[MyAppleMenu] Dec 14, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Dec 14, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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PC Killer On The Loose (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/12/16/021216plpowerbook.xml>
The PowerBook G4 isn't a product to watch; it's the only notebook on the market worth spending $2,500 on, and at that price, it's a steal.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Starts India Arm For Video Professionals (PTI)
<http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/06141809.htm>
Apple Computer International today launched its first authorised training centre in India for video and broadcasting professionals in Chennai.

Hobbits Shop At Apple Store (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/12/hobbit/>
Real-life hobbits go shopping.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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A New Apple iBook Breaks The $1,000 Price Barrier (Troy Dreier, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,763946,00.asp>
The $999 Apple iBook is not an extremely high-end system, but it isn't low-end, either; it's a good machine at a bargain price.

New Keyboards Are Changing The Computer Connection (Charles Bermant, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134595612_ptkeyboard14.html>
It's been a long time since a keyboard really meant anything.

Apple's iSync Gets It All Together (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134595613_ptmacc14.html>
It's clear iSync and iCal are critical to its vision of a digital hub in which the Mac and a .Mac account help organize one's life.

Homemade Dot Mac: Home Web Radio (Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/13/homemade_dotmac.html>
If the idea of having your own radio webcast, for fun or profit, intrigues you, then you've come to the right place.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Intel makes Big Develoment Push On Wireless Technology (Bob Brewin, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,76728,00.html>
Intel Corp. is working to develop what it calls a "wireless ecosystem" that's aimed at eventually allowing users with any kind of computing device to tap into any kind of network worldwide.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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A Retailing Mix: On Internet, In Print And In Store (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/14/technology/14ONLI.html>
The fastest growth appears to be coming from retailers that have mastered how to use the Internet in conjunction with catalogs, stores or both.

The Right Term Is Copyright Infringement (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2425>
Just what are the boundaries of fair use?

Commodity Shuffle (David L. Margulius, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/12/16/021216plcommod.xml>
The rapid commoditization of hardware in recent years is yielding great benefits for customers but brutal consequences for vendors increasingly forced to compete on price.

CTOs Face Challenges In Tech Advances (Loretta W. Prencipe, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/13/021213hntransformers.xml>
Many CTOs feel that they are their company's "chief transformation officer," with one foot in strategy and one foot in prevailing technology.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Big Fat Case Against Big Macs (Ellen Goodman, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52916-2002Dec13.html>
If people have their share of personal responsibility for what they eat, is it really frivolous to expect some responsibility on the part of corporations for what and how they market?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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NPR Serves Up Breakfast Serial (Paul Farhi, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53010-2002Dec13.html>
The most unusual aspect of the NPR production may be when it will air.

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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What You Do When A Substitute Teacher Tells Her Class That St. Nick Isn't Real? (Peter Bernard, Sun-Sentinel)
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cgrinch13dec13,0,2491816.story?coll=sfla%2Dnews%2Dfront>

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