[MyAppleMenu] Sep 8, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Sep 8, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Linking To Dance's Future In A 21st-Century Workshop (Jennifer Dunning, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/arts/artsspecial/08JDUN.html?tntemail0>
With the formal opening on Oct 2 of the new Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea, New York dance officially enters the cyber universe.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Gov. King Visits Kittery School As Laptop Program Begins (Jennifer L. Saunders, Foster's Online)
<http://www4.fosters.com/news2002/sept_02/sept06_02/news/mn_k0906_02b.asp>
Shapleigh Middle School hosted a special guest Thursday as Gov. Angus King spoke with students about the key role they play in making the laptop initiative a success.

Apple Posts New "Switch" Ads (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/09/07/switch>
The ads feature new "switchers" including an attorney, a veterinarian, a trucking company owner, a software manager and two students.

Optimism In Apple's China Market? (Global Mac News)
<http://whythemacissogreat.com/globalmacnews/news/2002/09/07/140300.shtml>
New Apple Web China, an independent Macintosh website in China, has an optimistic look (in Chinese) at Apple and the Chinese market.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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The Megahertz Mentality Reigns, But Processor Speed Is Almost Passe (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49303-2002Sep7.html>
Determining a winner in the race to build the fastest PC processor is getting harder and harder. The problem isn't finding a score card, but finding the right one.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Photoshop 2.0 A Jewel For All Users (James Coates, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/chi-0209080168sep08.story?coll=chi%2Dprintbusiness%2Dhed>
The digital photography wizards at Adobe may have outdone even their earlier low-cost breakthrough image editing software with this helpful upgrade to the wildly popular Photoshop Elements 1.0 version.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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10 Choices That Were Critical To The Net's Success (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/4029770.htm>
How did technologists, government officials and a host of other early players turn something with no obvious business model into a system that has become so intrinsic to the new century?

To WiFi Or Not To WiFi? (Mark Halper, Fortune)
<http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=209402>
Mobile operators are starting to worry that WiFi could become a 3G substitute.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Speed Demons (Ernest Holsendolph, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
<http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/business/0902/08wireless.html>
New Internet-enabled cellphones are pokey, bu that will change.

Businesses Gird For Grid Computing Breakthroughs (Zack Medicoff, Globetechnology.com)
<http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/gtnews/TGAM/20020905/TWGRID>
Ability to tap into power of a virtual supercomputer could be windfall for firms.

J-Phone, Hutchison Unfazed By DoCoMo's 3G Outlook (Reuters)
<http://www.ispworld.com/Reuters/BreakingNews/090602_gt21.htm>
Japan's J-Phone and Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa said on Friday they would stand by plans to launch 3G mobile services this year, despite a sluggish start to the high-speed service by industry leader NTT DoCoMo.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Go Ahead, Snooze (Steve Johnston, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2002/0908/punch.html>
What have you got to lose?

In The Soulful 70's, Real Men Played Tennis (James Kaplan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/fashion/08VILA.html?tntemail0>
The stars of the modern men's game haven't even begun to arouse the kind of passion tennis players generated a quarter-century ago.

Writer's Block (Don Aucoin, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/0908/currents.htm>
Authors may go in and out of style, but it's time to bring George V. Higgins back into fashion.

Writer's Voice Matures With A Generation (J. Michael Kennedy, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-lv-obrien8sep08.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dliving%2Dmanual>
Veteran puts aside Vietnam for a tale about boomers who had to settle for less.

The Clouds Of memory (Lynne Duke, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45675-2002Sep6.html>
Windows on the World restaurant lost 72 workers. For those left behind, there is no real moving on.

Don't Rebuild. Reimagine. (Herbert Muschamp, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/magazine/08REBUILD.html>
Now is the time for New York to express its ambition through architecture and reclaim its place as a visionary city.

Above All, The Fishing's The Thing (Rodes Fishburne, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/travel/FISH.html>
At Poronui Ranch, there's every comfort on 16,000 acres. But the real lure is the fly-fishing.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Ministry Draws Up Lessons From SingTel-IDA Case (Angela Tan, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,56796,00.html?>
Check with relevant authority before payouts, public officers told.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Broadband Needs To Be Liberalised Next (Tang Weng Fai, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/bizit/story/0,2276,56765,00.html?>
Despite much prodding, broadband access in Singapore is still far from widespread. The key reason: access costs.

For Special Photos, Esplanade Centre Has Its Points... (Ginnie Teo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,142306,00.html?>
Scores of amateur and professional photographers have been aiming their cameras at the two distinctive silver domes which, despite the recent controversy over their appearance, seem destined to become a Singapore landmark.

PTP Shrugs Off New PSA-Evergreen Deal (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,142185,00.html?>
Speaking to the Malaysian daily The Star, senior PTP officials said that they were 'not losing sleep' over what Malaysian shipping observers have called a 'face-saving measure' designed to play down the loss of business at PSA.

Singapore Economy: Two Sides Of The Coin (Lee Kim Chew, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/analysis/story/0,1870,142223,00.html?>
Singapore's recovery has been patchy, benefiting export-oriented enterprises but not those which depend on the domestic market. Much has to be done to generate jobs and income in Singapore itself. Help local companies upgrade, not relocate.

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