[MyAppleMenu] Oct 20, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Oct 20, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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Kittery School Shows Off Laptop Program (Jennifer L. Saunders, Foster's Online)
<http://www4.fosters.com/news2002/oct_02/oct19_02/news/mn_k1019a.asp>
"We've got to take the long view on this and realize it's so important for our kids today, and in the future."

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Media Center PC Not Ready For The Living Room (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49967-2002Oct18.html>
Setting up this gear combined the worst aspects of home-theater assembly and desktop-PC installation.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Software Idea May Be Just Crazy Enough To Work (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/4327025.htm>
For more than a year, Mitch Kapor and his small team have been working on what they're calling an open-source "Interpersonal Information Manager."

WiFi Software Tracks You Down (Tony Hallett, Silicon.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-962587.html>
Positioning technology company Ekahau has released an updated version of its software, which allows devices to be physically tracked when they are connected to an 802.11 WLAN network.

For The Web Generation, Travel Is Self-Service (Bob Tedeschi, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/travel/NET.html>
An army of bargain hunters, booking at the 11th hour, is changing the travel industry.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Instant Imaging Device Gives GPs Safe New Window INto The Body (Robert Matthews, Telegraph)
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml;$sessionid$3PNUV3ILKICTDQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/connected/2002/10/09/ecnxray06.xml&sSheet=/connected/2002/10/10/ixconn.html>
A camera that can see through clothes, skin and even walls without X-rays has been developed in what is being called one of the first great technological breakthroughs of the 21st century.

Webcasters Get Royalty Reprieve (Robert MacMillan and David McGuire, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47424-2002Oct18.html>
Samll Web broadcasters won't pay the price for Congress' failure to pass legislation that relieves them from thousands of dollars in back payments to the recording industry.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Our Children Will Get Through This (Laurel Holliday, New York Times)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49856-2002Oct18.html>
It's important to remember that every child is unique, and each will quite naturally find his or her own ways of coping with overwhelming feelings.

Scared Senseless (Ann Patchett, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/magazine/20WWLN.html>
We are always looking to make some sort of sense out of murder in order to keep it safely at bay. But what happens when there is no description, no place, nobody?

What Now? (Susan Long, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/commentary/story/0,4386,150046,00.html?>
After the carnage in Bali, life will never be the same again for South-east Asians. They now hold front-row seats in an ever more menacing theatre of terror. Shrapnel has killed and maimed hundreds; the damage to morale and ailing economies is uncountable. The region, Singaporeans included, must stop being spectators and join the battle against terror, together.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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A Latin Jolt To The New York Skyline (Herbert Muschamp, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/arts/design/20MUSC.html>
The redevelopment of Times Square has finally produced a building worth talking about: the new Westin Hotel on Eighth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets.

With Egg Roll, You Might Get Advertisement (Alan Feuer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/nyregion/20CART.html>
At least one Chinese restaurant in Manhattan is sending out delivery orders in cartons adorned not with the traditional "Thank You, Enjoy," but with something a bit more jarring: an advertisement for Cingular Wireless.

The Remote Controllers (Marshall Sella, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/magazine/20INTERACTIVE.html>
It is now standard Hollywood practice for executive producers to scurry into Web groups moments after an episode is shown on the East Coast.

Business Plans Without A Dot-Com (Abby Ellin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/business/yourmoney/20PREL.html>
These days, young people are working with more traditional products, using, say, chocolate chips instead of microchips.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Urged To Make A Firm Stand In Water Issue (Azlan Abu Baker, New Straits Times)
<http://www.emedia.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/NewsBreak/20021020175148/Article/>
"Malaysia has stated its stand, and now it is up to Singapore to show the same commitment."

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