[MyAppleMenu] Feb 7, 2003

Fri Feb 7 21:05:00 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Feb 7, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Standards: Truce Pays Off For Rivals (Wylie Wong and Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1033-982341.html>
As fast wireless technologies hit store shelves, networking companies that survived an earlier standards war in the booming market are determined to prevent another one from erupting.

Beat Of THe Slopes (Josh Niva, Anchorage Daily News)
<http://www.adn.com/life/story/2582334p-2630506c.html>
Portable players turn a typical ride into a freestyle session set to a customized rhythm track.

Students Enjoy A 'Science Cart' From Apple (Jason Miller, Holland Sentinel)
<http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/020603/loc_020603015.shtml>
As what Apple calls a "seed" school, East Middle School will share results and opinions on the project with Apple so the company can get a feel for the product's future viability.

Zeroing In On Instant Networks (P.J. Connolly, Wayne Rash, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/31/05nezeroconfig_1.html?s=tc>
New approaches to zero-configuration networks provide faster, more flexible hookups for mobile devices.

Apple To Host 1394 Developers' Conf In Tokyo (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/06.1394.php>
The 1394 Trade Association is an international organization dedicated to the advancement and proliferation of the IEEE 1394 standard -- better known as FireWire to Mac users.

Sun: We Would Consider A Mac OS X Office Suite If Microsoft Left (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030206083740467>
A Sun Microsystems representative has told MacFixIt that if Microsoft were to leave the Macintosh office productivity suite space -- by ceasing development after Office 11 -- the company would be more inclined to deliver a solid, production-level Mac OS X-native version of its StarOffice suite.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Between A Desk And A Pervasive Place (Mark Jones, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/07/06noise_1.html?s=tc>
IBM looks to voice as the next addition to the collaborative environment, but it's a complex proposition.

More Chess Players Use Computers For Edge (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/nyregion/06CHES.html>
Chess players who once relied on thick tomes of annotated games and Post-its to mark their favorite strategies now use computer programs to search constantly updated online databases of two million or more of history's most significant games.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Standards: Truce Pays Off For Rivals (Wylie Wong and Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1033-982341.html>
As fast wireless technologies hit store shelves, networking companies that survived an earlier standards war in the booming market are determined to prevent another one from erupting.

Royal Standard Has GIven Way To A Royal Pain (Marc Fisher, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32411-2003Feb5.html>
To the tens of millions of Americans whose lot it is to stare into video terminals for most of our waking hours, each new system is more confounding than the last, and each new product strips away many of the advantages of the previous system.

Zeroing In On Instant Networks (P.J. Connolly, Wayne Rash, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/31/05nezeroconfig_1.html?s=tc>
New approaches to zero-configuration networks provide faster, more flexible hookups for mobile devices.

Brother, Can You Spare Some Privacy? (Paul Roberts, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/06/hnTrus_1.html>
Companies that wish to display the TRUSTe seal on their Web site will have to demonstrate a higher level of privacy protection for customer data.

Linux Clusters Running In Academia (Ashlee Vance, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/06/hnLincluster_1.html>
Linux clusters born in the world of academia are sprouting legs and appear ready to march right into the enterprise, despite the growing pains facing the emerging technology.

Wireless: It's Raining Hardware (Ben Charny, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-983583.html>
This time last year, wireless networking was primarily just for laptops. By the end of 2003, about 15 other types of electronic gear will be capable of using the burgeoning technology.

Net's No Longer A Haven From Sales Taxes (Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-983636.html>
Several large retailers this week began collecting sales tax on Internet purchases.

Web Services Market Up For Grabs (Dawn Kawamoto and Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983655.html>
The battle to control the Web services software market is still up for grabs, according to conflicting results from two recent surveys.

Sun Gathers Solaris-Intel Commitments (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983688.html>
Sun Microsystems has gathered a handful of commitments and endorsements regarding its strategy to promote its Solaris operating system on servers that use Intel-compatible processors.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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More Chess Players Use Computers For Edge (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/nyregion/06CHES.html>
Chess players who once relied on thick tomes of annotated games and Post-its to mark their favorite strategies now use computer programs to search constantly updated online databases of two million or more of history's most significant games.

Royal Standard Has GIven Way To A Royal Pain (Marc Fisher, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32411-2003Feb5.html>
To the tens of millions of Americans whose lot it is to stare into video terminals for most of our waking hours, each new system is more confounding than the last, and each new product strips away many of the advantages of the previous system.

More Doctors Steer Patients Away From Some Medicines (Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2003/02/05/financial1005EST0044.DTL>
It's the new world of less-is-more medicine.

Tadpoles Take Blame For Human Hiccups (James Randerson, New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993355>
There are many similarities between hiccuping and gill ventilation in animals like tadpoles, the researchers argue.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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My Mileage Is Better Than Your Mileage (Bill McKibben, Orion)
<http://www.orionsociety.org/pages/om/03-1om/McKibben.html>
An all-American idea for getting Americans to take gas consumption seriously.

Fantasy Economics (Robert Shapiro, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2078053/>
Why economists are obsessed with online role-playing games.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Malaysia, Singapore Take Row To World Court (Reuters)
<http://asia.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/02/06/malaysia.singapore.reut/>
But the ministers found it trickier to agree what would happen before their day in court comes along in some two years' time, offering plenty of scope for further disagreement over the outcrop.

CPF Rate Will Remain At 36% For Two More Years (Tammy Tan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,170349,00.html?>
Economic blueprint spells out need for short-term pain to position Singapore for long-term growth by keeping costs down.

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