[MyAppleMenu] May 7, 2002

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

Despite Hang-Up, QuickTime 6 Launch Set (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-901019.html?legacy=cnet&tag=pt.mrktwtch.story.alrt.9854859>
Apple said Monday it would release QuickTime 6 late this summer, even though it has yet to resolve a licensing dispute over the MPEG-4 file format.

Developers Speak On The Death Of OS 9 (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/07.developers.php>
"The evolve-or-die decision is clear. Any developers who hasn't already figured out that Mac OS 9 was end-of-life, and who consequently has been delaying or refusing support for Mac OS X, is going to become a grape in the path of the streamroller of progress."

A Look Inside Jaguar (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/>
Code-named "Jaguar," the next major release of Mac OS X will delight you with the innovation, elegance and ease of use you've come to expect from Apple.

Jobs Romances The Enterprise At WWDC (eWEEK)
<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701&a=26409,00.asp>
In a major pitch to the enterprise, Apple's CEO discussed support for ActiveDirectory, LDAP and a new rack mount server at its developer's conference Monday.

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

Sun Releases OpenOffice To Developers (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/07.openoffice.php>
Sun today released a developer version of OpenOffice for Mac oS X at Apple's WWDC.

Association Comes Out Fighting For FireWire (Junko Yoshida, EE Times)
<http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20020506S0041>
The 1394 Trade Association signed a no-fee license agreement with Apple to adopt the FireWire name, logo and symbol as a brand name for the IEEE 1394 connection standard.

Omniweb 4.1b6 For OS X Released (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=369>
The latest version includes a long, long list of bug fixes too numerous to mention.

Apple: Over 3,000 Apps Available For X (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=365>

Apple Instant Messenger To Work With AOL (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-apple.html?ex=1021435200&en=b954dde2bd80bf41&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER>
The iChat program and other features, which generally focus on improved communications, will debut late this summer.

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

Steve Jobs And Synergy (John Manzione, MacNETv2)
<http://www.macnet2.com/index.php?itemid=99>
The speed of processors isn't relevant anymore, and it's time to move beyond it.

Opportunities For Small Fry At Macworld Expo (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06814>
Often the companies with the most interesitng products are small firms that can't afford booths.

Discussion: Apple Drops Mac OS 9 (Slashdot)
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/06/184234&mode=flat&tid=178>

Another iOpener (Doc Searls)
<http://doc.weblogs.com/2002/05/06#anotherIopener>
Apple is smartly mixing open and closed source strateiges... A lot of comapnies are struggling with ways to play both games as if they were one, and I can't see anybody doing it more skillfully than Apple right now.

Mac OS X: The Curse Of The New (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06815>
Mac OS X is the future, and technical publications can't live in the past.

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

TDK "VeloCD" External FireWire CD-RW Drive (John Nemerovski and David Weeks, MyMac.com)
<http://www.mymac.com/memo/tdk_5.7.02.shtml>

Stylus Color C60 (MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0206/rev.scc60.html>
Just when you thought Epson's righteous line of inkjet printer couldn't get any better, along comes the C60.

eMac Musings (Charles W. Moore, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/misc/02/0507.html>
Aside from the monitor issue, the eMac has some cool things going for it.

Canon Printer - Nice Images, So-So Documents (John P Mello Jr, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/126/business/Canon_printer_nice_images_so_so_documents+.shtml>
Although the S750's imaging abilities impressed, its document properties were disappointing.

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

Big Pipe Dreams (Paul Andrews, U.S. News)
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020513/biztech/13broadband.htm>
There's a problem with high-speed Web service: a lack of customers.

Omniweb 4.1b6 For OS X Released (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=369>
The latest version includes a long, long list of bug fixes too numerous to mention.

Google: A Trailblazer For Web Services? (Ben Heskett, CNET News.com)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109763,00.html>
The search engine's programme of allowing developers to use its technology is becoming one of the first successful Web services.

Lawrence Lessig: The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782610.htm>
If the media giants have their way, the Net freedom fighter says, content will be rigidly controlled and innovation stifled.

Apple Instant Messenger To Work With AOL (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-apple.html?ex=1021435200&en=b954dde2bd80bf41&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER>
The iChat program and other features, which generally focus on improved communications, will debut late this summer.

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

Judge Wants Demo Of "Modular" Windows (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-901640.html?tag=cd_mh>
Over the objections of Microsoft, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she would allow nine states seeking stiff sanctions against the company to have a computer expert demonstrate a version of Windows he has developed that can be customized.

Compulsory Windows: For Macs, And People Without PCs? (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24877.html>
Microsoft has come up with another novel way to make its software compulsory, even if you don't want them to run the Microsoft software you're licensing.

Microsoft's $40 Billion Bet (Jim Frederick, CNN Money)
<http://money.cnn.com/2002/04/12/pf/agenda_msft/index.htm>
Bill Gates & co. are hoarding cash. What's up their sleeve?

Intel Unveils New Pentium 4 Chips (Associated Press)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/748402.asp>
The fastest Pentium 4 will now operate at a fequency o 2.53 gigahertz, up from 2.4 gigahertz for a chip introduced in early April.

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

Microsoft's Quick Boost (Robert Anderson and Yvonne Genovese, Gartner Viewpoint)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1001-901687.html>
Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Navision, in conjunction with its 2001 purchase of Great Plains Software, will give it the opportunity to dominate the market for enterprise resource planning (ERP) sotware in the small to lower-end midsize segments.

The Beginning Of The End For Microsoft? (Randy Hunt, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/17633.html>
It seems that Linux is finally ready to compete with Microsoft.

Compaq To Be Commercial PC Brand (Stacy Cowley, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/07/020507hnpcbrand.xml>
Both HP's Pavilion and Compaq's Presario PC lines will survive the companies' merger, according to information posted on HP's web site on Tuesday.

MS .Doc Bug Hibernates On Net (Bruce Simpson, ZDNet Austrlia)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109785,00.html>
Documents still available for download on the Internet have the potential to reveal sensitive information.

Will The Sun Shine For Microsoft Rival? (Jonathan Lambeth, Telegraph)
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml;$sessionid$VZBTQMAAADDK5QFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&targetRule=10&xml=%2Fconnected%2F2002%2F05%2F07%2Fecfms07.xml>
Users of Microsoft Office are being tempted to swap to StarOffice.

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

The Beginning Of The End For Microsoft? (Randy Hunt, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/17633.html>
It seems that Linux is finally ready to compete with Microsoft.

Will The Sun Shine For Microsoft Rival? (Jonathan Lambeth, Telegraph)
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml;$sessionid$VZBTQMAAADDK5QFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&targetRule=10&xml=%2Fconnected%2F2002%2F05%2F07%2Fecfms07.xml>
Users of Microsoft Office are being tempted to swap to StarOffice.

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

Allah's Anachronisms (Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=110001672>
PBS perpetuates stereotypes of Islam -- and rightly so.

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

Big Pipe Dreams (Paul Andrews, U.S. News)
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020513/biztech/13broadband.htm>
There's a problem with high-speed Web service: a lack of customers.

Camera Is Left Behind To Zoom In On North Pole's Weather (Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/science/earth/07POLE.html>
An automated digital camera is linked by satellite to the Web, allowing the researchers -- and anyone else -- to keep track of conditions at the top of the world.

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

"Invisible Man" At 50 (Greg Thomas, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/05/07/ellison/index.html?x>
African-American intellectuals are still criticizing Ralph Ellison for his refusal to make art serve politics. And they're still wrong.

Playing The ID Card (Steven Levy, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/747901.asp>
Americans have never had to "show papers" to move around. Now they must choose betwen privacy and security.

And The Beat Goes On (David Segal, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42769-2002May6.html>
Jane Scott, the oldest living rock music critic, rolls into retirement at 83.

How To Build Skyscrapers (Robert Adam, City Journal)
<http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_2_urbanities-how_to_build.html>
Like Aristotle's helmsman, today's traditionalist architects are responsible for the loss of the ship by abandoning the tiller.

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

Dual Citizenship Up For Discussion (Vince Chong, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,44245,00.html?>
Issues follows big tax breaks in budget to attract foreigners.

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

Citi Open To Buying Singapore Bank (Edna Koh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,118475,00.html?>
Citigroup's Singapore head thinks MAS may allow foreign takeovers in 3 to 5 years, giving it another option to expand.

Not At Any Price (New Straits Times)
<http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/Columns/20020506081638/Article/>
Singapore's neurosis about keeping matters behind closed doors must be remedied by a more considered approach to Malaysian public opinion.

LTA Says No To Cabbies' Plans To Request Cheaper ERP Rates (Fiona Tan, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/7299/1/.html>
LTA says that for the ERP system to be effective, it must be applied equally to all vehicles.

Belt Up Or Be Punished, Traffic Police Warn Motorists (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,118382,00.html?>
Motorists and passengers who fail to belt up, and drivers with children not found in child seats will be fined $120 and given three demerit points.

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