[MyAppleMenu] Mar 10, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Mar 10, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Neah Power Gives Charge To Laptops (Paul Andrews, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134649650_paul10.html>
Neah promises to make battery panic go away through use of its unique fuel-cell technology. Here's what the company foresees: eight-plus hours on a fuel cell that weighs a third as much as a conventional lithium-ion battery. And the fuel cell will go in the same bay as the regular battery.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Filemaker Responds (John H. Farr, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/03/20030307174705.shtml>
"As with every application, it is very important that you follow FileMaker security guidelines when sharing databases on the Web, to avoid inappropriately exposing data."

It Takes A Village To Beat The iPod (Eliot Van Buskirk, CNET)
<http://electronics.cnet.com/electronics/0-3219397-8-20917251-1.html?tag=st.re.9870989.fs.3219397-8-20917251-1>
It's not the iPod, the operating system, or the iTunes software alone that makes the Mac iPod so smooth to use--it's the way that all three work together seamlessly. Apple has a clear advantage over other portable-device manufacturers because the company controls the operating system, the computer hardware, and the product design.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Office 2003: Beta Shows Promise Of This Major Overhaul (Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,922519,00.asp>
Anyone who uses only Word and Excel may not want to bother with the upgrade, due in the middle of the year. But Office 2003 looks to have enticements for a range of potential users.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Computers In Libraries Make Moral Judgments, Selectively (Geoffrey Nunberg, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/weekinreview/09NUNB.html>
Software will never be able to wholly reproduce human linguistic and perceptual capacities, much less distinguish between a Playboy calendar and an Edward Weston nude, or between "Tropic of Cancer" and "Trailer Park Swappers."

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Sun Aims StarOffice PC Bundles At Joe User (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29661.html>
Sun wants, and expects, to see StarOffice 6.1 "on the shelves of Fry's, CompuUSA and BestBuy" when the suite is released this Fall.

Neah Power Gives Charge To Laptops (Paul Andrews, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134649650_paul10.html>
Neah promises to make battery panic go away through use of its unique fuel-cell technology. Here's what the company foresees: eight-plus hours on a fuel cell that weighs a third as much as a conventional lithium-ion battery. And the fuel cell will go in the same bay as the regular battery.

Why We Need A High-Tech Shakeout (McKinsey Quarterly)
<http://rss.com.com/2009-1085-991490.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
The technology industry badly needs a shakeout: A consolidation of the myriad providers that sprang up in the 1990s would benefit both the industry and its customers. Yet because of the interlocking interests of executives and board members, this catharsis probably won't come from within. Interlopers from the edge of the industry or beyond will probably drive the change.

Broadband Competition Might Still Be Possible (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5352348.htm>
I'm beginning to think that wireless can compete, because of enormous recent innovation in what's called the "unlicensed spectrum." That's the part of the airwaves not controlled by government or specific industries and companies.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Chipping Away At Roe (Debra Rosenberg, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/882641.asp>
Abortion foes are poised to pass a ban on partial-birth abortion. Is it a meaningful change, or a manufactured political issue?

A Bad Idea In Vietnam, An Even Worse Idea Today (Peter hayes and Nina Tannenwald, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-hayes9mar09,1,2983976.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
A group of scientists concluded in 1966 that crossing the nuclear threshold would be disastrous in Southwest Asia. The same would be true in Iraq.

Misreading Power (William Raspberry, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2866-2003Mar9.html>
The fear is that one (or both) of these men will overplay his hand and hurl us into a war no sane person could want and whose most serious casualties could come after the bombing stops. How did we come to such a pass?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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In Sync (Mary Carmichael, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/882650.asp>
Birds of a feather aren’t the only ones to flock together. The science of synchrony shows that order and cooperation are as much nature’s way as disorder and chaos.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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And Here's To You, Mrs Robinson (Paul Theroux, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-605016,00.html>
This subject of the younger man having an affair with an older woman still interests me greatly, because time passes and “younger” and “older” mean different things to me.

Actors, Writers Grin And Bear A Harsh Reality (Brian Lowry, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-lowry10mar10.story>
Jokes may flow at awards shows, but anxiety is mounting over long-term effects of the trend toward unscripted series.

In A Digitally Animated World, Oscar Stands Rigid (Dave Kehr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/movies/09KEHR.html>
Digital technology may have transformed the movies, but the Oscars have yet to acknowledge its existence.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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No Politics For Now: PM Goh's Son (Vince Chong, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,74798,00.html?>
But Goh Jin Hian, who runs Parkway's corporate services arm, may consider the option when his father is no more PM.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore To Teach Net Etiquette (Associated Press)
<http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11271~1232204,00.html>
Having purged the country of chewing gum and introduced fines for not flushing toilets, Singapore's government will now try to teach people how to behave on the Internet.

Still In The Dark About IDA's Stand (Jason Yip Tien Chee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,176144,00.html?>
I hope the IDA will remember that it has an obligation to the public to respond to queries in a substantive and timely manner, and do so for the questions I have posed both privately and in this forum.

More Dialect Shows Will Hit Mandarin Use (Ho Ai Phang, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,176147,00.html?>
Doing so now will set back the hard-won progress that we have made to get the Chinese community in Singapore to speak and communicate to each other in Mandarin, and to bond as one community.

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