[MyAppleMenu] Dec 20, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Dec 20, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Is Apple Growing Leaner? (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-978535.html>
Apple Computer laid off 180 employees in its fourth fiscal quarter and said that it's facing increasing pressure in the education market, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.2.3 (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/19.macosx.php>
Apple today released an update for Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, bringing the current version to 10.2.3.

MyAppleMenu : News
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10-K Filing Offers Insight To Apple's Past, Future (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/19.10k.php>
Apple noted a seven percent increase in net sales from 2001 to 2002, but said that Mac unit sales were relatively flat from year to year. The company attributes sluggish demand in the European and Japanese markets as one possible explanation for the lack of worldwide growth.

Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered In CUPS (The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/20/1040174379812.html>
Security firm iDefense, which released details of the vulnerabilities yesterday, said exploitation of the vulnerabilities could allow local and remote attackers, in the worst of scenarios, to gain root privileges on a victim's computer.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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A Year To Forget (Katharine Mieszkowski, Farhad Manjoo and Andrew Leonard, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/12/20/year_in_review/index.html>
Enron, WorldCom, United; the war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley; a droopy stock market; and more, more, more spam. 2002 was not a whole lot of fun in the world of business and technology.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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AOL Quiet On Use Of New IM Patent (Scarlet Pruitt, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/19/021219hnaolquiet.xml?s=IDGNS>
AOL isn't announcing whether or not it has any plans to use the patent.

Oracle Plan Exposes Java Rift (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-978445.html>
In a move that has exposed a growing schism in the Java community, an Oracle proposal to bridge Java development tools moved ahead this week with approval from competing Java companies.

802.11 "Standards Drift" And Interoperability Certification (Matthew Gast, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2452>

What Is RSS? (Mark Pilgrim, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html>
RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Thong Or Bikini, Sir? (Charles Taylor, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/12/20/lingerie/index.html>
How to go lingerie shopping for your woman without feeling as though you're 16 and sneaking a peek at Playboy with your Sunday-school teacher standing next to you.

Rediscovering And Celebrating The Vertical Life (Herbert Muschamp, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/19/nyregion/19APPR.html>
In our hype-drenched era, a critic will have to risk raising cynical eyebrows with superlatives adequate to the occasion. Let them rise. Let them arch into furious knots. The architects have risen to the occasion. So should we.

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