[MyAppleMenu] Jun 28, 2002

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

Jobs Welcomes Avid Xpress Mac Move (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4875>
"Most of the world's video editing is done on Macs, and Avid's new Xpress DV 3.5 will further cement this."

Opera CEO Sings Praises Of Browser (Charles Cooper, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-939959.html>
Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner can claim an achievement held by few of his fellow tech entrepreneurs: He's competed head-on against Microsoft and lived to tell the tale.

Distributor Ingram Sees No Bump Or Dip In PC Demand (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-20097545-0.html>
"Deamdn is relatively stable. It is not negative, not positive, not optimistic. It is netural at this point."

New Mac Divx.com Codec Released (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/28/037256>

Taste Of Apple In Avid's Xpress DV (Sheigh Crabtree, Hollywood Reporter)
<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/convergence/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1527600>
"We thank Apple for showing us what you can do on a laptop."

New O'Reilly Book Hits Store Shelves (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14979>
O'Reilly & Associates has rleased Learning Unix for Mac OS X: a "concise" and "easy-to-follow" introduction to Unix function sunder Mac OS X.

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

Apple eMac: Not Just Going To School (Troy Dreier, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,292895,00.asp>
If you are sold on the Mac experience and software, the eMac is an affordable entry point that addresses the shortcomings of the original iMac.

Apple iBook (14-Inch) (James Kim, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/freshgear/products/story/0,23008,3371862,00.html>
Bigger display headlines latest iBook.

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

Opera CEO Sings Praises Of Browser (Charles Cooper, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-939959.html>
Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner can claim an achievement held by few of his fellow tech entrepreneurs: He's competed head-on against Microsoft and lived to tell the tale.

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

Microsoft Releases RosettaNet Tools (Alorie Gilbert, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2110-1001-940202.html?tag=cdshrt>
Microsoft said Thursday that it has enhanced its software program that helps companies adopt RosettaNet e-business specifications.

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

Winning The War On Crime -- For The Moment (Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1204423>
New York has become the most celebrated model of American policing. It still shows how crime can be reduced, but money is a problem.

Chasing Andy (Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-lv-warhol28jun28.story>
Warhol's pioneering in art, fashion and other fields echoes in the style makers he influenced.

Our Secret Pledge (Charles Paul Freund, Reason)
<http://reason.com/links/links062702.shtml>
Removing the clause would by now threaten the meaning that Pledge recitation developed prior to 1954, when it didn't contain the phrase at all.

Rise! Shine! Give 'Under God' Your Glory! (David Montgomery, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58166-2002Jun27.html>
In the Senate chamber, it's suddenly pledge week.

The Refining Of Religious Neutrality (Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/opinion/28ROSE.html>
The emotional reaction to the Pledge of Allegiance decision shows how polarized America can become over the issues of church and state.

Adjusting To A Shift Modern Art's Axis (Herbert Muschamp, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/arts/design/28MUSC.html>
Modernism as a category presents an array of multiple perspectives, cinematic montage and shifting vantage points. It embodies the concepts of relativity, subjective truth and the subconscious -- ideas independently supported by the objective findings of science.

Fighting The Urge To Flee (Tracie Rozhon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/garden/27TURF.html?8hpib>
Gripped by a welter of feelings -- loyalty, guilt, financial pragmatism -- most New Yorkers are learning to live with the anxiety in a city that experts agree will always be high on the list of terrorist targets.

An Education In Corruption (Lisa Bergson, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jun2002/sb20020627_7107.htm>
One of the hardest things about doing business in Asia, at least for this innocent American, is that bribery can be a way of life.

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

Doubts (Elisabeth Murawski, Beltway)
<http://www.washingtonart.com/beltway/murawski.html>
We are swimming underwater,<br>
living our movie<br>
with the soundtrack turned down.

=== reader : eof =============

Off Limits (Denver Westword)
<http://www.westword.com/issues/2002-06-27/offlimits.html/1/index.html>
Great balls of fire!

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

Beware Sleeping Tigers (John Aglionby, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,745040,00.html>
The departure of south-east Asia's 'big five' authoritarian leaders is welcome but they leave behind a political vacuum.

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

PSA Slashes Port Charges (Dawn Teo, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/11833/1/.html>
Starting from July 1, PSA will give its customers for one year a 50 percent discount off handling charges for all empty containers handled in Singapore.

Daimaru To Close All Singapore Stores By March 2003 (Dawn Teo, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/11815/1/.html>
More retrenchments are on the way and this time it is in the retail sector.

An Education In Corruption (Lisa Bergson, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jun2002/sb20020627_7107.htm>
One of the hardest things about doing business in Asia, at least for this innocent American, is that bribery can be a way of life.

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