[MyAppleMenu] Apr 25, 2003

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Apr 25, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
------------------
Billboard To Reveal Apple Music Service Plans Today (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=6258>
US Music-industry bible Billboard is to publish details of Apple's new digital-music service at 8pm UK time -? but only to subscribers of the Premium Services section of Billboard.com.

Apple Extends X For Teachers Deal (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6256>

Tech Writer Axed For Thinking (Ashlee Vance, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/30394.html>
The San Francisco Chronicle today sacked technology reporter Henry Norr in an apparent response to his protests against the US-led invasion of Iraq.

WSJ: Apple Signs Eagles, No Doubt For Music Service (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/25/musicservice/>
Pui-Wing Tam reports for the Wall Street Journal that Steve Jobs' personal involvement has helped Apple's as-yet-unannounced music service secure rights to most of The Eagles' recordings.

Griffin Ships iTrip FM Transmitter For iPod (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/25/griffin>
The iTrip rests atop the iPod and attaches securely to the headphone jack and can broadcast to any available frequency on the FM dial.

Apple Store Break-In (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19256>

Public Beta Of Nisus Writer Express Available (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/25/nisus/>
Nisus Writer Express sports a new and customizable interface that's designed to capitalize on Mac OS X's Aqua interface. It offers support for plain text, RTF (Rich Text Format), and Unicode support. Nisus Writer Express is fully scriptable (AppleScript, menu-based, and Perl macros) and can open and save as Microsoft Word documents.

Apple Confirms 'Some' Interest In Online Music Service (William Selway, Bloomberg)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134682855_applemusic25.html>
pple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs said some of the reports about the company's interest in the music business are true.

Apple Vote: Treat Options As Expenses (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1047-998279.html>
Defying company management, Apple Computer shareholders on Thursday approved a resolution calling on the Mac maker to treat stock options as an expense.

NetNewsWire And Spring Earn Top Awards In Inaugural Mac OS X Innovators Contest (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/developer/2003/04/24/innovators.html>

Henry Norr Fired: His Statement (John H. Farr, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/04/20030424201227.shtml>
"I consider this punishment a violation of my rights as a citizen and as an employee, and I intend to fight it with all the means available to me."

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
----------------------
Thoughts On Apple's Music Plans (Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/2003/04/25/cx_ah_0425tentech.html>
Given the associated costs--infrastructure and royalties, among others--the key to that will be a huge volume of downloads. And the only way to guarantee that is to reach out to Windows users.

Who Knew Making A 3-Minute Digial Movie Could Be So Complex? (Doug Kim, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/134669964_digital06.html>

Is It Worth It To Upgrade Your Older Power Mac? (Adam Robert Guha, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/archive/03/0425.html>
If you have never upgraded your system in the past, you might want to think twice about upgrading it now, especially if it was a low-end model to begin with.

Buying Vintage Apples On eBay (John Ward, Vectronic's Apple World)
<http://homepage.mac.com/vectronic/2003/opinion/0423.html>
eBay is a great place for collectors to find vintage Apple computers.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
---------------------
Optic Verve (George Emerson, The Globe And Mail)
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030425/RO5TECH/TPBusiness/ROBM>
Digitizing all those snapshots gathering dust in your basement is now fast and easy, thanks to a nifty new scanner from Hewlett-Packard.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
-------------------------
Sure, Windows 2003 Scales, But Will It Sell? (Aaron Ricadela, InformationWeek)
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9100073>
Microsoft is tapping into corporate anxiety in its launch of Windows 2003. It says the software is about doing "more with less."

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
----------------------------------
Tech Books To Enter Public Domain (Dennis O'Reilly, PC World)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNoreilly_1.html>
Computer book publisher O'Reilly & Associates is taking a dramatic stand against automatic extensions of U.S. copyrights by voluntarily limiting its own copyright protection on hundreds of technical titles--and promising they'll enter the public domain after that.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
--------------------------------------
Linus Torvalds Opens Door To DRM (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-998292.html>
In a posting sent to a key Linux-focused e-mail list, he outlined a controversial proposal: Nothing in the basic rules for the Linux operating system should block developers from using digital rights management (DRM) technology. DRM tools are technological locks or identification measures that range from ensuring a software program is genuine to protecting a movie against unauthorized copying.

Verizon Ordered To ID Song Swappers (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-verizon25apr25,1,51784.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
 Expanding on his earlier order, a federal judge ruled Thursday that Verizon Communications Inc. must reveal the names of two alleged music pirates to the Recording Industry Assn. of America, rejecting arguments that the RIAA's tactics violated consumers' rights to privacy and free speech.

Decoding Compter Intruders (John Schwartz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/technology/circuits/24viru.html>
As industry and government seek to repel the attacks for which the Internet is a launching pad, much of the effort involves understanding those who unleash malicious code and jiggle digital doorknobs.

Study Puts Paid To Common Myth About GPL (Sam Varghese, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/24/1050777342086.html>
A study of End User License Agreement (EULA) for Microsoft Windows XP and the GNU General Public License (GPL), the most common licence under which Free/Open Source Software is released, has put paid to the common myth that GPL software cannot be included in proprietary software without the entire mix having to necessarily be released under the GPL.

Dot-coms: Not So Bad After All (J. William Gurley, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-998161.html>
Don't look now, but many dot-coms are working. While most industries struggle to swallow the overwhelming effect of a prolonged lethargic economy, consumer Internet companies are just now hitting their stride.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
--------------------------
Hu Jintao (Chris Suellentrop, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2081976/>
Does he really run China?

Freedom-Fried Republicans (E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35327-2003Apr24.html>
I never thought the United States would need a Franco-American Anti-Defamation League. But who would have imagined that guilt of being French-by-association would become the stuff of McCarthyism-lite in 2003?

Time To Turn TV On Again? (Doug Henwood, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-657578,00.html>
Who needs a state broadcaster when networks provide the propaganda?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
-----------------------------------
Toying With Music (Richard Dyer, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/114/living/Toying_with_music+.shtml>
MIT's Tod Machover creates instruments so children can contribute to his symphony.

Death Rate For Global Outbreak Rising (Shankar Vedantam and Rob Stein, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35146-2003Apr24.html>
The death rate for the worldwide outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, which has fluctuated for months, has recently begun what looks like an ominous rise.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
-------------------------
Home, Sweet Home (Clea Simon, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/113/food/Home_sweet_home+.shtml>
In these uncertain times, staying in to cook and entertain is gaining popularity.

Las Vegars 2003: Forget The Chips, Try The M&M's (Marc Weingarten, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/travel/25VEGA.html>
For children learning about geography for the first time, Las Vegas is an exhilarating but confusing scramble. I kept having to explain to my 4-year-old, Allegra, that you can't really walk to Paris from Manhattan.

Helen Honig Meyer, Who Led Dell Publishing, Dies At 95 (Wolfgang Saxon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/obituaries/24MEYE.html>
Helen Honig Meyer, one of the first women to break into the men's club of publishers, rising from a 16-year-old clerk to be president of Dell Publishing, died on Monday.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
---------------------------------------
How Singaore Avoided WHO Advisory (John Duncanson, Toronto Star)
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1051125555875&call_pageid=968867505381&col=969048872038>
The price of avoiding the dreaded WHO label has come at a high price for Singapore's citizens. The city-state has imposed strict rules on those in quarantine that are usually only seen by those serving jail sentences at home in Ontario.

More
----
Internet News <http://www.myapplemenu.com/internet/>
Linux News <http://www.myapplemenu.com/linux/>

---
Modify your subscription at <http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/applesurf-list>

MyAppleMenu is edited by Heng-Cheong Leong. This site is not affiliated with Apple Computer, Inc., or any other companies in any manner. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, Power Macintosh, PowerBook, iMac, iBook, iPod, and eMac are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other brands or product names are trademarks of their registered holders. Copyright &copy; 1996-2003 Heng-Cheong Leong. All rights reserved.