgeon, Silicon.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-977809.html>
In the days before Christmas the amount of spam e-mail being sent and received looks set to soar as marketing machines and e-greetings firms go into seasonal overdrive.

Australian Court's Upside-Down Internet Ruling (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/4719319.htm>
To say that defamation occurs where something has been read, as opposed to where it was posted, is an invitation to abuse.

Net Address Crunch Threatens Web Services (Uri Rahamim, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-977074.html>
The number of Internet addresses available using the current generation of Internet infrastructure built on IPv4 technology will run out by 2005, jeopardizing the continued development of both fixed and wireless Net-based services.

Begging For Bucks Online (Reuters)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-977090.html>
Need to pay down credit card debt? Desperate for money for music lessons? Simply tired of working and too embarrassed to stand on the corner with a tin cup? Try "cyberbegging."

SuSE, Red Hat In Linux Shootout (Matt Loney, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-977081.html>
Windows users thinking of switching to Linux--either as an alternative or as an adjunct in a dual-boot system--should turn to SuSE due to its ease of use. But more seasoned users will find the stability and stronger font control of Red Hat more to their taste.

TiVo: If Music Be The Food Of Profit... (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-977098.html>
TiVo said Thursday that its television recording system will soon be able to play digital music and show pictures stored in personal computers.

Segway Owners A Small, Happy Club (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56814,00.html>
A few lucky buyers got their hands on the first batch of Segways, but there's a problem: Everyone else wants to ride them.

Novell Previews New GroupWise Collaboration Suite (Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/12/021212hngroupwise.xml>
In a world of collaboration software dominated by Microsoft's Exchange and IBM's Lotus Notes, Novell continues to push ahead with its GroupWise application, hoping to distinguish itself in a busy field of contenders.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Why You Can't Get That Tune Out Of Your Head (James Meek, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,859040,00.html>
The many thousands of tunes most of us know, from arias to singles and jingles, are locked in a shifting pattern of neural circuits in a region just behind our foreheads, scientists say.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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A Quest For The Best Cookies (Bella English, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/345/food/A_quest_for_the_best_cookies+.shtml>
When I married, my husband came with a sleep sofa, a tacky dining room set, some great record albums, and -- by far the most valuable -- a family molasses cookie recipe.

Gaudy Or Nice? (Robin Givhan, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47746-2002Dec12.html>
What is this silly pressure to dress like a Christmas tree, mrs. Kringle or Bing Crosby?

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Record Number Of Grads Cannot Find Jobs (Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,160604,00.html?>
Degree holders, both old and new, have it tough. A good many of them are out of work and very few of them are finding new jobs.

Bus Card-Reader System Baffles Some Ez-Link Commuters (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/021213/5/singapore26981.html>
The problem is because the readers would only read the card when the bus reaches a stop and the doors open. It is part of a new Vehicle Location System being tested on 200 SBS Transit buses.

Singapore Telecoms Unfazed By StarHub Move To Fixed Lines (Sai man, Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/021212/15/35not.html>
StarHub this month will begin selling residential fixed-line services in Singapore, but the move isn't likely to seriously rattle dominant player Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. given its small scale.

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