[MyAppleMenu] Mar 13, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Mar 13, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Tuning In On The Go (Melissa Wujick, The Lumberjack)
<http://www.lumberjackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/13/3e70114e70e17>
Joey Potter mentioned this hand-held device on “Dawson’s Creek.” Jennifer Lopez was seen with this small gadget in her music video, “Jenny from the Block.” Still, few people recognize what it actually is.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Fresh 10.2.4 Bugs Found (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6081>
More problems are emerging within Apple's recently released Mac OS X 10.2.4 update - and Apple continues to avoid dealing with its customers concerns.

MySQL: A Threat To Bigwigs? (David Kirkpatrick, Fortune)
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/>
Open-source database has dazzling opportunities ahead.

Thinking Thin With Laptops (Jon Frott, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5381727.htm>
With the rest of us tightening our belts in the economic downturn, laptop manufacturers have decided to play along after a fashion. Cutting-edge laptops are losing weight.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Who's Song Will Apple Sing? (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac0213003,0,5639725.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
As the company nears the release of a music-download service for Mac users, it would be wise to consider a 'bill of rights' for consumers.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Europe Finds MS Guilty, But Wonders What To Do About It (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29725.html>
The European Commission's experts have decided they should do something about Microsoft, but face two problems - how to make the solution legally watertight, and how to make it work.

EU Microsoft Guilty Ruling Takes Shape (Paul Meller, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/12/HNmsguilty_1.html>
The shape of a probable guilty ruling in the five-year-long European Union antitrust case against Microsoft emerged this week, following a leak from an internal panel reviewing the handling of the case.

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

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Land Costs To Blame? No, It's Not The Bad Guy (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,176662,00.html?>
Unmoved by the numerous appeals over three days for a review of the Government's land-pricing policy, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lee Hsien Loong cautioned against acting rashly.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Intel Working With StarHub On Hot Spots In Singapore (Amit Roy Choudhury, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/bizit/story/0,4574,75141,00.html?>
Intel, which introduced its Intel Centrino mobile technology worldwide yesterday, is working with StarHub in a verification programme for hot spots set up by the telecoms company around Singapore.

Good Story Low, But You're Wrong On Living Costs (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,176751,00.html?>
Times are bad but costs have gone down, not up, says DPM Lee, rebutting opposition MP's portrayal of situation.

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