[MyAppleMenu] Feb 1, 2002

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

Apple Sued Over G3 Support In OS X (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/31.g3osx.php>
Apple has been alleged of violating the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act by not supporting certian G3-equipped models of Mac system with the same features in Mac OS X afforded to more recently developed G4-based systems.

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

Amidst Losses, Corel Cites 2001 As "Turning Point" (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/01.corel.php>

Steve Jobs Talks Mac Gaming (Michael Phillips, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/features/view.php?ID=105>

Pro Mac Survey: Apple's Users Demand More (Architosh)
<http://www.architosh.com/news/2002-02/2002b-0201-morepower.phtml>
Now we have our new OS. So users are asking, "where's the beef?"

Book Looks At Mac OS X And Java (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/01.javabook.php>

He Writes The Songs: Mac Songs (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50161,00.html>
The Beatles sang about love, the Beach Boys crooned over the joys of surfing. Teacher John Swerdan has just cut an album about Macintosh computers.

Flash Player Beta Posted (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4189>

Adoe Says Revenue On Target (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2110-1040-827550.html?tag=cdshrt>

The Road Ahead For Avid (Frank Capria, Digital Video)
<http://www.dv.com/magazine/2002/0402/capria0402.html>
The game is far from over for Avid, but it's the bottom of the seventh in a tie game. Avid must score some runs or face the possibility of an upset by an underdog.

Ramsay School To Get $52,000 Grant (Montana Standard)
<http://www.mtstandard.com/newslocal/lnews4.html>
The school will buy a second Apple mobile lab with 11 portable computers that can be wheeled to various classrooms.

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

Appel Vs. The Customized OS (Adam Robert Guha, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/archive/02/0201.html>
Mac is easy to use because it does not have this customization. It is consistent.

Does Apple Needs Its Own Mail-Order Catalog? (Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2002/02/01.2.shtml>
You never know until you try.

Apple At The O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1106>
Apple's presence, focus, and responsiveness has really impressed me.

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

AOL Earnings Leave Investors Puzzled (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-828014.html>
AOL Time Warner's most recent earnings report highlights an increasingly complex accounting puzzle for investors seeking to untangle the finances of the world's largest media company.

FTC To Announce First Ever Crackdown On 'Spam' (Brian Krebs, Newsbytes)
<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174111.html>
The campaign would mark the first time the consumer-protection agency has specifically targeted spam as he focus of a law enforcement investigation.

AOL Home Page Glitches Irk Users (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-827901.html>
Some Web sites hosted on America Online have been hit by outages, leaving their Webmasters unable to update, view or transfer files on their home pages.

Trillian Won't Heed AOL's Message (Farhad Manjoo, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50169,00.html>
AOL's competitors have tried to make their systems attractive by offering compatibility with AIM, prompting AOL to block those systems.

Vignette Delivers Content Management TOols (Richard Karpinski, Internet Week)
<http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20020130S0004>
THe focus in the new suite is helping companies manage content at the departmental level.

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

Will The MS Judge OK The DoJ Deal? Aha... (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23913.html>
Judge 2.0, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, is in the happy position of not having had to express an opinion of any sort so far.

=== linux top news =============

Local Linux Edition Looks A Lot Like XP (Cydney Gillis, East Side Journal)
<http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/81343>
Lycoris is pulling a Microsot. They've bundled Windows-type programs into an operating system that looks and feels like Windows XP.

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

The Week In Review: Penguin Power (Steven Musil, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-828152.html>
Members and fans of the open-source computing community schmoozed this week at LinuxWorld.

Ellison Says Oracle's 'Whole Business' To Run On Linux (James Niccolai, IDG News Service)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO67867,00.html.html>
Oracle is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel servers running Linux.

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

Bush Flies While Democrats Lose Altitude (Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=95001811>
Has the party of FDR had a new idea since the New Deal?

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

Big Names, Little News -- This Is CNN? (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-TV-X!ArticleDetail-50914,00.html>
Have you checked out the new personality-obsessed, format-fixated, talk-driven, graphics-screaming, self-adoring, dumbed-down, less-news-is-good-news CNN? You know, the cable channel you can tune in around the clock and hear chat and opinion responding to chat and opinion?

Irving Penn's Nudes (David Bowman, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/sex/gallery/2002/02/01/penn/index.html>
Two New York shows highlight the photographer's brief sojourn into the world of women with lush, fleshy bodies.

A Shuttle Between Chinatowns (Alice DuBois, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/travel/BPFUNG.html>
What could possibly be important enough to persuade me to take this trip? A wedding or a family reunion, perhaps? No, the reason was a flour tortilla filled with chicken, rice and beans.

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

An Embarrassment Of Riches (Marlene Mason, Electric Acorn)
<http://acorn.dublinwriters.org/EA10/masonstory.html>

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

Private Sector May Manage CPF Savings (Ignatius Low, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,100516,00.html?>
Private-sector fund managers could take over the CPF's role in managing Singaporeans' retirement savings.

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

Watch S-League Live - Only On TV Works (Gerard Wong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sports/story/0,1870,100538,00.html?>
Its 'one match every Saturday' offer edges out rival's weekly highlights.

Parents Have Till Monday To Rethink Tudung Stand (Sandra Davie, Ahmad Osman, Tracy Quek and Jane Lee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,100483,00.html?>
Two defied the Friday deadline and a third has withdrawn from her school.

Chee Accuses Courts Of Crippling His Case (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,100473,00.html?>
"The courts have imperiled my case even before it has begun."

Koh Boon Hwee Joins Singapore Internet Company (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,34963,00.html?>
Koh Boon Hwee, chairman of SIA, was appointed executive director of Media Ring. The compnay also said it would layoff 35 per cent of its staff and restructure its operations to focus on higher growth telecommunications products and services.

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