[MyAppleMenu] Thursday, Nov 6, 2003

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Nov 6, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
-------------------------
FireWire 400 Data Loss Culprit Remains A Mystery (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/11/05/firewireissue/>
"Apple is not going to convince users to 'switch' if they cannot safeguard their personal files."

Great Tunes, But Where's The Cover? (J. Greg Phelan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/technology/circuits/06albu.html?ex=1068699600&en=bb05828e241eef07&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
The question for Apple and other online music retailers is what a complete music experience will mean in a digital age.

Apple Says Could Move To Intel, But Happy With IBM (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1045-5103279.html>
The latest version of the Mac OS X operating system could easily run on Intel chips, but Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs said on Wednesday that the company has little interest in changing processors.

Apple Eyes More Sales To Government, Business (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5103151.html>
Apple sales chief Tim Cook told financial analysts that the company last month launched a direct effort that's aimed at the creative market and government entities, with 70 Apple employees working in either field sales or telephone sales.

MyAppleMenu : News
------------------
McDonald's Spins Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway (Tim Arango, New York Post)
<http://www.nypost.com/business/10067.htm>
Less than a month after Pepsi announced a blockbuster deal to give away 100 million downloads from Apple's iTunes music service to its customers, McDonald's is close to a announcing a much bigger deal, The Post has learned.

Apple: iTunes Outsells Napster Five To One (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/11/06/itunes/index.php?redirect=1068127360000>
What's more, Apple also said that market research firm Nielsen SoundScan registers the iTunes Music Store as having more than 80 percent of the legal download market last week.

Anti-Laptop Write-Ins Just Clicked (Megan Boldt, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/living/education/7193145.htm>
Superintendent Kathleen Macy said Tuesday night that the contract with Apple will be executed as planned. Kunze said it wouldn't make much sense to break it because it would probably cost the district a lot of money to do so.

Apple Release Backup 2 For .Mac Members (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/06/backup2>
The new version brings the ability to back up to external hard drives and mounted volumes including FireWire hard drives, iPods, and network servers. Backup 2 also lets you make backup CDs and DVDs using external drives.

Finders Keepers (Garry Barker, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/05/1067989606220.html>
The faster Finder alone makes Panther worth the money.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
----------------------
Sony To Offer $60 iPod? Not Likely (Tony Smith, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/33798.html>
Sony hasn't said that its $60 music player will feature a high capacity hard drive as the iPod does -- or is as compact as the Apple machine.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
-------------------------
Experts, IT Managers Say Microsoft Should Forget Bounty, Focus On Security (Patrick Thibodeau and Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,86869,00.html?SKC=home86869>
Microsoft 's $5 million reward fund to catch virus and worm writers drew mixed reactions today from IT security managers and experts, some of whom would rather see the company use the money to improve Windows security than chase bad guys.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
---------------------------------
Technology's Frontier Syndrome (Simson Garfinkel, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel110503.asp>
We are constantly being promised deliverance to greener pastures, where today's problems will plague us no more. But new perils seem always to lie in wait.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
-------------------------------------
Want To Stop Your Job From Being Outsourced? Join A Union (Joel Keller, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/11/06/unionize/index_np.html>
At least one systems administrator has had enough: It's time to hit the picket line.

Seniors Surfing To Internet (Steph Lorenz, American News)
<http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/7187878.htm>
According to research by the AARP, senior citizens are the fastest growing segment of the Internet community.

The Pride That Killed Sony (Benjamin Fulford, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/11/05/cz_bf_1104sony.html?partner=newscom>
Sony has suffered from hubris, the pride that kills.

EFF Case Vs Diebold Stalls (Jim Wagner, InternetNews.com)
<http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3104581>
The ISP Online Policy Group (IOPG) will have to wait a little bit longer to find out whether a judge will approve its restraining order against Diebold Inc., which has been sending the non-profit company cease-and-desist orders over publication of vulnerabilities in Diebold e-voting machines.

Mobile Computing: PC Redux? (Robert McMillan, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/05/HNmobile_1.html>
Mobile computing has some growing up to do if it is to have serious enterprise appeal. That was the consensus Tuesday at an Intel event aimed at fostering discussion about how best to address the nascent enterprise mobile computing market.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
-------------------------
Hollywood Stumbles At Doorstep Of Politics (Alessandra Stanley, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/arts/television/06STAN.html>
Ronald Reagan was a genius. That a B actor could become the leader of a vast conservative revolution is all the more remarkable now that CBS has reminded us just how untutored Hollywood people can be when they dabble in politics.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
------------------------
Eye Do (Christopher Hawthorne, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2090801/>
What does the New York Times redesign say about its self-image?

Once Just A Cupcake, These Days A Swell (Julia Moskin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/05/dining/05CUPC.html>
In New York, cupcakes are not lopsided school-bake-sale affairs. They are art, they are fashion, they are a tourist attraction and they can be big business.

To Infinity And Beyond (Marcus de Sautoy, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1077719,00.html>
Doing mathematics can often feel like the creative process of a theatre improvisation.

Unreason's Seductive Charms (David P. Barash, The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i11/11b00601.htm>
Monsters arise from many sources, and not just when reason is slumbering and our irrational, unconscious selves have free play.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
-------------------------------------------
Call To Lighten Government Hand For Innovation To Thrive (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,98876,00.html?>
The government has to pull back from the Singapore economy for innovation to flourish, according to well-known economist Gail Fosler.

'Charity Fatigue' Hits Duck Race (Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/9473.asp>
Fewer people have adopted rubber ducks for the Great Singapore Duck Race 2003 and this is due to "charity fatigue", race organisers said.

Abdullah: We Can Talk With Singapore (Brendan Pereira, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,218420,00.html?>
Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said yesterday that he appreciated the good wishes from Singapore and the assurances that the Republic also wanted good bilateral relations with Malaysia.

---
Modify your subscription at <http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/applesurf-list>

MyAppleMenu is edited by Heng-Cheong Leong. This site is not affiliated with Apple Computer, Inc., or any other companies in any manner. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, Power Macintosh, PowerBook, iMac, iBook, iPod, and eMac are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other brands or product names are trademarks of their registered holders. Copyright (C) 1996-2003 Heng-Cheong Leong. All rights reserved.