[MyAppleMenu] Jun 27, 2002

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

Apple Xserve Benchmarks Toast Dell In New Test (Ben Wilson, NewsFactor)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/18421.html>
Companies seeking to run a Unix-based server operation may not need to look further than Apple's new entrant in the hotly contested 1U server race.

Apple's New 'Switch' Ad Features Prominent Publisher (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/27.switch.php>
The new ad expands the featured real people to the publisher and vice president of The New Yorker Magazine.

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

Avid Xpress DV Challenges Final Cut Pro (A. David Cooper, MacDirectory)
<http://www.macdirectory.com/4u/wire.fm$RETRIEVE?value=4007025&field=Serial&html=wirelessdetail.html&doscript=findall>

PowerBook Runner-Up In Worth Magazine's Laptop Category (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/27.powerbook.php>

Apple Releases iMac Update For Mac OS X 10.1.5 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/27.imac.php>
Apple has released iMac Update for Mac OS X, intended specifically for imacs running mac OS X 10.1.5 build 5T91.

A New Way To Get Lunch (Linda Garcia, Hastings Tribune)
<http://www.hastingstribune.com/news2.html>
Hastings Public Schools students won't see cash registers in lunchrooms anymore.

Philips Unveils The First Demonstration Of A Wireless IEEE 1394 Solution For THe Connected Home (802.11 Insider)
<http://www.wirelessarena.com/artman/publish/article_146.shtml>
With this solution, Philips meets the increased demand to connect consumer electronics and PC clusters in the home without additional wires.

Mars Odyssey For Kids (Nancy Eaton, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/06/mars/>
In an unprecedented educational program, 5th to 12th graders from across the country are getting a chance to explore the planet Mars.

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

Is Apple Overstating Earnings? (John H. Farr, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/06/20020627181042.shtml>
An article in New York Post makes the assertion that Apple is among five corporations especially noted for accounting practices which overstate "core earnings" to a remarkable degree.

Will Apple Support It's Modern OS With Modern Security? (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/27/176241>
One week later, there was still no traffic on the Apple Security Announce list and the "network police" at my academic institution shut down my Mac OS X "web sharing" for exposing a vulnerable service.

Things I'd Improve In OS X (MacView.com)
<http://www.macview.com/mainpages/view5.html>

Apple's Switch Hit (Joe Wilcox, BetaNews)
<http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1025180411>
It will be interesting to see if the eight people featured in Apple's ads on switching are still using Macs a year from now.

Apple Ad Nauseam (Eric Schwarz, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/pom/02/0627.html>

Apple, Please Open Up The iPod API! (Timestretch.com)
<http://www.timestretch.com/site/apple_please_open_the_ipod/>
The iPod is cool, but it could be even cooler.

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

Transferring Windows Stuff When You Switch To A Mac (Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal)
<http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html>
Transitioning to the Mac is easier than it seems, and doesn't take much technical skills.

Mac-Over Magic (Alfred Siew and Mike Lee, Computer Times Singapore)
<http://computertimes.asiaone.com.sg/v2/hand01.shtml>
You can turn a G3-based PowerMac which is more than two years old into a G4 machine.

Puncturing Web Ads Before They Pop Up (David Pogue, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/circuits/27STAT.html>
If advertisers really want their ads to be noticed, maybe they should do what TV and print advertisers do: make the ads clever, engaging or even thoughtful. In the meantime, the war continues — and escalates.

A Click Saved: Shortcuts Through Everyday Software (Larry Magid, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/circuits/27BASI.html>
Shortcuts let you quickly dispatch frequently used commands. And in this day of repetitive-stress injuries caused by too much typing, they can save wear and tear on the muscles and tendons.

Nature CD-ROMs Are Very Different Animals (Gene Emery, Reuters)
<http://www.forbes.com/business/newswire/2002/06/26/rtr643360.html>
In addition to listing all the reading, math and science skills that its products teach, maybe Knowledge Adventure should add chutzpah to the list.

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

Puncturing Web Ads Before They Pop Up (David Pogue, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/circuits/27STAT.html>
If advertisers really want their ads to be noticed, maybe they should do what TV and print advertisers do: make the ads clever, engaging or even thoughtful. In the meantime, the war continues — and escalates.

Charge For Your Content? The Three Criteria (Vin Crosbie, Clickz)
<http://www.clickz.com/design/freefee/article.php/1366851#bio>
Publishing: free or fee?

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

Jupiter To Dissolve With Division Sales (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939941.html>
Struggling research firm Jupiter Media Metrix says its board has approved a plan to liquidate and dissolve the company once it has finalized the sale of several businesses.

CNET To Cut Staff, Miss Sales Forecasts (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-940118.html>
CNET Networks, which operates Web sites offering news, shopping information and other technology items, said Thursday it would cut 10 percent of its work force and warned its second-quarter sales would be short of forecasts.

Way Beyond The Banner (Owen THomas, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40552,FF.html>
New online ad formats are whirling, shaking, popping, and tilting all over the Web.

AOL On Edge Of Streaming Breakthrough? (Jim Hu, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-939802.html>
AOL Time Warner is quietly developing technology that could dramatically cut the costs of audio and video broadcasts on the Internet, according to sources familiar with the effort.

Cybersquatters Put On The Hot Seat (Reuters)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-939819.html>
CANN said at its quarterly meeting that it was close to adopting a new system to give owners of domain names extra time to renew their contracts and to establish a waiting list for coveted domains that become newly available to the public.

Kiss Your MP3s At Work Goodbye (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939791.html>
Companies increasingly are blocking access to Internet music and video at firewalls and are issuing sweeping initiatives that ban workplace media usage.

Deep Linking's Legal Link On Hold (Farhad Manjoo, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53501,00.html>
After two days of hearings, a Danish court has delayed making a decision in a closely watched case that could determine the legality of "deep linking" in Denmark and other European Union countries.

Archive To Hold History Of The Dot-Com Era (Shannon Henry, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51863-2002Jun26.html>
Historians will be able to look back 200 years from now and read the original proposal for Boo.com or Kozmo.com or eToys.com and hear audio histories from executives and worker bees from the companies.

Spam: An Escalating Attack Of The Clones (Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/circuits/27SPAM.html>
A kind of arms race may have developed, those analysts say: the more efforts are made to block unwanted e-mail, the more messages spammers send to be sure that some will get through.

Microsoft Agrees To Alter A Special Service For Children (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/27SOFT.html>
Microsoft said today that it had agreed to make changes in a children's version of its Passport authorization software after an advertising industry watchdog group challenged the service over issues of parental control and privacy.

The Semantic Argument Web (David Weinberger, Darwin)
<http://www.darwinmag.com/read/swiftkick/column.html?ArticleID=421>
Normalization of metadata works real well in confined applications where the payoff is high, control is centralized and discipline can be enforced. In other words: not the Web.

Board The Weblog Bandwagon Now, Please (Steve outing, Editor & Publisher)
<http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1526902>
Newspapers missed most internet trends; isn't it time to catch one?

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

The Vaunted Pentium 4: More Hype Than Zip? (Mike Himowitz, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/pluggedin/bal-pl.himowitz27jun27.column?coll=bal-home-columnists>
Different processors do different amounts of work in each clock cycle. That's why it's hard to compare the true speed of chips from different manufacturers based on their specifications alone.

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

Microsoft To Pour $750 Million Into China (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-939833.html>
Microsoft--in an unprecedented commitment to a market that has often confounded the software giant--will invest $750 million in China over the next three years.

Windows Media Player Holes Could Expose PC (Joris Evers, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/27/020627hnmediaplayer.xml>
A flaw in an antipiracy feature in Microsoft's Windows Media Player could put systems at risk to hacker attacks, Microsoft warned in a security bulletin Wednesday.

Who Trusts Microsoft's Palladium? Not Me (Matt Loney, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-939817.html>
The words "Microsoft" and "trust" only really seem to fit together with the help of an "anti" somewhere in the middle.

Microsoft Urges Users To Patch Commerce Server (Joris Evers, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/27/020627hnpatch.xml>

Microsoft Agrees To Alter A Special Service For Children (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/27SOFT.html>
Microsoft said today that it had agreed to make changes in a children's version of its Passport authorization software after an advertising industry watchdog group challenged the service over issues of parental control and privacy.

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

Answers On An Empty Page (Richard Cohen, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52352-2002Jun26.html>
All these questions are answered on the blank pages.

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

The Accounting Trick That's Killing WorldCom (Daniel Gross, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067427&device=>
It's probably only a matter of time before desperate executives use their alchemy to debase those pure elements and once again turn losses into profits.

The Semantic Argument Web (David Weinberger, Darwin)
<http://www.darwinmag.com/read/swiftkick/column.html?ArticleID=421>
Normalization of metadata works real well in confined applications where the payoff is high, control is centralized and discipline can be enforced. In other words: not the Web.

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

Landmark's Second Wind (Ilene Letchuk, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/26/BA143893.DTL>
Golden Gate Park windmill will turn its sails once more.

Designing Women (Kate Taylor, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067340&device=>
Remember when Hollywood stars wanted to look rich?

America's Uberdecorator, Still Beautiful To The Fans (Libby Copeland, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52318-2002Jun26.html>
This is not the first time the woman they admire has been kicked around. They tend to believe Stewart is innocent, the victim of a post-Enron witch-hunt atmosphere, and perhaps her own ignorance -- the victim, most of all, of Those Who Hate Martha.

Teenagers Playing Music, Not Tennis (Robert Lipsyte and Lois B. Morris, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/arts/music/27CAMP.html>
Music moms' seasons are far longer than those of soccer moms. Their financial payoffs are far smaller and more elusive than those of tennis moms. But they are every bit as competitive, protective, ambitious and self-sacrificing.

Hard-Boiled And Still Hot (Martin Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/books/27BOOK.html>
Five authors promoting the work of dead authors is not exactly a new way of making a publisher's backlist snap to attention yet again. But we are talking here about Philip Marlowe, private detective, one of the most astonishingly enduring characters in American fiction.

Not Just A Pretty Face (David Lister, The Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=308844>
The BBC is looking for 'real people' to be science presenters.

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

The Scent Of Jasmine (Tom Brennan, The Richmond Review)
<http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/brennan02.html>
I said goodbye to Tokyo on a chill spring evening, when faded pink cherry blossoms drifted through the sinuous alleys of the Old Town. The discordant traffic sounds and flashing neon faded behind me as I traveled deeper into the shadows.

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

Unauthorised DBS Net Banking Access: 10 Cases So Far (Andrea Tan, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,49644,00.html?>
At least 10 unauthorised Internet transactions on the accounts of DBS' customers have been reported, police said yesterday.

Mahathir Move 'Will Not Hit Singapore Ties' (Ahmad Osman, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,128766,00.html?>
Cultural, economic and political bonds will endure even after PM steps down, Malaysian minister tells youth gathering.

Temasek Denies Link To Executive Changes (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-112575.html>
Government investment firm Temasek Holdings said on Thursday it was not involved in recent top level management changes at several state-linked companies.

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

Fixed-Line Phone Service Via SCV Network By Dec (Catherine Ong, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,49649,00.html?>
The soon-to-be merged StarHub-Singapore CableVision (SCV) group will offer fixed-line telephone services by the end of the year over the SCV network, according to chief executive Terry Clontz.

Temasek's Role That Of A Catalyst (Eva Ho, Temasek Holdings, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,128825,00.html?>
It is incorrect to state that 'Temasek set to play more aggressive role'.

It's A Free Shuttle To Market (Neo Hui Min, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,128765,00.html?>
Bus takes Sengkang residents to and from Seletar wet market 3 times a week, thanks to MP who heeded the complaints.

CPF Changes Will Not Cause Unnecessary Hardship: Lim Boon Heng (Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/11722/1/.html>
Any changes to the CPF scheme will be done carefully so as to not cause unnecessary hardship or disrupt the property market, says Lim Boon Heng, Minister, Prime Minister's Office.

Singapore Responds To Regional Challenge (AsiaInt)
<http://www.asiaint.com/top/TOP1155.asp>
If anyone in the region can see and act on longer-term threats and challenges, it is the ruling caste of Singapore which has proved in the past adept at addressing issues before they arise and in so doing confounding the pessimists who have written off the island prematurely.

Singpaore Layoffs Slow, Jobless Rate May Hit 5.5% (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,49548,00.html?>
The Republic has seen fewer layoffs but job availability remains sluggish and the jobless rate could hit 5.0 to 5.5 per cent this year, Minister of Manpower Lee Boon Yang said at the opening of a flight catering centre today.

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