[MyAppleMenu] May 14, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, May 14, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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iPods, Powerbooks Reloaded (Daniel Dubno and Bob Bicknell, CBS News)
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/14/tech/digitaldan/main553766.shtml>
More stylish than the Matrix: Apple's iPod and the Powerbook are reborn as Steve Jobs finds mor egratifying ways to not only "free your mind" but "free your wallet."

MyAppleMenu : News
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iTunes Music Store Now Tops Two Million Song Downloads (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/14/itunesstore>
Over half of the songs purchased to date were purchased as albums, further dispelling concerns that selling music on a per-track basis will destroy album sales.

Logitech Introduces The Cordless MX Duo (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/14/logitech>

O'Reilly Releases 'Mac OS X For Java Geeks' (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/14/javabook/>
The book is geared specifically toward Java developers who are evaluating the operating system as their primary development platform.

Apple Won't Expense Options Before Rule Change (Reuters)
<http://www.forbes.com/business/newswire/2003/05/13/rtr969963.html>
Apple will not expense the stock options it grants to its employees and executives until a U.S. accounting standards body announces how it wants companies to value them, according to a filing the firm made with securities regulators Tuesday.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Digital Rights: MS Could Learn From Apple (David COursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20274495,00.htm>
Having total control -- hardware, software, portable player, music store -- makes it much easier for Apple to fit the pieces together and ensure end-to-end protection for content owners. I'm not sure how Microsoft would accomplish the same thing, but I'd like to see them try.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple iPod (30GB) (Eliot Van Buskirk, CNET)
<http://electronics.cnet.com/electronics/0-6342420-1304-21165696.html?tag=subnav>
We love almost everything about this beautifully designed player, but the battery life could be longer.

Not Just A Pretty Face, Apple's New iPod Has Bite (Yeong Ah Seng, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/techscience/story/0,4386,188880,00.html>
The iPod is a pretty product and its charms will enthrall many a buyer. But beyond the ephemeral good looks, it is also a machine of much substance.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Crashed Computer Traps Thai Politician (Aardvark)
<http://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2003/n051301.shtml>
Thailand's Finance Minister Suchart Jaovisidha had to be rescued today from inside his expensive BMW limousine after the onboard computer, running Windows CE at its core, crashed.

Microsoft Sidelines Longhorn Database Caper (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30670.html>
Microsoft has scaled back its 'Big Bang', and its Future Storage initiative will build on, rather than supersede the NTFS file system, when the next version of Windows 'Longhorn' appears in 2005.

Oh, It's Not A Hoax: MS iLoo (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58836,00.html>
Microsoft and its public relations firm changed their story -- again -- about whether the U.K. division had been developing an Internet-enabled portable toilet. But, the project is killed.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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The Mood Among Campus File-Swappers (Sumir Meghani, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2010-1071_3-1001272.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
Students are growing increasingly perturbed by what they see as an attempt by the record labels to infringe on their legitimate right to make copies of digital media. This is not a group to alienate.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Unlicensed Wireless: License To Attack? (Caron Carlson, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1086833,00.asp?kc=EWRSS02129TX1K0000531>
Regulators, private industry and law enforcement widely agree that data networks--wireless and wireline alike--will forever be vulnerable to attack.  The difference with wireless technology, some in industry say, is that users have no idea just how vulnerable it is.

New Hacking Tool Sees The Light (Robert lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1009_3-1001406.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
A Princeton University student has shed light on security flaws in Java and .Net virtual machines by using a lamp, some known properties of computer memory and a little luck.

Middle Schoolers, Letting Their Fingers Do The Talking (Ellen Edwards, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51807-2003May13.html>
In what may be a permanent shift, kids are communicating online rather than by phone. And as they get older, when they do use the phone, it's more likely to be a cell, and even that may be for text messaging rather than talking.

Nokia Sets October Launch For Video Game Phone (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-nokia.html>
Nokia, looking to push into the lucrative video game market, on Tuesday announced plans for a hybrid phone and game device, just as video game market leader Sony unveiled its own plans for a hand held game machine.

Game Over For Mod Chips? (David Kushner, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_kushner051403.asp>
As an underground culture in game machine-tweaking hardware runs afoul of federal law, copyright protection is clashing with user innovation.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The China Syndrome (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/opinion/13KRUG.html>
Consier the paradox. The BBC is owned by the British government. However, it tried hard -- too hard, its critics say -- to stay impartial. America's TV networks are privately owned, yet they behaved like state-run media.

Now In Open, 'Empire' Talk Unsettling (Jay Bookman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
<http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/bookman/index.html>
We are a healf-hearted empire, pleased with the power and prestige it brings but unwilling to spend the money, time and manpower to manage it. And half-hearted empires have a very short life expectancy.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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It Came From The Gene Lab (Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-frankenfish14may14001423,1,131132.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Faster-growing salmon? Aquarium fish that glow in the dark? Regulators are at a crossroads over bioengineered animals.

Why Psychology Has Got It Wrong (Peter Watson, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-679061,00.html>
Psychoanalysis was one of the "backbone" sciences of the 20th century, yet depression and behavioural problems are rife today.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Confessions Of A Chess Dad (James Traub, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2082899/>
How to console your son after checkmate.

Soda Adds Pop To Some Students' Lives (Afsha Bawany, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/127/food/Soda_adds_pop_to_some_students_lives+.shtml>
What is it about the taste that makes so many students reach for Coke instead of coffee first thing in the morning?

As Funds Disappear, So Do Orchestras (Stephen Kinzer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/arts/music/14SYMP.html>
Nearly a dozen orchestras across the country have either closed or are in danger of doing so. Orchestra administrators blame their woes on the weak economy, but critics say many of them have failed to adapt to changing times.

Diversity Had Nothing To Do With Reporter's Deceit (Terry M. Neal, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49425-2003May13.html>
Blair's career wasn't fueled by his race, but by stories that were too good to be true.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Monstress (Lysley Tenorio, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/06/tenorio.htm>

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