[MyAppleMenu] Saturday, Dec 6, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Dec 6, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Security Update Offers Safari Cookies Fix (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/12/05/security/index.php?redirect=1070641179000>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Sun, RSS And Apple Challenge Office Dominance (Steve Gillmor, InfoWorld)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1405218,00.asp>
Suddenly, the Windows advantage as the essential platform for applications was neutralized.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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ReadIris 9 (Gary Coyne, Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=248_0_1_0_M>
With ReadIris 9, the first OCR program to be fully compliant with Twain Scanners and OS X, all the other programs are also rans. They need to catch up with ReadIris, and with the speed of this program, they have a lot of catching up to do.

X2: Wolverine's Revenge (Ken Newquist, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=432>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft's Patchwork Security Blanket (Wayne Rash, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/05/48secadvise_1.html>
Microsoft has had a lot of Windows patches, but is that really a bad thing?

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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How To Succeed In 2004 (Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,548434,00.html>
We asked leaders from business (and elsewhere) how they do what they do better than anyone else.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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RIAA, Radio And Hurting Your Customers (Dave Slusher)
<http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2003/12/05#031205_04>
Now it is about ever common denominators, ignoring the small and midlist artists, and collecting all the eggs into a few blockbuster baskets.

Why Three Heads Are Better Than One (Lauren Gibbons Paul, CIO)
<http://www.cio.com/archive/120103/km.html>
Evenin the best of times, it's a battle to convince employees to participate in knowledge management programs. But in tough times, the tendency is for employees to horde what they know. Here's how some companies convinced individuals to share best practices.

Yahoo Pitching Antispam Initiative To Industry (Juan Carolos Perez, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/05/HNyahoospam_1.html>
Yahoo Inc. has developed a system it says will go a long way toward curbing spam, but the technology's success is dependent on its widespread industry adoption beyond the borders of Yahoo's e-mail servers.

Broadband Have-Nots To Raise A Political Stink (Graeme Wearden, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/broadband/0,39020342,39118338,00.htm>
People who can't get broadband intend to be very vocal until they get it, politicians have been warned.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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It's Not The Hat That Makes The Cowboy (Aaron Latham, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/books/review/1207books-children.html>
With the closing of the frontier, the decline of western movies every Saturday afternoon at the Bijou and the evaporation of afternoon westerns on television, being a cowboy more and more comes down to wardrobe.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Shorter Hours So LRT Can Be Fixed (Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,223795,00.html?>
The shorter operating hours are to allow Singapore LRT (SLRT) to fix what is hopefully the last of a series of faults that have plagued the system since the light rail system opened four years ago.

SPH Says It's In TV Business For The Long Haul (Audrey Tan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,223759,00.html?>
Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) remains committed to its money-losing television subsidiary, MediaWorks, as it sees TV as an important part of its overall media strategy, SPH chairman Lim Chin Beng said yesterday.

Give SIA Pilots Some Credit (Tan Soon Kee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,223899,00.html?>
Let's not start labelling SIA pilots. They deserve some credit for the job that they do and our leaders should take the first step.

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