[MyAppleMenu] Jul 23, 2002

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

Apple Takes Shake To OS X (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2110-1040-945555.html?tag=cdshrt>
To help convince customers to move to the Mac, Apple is offering lower prices for softwar ein tandem with other incentives.

More On MS Mac FUD (O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1735>
"I'll bet Steve [Jobs] knew that, and Microsoft didn't figure it out until now. Steve bascially did to Microsoft what Microsoft usually does to its partners."

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

Bugs Interrupt Office-Palm Link (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-945927.html>
Technical glitches have prompted Microsoft to stop offering for download a free program it introduced last week that allows Palm handhelds to synchronize with the Macintosh version of Office.

Apple Adds New CD-RW Support To Mac OS X (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/index.shtml#020723-cdre>

In The Computer Game, It's PC Vs. Mac (Paul Clark, Ashevile Citizen-Times)
<http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/technology/16984>
"Everything to do with the Mac is much more understandable and decipherable."

Mac Users Want More iChat Features (Robert Aldridge, The iMac)
<http://www.theimac.com/articles/categories/features/story712.shtml>
What feature do you most want added to iChat?

Apple Offers Sweepstakes For L.A. Store Opening This Friday (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/07/23.5.shtml>

Apple To Open Retail Store In LA: The Grove (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15465>

Apple: All About Sharing (Teri Robinson, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18701.html>
iSync uses a single synchronization approach to encourage seamless data flow between devices, eliminating the need for separate synchronization.

Apple Released Backup 1.0 Application (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15455>

Macworld Expo New York Draws 58,000 (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/index.shtml#020722-expo>

Mozilla 1.1 Beta Posted (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15452>

"Halo" Co-Creator To Leave Microsoft (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2110-1040-945578.html?tag=cdshrt>
Alexander Seropian is leaving the company for family reasons.

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

Even Jobs Undersells Latest Advance From Apple (Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy23.html>
I think Rendezvous is going to be to Mac OS X what phosphoric acid is to a can of Coke. Users won't understand what it does or how it does it. They'll just understandt hta for some reason, Jaguar taste 10 times better.

Apple Users Demand Higher Prices, Worse Treatment (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/26331.html>
Life imitating satire.

Is There Life Beyond Microsoft? (MacBlog.com)
<http://www.macblog.com/comments.php?id=11_0_1_0_C>
Can Apple possibly get all the way compatible with Microsoft?

Open Letter To Steve Jobs About .Mac (John Droz, Jr., Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/myturn/02/0723.html>
Charging for iTools will not increase our market share, in fact it may reduce it.

MS Mac Developer Responds (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1743>
So <i>maybe</i> this wasn't a calculated bit of FUD. If so, maybe it was another case of a Microsoft exec making a statement without thinking about how it would be perceived.

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

MSN TV Prank Creating "Emergencies" (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-945911.html>
MSN TV users are inadvertently calling emergency services after falling prey to a prank program that changes the daily dailup number on their set-top boxes to 911.

=== wintel top news =============

Microsoft Is Bad, Uncertainty Is Worse (Chris Anderson, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/view.html?pg=4>
There is a pragmatic way to look at the case: that it had reached the point of dimishing returns.

Intel Pushes Faster For New Pentium 4 (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-945684.html?tag=fd_top>
Intel will come out with a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 for desktops later this quarter, and a 3GHz Pentium 4 in time for the holiday buying season, said sources close to the company.

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

MSN TV Prank Creating "Emergencies" (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-945911.html>
MSN TV users are inadvertently calling emergency services after falling prey to a prank program that changes the daily dailup number on their set-top boxes to 911.

HP Pulls The Plug On Printer Deal With Dell (Ken Popovich, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,395188,00.asp>
HP, having confirmed that Dell plans to launch its own brand of printers, notified the company that it is canceling its reseller agreement and planning to stop selling printers, scanners, handhelds and other supplies to its PC rival.

Microsoft Is Set To Steamroll CRM Space (John Taschek, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,393598,00.asp>

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

Main Street, PRC (Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=110002027>
Disney World comes to China, where no one stands in line.

A Fool's Paradise For CEOs (Michael Thomas, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/23/solutions/index.html>
It's not just the numbers that don't add up for today's corporations. The products they sell are usually broken, too.

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

A Theory Evolves (Thomas Hayden, U.S. News)
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020729/misc/29evo.htm>
How evolution really works, and why it matters more than ever.

The War For Your TV (Brad Stone, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/783378.asp>
Digital video recorders like TiVo let you watch shows when you want to rather than when the programmers decide. Now the nets are striking back.

In The Beginning... (Dennis Overbye, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/23/science/space/23UNIV.html>
Blessed with new instruments like the Hubble Space Telescope and other space-based observatories, a new generation of their giant cousins on the ground and ever-faster computer networks, cosmology is entering "a golden age" in which data are finally outrunning speculation.

Why We're So Nice: We're Wired To Cooperate (Natalie Angier, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/23/health/psychology/23COOP.html>
Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

Second Law Of Thermodynamics "Broken" (Matthew Chalmers, New Scientists)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992572>
One of th emost fundamental rules of phyiscs, the second law of thermodynamics, has for the first time being shown not to hold for microscopic systems.

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

A War Of Words Over 'Singlish' (Hwee Hwee Tan, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020729-322685,00.html>
Singapore's government wants its citizens to speak good English, but they would much rather be 'talking cock'.

Brooklyn Tobacco Party (Herb Allen, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020729ta_talk_allen>
CLASH, which stands for Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, is the only organization dedicated exclusively to protecting the rights of New York City smokers.

Since The 70's, A Greenwich Village Cafe Has Nurtured The Spirit Of The 60's (Dennis Gaffney, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/23/arts/23CORN.html>
For 25 years Robin Hirsch has guided the Cornelia Street Cafe with the notion that all artists should have a public forum for their particular passion, whether they might ever earn a dollar from it.

Olympic Fame Proves Fleeting (Amy Rosewater, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/23/sports/othersports/23PELL.html?8hpib>
Five months later, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier are simply remembered as "the Canadians."

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

HDB May Ease Rules For Flats 'Going Private' (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,133465,00.html?>
Mah Bow Tan said MPs were 'reasonable and logical' in asking for the end of rules for HDB flats.

Singapore To Import KL Water Only If Cheaper Than Filtered Waste Water (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,52083,00.html?>
Singapore will use the price of water reclaimed from sewage as a bargaining chip in its sometimes contentious negotiations with neighbouring Malaysia over the price of future water imports, a minister said today.

Singapore Tells KL It Can Be Self-Sufficient With Water Needs (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,52086,00.html?>
Singapore said today it will be able to let one of two water agreements with Malaysia lapse in 2011, serving notice the Republic is increasingly becoming self-sufficient for its water needs.

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

Seniority Wage System 'Flawed' (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,133460,00.html?>
Lim Boon Heng defends unions' support for CPF rate freeze, citing older workers' difficulty in finding jobs after layoffs.

Unwise To Have Only Two Local Banking Groups (Oh Kim Chong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,133487,00.html?>
To do so will be to court economic suicide.

Singapore June CPI Up 0.10% (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,52087,00.html?>
On a year-on-year, consumer prices were mostly higher, except for housing.

Slim 10 Case: TV Media Pleads Guilty To 58 Charges, Verdict On Monday (Bridgette See, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/14079/1/.html>

A War Of Words Over 'Singlish' (Hwee Hwee Tan, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020729-322685,00.html>
Singapore's government wants its citizens to speak good English, but they would much rather be 'talking cock'.

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