[MyAppleMenu] Jun 11, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Jun 11, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Unix's Courtroom Adventures Continue (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1015814.html>
Apple is being sued by The Open Group, the San Francisco company that claims ownership of the Unix trademark, for using the term Unix in conjunction with its Mac OS X operating system without a license. Apple has countersued, asking a judge to declare that the trademark is invalid, because the term Unix has become generic.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple 'Threatened To Sue' Samsung Over iPod Clone (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/11/samsung>

Quark: QuarkXPress 'Absolutely... Will Ship Next Week' (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/11/quarkxpress/>
"I absolutely want to reassure you that QuarkXPress 6 will ship next week."

AOL Looks To Rival Apple Service (Owen Gibson, The Guardian)
<http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,975231,00.html>
AOL plans to follow Apple's lead by launching its own music download service in the US, offering music fans the chance to download songs on a track by track basis for 99 cents and offering more flexibility in terms of what they can do with them.

Apple Store To Open In Tokyo (The Inquirer)
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9950>
An advert in the Japan Times has given a strong indication that Apple is to open an Apple Store in Ginza, Tokyo.

Apple Store Coming To Cleveland, Ohio (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/10/applestore2>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Mac Users Can't Catch A Break In A PC World (Vicki Estes, Capital-Journal)
<http://www.cjonline.com/stories/061103/col_estes.shtml>
Even when a software company supports the Macintosh platform or operating system, they really don't want to.

Say, Ya Want A Revolution? (Megan Johnston, Money)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50098,00.html>
Apple's new iTunes Music Store is changing the music biz. Here's why.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Medal Of Honor: Spearhead (Chris Barylick, MacGamer)
<http://www.macgamer.com/features/?id=1569>

Apple's Titanium PowerBook Adapters: Flawed Design? (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030611075049775>
There is no strain relief built into the device and the cable on some adapters.

Risky QuickTime? Safety QuickTime! (Chris Adamson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3302>
If you take a little time to learn the vast expanse of QuickTime's toolset, you can either make more clever movies for your QuickTime users, or make movies that an even larger user community can enjoy.

Should Family Computers Be Secure Or Not? (Jeremy Lavergne, MacTeens)
<http://216.171.238.76/opinion_more.php?id=31_0_6_0_C>

With QuarkXPress 6.0 Arriving, Are The Glory Days Back? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#xpress>
It appears that Quark has done very well with its Mac OS X upgrade. So maybe one can forgive the delay.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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What's Right About Microsoft (Adam Lashinsky, Fortune)
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/bottomline/0,15704,456382,00.html>
Ignore Ballmer's stock sales. Things are starting to look a lot brighter for the tech giant.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Phonecam Nation (Xeni Jardin, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/start.html?pg=2>
Everyone's posting isntant photos on the Web. Get ready for your close-up.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Did SCO Violate The GPL? (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1123176,00.asp>
Some members of the open-source community are claiming that the SCO Group may have violated the terms of the GNU GPL by incorporating source code from the Linux kernel into the Linux Kernel Personality feature found in SCO Unix without giving the changes back to the community or displaying copyright notices attributing the code to Linux.

The .zip Standard Splinters (Lincoln Spector, PC World)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/10/HNzipsplinters_1.html>
PKWare and WinZip Computing, makers of competing compression and encryption products, are fighting over the .zip standard -- which means that .zip archive files created by one program may not be accessible by the other.

Radio ID Tags Get Microsoft Backing (Margaret Kane, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1020_3-1015058.html>
Microsoft is enlisting in a venture designed to help develop standards for radio frequency tags intended for use by retailers and manufacturers to track goods.

Sun Stirs To Unify Java (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-1015253.html>
Sun plans to build ties between the different flavors of Java in an effort to present the programming technology as more unified.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Here Comes The Cake (And It Actually Tastes Good) (Julia Moskin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/dining/11CAKE.html>
A new generation of pleasure-loving pastry chefs have set out to rescue the wedding cake from its state as a ceremonial white elephant and turn it back into what cake should be: dessert.

For Mrs. Clinton, One Day, 200,000 Copies (David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/business/media/11BOOK.html>
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir apparently set a record for first-day sales of a nonfiction book, selling about 200,000 copies on Monday, according to its publisher, Simon & Schuster.

Driving Down The Highway, Mourning The Death Of American Radio (Brent Staples, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/opinion/08SUN3.html>
Radio stations where unknown bands might once have come knocking at the door no longer even have doors.

What Helen keller Saw (Cynthia Ozick, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?030616crat_atlarge>
The making of a writer.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Panel Suggests Rethink Of Schools Ranking (Tan Tarn How, Straits Times)
<www.myapplemenu.com/cgi-bin/ntSurfAddMy.cgi>
The Remaking Singapore Committee wants annual secondary school rankings replaced by a system of grouping schools of similar quality in common bands.

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

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