[MyAppleMenu] Jun 4, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Releases Keynote 1.1 Update (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/04/keynote/>
"With any update release we want to address any outstanding customer issues we're aware of. We've been monitoring feedback from our customers and testing for any issues they've reported."

Return Of The Mac (Neil McIntosh, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,969807,00.html>
How did an ugly beige box become a fashion accessoary? The Guardian meets the man who made computers cool.

iMovie 3 Gets Performance, Stability Boost (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/03/imovie/>
Refinements to the Ken Burns Effect allow greater pan and zoom control on digital images and make it easier to crop digital stills.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Confirms Meeting With Indie Record Companies (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/04/indie/>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Cracks The Music Market (Robin Bloor, IT-Director.com)
<http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=10906>
Apple is now thinking of porting the iTunes software to Windows, and may be staring a $3 billion per annum market straight in the face. However, it may not be so easy to realise this in practical business terms. Apple has to find a way of remaining in harmony with the music industry, which means staying ahead of the music pirates.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Insanely Cut Rate (Matthew Haughey)
<http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/007038>
The titanium metal snapped clear off the LCD screen, right above the left hinge.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Ballmer Memo Targets Linux (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1013124.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed>
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer identified Linux and open-source software as key competitive challenges to the company in a memo sent to all employees Wednesday.

Microsoft's Browser Play (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1012943.html>
Purveyors and consumers of Web content and software, already unsettled by the peace pact between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, may be in store for an even more radical upset: The end of Microsoft's standalone Internet Explorer browser.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Tracking Your Every Media Move (Brian Lowry, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-et-lowry4jun04192419,1,2792696.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>
Technology is offering a wide assortment of Orwellian options to gauge viewing and listening preferences.

Designing For Users (Jonathan B. Cox, News Observer)
<http://newsobserver.com/business/story/2589517p-2403033c.html>
Higher competition pushes companies to make their equipment more comfortable and elegant.

Why Has 802.11 Flourished And Bluetooth Failed? (Bob Frankston, ZDNet)
<http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2913885,00.html>
In the end, the value of creating general applications built on 802.11 gives it a major advantage.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Microsoft Lock-In? (Tristan Louis)
<http://www.tnl.net/blog/2003/6/3#MicrosoftLock-in>
This is really all about a fight for the soul of the Internet.

RIAA, Colleges Agree On Webcasting Rate (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1012907.html>
Universities and the music industry on Tuesday said they reached a royalty payment deal that would allow college radio stations to stream music over the Internet at a discount.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Because We Could (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/04/opinion/04FRIE.html>
The "real reason" for this war, which was never stated, was that after 9/11 America needed to hit someone in the Arab-Muslim world.

Imperialism Of Neighbors (Michael Hirsh, Washington Monthly)
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0306.hirsh.html>
A new paradigm for the use of American power.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Killer Virus (David Brown, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10572-2003Jun3.html>
Few people alive today remember the Spanish flu firsthand. But the global epidemic lives vividly in the collective memory of medicine and public health. It's the distant mirror in which today's epidemic of SARS is reflected.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The End Of History (Fred Kaplan, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2083920/>
How e-mail is wrecking our national archive.

Chefs Bite Back (Candy Sagon, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1293-2003Jun1.html>
So who's right? The trained chefs who feel their expertise is being ignored? Or the paying customers who want what they want -- no matter the reason.

Iraqi Name Droppers (Peter Slevin, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10526-2003Jun3.html>
All over the country, Saddam Hussein's government glued his name to schools, neighborhoods and institutions of every description. But now that his government has fallen, Iraqis are renaming institutions with glee.

Why God Should Matter In Social Science (Rodney Stark, The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i39/39b00701.htm>
If it is hard to believe that conceptions of the Gods are ignored in most recently written histories, it is harder yet to understand why Gods were long ago banished from the social-scientific study of religion.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Chamberland Road (Joyce E. Peseroff, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2083878/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Create Laws To Protect Consumers' Personal Data (Jos Birken, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,192821,00.html?>
 Maintaining and safeguarding clear principles of privacy, such as transparency and acting only with consumers' consent, is something that will benefit Singapore, both as a country that respects citizens' privacy rights and as a country that offers its corporations a world-class environment in which to do business.

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

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