[MyAppleMenu] Oct 30, 2002

Wed Oct 30 21:05:04 EST 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Dell Selling Apple's iPods (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-963901.html>
In a case of strange bedfellows, Dell Computer has started selling Apple Computer's iPod portable music player.

How Apple Is Expanding Its Universe (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2002/tc20021030_4497.htm>
It's making its own technology easier for other to adopt, and it's even incorporating features it hasn't invented.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Mac Game Makers Speak Out On Demos (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/30.demos.php>
To find out why Mac game demos are so few and far between, MacCentral sought comments from leading commercial publishers of Mac games.

Apple Doc Offer Details On CSS Bugs In IE (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/30.css.php>
A new technical paper posted to Apple's developer site outlines some of the problems Mac users of Microsoft Internet Explorer encounter with Web sites that utilize Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The documentation is written to help Web developers better understand what's happening and how to work around the issues.

Activist's Archive Preserves A Vision Of California's Coast (Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4402167.htm>
Some people go to the beach and come back with a snapshot. Ken Adelman has come back with 7,000 of them. And he isn't finished yet.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Battle Of The Online Stores: Apple Vs. Dell (Cathleen Santosus, EcommerceTimes)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19816.html>
The Apple Store provides a better product search engine, including product illustrations with its results, but Dell's search engine outperforms Apple's for queries seeking service-related information.

Poll: iPod 'Too Expensive' (Dominique Fidele, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5477>
Nearly a third of Macworld Online readers think the iPod is too expensive.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Flat Scream (Wes Stewart, United Press)
<http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021022-082211-4451r>
We've been looking at the displays at local electronic stores and have made a discovery. The LCD screens are harder to read than traditional CRTs.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Workstation Makers Switch off Intel Tool (Michael kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-963942.html>
Intel's hyperthreading, a performance-enhancing technology that lets one chip act something like two, has been available on workstations since April. But so far it's mostly been taking a nap.

Goliath Crushes David (Farhad Manjoo, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/30/microsoft_media_two/index.html?x>
Even as it was fighting its antitrust battle with the feds, Microsoft was already on to Round 2: Winning the streaming-media wars.

Thumbs-Up On Security For Windows 2000 (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-963776.html?tag=fd_top>
Windows 2000 has passed all required tests for a security certification accepted in 15 countries, Microsoft announced Tuesday. While software vulnerabilities may still occasionally bug the operating system, the Common Criteria certification attests that the key software components of Windows 2000 meet a specific level of security.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Defending The Use Of Open Source (Matthew Broersma, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-963875.html>
A new report reveals just how much the U.S. Department of Defense depends on open-source software and recommends steps to ensure that open source is recognized and accepted.

Can Open Source Compete With Microsoft? (Paul Festa, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-963839.html>
If the parallels between RealNetworks and Netscape Communications were once suggestive, they became flagrant Tuesday as the struggling streaming-media company followed the defanged browser pioneer in releasing its source code to the world.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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WiFi Eyes Better Wireless LAN Security (Stephen Lawson, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/30/021030hnwifi.xml?s=IDGNS>
WECA on Thursday will announce a new set of mechanisms to combat the security problem that has plagued wireless LANs.

Airport Lounges, Unplugged (Jesse Drucker, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/828105.asp>
T-Mobile USA Inc., formerly VoiceStream Wireless, is partnering with American Airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines to let people get high-speed wireless Internet connections in nearly all of the airlines’ domestic clubs over the coming year.

Linux Firm Promises Low-Cost Clusters (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-963953.html>
French Linux distributor MandrakeSoft announced the release of a version of the open-source operating system that it says is optimized for creating low-budget supercomputers.

Open-Spectrum Advocates Say It Will Boost Technology (Sarah Lai Stirland, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134564261_btspectrum28.html>
The core of this idea is the belief that, if the rules are tweaked the right way, technology companies in the next five years will have brought to market the equipment that will make the notion of electromagnetic-spectrum scarcity, a fundamental issue of telecom economics, seem quaint.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Keeping Hope On Ice (Raja Mishra, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/302/science/Keeping_hope_on_ice+.shtml>
The science of freezing a woman's eggs is still in its infancy.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Ever-Expanding American Restaurant Tip (Sara Dickerman, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073161&device=>
Part gift, part sales commission, and part salary, the tip is a peculiar artifact.

A Dorm For Dreamers (Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37974-2002Oct29.html>
Rather than disregard the ambitions of its entrepreneurial students, the University of Maryland is encouraging them with the kind of amenities that earlier students could only dream about.

Big Eaters, Sure, But This Is Absurd (Amanda Hesser, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/dining/30PELM.html>
Spurred in part by Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot-dog-eating contest in Coney Island, eating contests have popped up across the country, from reindeer-sausage events in Alaska to conch fritter matches in Key West, Fla.

Writers Hone Words Of Praise For A Treasured Mentor (Stephen Kinzer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/arts/30ARTS.html>
When contemporary American authors debate the age-old question of whether writing can be taught, the name of Nicholas Delbanco is apt to be mentioned.

Art Groups And Artists Find Angels: Universities (Karen W. Arenson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/arts/design/30FUND.html>
As artists and arts organizations find themselves facing yet another brutal decline in financial support, they are increasingly turning to a small but growing corps of universities that are quietly helping fill that gap.

David Lodge Thinks... (Scott McLemee, The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i10/10a01401.htm>
The British novelist of ideas takes on the literary implications of 'consciousness studies.'

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Prelude To Lying About My Ex-Husband (Laurie Blauner, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073267&device=>

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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Scientists Plan To Shake Hands Via Internet (Reuters)
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021028/wr_nm/technology_handshake_dc>
In a technological first, the scientists will use pencil-like devices called phantoms to recreate the sense of touch across the Atlantic.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Seen To Be Meddling In Spratlys Pact (Mergawati Zulfakar, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/10/30/nation/mfmarah&sec=nation>
Why does Singapore want to be included in the activities when it is not a claimant?

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