[MyAppleMenu] May 3, 2002

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

Apple eMac: That's 'E' For Education (James Hattori, CNN)
<http://asia.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/05/02/jobs/index.html>
"Education is very, very budget conscious and wants to buy the most computers they can for the dollar so the most kids can get exposure to them. So, this was our attempt to take all the great things of that new iMac, except for the flat display, and be able to bring them into the classroom a little cheaper."

Tips To Help You Pick A Laptop From Among So Many Features (Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal)
<http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html>
Two of the absolute finest laptops around don't run Windows.

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

LittleWing Releases Jinni Zeala Pinball (Sean Smith, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=5345>

Is The Future Flat? (David Shapshak, Mail & Guardian)
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200205020692.html>
Apple has a lot of clout despite having less than 5% of the global computer market.

Shake To Cease Windows Support (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/#020503-shake>
Nothing Real, which was acquired by Apple in February of this year, revealed that the forthcoming version of its Shake product (v2.5) will be the last for Windows.

Risks To Privacy Grow Along With Wireless (Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/68957_wireless03.shtml>
Just this week, Best Buy suspended use of wireless cash registers over concerns that eavesdroppers could obtain credit card numbers and other customer data by sitting in the parking lot.

Live: Mixing Software For The Serious Beatsmith (Stephanie Jorgl, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/05/live15/>
Live software from Ableton gives music mixing fiends the ultimate gift: the ability to take any beat or loop, drop it into a sequencing environment and watch it automatically beat match to the chosen beats per minute -- like magic -- in real time.

Adobe Wins Macromedia Patent Suit (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-898061.html>
Adobe won its lawsuit Thursday claiming that rival Macromedia infringed on the company's patents for "tabbed palettes."

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

Piles Of New Stuff Indicate OS 9 On Its Way Out (Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/weekly/1395018>
They're just not making much software for Mac OS 9 anymore.

Writeable CDs Add To Digital Detritus (David Plotnikoff, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/business/technology/3177576.htm>
It is slowly dawning on me that the compact discs I'm burning are perhaps a bit <i>too</i> permanent.

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

Dual 1GH Mac: Better Machine, Better Price (Dennis Sellers, ComputerUser.com)
<http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2105,5,18,1,0501,02.html>
High-end designers have no excuse not to upgrade.

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

Privacy Vs. Anonymity On The Web (John Balzar, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3170530.htm>
Not only are privacy and anonymity different things, they often conflict.

No Easy Fixes Are Seen To Curb Sex-Site Access (John Schwartz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/03/technology/03PORN.html>
One of the most thorough reports ever produced on protecting children from Internet pornography has concluded that neither tougher laws nor new technolgy alone can solve the problem.

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

New AOL Chief's Online Plans (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52278,00.html>

Newspapers In The Digital Age (Dominic Gates, Online Journalism Review)
<http://www.ojr.org/ojr/future/1020298748.php>
Forget the death of newspapers: the men running America's top chains say papers will survive the digital revolution.

The Weblog Tool Roundup (Joshua Allen, Webmonkey)
<http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/18/index3a.html?tw=authoring>
Yes, these things make life simpler, but what's key is that they put template-driven sites in the hands of the average site-builder.

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

'It's Possible' Expert Hurts MS (Robert Zarate, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,52275,00.html>
Madnick conceded that Microsoft could remove key components from Windows and then reinsert critical blocks of lost code.

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

Linux Networks Much Cheaper Than Windows - Report (John Leyden, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/25148.html>
Total cost of ownership for medium-sized companies is up to a third lower for Linux than for Windows based systems.

Microsoft: A Dip That Delights? (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782612.htm>
Its up-and-down stock is now at a level that could appeal to investors who believe the software giant can thrive in a post-PC world.

States Say Microsoft Planned Media Player Coup (Peter Kaplan, Reuters)
<http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?cat=USMARKET&src=201&feed=reu&section=news&news_id=reu-n02158306-u3&date=20020502&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw>
The nine states cited a Jan 3, 1999, e-mail to Bill Gates outlining a plan to use the dominant Windows operating system to promote Microsoft's Netshow medai streaming software over that offered by RealNetworks.

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

Linux Networks Much Cheaper Than Windows - Report (John Leyden, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/25148.html>
Total cost of ownership for medium-sized companies is up to a third lower for Linux than for Windows based systems.

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

Newspapers In The Digital Age (Dominic Gates, Online Journalism Review)
<http://www.ojr.org/ojr/future/1020298748.php>
Forget the death of newspapers: the men running America's top chains say papers will survive the digital revolution.

Bye-Bye Bernie (Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=105002022>
The curtain drops on the 1990s.

Crazy For Dysfunction (Douglas Cruickshank, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/05/03/dysfunction/index.html>
Somewhere along the line, we traded the Cleavers for the Osbournes. Family angst and social stigma are new tickets to fame and fortune.

On The Sidewalks Of New York (Holland Cotter, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/03/arts/design/03COTT.html>
Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

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

The Prior's Room (Andrea Lee, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?020506fi_fiction>
Anna Meehan, an American girl seated at lunch with a French father and son, is basking in this common but blissful discovery: what happens sometimes, when you disobey your mother, is that the world turns inside out.

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

Singapore To Cut Corporate, Personal Tax Rates To 20% By FY 2004 (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/6914/1/.html>
The Goods and Services Tax will also be raised to 5 percent by 2003.

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

Goh: Asean Leaders Must Talk To Each Other More Often (Charles Chan, The Star)
<http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/5/3/asia/chgohct&newspage=Search>
Asean leaders are not talking to each other often enough and that's a pity because such informal get-togethers can play a vital role in strengthening the grouping, Goh Chok Tong said.

ARF And Road Tax Reductions, Cigarette Tax Up (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020503/5/singapore6921.html>

Indonesia Says Working With Singapore On Terrorism (Jerry Norton, Reuters)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JAK235504>
Indonesia insisted on Friday it was working with neighbour Singapore in fighting terrorism despite the tiny city state's absence from an anti-terror pact that Indonesia will sign with others in the region.

Singapore Raises Security Budget To Guard Against Terrorism (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,43871,00.html?>
The Republic will spend about $10.6 billion on domestic and external security operations in the financial year ending March 2003, take up about 38 per cent of the government's total expenditure.

Malaysia Sent Protest Note On Reclamation Works: Jayakumar (S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/6915/1/.html>
"What we need is the details of how our reclamation has adversely affected them. Then only we can reply. We have not, to date, received such a note itemising and setting out the details of their concerns."

Singapore To Cut Motor Vehicle Taxes (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,43866,00.html?>
The Singapore government will lower motor vehicle taxes in an effort to bring a better balance between taxes on ownership and taxes on usage, Finance Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his budget statement today.

If You Don't Kill, You Don't Eat (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,117544,00.html?>
One way for Singapore to avoid becoming a victim of its success is to foster this kind of mentality, explains the venture capitalist who helped make the Macintosh a success.

Singapore Police Slammed For "Overzealous" May Day Arrest (Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=ARBAHH1LXMLTGCRBAEKSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=911746>
The civil rights group, the Think Centre, said in a statement its members who attended the event were "appalled at the uncalled-for rough action and insensitive words of the Singapore police".

Local TV Soaps Most Popular In Asia (Tini Tran, Associated Press)
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=&ncid=762&e=7&u=/ap/20020502/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_soaps_in_asia_1>
Across Asia, fans are eating up a steady diet of imported soap operas.

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