[MyAppleMenu] Feb 17, 2002

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

iMac's Radical Redesign Easy On The User As Well As The Eyes (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19658-2002Feb16.html>
The looks make the iMac an instant conversation piece. But they also make it an easy machine to live with.

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

Palm Upgrades Macintosh Software (Gannett News Service)
<http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/business/stories/bu021702s5.shtml>
Palm is working on new software so its personal digital assistants can better communicate with Apple's new OS X operating system.

'Everything Is Easier On A Mac' Pamphlet (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=12546>

=== reviews =============

Tie-Ins Aside, Apple iPhoto Shines (James Coates, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/chi-0202170338feb17.story?coll=chi%2Dprintbusiness%2Dhed>
It promises to bring new organizing powers to amateur picture-takers.

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

Can Xbox Revitalize The Video Game Market? (Terumitsu Otsu, Daily Yomiuri)
<http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020216woc2.htm>
Some critics in the Japanese video game industry have said the idea of hardware made by U.S. comapnies, or even of utilizing technology from a U.S. company, may not be readily accepted in Japan.

=== reader : tech =============

Intellectual-Property Ecology (Seth Shulman, Technology Review)
<http://www.techreview.com/articles/shulman0302.asp>
What tree huggers can teach us about the public domain of ideas.

The ABC's Of In-Dash MP3's (Ivan Berger, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/automobiles/17VIBE.html>
Cars have taken the names of all sorts of places and things, but the Mazda MP3 is probably the first model to be named after a feature of its sound system.

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

At Play With Night And Day In The Desert (Wade Graham, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-021702turrell.story>
James Turrell is about to unveil his life's work -- a natural crater carved into a celebration of light and space. Try hanging that in a museum.

A Passage To Freedom (Mary Kay Ricks, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1444-2002Feb12.html>
During Washington's era of rampant slave trading, two sisters embarked upon a remarkable journey and became a cause celebre for the abolitionist movement.

Into Thin Air (Roger Lowenstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/magazine/17AIRLINES.html>
Airlines have always been a hard business. But a case study of United shows why they have been so extraordinarily successful at making profits disappear.

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

Tudung Issue: 'Not Wise' To Involve Outsiders (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,103293,00.html?>
Goh Chok Tong revealed yesterday that some people here travelled to Malaysia to raise funds and got Malaysians involved.

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

Singapore Says Terror Suspects Planned Huge Bombs (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/nsin48347.html>
20 times more powerful than that used to destroy the Federal Building in Oklahoma.

New Facilities Planned For Woodlands Residents (Rozlin Othman, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2002/02/17/singaporenews21268.htm>
The new facilities planned include a regional park and new schools.

Streats Gets New Look (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,36365,00.html?>
Besides a new purple masthead, there will be more pags devoted to financial news.

Time Running Out To Adjust Phone Systems (Chan Kay Min, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,103288,00.html?>
Many smaller companies have yet to reprogramme their internal switchboards or PABXs.

Circle Line Plans Under Way, 34 Stations Likely (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,103183,00.html?>
Planning for the Circle Line, the next major development in public transportation here, is well under way.

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