[MyAppleMenu] Jun 19, 2002

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Keping The Faith While Apple Executives Sell Their AAPL Holdings (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/thebackpage/2002/20020619.shtml>
This round of selling coupled with a late-in-the-quarter earnings warning, looks absolutely horrible for Apple.

Statistics Firms Revisit QuickTime Counts (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-937302.html>
Apple Computer is close to vindication in a long-running dispute with Web researchers over the popularity of its QuickTime multimedia technology--a victory that could help speed adoption of new digital video and audio standards.

RealPlayer For X 'Imminent' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4830>
RealNetworks President and chief operating officer, Lawrence Jacobson yesterday hinted at a schedule for introducing Mac OS X support in the company’s products; but refused to discuss it "in advance of July 17."

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

NECC: Apple Reps Elaborate On Educational Initiatives (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/19.intiatives.php>

More Analysts Cut Estimates On AAPL (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14831>

More Services For Mac Users From Software-Update Site (J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/technology/circuits/20GEE5.html>
Users now have the option of paying to upgrade to VersionTracker Plus, an enhanced edition that lets members set up customized lists of the programs they want to keep fresh.

Apple Falls After Tuesday Warning (Robert Paul Leitao, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/stockwatch/2002/06/19.2.shtml>
pple opened significantly lower on Wednesday after issuing a revenue and earnings warning following the close of trading on Tuesday.

Apple 'Real People' Ads To Feature Celebs (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14826>

Apple Bounces Back (Paul Gilster, The News & Observer)
<http://newsobserver.com/business/story/1473334p-1504820c.html>
Don't look now, but Apple is becoming the most interesting computer company in America.

Popular Mac Columnist Mourned (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53316,00.html>
One of the most dedicated and energetic boosters of the Macintosh is being mourned after committing suicide last Friday.

Apple Israel Chief Calls For 'Save Hebrew' Write-In (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25793.html>
Itzik Radishkovitz, CEO of Apple's Israel representative Yeda, called for a worldwide user campaign to pressure Microsoft to add localization support for Hebrew in its Mac products.

Computer Industry Hit By Bad News (Andrea Orr, Reuters)
<http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=GB5PNFNRJSK4CCRBAEZSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=businessnews&StoryID=1106175>
After countless periods of soft results, earnings warnings and write-offs for bad investments, three computer industry giants on Tuesday dumped more bad news on a market that had been trying hard to believe things were finally looking up.

New iBook Vies For Portable Crown (Ben Wilson, NewsFactor)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/18280.html>
Even when bus-powering an external FireWire hard drive and burning CDs, the iBook can maintain more battery life than Windows laptops powered by Intel's mobile Pentium 4.

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

E-Mac, i-Mac, No Mac (John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1885,00.asp>
Why can't Apple take its genius to the next level and bring out a completely new machine that is not a Macintosh?

Converting The PC Sinners (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2002/tc20020619_3771.htm>
Apple knows its best hope for growth is to win over Windows users, and its new ad campaign is aimed right at 'em.

Undoing Years Of Mac Evangelism? (Stephen Van Esch, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/scope/02/0619.html>
"Real People" reinforces the idea that Macs are for the technically illiterate.

Virtual PC: Let Your Mac Run Windows (And Unix...) (Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-937304.html>
If you're thinking about the switch from Windows to Mac, VPC is a more-than-sufficient safety net while you make the transition. And it will remain a diversely useful tool afterward.

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

Clan Lord (Erica Marceau, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/clanlord.shtml>

Painter 7.0 (Alan Zisman, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/reviews/painter7.html>
Painter makes it easier than ever for any of us to use a computer to produce digital images that don't look like they were made on a computer.

First Look: Apple eMac (Bret Larson, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/news/computing/story/0,24195,3388703,00.html>
The eMac has an excellent price for a G4 Mac, and it has a feature set that can please even the most demanding of users. We would like to have seen a DVD drive, but its absence doesn't tarnish our opinion.

Installing Tomcat On Mac OS X (Dave Sag, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/18/tomcat.html>
If you're developing Web applications, or Web services, chances are you'll soon consider using a Tomcat4.x server. Fortunately, this process is fairly painless if Mac OS X is your platform of choice.

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

Foreseeing The Future: The Legacy Of Vannevar Bush (Erin Malone, Boxes And Arrows)
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002719.php>
Bush has been hailed as the coneptual creator of "hypertext," laying out the notion of the modern link 50 years before the web became a public phenomenon.

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

Sun Targets Microsoft With Free Software (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-937297.html>
High-end computer maker Sun Microsystems announced on Wednesday a free software initiative aimed at undercutting Microsoft in the battle to set the standards of the next-generation Internet.

Hotmail POP Mail Users Will Have To Pay (Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/18.hotmail.php>
Users of Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Hotmail service will no longer be able to aggregate e-mail from other accounts into their Hotmail account without paying US$19.95 a year for the MSN Extra Storage subscription program, the company said.

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

Burst.com Accuses Microsoft Of Theft (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-937501.html>
In a new suit that echoes earlier charges from Netscape, Sun Microsystems and others, Microsoft is accused of bullying companies out of using Burst.com products and stealing the streaming company's technology.

Microsoft Case Turns Sharply (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/technology/19SOFT.html>
The federal judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial indicated for the first time yesterday that she was questioning the government's proposed settlement, which she could reject if she found that it was not in the public interest.

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

States To Judge: Stop Microsoft Bullying (Reuters)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-937549.html>
Nine states still pursuing the Microsoft antitrust case accused the company of "thuggish" business practices in closing arguments on Wednesday, and portrayed the judge as the last chance to stop the software giant's bullying.

Microsoft's Lawyers Defty Judge (D. Ian Hopper, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12890-2002Jun19.html>
In a surprising end to the Microsoft antitrust hearings, Microsoft lawyers refused to comply with a judge's request that they offer possible concessions to the nine states suing the company.

Apple Israel Chief Calls For 'Save Hebrew' Write-In (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25793.html>
Itzik Radishkovitz, CEO of Apple's Israel representative Yeda, called for a worldwide user campaign to pressure Microsoft to add localization support for Hebrew in its Mac products.

Final Arguments Due In Microsoft Case (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-microsoft.html>
Attorneys for Microsoft Corp and nine states will make their final arguments in court on Wednesday over what antitrust sanctions should be imposed on the software giant.

Microsoft To Cut Off Support For Java In 2004 (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-microsoft.html>
Microsoft will no longer include Sun's Java programming language in its Windows operating system starting in 2004, citing security concerns. "If there's a security hole found or a security problem found, we can't fix it."

Hotmail POP Mail Users Will Have To Pay (Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/18.hotmail.php>
Users of Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Hotmail service will no longer be able to aggregate e-mail from other accounts into their Hotmail account without paying US$19.95 a year for the MSN Extra Storage subscription program, the company said.

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

Satellite Radio To The Rescue (Gary Dretzka, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/19/satellite_radio/index.html>
Corporate dreck dominates the FM airwaves like never before, but hope for music lovers may finally have arrived.

Why Software Is So Bad... (Charles C Mann, Technology Review)
<http://msnbc.com/news/768401.asp>
... and what's being done to fix it.

Foreseeing The Future: The Legacy Of Vannevar Bush (Erin Malone, Boxes And Arrows)
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002719.php>
Bush has been hailed as the coneptual creator of "hypertext," laying out the notion of the modern link 50 years before the web became a public phenomenon.

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

World Cup In Spanish Joyful (R.D. Heldenfels, Beacon Journal)
<http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/columnists/rd_heldenfels/3491995.htm>
TV isnot radio. It has pictures to go with the talking. The pictures should matter.

The Taste Business (Michael Kelly, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/07/kelly.htm>
What foreigners love to hate about America is also what they love to buy.

Television And The Trouble With History (Simon Schama, The Guardian)
<http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/comment/0,7493,739465,00.html>
Academics may shudder but history on the small screen works.

They're Out Stalking Heads (Elizabeth Jensen, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-TV-X!ArticleDetail-63258,00.html>
Competition for booking guests is fierce as Chung and Donahue enter the fray.

Rolling Stoned (Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=110001858>
The in-flight magazine on a trip to nowhere.

"Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid," By Robert J. Sternberg (Gavin McNett, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/06/19/stupid/index.html>
Scholars finally tackle the question that has plagued humanity since time immemorial.

Flag On The Field (Anne Applebaum, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067084>
Soccer, the last acceptable form of nationalism.

Stress Management For Kindergartners (Sheyl Gay Stolberg, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/health/children/18STRE.html>
Childhood has become more stressful than ever, although not for the reasons most people think.

The Importance Of Expectations Built Into A Brand Name (Joe Sharkey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/business/18HOTE.html>
As hotel companies have gobbled up competitors over the last decade, creating giant corporate umbrellas over a hodgepodge of names, it has become more important than ever to distinguish one name from another.

An Astonishment Of Riches In A Tiny English Town (Marian Burros, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/dining/19SHRO.html>
Only 9,000 people live in this charming market town near the Welsh border, surrounded by lush and rolling hills. Just 9,000, but Ludlow has no fewer than three Michelin-starred restaurants -- the greatest concentration anywhere in Britain outside London.

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

For My Dog, Who Listens To All My Poems (Cathy Smith Bowers, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/bowers/formydog.htm>

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

Six New Faces Chosen To Serve As Nominated MPs (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,127174,00.html?>
They will be among the constitutional maximum of nine NMPs; appointments meant there are 15 women in parliament.

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

Dial A Cab And SingTel Will Locate You (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,127173,00.html?>
More than one million SingTel   cell-phone users can now book a Comfort cab through an automated system that can detect the caller's location.

Civil Servants Get 1/2-Mth AVC, No Wage Adjustments (Farah Abdul Rahim, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/11017/1/.html>
PSD said this was in line with the National Wage Council's call in November for severe wage restraint.

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