[MyAppleMenu] May 10, 2002

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

Apple's Jaguar - Sliced And Diced (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25233.html>
You'd think Apple developers would have something better to do after a WWDC Beer Bash, than write to <i>The Register</i>. But a number of you kind souls instead chose to tell us about "Jagwyre", the codename for the 10.2 release of Mac OS X.

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

PPCs Get Even Friendlier With Macs (Jørgen Sundgot, InfoSync)
<http://www.infosync.no/show.php?id=1812>
A pro version of IAA's PocketMac for connecting Pocket PCs to Macs is now in beta; new features include synchronization with Entourage, Exchange Server and the OS X address book.

FireWire Push Planned (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4640>
The Network Working Group of the 1394 Trade Association is looking to extend the standard, and to face "issues involving interoperation with legacy networks, including Ethernet-based systems."

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

FineReader Pro 5 And OmniPage Pro X Get The Job Done -- With Your Help (Christopher Breen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/06/reviews/ocr.html>
OmniPage -- whith its power to more easily recognize complex documents automatically, ability to import PDF files, and cleaner spelling-checker interface -- is closer to the mark, particularly if youu plan on scanning a lot of documents that have complex layouts.

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

Use The Blog, Luke (Steven Johnson, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/10/blogbrain/index.html>
The collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times -- but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web's infinity of links.

Much Ado About Blogging (Scott Rosenberg, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/05/10/blogs/index.html?x>
Is it the end of jouarnlism as we know it? Or just 6 zillion writers in search of an editor? Neither.

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

'Modular' Windows Demo Cancelled (Reuters)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t278-s2109946,00.html>
A planned demonstration of a version of Windows with removable features is cancelled to avoid a lengthy extension to the antitrust case.

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

PPCs Get Even Friendlier With Macs (Jørgen Sundgot, InfoSync)
<http://www.infosync.no/show.php?id=1812>
A pro version of IAA's PocketMac for connecting Pocket PCs to Macs is now in beta; new features include synchronization with Entourage, Exchange Server and the OS X address book.

Microsoft Program Meets Some Resistance (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-908773.html>
With a summer deadline looming, about two-thirds of Microsoft's largest customers have not signed up for a new software licensing program that represents an important revenue stream for the company.

HP-Compaq: One Company, Two Brands? Forget It! (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-908771.html>
Are these two brands supposed to stand for something different?

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

War Among The Penguins? Red Hat Goes All Competitive (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24915.html>
Is Red Hat just a teensy bit bashful about it? Surely not...

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

Hollywood's Way Out (Hal Plotkin, SF Gate)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/05/09/hrdwresol.DTL>
New distribution platform is solution for copyright theft.

How Do You Design A "Keep Out!" Sign To Last 10,000 Years? (Douglas Cruickshank, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/05/10/yucca_mountain/index.html>
The Department of Energy is creating vast monument to scare future trespassers away from the radioactive waste sites. Their plan: A granite Stonehenge thing with warnings in Navajo!

Tiny Triumph For Science (Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62712-2002May9.html>
Light and a single molecue are combined to make a machine.

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

Use The Blog, Luke (Steven Johnson, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/10/blogbrain/index.html>
The collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times -- but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web's infinity of links.

Much Ado About Blogging (Scott Rosenberg, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/05/10/blogs/index.html?x>
Is it the end of jouarnlism as we know it? Or just 6 zillion writers in search of an editor? Neither.

The Journal's Shrinking Violets (Jack Shafer, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2065580&device=>
What's with the editorial page's annoying new tic?

Stirrups For Sissies (Virginia Heffernan, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2065577&device=>
The "Dummies" series is reborn on television.

At Yale University, Ivy Vs. Grass Roots (Philip Kennicott, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62641-2002May9.html>
Every spring, Yale alumni elect one of their own to the university's decision-making body. The process is typically smooth and decorous. But once in a while, a democratic mess rears its head.

Pavarotti And Borrowed Time (Anthony Tommasini, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/10/arts/music/10PAVA.html>
If Luciano Pavarotti sings on Saturday night in "Tosca" (he canceled on Wednesday), it may be his farewell to the Metropolitan Opera and to staged opera.

Where Trains Rolled, Bicyclists Now Roam (Jane Margolies, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/10/travel/10BIKE.html>
Since the mid-1980's railroad rights of ways all across the country have been transformed into trails teaming with cyclists, in-line skaters and people in wheelchairs.

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

Government Says SingTel Aware Of Tax Liability (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-104412.html>
"I had on the day of notification to SingTel, dated 11th May 1996, publicly stated that the compensation of S$1.5 billion included a tax element. This was widely reported in the press."

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

Money No Object To Luring Scientists To Singapore (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-104398.html>
Money is no object as Singapore seeks to lure top scientists to help turn the city state into a regional biomedical hub, a government official said on Friday.

Mah Bow Tan Takes The Stand In IDA-SingTel Trial (Farah Abdul Rahim, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/7619/1/.html>
The S$5 billion - S$6 billion which SingTel had demanded as compensation was excessive.

Singapore Still Against Foreign Owners For Local Banks (Associated Press)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,118978,00.html?>
The government will continue to bar foreign banks from taking controlling stakes in the country's three local banks, but might eventually review this policy, the central bank said on Friday.

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