[MyAppleMenu] Mar 7, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Mar 7, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Monopoly's Semi-Helpless Helpers (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000831.shtml#000831>
In Oddpost's circular logic, versions for other platforms will happen when their market share warrants the effort. But when developers refuse to even try to help other platforms, there's little chance that the market share will ever warrant the effort of new client versions.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Gartner Warns Against Buying Uncertified Wi-Fi Devices (Paul Roberts, IDG News Service)
<http://computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,79101,00.html>
Products might not meet the certification criteria for 802.11g operation when those criteria are finalized, leading to interoperability problems, especially in networks using products from more than one vendor.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Taking A Bite Out Of Apple (Richard A. Sparks, SchafersResearch.com)
<http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/sentiment/observations.asp?ID=7235>
Though the fundamental and technical surroundings have not been positive over the past couple of months, the compelling sentiment signals coupled with a potential improvement in AAPL's fundamentals and technicals make the stock one that bears watching.

Tabbed Browsing (Dave Hyatt)
<http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/archives/2003_03.html#002603>
I wanted to express some of my thoughts about the various UI decisions one has to make when designing a tabbed browsing system.

Defending The Mac In Three Minutes Or Less (Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/03/0305.html>
Notes on working with the school board.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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'Little People' Not Just Toys, Now (Larry Blasko, Associated Press)
<http://www.news-star.com/stories/030603/bus_3.shtml>
Knowledge Adventure does good stuff for kids, and its skills are evident here. The more central question is whether a two-year-old who is perfectly happy banging the kitchen pots needs to start a software library.

The Performance Of 8 iMacs And eMacs Compared (MacSpeedZone)
<http://macspeedzone.com/html/hardware/machine/comparison/desktop/imac/index.shtml>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Google's Memory Upgrade (Steven Johnson, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2079747/>
Instead of just helping you find new things, Google could help you keep track of what you've already found.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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SCO Sues Big Blue Over Unix, Linux (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-991464.html>
Analysts saw the move as a desperate one for SCO, a company that hasn't been profitable in its current incarnation.

Internet To Change The Landscape Of Volunteering Work In Singapore (Johnson Choo, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/34142/1/.html>
More Singaporeans are doing volunteer work according to the National Volunteer Centre.

The Social Meaning Of RDF (Kendall Grant Clark, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/05/social.html>
RDF is frequently described as a tool for representing knowledge, but therein lies a hornet's nest of deeply conceptual questions, better left undisturbed if you can help it.

U.S. Set For Mobile Game Invasion (Elisa Batista, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57889,00.html>
A common sight in Europe and Japan -- cooler-than-thou teens and pinstriped businesspeople jabbing madly at their cell-phone keypads as they play mobile games -- may soon become standard in the United States.

Making Robots More Like Us (Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041-991336.html>
Robotics researchers are realizing that the journey to more autonomous, adaptable robots will require more than just improvements in mechanical, sensory and computing capabilities. Equally important, they say, is improving the way people and robots interact.

Red Hat Sees No Threat In UnitedLinux (Dietmar Mueller, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-991384.html>
To combat the challenge from UnitedLinux--a partnership of SuSE, SCO Group, Turbolinux and Conectiva--Red Hat has become more aggressive in the corporate marketplace, readying "advanced" versions of its server and workstation products that it also hopes will help it take on Microsoft's Windows operating system.

Sun Eyes Alliances With Linux Rivals (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-991412.html>
Sun Microsystems is considering striking up partnerships with mainstream Linux sellers such as Red Hat and SuSE--a move that would turn the tech giant into an ally, rather than a rival, of those companies.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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What Conservative Media? (Andrew Sullivan)
<http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20030305>
In this battle, of course, bias is often in the eye of the beholder. That's why the only way to see it clearly is through actual media competition - where markets, rather than benevolent, politically appointed moguls, determine the content of the product.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Study Of Antarctic Points To Rising Sea Levels (Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/science/07WARM.html>
New evidence from a rapidly warming part of Antarctica suggests that ice can flow into the sea much more readily than had been predicted, perhaps leading to an accelerated rise in sea levels from global warming.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Threats And Consequences (Howard Altman, City Paper)
<http://citypaper.net/articles/2003-03-06/pretzel.shtml>
I should probably call the Secret Service, but I cringe at the thought of diming out the poor old guy. I call our lawyer, the Poynter Institute, the national editor at The New York Times. They all say the same thing.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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>From Singapore Creek To The Johore River (Yang Razali Kassim, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/views/story/0,4574,74662,00.html?>
Old municipal records show that the British colonial administration made water planning in Singapore a long-standing preoccupation. Things have come full circle.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Malaysia Sees No Conflict With Singapore, Says Syed Hamid (Bernama)
<http://www.bernama.com.my/B2002/news.shtml?general/ge0703_2>
Malaysia and Singapore realise the dangers of instability in the region and the Pulau Batu Puteh dispute will not interfere with long-term relations between the two countries, Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said.

Internet To Change The Landscape Of Volunteering Work In Singapore (Johnson Choo, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/34142/1/.html>
More Singaporeans are doing volunteer work according to the National Volunteer Centre.

800 Sign Anti-War Petition In Singapore (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,175572,00.html>
The petition was organised by the activist group Think Centre as a 'virtual march' because it did not expect to be given a permit for a demonstration, the centre's president Sinapan Samydorai told The Straits Times.

Tourism Board To Track Chinatown's Revival Closely (Kirst Boo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,175577,00.html?>
STB denies that this is being done to deflect criticism that its $97.5 million makeover has not brought people or profits to Chinatown. It says, instead, that a clearer picture of business conditions will help it woo tenants to the area.

No Decision Yet On Renaming Zoo (Asad Shiraz, Wildlife Reserves Singapore, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,175600,00.html?>
Approximately $25,000 has been spent on this study phase. We have not made any decision on the renaming of the zoo.

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