[MyAppleMenu] Jul 3, 2002

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

Apple Market Share Rises Slightly (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0207/03.marketshare.php>
For the current quarter (Q1, 2002) IDC shows Apple as the number six computer maker with a 3.48 percent market share. This is an increase of 0.4 points over Q4 2001 and a 0.25 point increase year over year.

OS X Upgrade Leaps Closer To The Finish (Joe Wilcox, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-941399.html>
The widely anticipated update to Apple Computer's Mac OS X will appear earlier than expected, sources say, which is good news for the company in a tough year.

Can Apple Stop The Presses? (Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,338390,00.asp>
Apple owes its survival to the unshakeable support of the Mac community, which has suffered with rare good humor Cupertino's sometimes rocky financial and product performance -- as well as its frequent spasms of unrivaled arrogance. My advice to Apple: Suck it up--and count your blessings.

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

Opera Browser Makes Inroads On Linux, Mac (Richard Karpinski, Internet Week)
<http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20020703S0003>

iMovie And Macs Help Girls Go Hollywood (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/hed/macsinaction/girlsfilmschool/>
"Most of our faculty are Mac folks, and we find it's a much more supportive platform for doing film and video graphics."

Apple To U.S.: Give Our OS X A Tryout (Ian Fried, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-941583.html>
Looking to gain some business in the government market, Apple Computer has submitted its operating system for an independent security evaluation.

Apple Pares Manufacturing Jobs (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-941511.html?legacy=cnet&tag=pt.rss..feed.ne_20116988>
Apple Computer this week cut a small number of jobs at a manufacturing facility near Sacramento, Calif.

Toast Titanium 5.1.4 Released (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0207/03.toast.php>
Toast Titanium 5.1.4 now supports the Gracenote CDDB Music Recognition Service exclusively as its online track-naming service. The new version also supports the Audio Quality Master Recording feature of Yamaha's latest CD recorders.

Mac OS X-Based Web Hosting On Xserve (MacNews.com)
<http://www.macnews.com/article.php?id=392>
XserveRack.com offers hosting packages that are designed to offer enterprise-level solutions on the Mac OS X platform, and at the same time offer resellers the most competitive pricing in the industry.

Xserve Grabs The Spotlight (Mark Hall, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,72326,00.html>
Apple Computer caught the industry off guard with the recent announcement of its Mac OS X-based Xserve servers, but users and analysts say that so far, they like what they see.

Enterprises Eye Mac OS X (Mark Hall, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,72325,00.html>
Whether Mac OS X lifts Apple from its current 5% market share remains to be seen. But IT hasn't looked this kindly on the Mac in almost a decade.

Mac OS X As Preventive Medicine (Mark Hall, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,72288,00.html>
Adding systems running Mac OS X can help create a heterogeneous environment that presents a defense against particularly threatening viruses that target a single operating system.

Apple Announces New Store Opening In SoHo New York During Macworld New York (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/07/03.4.shtml>
One of Manhattan's most popular areas, the SoHo store will be a very high profile one for Apple.

Escaping To Bryant Park, But Staying Connected To The Web (Jason Begay, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/03/nyregion/03WIRE.html?tntemail0>
Bryant Park is one of more than 70 wireless access sites in New York City and one of the first to formally span a city park.

The MacHax Best Hack Contest 2002 (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06861>

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

RIP Classic Mac OS (Richard K. Hallmark, Mac Design)
<http://www.macdesignonline.com/issues/julyaugust02/State_of_MAC.html>
Making the move to OS X.

Apple Deal Influences People But Doesn't Win Friends (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/3589715.htm>
I'm delighted to know that Apple is totally committed to keeping the Mac the top music-making computing platform. Somehow, I wish that the company had found a different way to show it.

Apple: Taking OS X Security Seriously--Finally (Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2873326,00.html>
While Apple's speedy turnaround with the OpenSSH fix and the DNR announcement are laudable indeed, two data points do not a trend plot. Apple's ongoing behavior in this realm is the key to building and then maintaining confidence among Mac OS X users, recommenders, and buyers.

Mac Users To MS: Your Right To Left Defence Is Upside Down (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/26000.html>
Some, but not too much sympathy for Microsoft Mac boss from readers wanting Hebrew and Arabic support on the Macintosh.

iPod, You Pod, Will We All Pod? (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2002/tc2002073_9790.htm>
The portable digital music player's popularity could be Jobs & Co.'s portal to becoming a mainstream consumer-electronics outfit.

Discussion: Apple And Digital Rights Management (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/02/2243229>

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

FileMaker Pro 5.5 (Macunlimited.com)
<http://www.macunlimited.com/reviews/filemaker.html>

FileXaminer 1.1 (Eric Blair, ATPM)
<http://www.atpm.com/8.07/filexaminer.shtml>

Why Your PC Is No Better Than A $15 Wristwatch (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2873320,00.html>
Real clock people don't trust their computer's clock for much of anything.

Learning The Mac OS X Termina, Part 5 (Chris Stone, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/07/02/terminal_5.html>

=== internet top news =============

Online Ads, E-Mail Don't Click (Vanesa O'Connell, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/774972.asp>
Consumers aren’t clicking on banners, buttons and other annoying Internet ads-and now, they aren’t responding to special e-mail links either.

Ziff Davis' Yahoo Internet Life To Fold (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941252.html?legacy=cnet&tag=pt.rss..feed.ne_20113716>
<i>Yahoo Internet Life</i>, the Ziff Davis Media publication chronicling Net culture, is shuttering operations, sources close to the company said Tuesday.

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

Opera Browser Makes Inroads On Linux, Mac (Richard Karpinski, Internet Week)
<http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20020703S0003>

Cable Modems: Less Boon Than Beast (Andy Oram, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1651>
Cable modems keep us in the dark ages of Internet access, seriously distorting Internet usage, economics, and policy.

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

AMD Slashes Sales Target Again (Larry Dignan, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-941419.html>
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday issued its second revenue warning in two weeks, forecasting second-quarter sales of about $600 million.

Mac Users To MS: Your Right To Left Defence Is Upside Down (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/26000.html>
Some, but not too much sympathy for Microsoft Mac boss from readers wanting Hebrew and Arabic support on the Macintosh.

Judge Clears Way To Antitrust Verdict (Joe Wilcox, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-941357.html>
In a move that could bring Microsoft and the Justice Department closer to an approved settlement deal, a federal judge said Tuesday that both parties had complied with laws governing antitrust settlements.

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

Cameras To Oversee Festivities For Fourth (David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16561-2002Jul2.html>
The result is one of the most security-conscious Independence Day celebrations in memory.

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

143-Year-Old Problem Still Has Mathematicians Guessing (Bruce Schechter, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/science/physical/02MATH.html?8hpib>
The Riemann hypothesis, first tossed off by Bernhard Riemann in 1859 in a paper about the distribution of prime numbers, is still widely considered to be one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics, sure to wreath its conqueror with glory -- and, incidentally, lots of cash.

More Than The Patch: New Ways To Take Medicine Via Skin (Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/health/02SKIN.html?8hpib>
Reseachers are developing techniques to move a wider range of drugs across the skin barrier.

Ziff Davis' Yahoo Internet Life To Fold (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941252.html?legacy=cnet&tag=pt.rss..feed.ne_20113716>
<i>Yahoo Internet Life</i>, the Ziff Davis Media publication chronicling Net culture, is shuttering operations, sources close to the company said Tuesday.

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

The Man Who Smoked Everything (Charles Perry, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-smoke3jul03.story>
>From brisket and ribs to olives, eggplant and pineapple, a story of obession.

FHM (Rob Walker, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067568&device=>
The thinking man's sneery frat-boy magazine.

Shameless Secrets Of The Chefs (Amanda Hesser, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/03/dining/03SECR.html>
For years the trend in cooking was toward from-scratch absolutism, but now some chefs seem to be loosening up.

High Spots In A Nation Of Hot-Dog Heavens (Paul Lukas, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/03/dining/03HOTD.html>
With summer now in full swing, it is a good time for a rundown of regional hot-dog styles, and some prime places to get them.

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

Water Price Backdating Not Possible: Sources (Eddie Toh, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,50161,00.html?>
The current water agreements between Singapore and Johor do not provide for any backdating of the water price should a review be done now, well-placed sources say.

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

Price No Longer A Weapon In Telco War (Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,129865,00.html?>
When MobileOne (M1) cut its prices last week, the three other telecommunications operators just shrugged it off.

Tougher Now To Have Number Portability (Chang Ai-Lien, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,129940,00.html?>
Hongkong software experts involved in implementing the service in the special administrative region said that the choice would add millions of dollars to the $100 million it is expected to cost should they decide to implement mobile-number portability (MNP) here.

Singapore's Temasek To Cut Stakes in Some Firms (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,50134,00.html?>
Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government's investment agency, said today it would hold on to companies with strategic interests such as utilities, reduce its stake in some and even divest businesses that are no longer relevant.

Parliament To Debate On Public Transport Fare Hikes (Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/12210/1/.html>
Continuing unhappiness over recent public transport fare hikes will be addressed when Parliament sits next week, says Leader of the House, Wong Kan Seng.

Singaporeans See Red Over Series Of Price Hikes (The News International, Pakistan)
<http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2002-daily/03-07-2002/business/b20.htm>
Singaporeans, accustomed to living a relatively comfortable life, are up in arms over a spate of price rises to essential services at a time when wages are being cut and jobs lost.

Singapore Muslim Activist Under Defamation Probe (Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=XYPLQJNR5DX54CRBAEKSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=1159683>
Singapore police are investigating a local Muslim rights activist for criminal defamation after he posted several articles about prominent politicians and personalities on the Internet.

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