[MyAppleMenu] Oct 19, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Oct 19, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Trade-Show Chief Hints He'll Squeeze Apple (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/292/business/Trade_show_chief_hints_he_ll_squeeze_Apple+.shtml>
If Apple won't participate in the Boston Macworld show, maybe Greco won't let the company display its wares at Macworld in Tokyo or Paris, or at the San Francisco show in Apple's backyard.

Taking The Stress Out Of PC-Printer Hook Ups (Lucas van Grinsven, Reuters)
<http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1601302>
Hooking up a printer to a personal computer has ruined many a weekend in the average household. Apple is now pushing a solution that aims to solve part of the problem when trying to get technology devices to work together.

Apple's Road Less Traveled (Tom Sullivan, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/10/21/021021plapple.xml>
Apple Computer is flirting with the enterprise.

Mac marks The Enterprise (Jon Udell, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/10/21/021021plmacent.xml>
The marriage of the Mac and open source could be a wellspring of innovation.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Gets Bluetooth Bug (Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/02/10/21/021021appim.xml>
Hidden behind Apple Computer's summer rollout of protocols and software -- dubbed iSync, iChat, and Rendezvous -- is a set of strongly held beliefs about the future of pervasive devices.

Apple On The Move (Steve Gillmor, Mark Jones, Ephraim Schwartz, Jon Udell, and Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/18/021018hnapple.xml>
Discussion about Web services, digital rights management, Bluetooth, and Apple's plans for the enterprise.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Too Big For Its Niches (P.J. Connolly and Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/10/21/021021plmacpcp.xml>
The question is, what can businesses get from Apple that they don't already get from IBM, Sun, HP, and Dell?

Presentation Matters (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/10/21/021021opestrat.xml>
As Red Hat and Apple learned, two paths to graphical interfaces on one platform are two too many.

Affinities Grow Between Mac And Linux Supporters (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/practicalmac/134557941_ptmacc19.html>
It's clear that the affinities continue to grow between Mac and Unix consumers and developers.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Little Wonder (Bill Bennett, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/18/1034561309349.html>
It's not cheap, but Apple's iPod hits all the targets.

More Than Musical? (Russell Kay, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/02/10/21/021021apipod.xml>
We approached the iPod with some skepticism, but the machine quickly won us over. It's the best portable music player we've ever used.

No Worms Here (P.J.Connolly, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ne/xml/02/10/21/021021nexserve.xml>
Making Apple a serious player in server hardware may have seemed impossible, but the company has pulled it off. Xserve changes everything.

EyeTV: Inventive Video-Recording Solution Heralds The Close Of Mac-TV Gap, Despite Some Quirks (Jonathan Seff, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/11/reviews/eyetv.html>
EyeTV is not a direct replacement for a set-top DVR, but it brings most of the benefits of DVRs to your Mac -- and in some cases adds to them.

Using iSync And Bluetooth (Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/18/isync_bluetooth.html>
My initial impression with iSync was good. Setting up the phone was easy, but the Palm devices required some digging into the help files.

Digital Killed The Video Star (Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/18/photo_to_movie.html>
Chris Meyer has released a $10 application called Photo to Movie, which I consider a milestone in video production.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Loses Bid To End Patent Suit (Bloomberg)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-rup19.6oct19,0,6744319.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Microsoft Corp. must face a lawsuit by the University of California accusing the software maker of using patented technology without permission in its Web browser, a U.S. court ruled.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Into The Deep (Bret A. Fausett, New Architect)
<http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2442/na1002h/index.html>
How deep linking can sink you.

Lessons From The Internet Bookmobile (Richard Koman, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/18/bookmobile>
While it wasn't always clear to the public what we were up to exactly--were we selling books? selling the equipment?--eventually the point crystallized: the Bookmobile is a demo of a public domain application.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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NTT Develops 10Gbps Wireless System (NE Asia Online)
<http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/news/212281>
NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group has developed a wireless communications system using the 120GHz band.

The Mobile Internet: It Ain't Over 'Til The Fat Lady Sings (Justin Fox, Fortune)
<http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=209960>
Opera's impressive new browser solves the puzzle of fitting regular Web pages onto very small screens. Will the much-hyped boom in cellphone surfing finally follow?

Orange To Launch Microsoft Phone (Reuters)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2124137,00.html>
Orange is set to let the cat out of the bag next week, announcing the release of its new handset using Microsoft's wireless software.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Honoring Nation-Building (James P. Rubin, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49819-2002Oct18.html>
Despite a controversial history in Somalia and Vietnam, the idea of the United States as nation-builder is back in vogue.

A Grand Strategy (John Lewis Gaddis, Foreign Policy)
<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2002/gaddis.html>
President George W. Bush's national security strategy could represent the most sweeping shift in U.S. grand strategy since the beginning of the Cold War. But its success depends on the willingness of the rest of the world to welcome U.S. power with open arms.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Researchers Say Science Is Hurt By Secrecy Policy Set Up By The White House (William J. Broad, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/19/politics/19SECR.html>
The administration's policy of restricting the publication of federally financed research it deemed "sensitive but unclassified" threatened to "stifle scientific creativity and to weaken national security."

Saving The Planet Saves Money (John Whitfield, Nature)
<http://www.nature.com/nsu/021014/021014-7.html>
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is good for the pocket.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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A Lover Of Literary Puzzles (Celestine Bohlen, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/19/books/19ECO.html>
Umberto Eco is something of a practical joker. He is also Italy's best-known living novelist and, almost as famously, a philosopher who writes about matters ranging from "Peanuts" to Kant, and a semiotician who says he learned his excellent English by reading Marvel Comics and "Finnegans Wake."

Sniper Coverage: Is It Too Much? (Suzanne C. Ryan, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/291/living/Sniper_coverage_Is_it_too_much_-.shtml>
While industry observers seem to agree that the story has not been overplayed, considering the intense public interest, some have questioned whether the content of some coverage, particularly on cable, is actually helping the sniper.

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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Booker Prize 'Winner' Named By Mistake (Reuters)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42380-2002Oct17.html>
Organizers of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for literature were red-faced Thursday after they accidentally named one of the short-listed candidates as the winner.

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