[MyAppleMenu] Mar 28, 2002

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

Apple's Evolving iPod (Tim Bajarin, ABCNews.com)
<http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/SILICON_INSIGHTS_BAJARIN_020328.html>
Stylish device is more than music on the go.

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

Diablo For OS X Released (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/28/0234230>

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

Apple's Bluetooth Announcement: No Big Deal (Leo Jakobson, osOpinon)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16982.html>
Despite what Jobs is saying about Apple being on the cuting edge, the company is dipping a toe into the water at very little cost to itself.

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

DAVE 3.1 (Shelly Brisbin, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/04/reviews/dave.html>
Essential tool gives Macs hassle-free access to Windows networks.

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

As The Web Matures, Fun Is Hard To Find (Lisa Guernsey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/28/technology/circuits/28WEBB.html>
Just 11 years after it was born and about 6 years after it became popular, the Web has lost its luster.

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

Why Dial Up If You Can Wi-Fi? (Paul Boutin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,51353,00.html>
A new company called Joltage wants to let operators of home and business Wi-Fi networks make a little money reselling their spare capacity to passersby.

Oxford Online: Will People Pay? (Kendra Mayfield, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51300,00.html>
oxford University Press has launched what may be the world's largest reference collection on the Internet -- with a hefty fee to view it.

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

Microsoft Casts Novell's Antitrust Role As A Business Ploy (Associated Press)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/28/technology/28SOFT.html>

=== linux news =============

Red Hat Targets Unix Customers With Linux OS (Clint Boulton, Earthweb)
<http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article/0,,11961_998391,00.html>
Red hat made good on its promise to deliver a powerful Linux OS for business use.

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

Democrats Vs. New Media (Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Tech Central Station)
<http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-032702A>
What the Democratic National Committee chairman is worried about is asymmetrical political warfare.

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

Air Travel's Communications Killer (P. Smith, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/28/heterodyne/index.html?x>
Twenty-five years ago, the greatest disaster in airline history killed 538 people, in part because of a radio glitch that still hasn't been fixed.

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

The Cool One (David Thomson, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/sex/turn_on/2002/03/28/jodie/index.html>
Jodie Foster is like Cary Grant -- smart, observant and curious about human nature. Those things together lend a fascinating distance to her charm.

Milton Berle, 'Mr. Television,' Dies At 93 (J.Y. Smith, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28744-2002Mar27.html>
Comic sparked American love affair with small screen.

This Blessed Plot, This Realm Of Tea, This Marmalade (R. W. Apple Jr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/dining/27MARM.html>
For more than 250 years, marmalade has been a quintessentially, unmistakably British product -- and it has made a comeback.

In The New Dinner Theater, The Kitchen Comes To The Table (Amanda Hesser, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/dining/27SHOW.html>
Tableside service, and its brief, shining acts of slicing, deboning, saucing and meticulously pampering food before the diner's eyes, has been popping up in many unexpected places in New York.

A 2nd Novel And A Matter Of Money (Martin Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/28/books/28BOOK.html>
Grove Atlantic may very well lose its signature author, Charles Frazier, whomthe company discovered and nurtured, for lack of cash for the advance on his second novel.

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

Examinations Authority May Be Set Up To Set And Grade Papers (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020328/5/singapore3698.html>

Sleepless In Singapore (Straits Times)
<http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/28/1017206127019.html>
Nearly half the population of Singapore suffers from insomnia.

Singapore Opposition Veteran Headed Back To Court (Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=H0NMVI0XYZ2PACRBAEOCFEYKEEARKIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=752373>
Veteran Singapore opposition politician J.B. Jeyaretnam will defend himself by arguing the suits were politically motivated.

Singapore Adamant About Reclaiming Land (The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/3/28/nation/singapore&sec=nation>

German Drugs Woman Set To Escape Singapore Gallows (Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=BVEHDWUKL2FEGCRBAEZSFFAKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=751091>
"They are breaking down the cannabis charge into two."

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