[MyAppleMenu] Oct 17, 2002

Thu Oct 17 21:05:30 EDT 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Oct 17, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple's Life Science Efforts On Verge Of Bearing Fruit (Salvatore Salamone, Bio-IT World)
<http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/100902/horizons_apple.html>
After years of rejection by IT staffs, Apple wins support with the Xserve and Unix-based OS.

Macworld Expo Moves To Boston; Apple Will Not Go (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/17.boston.php>
While business leaders in Boston are happy with the change, a statement given to MacCentral today from Apple said the company would not participate in the show.

Mambo Moves: Step Back Then Forward (Lia Timson, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/13/1034222639032.html>
A return to the old ways is proving to be the way forward for irreverent Mambo clothing label.

Silencing The 'Megahertz Myth': IBM Plans A New 64-Bit Chip. Will It Snap Mac's Reputation As A Speed Laggard? (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/pluggedin/bal-mac101702,0,6990537.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
Sounds terrific, but Apple still has some work to do.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Gives Jaguar Away Free To K-12 Teachers (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/10/17/k12>
The "X for Teachers" program will provide qualifying teachers with Mac OS X v10.2, Mac OS 9 for Classic support, and a Getting Started with Mac OS X Training CD -- all without any cost to teachers for shipping, handling or postage.

Film: Mac Fervor, Malcolm X Style (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,55832,00.html>
Debut filmmaker Jake Barnes has just finished shooting a movie about Macintosh fanaticism. It tells of a revolutionary who fights for Macs' rights -- by any means necessary.

Tune In To The Wireless (Ben Hammersley, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,813018,00.html>
Wires are for losers. This much is clear.

Results Signal More Gloom For Tech Sector (Andrea Orr, Reuters)
<http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20021016_672.html>
It's becoming an autumn of discontent for the long-depressed technology sector.

Apple Japan Posts Own 'Switch' Ads (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17023>

Apple Cuts Low-End iMac Price (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/10/16/imac>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Succumbling To A Mac Attack (Renay San Miguel, CNN Headline News)
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/10/15/hln.wired.mac.attack/>
After 10 years as a Windows person, the new Mac operating system does take some adjustment, but not much.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Wireless Optical Blue Mouse (Andy Largent, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=315>
It certainly has an otherwise impressive feature set of buttons, wireless, and optical, but for gamers needing the most precise pointer possible, my recommendation is to look elsewhere.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Licensing Buoys Microsoft Again (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-962470.html>
Microsoft blew away analysts' estimates for its first fiscal quarter, once again buoyed in part by a controversial corporate licensing plan.

Three More Bugs Bite Microsoft (Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-962408.html>
Microsoft late on Wednesday warned of three new bugs in its software, including a "critical" flaw in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 that could allow an unauthorized user to execute particular administrative functions called Web tasks.

Strategy: Microsoft Vs. Microsoft (Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1001-961475.html?tag=cd_mh>
For all the company's resources and business prowess, a combination of marketing confusion, licensing demands and software compatibility problems may have triggered a backlash among customers, in turn slowing adoption of .Net.

Some Yelp As Microsoft Squeezes (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/technology/17SOFT.html>
Early results indicate that most customers have gone along.

More Wintel News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Maintaining The Internet (Caron Carlson, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,633685,00.asp>
Since WorldCom's financial troubles surfaced last spring, competing carriers have made a rallying cry for enterprises to invest in redundant services, but it turns out that they do not always have sufficient backup plans themselves.

SuSE, Turbolinux Pool Linux Efforts (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-962473.html>
SuSE and Turbolinux have joined forces for products running on higher-end IBM servers.

Web Services Body Clears Way For Sun (Alorie Gilbert, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-962464.html>
Sun Microsystems may finally get its wish to join the board of a Web services standards organization formed earlier this year by IBM and Microsoft.

For A Two-Digit Price, A Two-Button Palm (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/technology/circuits/17stat.html>
Maybe, just maybe, more features every year is not what people want.

Tune In To The Wireless (Ben Hammersley, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,813018,00.html>
Wires are for losers. This much is clear.

Back To The User: Creating User-Focused Websites (Tammy Sachs, Digital Web Magazine)
<http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2002-10.shtml>
Collective lessons learned from listening to and observing users.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Saddam In A Landslide! Florida Ballots Not Yet Counted (David Montgomery, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37896-2002Oct17.html>
Let this be a call to arms for the Bush 2004 campaign.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Cancer Survival Rates 'Underestimated' (Jeremy Laurance, Independent News)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=341465>
Survival rates for cancer have been seriously underestimated, discouraging doctors and depressing patients, a study suggests today.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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What Is This, A Wine List Or A Stickup? (David Shaw, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-matters16oct16,0,4496805.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dfood>
Wine prices -- especially California wine prices -- have skyrocketed over the last decade, and not just in restaurants.

90 Years Of New Poems (Martin Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/books/17BOOK.html>
Poetry magazine -- which has published new works by more than 4,000 poets, from Yeats to Billy Collins -- is celebrating its 90th anniversary this month.

Films With War Themes Are Victims Of Bad Timing (Anne Thompson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/movies/17QUIE.html>
A cataclysmic event can change the fate of a movie. One example is "The Quiet American," which following Sept. 11, 2001, morphed from hot Oscar prospect to problem child.

Books For The Asking (Eric A. Taub, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/technology/circuits/17book.html>
In the same way that the home computer gave users the ability to create documents that looked good, even if they didn't necessarily read well, print-on-demand services now enable people to publish a book with ease, regardless of whether anyone else would want to read it.

The Blessed Version (Peter Rojas, Village Voice)
<http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0241/rojas.php>
While directors and film studios have wrangled for decades over final cut, the advent of cheap and easy video editing technology may just wrest control from both parties and place it firmly in the hands of consumers.

'The Rollercoaster Champion Of The World' (Andrew Martin, Granta)
<http://www.granta.com/extracts/1855>
As a child, Richard Rodriguez was afraid of rollercoasters.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Water Talks Begin After Delay Over Words On A Banner (Reme Ahmad and Tan Tarn How, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,149397,00.html?>
No progress was made yesterday.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Water Talks With Singapore Back On Track (Mergawati Zulfakar, The Star)
<http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/10/17/nation/mfissue&sec=nation>
Singapore had objected to the meeting being solely about "raw water" and "price review."

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