[MyAppleMenu] Sep 2, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Sep 2, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Xserve 'Tempts Switchers' (Ashlee Vance, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5195>
Apple is experiencing the first signs of success in the US server market.

Barking Up Apple's Tree (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/3984755.htm>
Agonizing over whether to buy a Profile or an iMac? This decision isn't as obvious as either Gateway or Apple would have you believe, but making a choice shouldn't be difficult.

MyAppleMenu : News
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I Mua! Macintosh 'Speaks' Hawaiian (Vicki Viotti, Honolulu Advertiser)
<http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Sep/02/ln/ln03a.html>
10.2 added an option to the computer's internal "keyboard" allowing users to type in the kahako and the 'okina, two characters essential to the Hawaiian written language as it is now taught.

$37m Buys Experiment In Schools (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/245/business/_37m_buys_experiment_in_schools+.shtml>
Maine is plunging into an edcuational debate that is at least as old as television.

Mac Aficionados Line Up To See New Computer Store (Stanley A. Miller II, Journal Sentinel)
<http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/sep02/70902.asp>
Apple opened its first store in Wisconsin on Saturday, welcoming hundreds of cheering fans to a bright, shiny, high-tech haven.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Introduction To And Experiences With Mac Cocoa (Kuro5hin.org)
<http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/9/1/01920/06001>

Dreamweaver MX (Mark Starlin, MacReview)
<http://www.macreview.com/Productive/WebPublishing/Dreamweaver/DreamweaverMXReview.html>
Let me summarize by saying Dreamweaver MX remains the state of the art tool for Internet publishing and application development.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Vendors Ready For Tablet OS (Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/09/02/020902pltabnews.xml?s=rss&t=news&slot=3>
Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition OS isn't slated to launch until Nov. 7, but companies such as Motion Computing, Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, and Fujitsu already have revealed plans to release Tablet PC products.

Microsoft's Newest Challenger: Moore's Law (Eric Hellweg, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,43153,00.html>
Entire PCs can now be bought for less than the cost of one copy of Microsoft Office software -- and an interesting new market is born.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Sun Seeks Many Davids For MS Office Fight (ComputerWire)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26900.html>
Sun is hatching a set of XML data standards for use in desktop productivity applications, in attempt to unseat Microsoft's domination of office applications.

The Holy Grail Of Remote Controls (Associated Press)
<http://europe.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/08/31/universal.remote.ap/index.html>
It's the one remote contro lyou wouldn't want to lose. That's because it's the only remote you'd have.

AOL Capitulates, Gives Up Struggle For 'Open Access' (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3982670.htm>
We're on the verge of the much-touted Information Age, and corporate interests now override the public interest.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Watchdogs Rap RIAA's File-Trade Assault (Declan McCullagh, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-956176.html>
A federal law that the recording industry is using to unmask a suspected Kazaa music-trader is unconstituional, a coalition of nonprofit groups said late Friday.

CAA Mulls Ban On Laptops Which Don't Exist (John Leyden, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/26910.html>
Ultra-wideband devices "knocked out" collision-avoidance systems and imparired instrument landing systems.

Vendors Ready For Tablet OS (Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/09/02/020902pltabnews.xml?s=rss&t=news&slot=3>
Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition OS isn't slated to launch until Nov. 7, but companies such as Motion Computing, Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, and Fujitsu already have revealed plans to release Tablet PC products.

Online Schools Won't Get Easy 'A' (John Gartner, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54790,00.html>
As virtual primary schools steadily attract more students, traditional school districts complain that the online campuses siphon public money from dwindling budgets.

Google Hires Financial Wizard (Reuters)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t278-s2121599,00.html>
After three and a half years, the popular search engine hires a chief financial officer. A public offering may be on the way.

Linux: The Revolution On Film (Steve Kettmann, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,54837,00.html>
Revolution OS, an indie film project begun in 1999, provides a rich look at the birth and sometimes painful growth of the Linux operating system.

Web Services Era 'Drawing To Close' (ComputerWire)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/26899.html>
IT infrastructure is now starting to catch up work on protocols.

Magazine Renewal? (D.C. Denison, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/244/business/Magazine_renewal_+.shtml>
After thriving for years by dispensing advice on how to work smarter and faster, Inc and Fast Company, both Boston-based, are now facing difficulties that would be natural features in their own pages.

U.S. Cellphone Users Don't Seem To Get Message About Messaging (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/02/technology/02MESS.html>
It is now possible for U.S. cellphone users to send one another short text messages, but most customers still have no idea that the service exists.

AOL Reaches To Create Its Own Big Music Scene On The Internet (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/02/technology/02MUSI.html>
With radio controlled by a few chains and MTV playing videos less and less, the vanguard of music promotion has rapidly moved to the Internet. And AOL's music channel, with a vast audience of teenagers, has become the biggest force in online music promotion.

As Tracking Technologies Improve, We're Ever More Constantly Watched (Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press)
<http://www.boston.com/dailynews/244/economy/As_tracking_technologies_impro%3A.shtml>
What if computers become smart enough to link all those government and commercial resources and discern patterns from people's electronic traces? Could they help predict behavior? Prevent terrorist attacks?

Computer Grids Promise Leap In Computing Power (Peter Henderson, Reuters)
<http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=0DICPKSTNABYECRBAE0CFFA?type=technologynews&StoryID=1396226>
If the next big thing in computers, the grid, comes true, war will know no boundaries.

The Strange Story Of Tara Sue (William Grosso, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1931>
If she can cause Coble a few moment's worry, then I think everyone in Congress will worry.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Scientifically Priced Retail Goods (Bob Tedechi, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/02/technology/02ECOM.html>
Using sophisticated systems from a handful of small but fast-growing technology companies, retailers are making price decisions more scientifically and less by gut instinct.

Radio Emerges From The Electronic Soup (Duncan Graham-Rowe, New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992732>
A self-organising electronic circuit has stunned engineers by turning itself into a radio receiver.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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How To Write Like A Pundit (chromatic, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1719>
If necessary, repeat yourself until your message becomes conventional wisdom.

Magazine Renewal? (D.C. Denison, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/244/business/Magazine_renewal_+.shtml>
After thriving for years by dispensing advice on how to work smarter and faster, Inc and Fast Company, both Boston-based, are now facing difficulties that would be natural features in their own pages.

Wish You Were Still Here? (Fergus Osullivan, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-401303,00.html>
Why do we go on holiday? When were there, does the reality live up to the expectation? And do we come home with a changed attitude to life and work, or is it just the same old grind but with a suntan?

Art For Tate's Sake (Caroline Roux, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,784460,00.html>
Can a combination of Cond&eacute; Nast and Britain's premier art institution sell a magazine?

Solemnity Slips Under The Covers (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24627-2002Sep1.html>
Nearly a year after sweeping predictions that the news business would be permanently transformed by the events of Sept. 11, the media world has largely returned to business as usual.

Tofu And Zazen By The Sea (Ted Rose, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/travel/GULCH.html?8hpib>
At the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, overnight guests can join in meditation sessions and do chorse -- or not.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Holiday a la Carte (Michael Coffey, Boston Review)
<http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/coffey.html>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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KL-Singapore Talks Start, Stop, Start... (Tan Tarn How, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,141157,00.html?>
Rather than getting down to trashing out the details, it was a day of on-and-off talks, long delays and changes to the schedule.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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RC Network Head Defends Logo Change (Neo Hui Min, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,141154,00.html?>
It was in response to feedback that RCs needed image overhaul; some had criticised the move as wasteful.

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