[MyAppleMenu] Sep 30, 2002

Mon Sep 30 21:05:03 EDT 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Sep 30, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Server Is Impressive (Henry Baltazar, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,562239,00.asp>
Apple's first foray into the enterprise server market is a powerful 1U rack-mountable device. Blending open-source functionality and Mac OS X usability, the Xserve will likely find its way into small businesses and workgroups.

Burning Rubber: 10.2 (Stefan Hammond, Computerworld Hong Kong)
<http://www.idg.com.hk/cw/readstory.asp?aid=20020930006>
Mac OS X 10.2 is a truly first-class experience. Oh by the way, though I've only been using OS X for about a month, it has never crashed. Not once.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Opera Meets Electronica In "Paradise Lost." (Stephanie Jorgl, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/09/operaelectronica/>
"Ultimately, I want to use technology to make music that lives and breathes, and constantly serves the drama of the opera. And there is nothing like using a Mac to make that dream into a reality."

MacTV Announces MacRadio.com (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=1031>

FileMaker Mobile 2.1 Released (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/30.filemaker.php>
FileMaker Mobile 2.1 lets you transfer and synchronize data between FileMaker Pro databases on desktop computers and handheld Palm OS or Pocket PC devices.

Apple Pulls All iPods From Stores In France (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16733>
Apple has pulled all iPods from the stores in France in order to bring the device into compliance with a French law that requries audio devices to output a maximum of 100 decibals.

Microsoft Rivals Leave Minor Marks Online (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960141.html>
The latest Mozilla and Netscape Web browsers are cropping up on more computers worldwide, but they still only represent a few trees in a forest of Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers.

New Apple store In Edison, New Jersey (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16725>
A reader notes that a new Apple Store is being built at the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, New Jersey.

Technology Of Future Helps Students Explore Past (Cameron Collins, The Leaf-Chronicle)
<http://www.theleafchronicle.com/news/stories/20020930/localnews/188876.html>
A group of sixth-graders at Richview Middle School are digging up the past without leaving the classroom.

Bluetooth Technology Is Finding Use In More (Doug Bedell, Knight Ridder News)
<http://www.sltrib.com/09302002/monday/2580.htm>
After fits and starts, are consumers seeing the first easy-to-use Bluetooth products hit store shelves.

IBM Joins 64-Bit Desktop PC Strategy (Tom Murphy, Electronic News)
<http://www.e-insite.net/electronicnews/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA247020&pubdate=9/30/2002>
With or without Apple, IBM pushes ahead with PowerPC plans.

Apple Readies Its First Store In Maryland (Andrew Ratner, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/bal-bz.apple30sep30,0,2560511.story?coll=bal-business-headlines>
Apple Computer Inc. is putting the finishing touches on its first store in Maryland -- the latest move in a strategy the company launched last year to better introduce its products to consumers.

Poll: 58% 'Will Never Use .Mac' (Domnique Fidele, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5334>
The latest Macworld Online readers poll suggests that almost two thirds of the Mac community will never subscribe to Apple's subscription-based online Web-services suite .Mac.

IT Exec Gets Apple Philippines On Its Feet, And Running (Daxim L. Lucas, The Manila Times)
<http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/sept/30/business/20020930bus13.html>
In the information technology circles, Charlie Tang is widely credited with having turned around Apple Philippines, making it a major player in the desktop computer market from a mere bit player just a couple of years ago.

The State's Laptop Computer Initiative Lands In Biddeford (Alan Elliott, Journal Tribune)
<http://www.journaltribune.com/FridayNews/news1.html>
More than 200 Biddeford seventh-graders logged on to the future Thursday, firing up new laptop computers paid for by taxpayers across the state.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Macs-imizing Student Potential (Joyce Newhouse, Star-Telegram)
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/editorial/4180901.htm>
We believe that our students are gaining some high-level computer skills and getting an excellent education in our school district.

Apple Loses World's Most Valuable List (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/27345.html>
Using basic data mining, Apple can use this information to produce relationship maps, spending information and usage patterns that other companies can only dream about.

Mac Poses As Much Of Challenge To Linux As To Windows (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/273/business/Mac_poses_as_much_of_challenge_to_Linux_as_to_Windows+.shtml>
Apple's snarky ad campaign urging people to switch from Microsoft Windows machines to Apple's Macintosh computers probably won't put a dent in Windows sales. But it could mean serious trouble for the effort to put the Linux operating systems on home and corporate desktops.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Moving Video, Photos To DVDs Gets Easier (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/technology/personal_technology/4177687.htm>
For the best consumer-grade DVD authoring around, get a Macintosh with iDVD. We're betting you'll be thrilled.

Jaguar Does Windows--And Then Some (Sephen H. Wildstrom, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_40/b3802029.htm>
This $129 Mac upgrade makes networking with Windows easy.

Mariner Write v3 And Mariner Calc v5.2 Pack (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/marinerpack.shtml>
They've each got room to grow, and Write especially needs to clean up a couple of features before it's ready for prime time.

Spam Busters (Charles Arthur, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=338097>
PostArmor is the new enemy of junk e-mail. It homes in on header clues and zaps the stuff before it even reaches you.

Digital Remake: Update Old Analog Video (Sam Diaz, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4177664.htm>
The analog-to-digital conversion market is growing as consumers upgrade to digital camcorders.

Of Mice And Movies (David Lagesse, U.S. News)
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021007/tech/7video.htm>
Video-editing software lets you play director at your desk. But you may need to upgrade your PC.

HP Device Does More Than Photos (Deborah Porterfield, Gannett News Service)
<http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/business/stories/bu092902s6.shtml>
Whether printing pictures, copying photos or scanning images on its flatbed, this show-off device produced spectacular prints with vibrant colors just begging to be framed.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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New E-Mail Virus Targets Windows, IE (Paul Roberts, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/30/020930hnievirus.xml?s=IDGNS>
A new e-mail-borne virus variously known as "Tanatos," and "W32/Bugbear," is being circulated as an e-mail attachment and appears to target machines running Microsoft operating systems.

Microsoft Tries To Reel In Filmmakers (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960091.html>
In another boost to its media software aspirations, Microsoft on Monday said four independent films will be shown this week in the company's newest digital format.

PC Makers Hit Speed Bumps; Being Faster May Not Matter (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/technology/30SPEE.html>
Computers have reached a point where for the most common home purposes -- Web surfing, e-mail and word processing -- they are already more than fast enough to suit a typical home user's needs.

Bluetooth: Prooft That Microsoft Is Innovating (David Berlind, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2881840,00.html>
It's not Microsoft's reaction time to a burgeoning technology that's innovative. What's innovative is Foley's vision for where wireless technologies like Bluetooth fit into the grander scheme of things.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Red Hat Seeks Linux Standards (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-960015.html>
Red Hat has begun an effort to use its position as the dominant seller of the Linux operating system to try to smooth over a long-running divide about the look and feel of the OS.

Studios' Copyright Goal: Total Control (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4175607.htm>
This is a radical agenda, one that overturns tradition and would ultimately wipe out the public domain, without which our culture would be vastly poorer.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Raikes Details Office Changes (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,562039,00.asp>
As Microsoft Corp. prepares to release the first beta for Office 11, the next version of its pervasive Office productivity suite, Jeff Raikes, its group vice president of productivity and business services, sat down to talk about the changes users can expect to see.

XML To Drive Office Update (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,561973,00.asp>
Code-named Office 11, the suite will feature built-in support for XML in Word, allowing developers to create "smart" documents that automatically search for code or updates as needed.

Hybrid Pentium 4 Finds Home In Laptops (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-960167.html>
It's not quite a notebook chip and not quite a desktop chip, but Intel's Pentium 4C processor is managing to establish an identity for itself in a small niche of the consumer notebook market.

ICQ Gets Back To Basics (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960177.html>
The popular instant messaging service owned by America Online on Monday released a slimmed-down version, called "ICQ Lite," that targets first-time users with its simplicity.

Bluetooth Technology Is Finding Use In More (Doug Bedell, Knight Ridder News)
<http://www.sltrib.com/09302002/monday/2580.htm>
After fits and starts, are consumers seeing the first easy-to-use Bluetooth products hit store shelves.

IBM Joins 64-Bit Desktop PC Strategy (Tom Murphy, Electronic News)
<http://www.e-insite.net/electronicnews/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA247020&pubdate=9/30/2002>
With or without Apple, IBM pushes ahead with PowerPC plans.

Mac Poses As Much Of Challenge To Linux As To Windows (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/273/business/Mac_poses_as_much_of_challenge_to_Linux_as_to_Windows+.shtml>
Apple's snarky ad campaign urging people to switch from Microsoft Windows machines to Apple's Macintosh computers probably won't put a dent in Windows sales. But it could mean serious trouble for the effort to put the Linux operating systems on home and corporate desktops.

Why .NET Is A Benefit To Other Platforms (John Carroll, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-960049.html>
Instead of complaining about Microsoft's market reach, co-opt.

IBM Boosts Hard Drives With "Tag 'N Seek" (Richard Shim, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-960028.html>
IBM is expected to announce on Monday that technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.

Handhelds Connect With USB On-The-Go (John G. Spooner, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-960014.html>
A new technology that allows handheld devices to share files directly, without the need for a PC, could be on store shelves by the end of the year.

Google Launches European Ad Service (ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t278-s2123018,00.html>
European advertisers can now buy up search terms related to their products.

An Online Success For Lands' End (Bob Tedeschi, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/technology/30ECOM.html>
Efforts by Lands' End to sell custom-made pants on its Web site have exceeded the expectations of even the most optimistic executives.

PC Makers Hit Speed Bumps; Being Faster May Not Matter (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/technology/30SPEE.html>
Computers have reached a point where for the most common home purposes -- Web surfing, e-mail and word processing -- they are already more than fast enough to suit a typical home user's needs.

Bluetooth: Prooft That Microsoft Is Innovating (David Berlind, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2881840,00.html>
It's not Microsoft's reaction time to a burgeoning technology that's innovative. What's innovative is Foley's vision for where wireless technologies like Bluetooth fit into the grander scheme of things.

Secrets Of Successful Free Software Businesse3s (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2073>
The secret of being a successful FSB is to use free software where it's appropriate, and not to use it where it isn't, and to understand the dynamics of the markets it creates.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Suberting Hong Kong's Autonomy (Jonathan Fenby, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501021007-356128,00.html>
It's taken a few years, but now Beijing has what it wants: complete control.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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22 Rooms With A 3-D View (Paul Richard, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20696-2002Sep29.html>
The renewed sculpture galleries at the National Gallery of Art take up much of the ground level of the elegant West Building and prompt this odd sensation. Not long after you enter them, your hands will start to tingle.

Monsters And Other Secrets Of The Writing Life (Dinitia Smith, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/books/30FEST.html>
Is there a monster in the house? Is there a baby writer sitting over there on the floor storing up memories of family fights and betrayals for future books? Beware.

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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War Cry (Ted Rall)
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/020927/7/2bxul.html>
Making the case for United Nations intervention against the United States, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami told the organization yesterday that military action will be "unavoidable" unless the U.S. agrees to destroy its weapons of mass destruction.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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MPH To sell Book Business To Malaysia's Jalinan Inspirasi For S$46m (Dawn Teo, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/20440/1/.html>
MPH announced on Monday that it will sell its century-old book business to Malaysia's Jalinan Inspirasi for S$46 million in cash.

Singapore's Blind Spot: Racial Harmony... With No Real Interaction? (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,146073,00.html?>
There is little 'meaningful interaction' between the races, despite 37 years of peaceful co-existence.

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