[MyAppleMenu] Feb 4, 2003

Tue Feb 4 21:05:01 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Trims Prices, Product Array (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-983263.html>
Apple Computer on Tuesday simplified its consumer Macintosh line and slashed prices as it seeks to gain market share from Windows XP-based PCs.

Apple Updates The iMac; Lowers Price On iMac And eMac (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/04.imac.php>
Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday updated its flat panel iMac all-in-one consumer computer, giving the system a speed bump and many of the same technologies added to the Power Mac line last week.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Freshmen Debut First-Year-Life Videos (Whitney Robinson, The Chronicle)
<http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/03/3e3e82e8cfed9>
The Froshlife iMovie project, sponsored by Student Affairs, the Office of Information Technology and Apple Computer, allowed freshman to create short films about "the first-year experience."

G4 Chips Smell Of Stopgap (David Frith, The Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5920377%5E15397%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>
You can't help feeling these new machines are stopgap models, holding a place for Apple in the professional market until new chips become available.

No 'G' Whiz For Wireless (John Taschek, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,854617,00.asp>
Sales of 802.11g-based hardware are on fire, but organizations could get burned by buying into "g" now.

Losses Grow For Corel (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-983110.html>
Canadian software maker Corel, in the midst of a difficult turnaround bid, on Monday reported a wider loss for its fourth quarter and 2002 fiscal year.

Jared Micah Herman: Award-Winning Director Captures Beauty WIthin Tragedy (Stephanie Jorgl, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2003/02/micah/>

OmniWeb 4.2 Beta Released (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/03.omniweb.php>
The Omni Group said that OmniWeb 4.2 improves compatibility with Web servers, and adds new preferences to aid in downloading files and managing Internet plug-ins.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Living The iLife (Michael Logan, MacWrite)
<http://www.macwrite.com/applestew/living-the-ilife.php>

New Apple Apps: The Good, The Bad, The Stupid (Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2909638,00.html>
It boggles my mind that Apple, the company that insists it's all about attention to detail, would ship a scheduling app that behaves so stupidly.

iPhoto 2 Steps Into The Frame (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07060>
It's just frustrating to see a program with so many hints of greatness dragged down by what look like sloppy omissions.

iMovie, Take 3 (Jeff Carlson, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07059>
With more work and some dedicated attention to fixing some glitches and performance issues on Apple's part, iMovie 3 could become the update I've been waiting for.

The Great Interface-Off: FireWire Vs. USB 2.0 (Cade Metz, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,847716,00.asp>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Net Widens Phone Options For Deaf (Katie Dean, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,57502,00.html>
Phoning in an order for a pepperoni pizza can be a cumbersome process for a deaf person, but new telecommunications services may deliver a better way.

Desktop Linux Group Launches (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-983204.html>
Several companies have joined to launch a consortium to promote Linux for desktop computers, a significant expansion for an operating system that today fits more comfortably on servers.

Security Key Goal For Web Services Group (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983170.html>
A group working to ensure the compatibility of Web services software is preparing to tackle its biggest challenge yet: Security.

Groove Adds Web Services Links (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983165.html>
Groove Networks on Tuesday released a revamped version of its collaboration software that ties the company closer to Microsoft and introduces compliance with Web services.

Java Spec Waits For Web Services (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983212.html>
A revision to a much-anticipated Java standard will be delayed about three months in order to comply with guidelines designed to keep Web services interoperable.

Telecom: Is Wi-Fi The Missing Link? (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1033-982113.html>
For all its enthusiasm and momentum, the grassroots Wi-Fi movement is hardly an automatic solution for providing basic home Internet access.

Hiptop Maker Gets $35 Million Injection (Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-983140.html?tag=fd_top>
Hiptop developer Danger collected another $35 million in funding, which the start-up says it will use to try to sign up new wireless carrier and hardware partners for its combination cell phone and Web-browsing handheld device.

Pentagon And Companies In Agreement On Spectrum (Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/01/technology/01SPEC.html>
Technology companies and the Pentagon have reached an agreement to unlock a swath of spectrum for the next generation of wireless devices, officials said today.

No 'G' Whiz For Wireless (John Taschek, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,854617,00.asp>
Sales of 802.11g-based hardware are on fire, but organizations could get burned by buying into "g" now.

Microsoft Warns SEC Of Open-Source Threat (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857638,00.asp>
Microsoft Corp. may in the future be forced to lower its software prices as a result of the growth of open source, the company cautioned in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Wireless Leads Network Convergence Revolution (InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/03/05neNetwork_1.html>
The seamless hand off between public, corporate, and home networks is here, erasing traditional boundaries and ushering in a time in which one pervasive network will prevail.

Cities Build A Home For Wi-Fi (Sandeep Junnarkar, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-983099.html>
The future of wireless networks can be found about an hour from Atlanta, in the foothills of Georgia's northeast mountains. There, the small college town of Athens wants to become America's prototypical community built with "Wi-Fi" networks--the reigning standard for wireless technologies that are changing the way businesses and individuals exchange information.

Net Biz Attacks Down -- Bugs Multiply (Robert Lemos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-983154.html>
Attacks on corporate networks by online vandals fell in the second half of last year, according to report released Monday.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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George bush, Multilateralist? (Robert Wright, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/04/opinion/04WRIG.html>
There remains a slim chance that the president could, however paradoxically, emerge as a historic figure in the United Nations' evolution toward enduring significance. But only if administration hawks make an admission of their own: that working through the United Nations could get them everything they profess to want.

"If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines" (Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org)
<http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm>
Perhaps, after a half-century of fine-tuning exit polling to such a science that it's now sometimes used to verify how clean elections are in Third World countries, it really did suddenly become inaccurate in the United States in the past six years and just won't work here anymore.

Ah, Those Principled Europeans (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/opinion/02FRIE.html>
Pardon me if I don't take seriously all the Euro-whining about the Bush policies toward Iraq -— for one very simple reason: It strikes me as deeply unserious.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Revviving Romance With Space, Even As 'Space Age' Fades (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/04/science/space/04CULT.html>
Just as 500 years ago people crossed the ocean despite the risks, the seduction of space will continue to lure us because we see it both as our future and because it resonates with our past.

Political Points In The World's Fair Of Technology (Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/arts/design/03ARTS.html>
Today artists with a political point to make merely put their work on the Internet, which is truly a world's fair of technology and on occasion compelling art.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Turning A Digital Database Into Local Radio (David F. Gallagher, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/technology/03DALY.html>
With a little help from digital editing, Mr. Daly can do a top-10 countdown show tailored to the phoned-in requests of radio listeners in 11 different cities without actually knowing which songs he is counting down.

Whose Comments Are They? (Christine Chinlund, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/034/oped/Whose_comments_are_they_+.shtml>
It is unfortunate that GOP-authored letters were published as individual works. I applaud the effort to keep it from happening again.

We've Got To Stop Eating Like This (Timothy K. Smith, Fortune)
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,409676,00.html?cnn=yes>
If food companies are to grow, so must we, it seems. What would transform our diet on a national scale?

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