[MyAppleMenu] Jan 31, 2003

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Friday, Jan 31, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Wireless Firms Jumping Gun On New Spec? (Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-982861.html>
Although that means official certification is still some way off, a handful of companies have already released products, and others are racing ahead with their own plans to take early advantage of 802.11g's bandwidth.

Coder Finds New Way To Swap Tunes (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57482,00.html>
Like Daniel entering the lions' den, programmer Jim Speth is about to release some new music-sharing software that could land him in a world of legal pain.

Macworld Poll: Overwhelming Support For Safari (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5892>
Macworld asked readers: "Have you switched to Safari?". A stunning 66 per cent of 1,262 respondents replied 'Yes'.

Destineer Acquires MacSoft (Tuncer Deniz, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=6988>

Apple Price Policy May Save You Money (John H. Farr, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/01/20030130181653.shtml>

Apple's Demo Reel (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/01/30/appledemoreel>
"If you'd like the chance for your best work to be seen by thousands of professionals worldwide, now's your chance."

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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iMovie 3.0 Will Not Run On "Clam-Shell" iBooks (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030131073125593>

MYOB AccountEdge 3 (Michael Flaminio, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=1614>

Fix For The eMac Raster Shift Problem (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/staticpages/index.php?page=20030131071918881>
Thanks to well placed sources outside of Apple who wish to remain anonymous, we are able to bring you news of a fix for the widely reported eMac "raster shift" screen defect, which generated more complaints and general discussion in the MacFixIt mailboxes than any other event in the past six months.

The Sims: Unleashed (Michael Phillips, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=346>
As far as expansion packs go, Unleashed offers a great deal of new gameplay to the Sims experience.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Experts Say Microsoft Security Effort Failing (Elinor Mills Abreu, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2144981>
Computer security experts said on Thursday the recent "SQL Slammer" worm, the worst in more than a year, is evidence that Microsoft's year-old security push is not working.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Blogs Open Doors For Developers (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982854.html>
A growing array of big-name software developers are finding they can make better software if they leave the doors open, by sharing information with potential customers from the start and incorporating their feedback into development decisions.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Wireless Firms Jumping Gun On New Spec? (Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-982861.html>
Although that means official certification is still some way off, a handful of companies have already released products, and others are racing ahead with their own plans to take early advantage of 802.11g's bandwidth.

Survey: Net Crucial But Suspect (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-982882.html>
Internet users consider the Web an important source of information even though they increasingly question the credibility of online data, according to a survey released Friday.

The Net Is Cutting Into TV Time, Study Finds (Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5071191.htm>
The Internet is rapidly eroding television viewing hours and emerging as a powerful information medium in its own right, according to a study being released today by the University of California-Los Angeles.

Wall St. Wonders How AOL Time Warner Will Right Itself (Timothy L. O'Brien, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/business/media/30CND-AOL.html>
All of AOL Time Warner's high-flying initiatives of the last two years have amounted to a $100 billion mistake -— a figure larger than New Zealand's annual gross domestic product.

City Ogles Google Impact (Tony Kontzer, InformationWeek)
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030122S0010>
The city of San Diego's search appliance left employees and citizens hanging. Then it turned to Google.

Setting A Standard (Cameron Sturdevant, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,848158,00.asp>
The worst thing enterprise IT managers could do is to simply sit by and watch it all happen.

The 64-Bit PC Is Coming, But When? (Ashlee Vance, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/30/030130hn64bitpc_1.html>
Panelists debate prospects of next-generation systems.

DivX Shrinks Video To Fit (Stefanie Olsen, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-982771.html>
DivXNetworks unveiled a new version of its compression technology that promises to let Internet users shrink video files on the PC to play back on a range of consumer electronics devices.

Germany-Funded Linux Software Arriving (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982816.html>
KDE, one of the major interfaces designed to make Linux slick looking and easier to use, has been upgraded, an effort that includes the first results of work funded by the German government.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Bond Of Language (Jim Mann, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mann31jan31,0,2945953.column?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
U.S. reliance on English-speaking allies may lead to isolation.

How To Get Inside A Student's Head (Steven Pinker, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PINK.html>
In a world with complexities that constantly challenge the abilities nature gave us, serious thinking about trade-offs in education cannot be responsibly avoided — by scientists, educators or policy makers.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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On Film And In Print, 'The Quiet American' Still Fascinates (Martin F. Nolan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/books/30GREE.html>
The book endures, having served as a journalistic guidebook, a prophecy and even a tourist icon.

What's In A Name? Plenty For 'Redskins' (John Levesque, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/levesque/106471_leve30.shtml>
We're supposed to be dispassionate, fair and careful not to distort the truth. If there's a team out there called the Redskins, our readers ought to be aware of it, no? But my inner citizen, who clearly has seen too many Keith Jackson telecasts, is thinking, "Whoa, Nellie! If the Pekin Chinks were still around today, would we use the team nickname in the paper?"

A Beautiful Life - And A Beautiful Death (David Beresford, The Observer)
<http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,882370,00.html>
In this moving account David Beresford, long opposed to the idea of euthanasia, tells how his partner's mother chose to end her life after a long and painful battle against bone-marrow cancer.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Malaysia Not 'Dictating To Singapore' (Mergawati Zulkfakar, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/1/31/nation/mfrebut&sec=nation>
Syed Hamid said in any negotiation, no position would remain static.

Singapore's Hate Tactic (Shhanaaz Habib, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/1/31/nation/sbplay&sec=nation>
The Prime Minister said that from now on, Malaysia would not engage in a war of words with the republic or try to out-argue it on issues.

More Singapore News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>

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