[MyAppleMenu] Sep 9, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Sep 9, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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Cisco Ends Distribution Deal With Dell (John G Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957156.html>
Later this month, Cisco will drop the company as a distributor for its networking equipment, Dell representatives said Monday. It's the second time this year Dell has been axed by a supplier after entering or making plans to enter that company's market.

Is That A Mac In A Penguin Suit? (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-957138.html>
Aiming to capitalize on growing support for Macs within the open-source community, a Mac dealer has started selling Apple Computer systems loaded with both the Linux operating system and Mac OS X.

Apple Plans Expo Double-Header (Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,522405,00.asp>
For Apple Computer Inc.'s next trick, the company this week will attempt to be in two places at once--on two separate continents.

Apple Store Opening In King Of Prussia, PA (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16326>

Apple Targets Schools IT Show (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5233>
Apple will later this month attend an education trade show in Northern Ireland.

Apples Of Their Eyes (Rob Chaney, Missoulian)
<http://www.missoulian.com/display/inn_news/news05.txt>
Mac users gather at garage sale for deals, opportunity to reminisce.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Intel Moving Into Home Electronics With New Digital Initiative (Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/09/020909hnintelhome.xml>
Intel planted both feet firmly in the Microsoft camp with support in the toolkit for UpnP (Universal Plug and Play).

PC Makers Take Slow Road To XP Update (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1040-957077.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
Microsoft on Monday issued the first update, or service pack, for the Windows XP operating system. But the update, available as a free download from Microsoft's Web site, may not appear on some new PCs until next year.

Dell, HP Switch To WordPerfect (Mike Musgrove, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49304-2002Sep7.html>
A couple of deals recently signed by Ottawa software maker Corel will let consumers take home software from somebody besides Microsoft.

Balancing Linux And Microsoft (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/technology/09SOFT.html?ex=1032148800&en=d35ed06348b974a2&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER>
The case of Bruce Perens, who until recently was a strategist for Linux software at HP, illustrates the balance that companies must achieve as they promote Linux but continue doing business with Microsoft.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Corporate Paws Grab For Desktop (Brad King, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54941,00.html>
More and more, big media companies control what consumers do with digital content on their PCs. But open-source developers are programming like mad to swing the balance of power back to the public.

Life In The Grid (Rana Foroohar, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/804126.asp?0cb=-114104788>
As the Net evolves, all machines and people will become nodes on one network, and any one computer will be able to tap the power of all. It’s scary.

A Swarm Of Little Notes (Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020916-349070,00.html>
Is instant messaging creating a work style that's breezily efficient -- or one that's more oppressive?

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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HP Uses Nanotechnology For New Circuit (John G Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957089.html>
Researchers at HP Labs announced Monday that they have created a new kind of extremely minute circuit for computer chips using nanotechnology, the science of building devices out of parts measuring 100 nanometers or less. One nanometer is one billionth of a meter.

Intel Moving Into Home Electronics With New Digital Initiative (Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/09/020909hnintelhome.xml>
Intel planted both feet firmly in the Microsoft camp with support in the toolkit for UpnP (Universal Plug and Play).

Macromedia Joins J2EE Big League (ComputerWire)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/27013.html>
Macromedia Inc joins the Java big league today, with the expected launch of its runtime environment and scripting language for IBM's WebSphere and Sun ONE Application Server.

BEA Releases 'World's Fastest' JVM (Paul Krill, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/09/020909hnjrockit.xml?s=rss&t=news&slot=2>
BEA Systems on Monday will release JRockit 7.0 for Intel hardware, which one company official termed the "world's fastest" Java Virtual Machine.

Intel's 'Madison' To Make First Appearance (Stephan Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t271-s2121925,00.html>
Unisys and NEC will make the first demonstrations of Intel's third-generation server chip, a move that may aid Intel's struggle to crack the competitive server market.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The City And The Country (Paul Auster, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/opinion/09AUST.html>
Principles that are a daily reality in New York -- a belief in the dignity of the individual, a tolerance of differences -- are the bedrock creed of American life.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Who Killed King Tut? (Jeffrey Kluger and Andrea Dorfman, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020916-349108,00.html>
The boy King died young and was buried in haste. Now a pair of U.S. gumshoes, armed with modern forensics, is trying to crack an ancient case.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Worth Giving Tourism The Big Banana (Sascha Jenkins, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/08/1031115971331.html>
Love or hate them, the surprisingly large number of giant fruits and animals are good news for small towns.

Trying To Hit The Right Note, All Day Long (Paul Farhi, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54915-2002Sep8.html>
For TV and radio news stations, the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks will be a nonstop blur of memorial events, emotional reminiscences and related news stories. Their challenge: Cover the occasion without bludgeoning it. Everyone else in radio and TV -- those normally devoted to playing cartoons, comedy shows or Kenny G songs -- faces a different challenge: Ignore the anniversary without seeming callous or mindlessly irrelevant.

The Real Heros Are Dead (James B. Stewart, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020211fa_FACT1>
A love story.

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