[MyAppleMenu] May 19, 2003

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Monday, May 19, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Sales Outstrip Growth (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6345>
Apple's success in achieving sales in the UK PC market exceeded market growth in the first quarter 2003, reports IDC.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Wozniak To Speak At MacMania III (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/19/macmania/>
There's still two weeks before MacMania II sets sail from Honolulu, Hawaii on June 1, but Geek Cruise Captain Neil Bauman is already releasing news about MacMania III.

Apple Stores Worry Dealers: Resellers Fret About Competition From New Apple Computer Stores (Jeff Meisner, Puget Sound Business Journal)
<http://famulus.msnbc.com/famuluscom/bizjournal05-19-010408.asp?bizj=SEA>
"There's no question we're competing with [Apple] head to head. I can't say I believe Apple is doing the right thing 100 percent across the board here."

Computers At The Center Of Home Entertainment (Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/19/BU280550.DTL>
New research to be released today could be an indication that iTunes Music Store and other online services are tapping into a fundamental shift in home entertainment habits.

Threat Is Seen To Heirloom Software (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/technology/19ROT.html?ex=1054008000&en=745c11d49a556008&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
Mr Kahle [, chairman of the nonprofit Internet Archive,] said the [DMCA's] stringent anticopying provisions, and the decay of the floppy disks and other magnetic media used to store early PC software, could allow early programs like Apple Computer's AppleWriter, a word-processing program, and the VisiCalc spredasheet software to be lost forever.

Keith Hilebrandt: Designer Of Sounds And Soundscapes (Stephanie Jorgl, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/design/hillebrandt/>

Scott Sneddon: Drug Discovery On The Fast Track (Nancy Eaton, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/science/sneddon/>
"For people who are bashing out UNIX code, the PowerBook running Mac OS X is handsdown the best development environment there is."

Apple's Music Store Getting Rave Reviews (May Wong, Associated Press)
<http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/5/18/16928175.cfm>
Steve Jobs has succeeded in a major coup, forcing tectonic chnage in an industry notorious for its dinosaur pace and dragon tactics.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Of Using A Mac, Despite The Mac (Vern Seward, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/justathought/2003/20030519.shtml>
While OS X, iLife, and other technologies have made Apple a darling in the media, those technologies can only carry Apple so far as it tries to diversify its markets and attempt to sell to corporate IT shops and small businesses.

Poor Power Mac Sales: Does The Processor Make The Difference? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,189842,00.html?>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple Hits Right Note: It's Not Perfect, But iTunes Music Store Is Impressive (Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/19/BU32621.DTL>
It's clear [Apple] has indeed come up with an impressive and promising entry into the field of paid online music services, albeit with some important limitations.

Mac Vs. PC: Which Is Better For Business? (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2913716,00.html>
Can you run a small business on Maicntosh? The question is too complex to be fully answered in a short column like this. The applications on which most business people depend are all available for the Mac and work great, but you may have to make trade-offs for nonstandard apps.

More Capabilities In A Slimmer iPod (James Coates, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0305170210may17,1,5749624.column?coll=chi%2Dtechtopheds%2Dhed>

MSN For Mac OS X (Anthony Zurcher, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1485-2003May16.html>
While more experienced users may turn up their noses, MSN for OS X is worth a look from Mac users nervous about dipping their toes into the Internet.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft To License Unix Code (Scott Ard, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1007528.html>
Microsoft is acquiring the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could impact the battle between Windows and Linux in the market for computer operating system.

Microsoft Losing Market Grip As Rivals Go On The Offensive (Tony Glover, Scotsman.com)
<http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/business.cfm?id=562032003>
After years at the cutting edge of technology, Microsoft seems in danger of falling off the pace.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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How Users Participate In Building Google (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3204>
I've always argued that sites like Amazon, Google, and EBay are the second generation Internet "killer aps."

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Threat Is Seen To Heirloom Software (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/technology/19ROT.html?ex=1054008000&en=745c11d49a556008&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
Mr Kahle [, chairman of the nonprofit Internet Archive,] said the [DMCA's] stringent anticopying provisions, and the decay of the floppy disks and other magnetic media used to store early PC software, could allow early programs like Apple Computer's AppleWriter, a word-processing program, and the VisiCalc spredasheet software to be lost forever.

Microsoft To License Unix Code (Scott Ard, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1007528.html>
Microsoft is acquiring the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could impact the battle between Windows and Linux in the market for computer operating system.

Computers That Speak Your Language (Wade Roush, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/roush0603.asp>
Voice recognition that finally holds up its end of a conversation is revolutionizing customer service. Now the goal is to make natural language the way to find any type of information, anywhere.

Natural Language: Beyond The Conversation (Wade Roush, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/focuson0603_banter.asp>
Software that analyzes verbal expression is helping computers deal intelligently with e-mail, audio and video recordings, and other "unstructured" information.

Before Sun Is Reborn, It Must Resist Being Bought (Steve Lohr with Laurie J. Flynn, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/technology/19PLAC.html>
Sun, long a Silicon Valley leader but lately a bit out of step with computing trends, looks vulnerable to a takeover -- either by another computer company or through a leveraged buyout by an investment firm.

WiFi Road Not Paved With Gold? (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58888,00.html>
A wireless "land grab" reminiscent of the dot-com days is underway, with operators big and small anxious to plant their WiFi transmitters wherever laptop-toting travelers dwell. Although WiFi is cheap to install, so-called hot spots may still find profits elusive.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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In Media, Goliath Edging Out David (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/rosenberg/cl-et-howard19may19.story>
Diverse media, however imperfect, are essential to us all.

What It Will Take To Transform China (Xu Wenli, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A8240-2003May18&notFound=true>
The SARS crisis in China shows that economic development alone is not enough to bring democracy to my country.

The Obsessions Of Kim Jong Il (B. R. Myers, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/opinion/19MYER.html>
It would be dangerous for America to believe that it has negotiated successfully with Kim Jong Il's kind before. Mr. Kim is not a Stalinist in any relevant sense, and his party's "juche" ideology has nothing in common with the Soviet-style communism his father espoused during the Korean War.

Where Did My Raise Go? (Daniel Kadlec, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030526/story.html>
Everyone knows about unemployment. But millions of working Americans are now facing a less familiar and perhaps more troubling problem: shrinking wages.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Doors To Women's Locker Rooms Slam Shut On Sportswriters (Gerald Eskenazi, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-eskenazi19may19,1,3651939.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
Do I really need to be in a women's locker room? That isn't the question. It's one of equal access, isn't it? I wouldn't want to make a federal case out of it.

Buried Treasure (Mary Batiata, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57798-2003May15.html>
Why has Bill Gates stashed millions of the greatest images of the 20th century under a mountain in Pennsylvania?

The All-American French Chef (Judith Weinraub, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48907-2003May13.html>
A Frenchman by birth. An American by choice. Michael Richard brings the best of both cuisines to the table. Now that's diplomacy.

Hot Market For A Magazine Not Yet For Sale (David Carr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/business/media/19MAG.html?8hpib>
Media executives all over New York are hungrily circling a magazine that is barely profitable, has low recognition outside Manhattan, and oh, by the way, is currently not for sale.

A New Brand Of Journalism Is Taking Root In South Korea (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/5889390.htm>
OhmyNews [in South Korea] is transforming the 20th century's journalism-as-lecture model, where organizations tell the audience what the news is and the audience either buys it or doesn't, into something vastly more bottom-up, interactive and democratic.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Cryptology (Leonard Michaels, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030526fi_fiction>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Can Government Trust Us To Behave? (Ooi Giok Ling, Today)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/todaynews/view/674/1/.html>
The sad truth is that only the threat of fines keeps Singaporeans in line.

Singapore 1Q Growth Up 1.6%, Tourist Arrivals Seen Down (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/latest/story/0,4574,81884,00.html?>
Singapore's economy slightly outperformed estimates and expanded 1.6 per cent in the first quarter over the same period last year despite its deadly Sars outbreak, the govenrment said today.

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