[MyAppleMenu] Friday, Nov 14, 2003

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Friday, Nov 14, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple CFO Lectures About Company's Marketing Methods (Sara Eber, Michigan Daily)
<http://www.michigandaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/14/3fb478a3ecd94>
"Apple's an innovator, and we refused to mortgage our future."

Apple Gets High Performance Computing Nods (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/11/14/hpcwire/index.php?redirect=1068790911000>
HPCwire, which bills itself as "the global publication of record for High Performance Computing," noted Apple several times in its recently announced 2003 Readers Choice Awards.

West Australian Students Get iBooks (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/14/australiaibooks>
The West Australian government has announced an initiative to equip 730 public high-school students with their own iBook.

Freshmen Direct Films For Inaugural iMovie Festival (The Appalachian)
<http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/csil/11-13-03/news/student_dev.html>
The theme of the films is "capturing a moment of change" in their freshman experience.

Apple Airs New iPod/iTunes Commercial (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/13/ipodad>
Several MacMinute readers note that Apple began airing a new iPod/iTunes television commercial tonight featuring a remix of "Rock Star" by N.E.R.D.

Apple's Xserve: Ready For G5 Leap? (Mark Hachman, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1382109,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Many watchers of the Mac market await the release of a new Xserve based on the 64-bit PowerPC G5 processor. Apple has been characteristically mum on the topic.

Supervalu Donates Computers To School (MN Sun)
<http://www.mnsun.com/story.asp?city=Brooklyn_Center&story=124113>
Supervalu donated 20 iBook computers to Eisenhower Elementary School in Hopkins. They will be designated primarily for the school's e-mentoring program that pairs fifth-grade students with Supervalu employees.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Panther Is Missing A Few Spokes From The Digital Hub (Gregory Ng)
<http://www.applematters.com/comments.php?id=103_0_1_0_C>
As an Apple user and most likely a Panther purchaser, would you spend more money on iDVD 3 or Keynote or would you at least try it if it came free?

Is Apple Giving Independent Dealers The Boot? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#boot>
We will have gained the world and lost our souls in the process, but that's the way it is in the changing retail world.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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First Impressions Of The 14" iBook G4 (Dirk Pilat, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/pilat/03/1113.html>
Apple has managed to produce a machine that combines everything I want from a portable computer with appropriate processor performance for a competitive price.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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New Windows Worm On The Way? (Dennis Fisher, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1382094,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
With the posting Wednesday of proof-of-concept exploit code for one of the newly discovered vulnerabilities in Windows, the familiar chain of events that often leads to the release of a worm has begun.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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IT Spending Remains Low, Study Says (Dinesh C. Shama, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1010_3-5107545.html>
American companies continued to spend less than the amount they budgeted for information technology in October, according to a report from Gartner released Friday.

Intel Chip To Run Multiple Applications (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5107496.html>
Intel said Thursday that its Itanium 2 microprocessor due in 2005 and code-named Montecito will have four times more storage capacity than its predecessor and will be able to run several applications at once.

Customers Rage At Google Tweak (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1024_3-5107406.html>
In a rare sign of trouble for the booming search marketing business, Google is fending off complaints from angry customers who say recent changes to the company's advertising program are costing them sales.

CNET Acquires MP3.com Assets (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/14/cnetmp3>
According to an unconfirmed report sent to MacMinute, CNET Networks on Thursday said that it has acquired certain assets of MP3.com, and plans to introduce a new online music service in the near future.

IBM Offers Glimpse Of Blue Gene Performance (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-7337_3-5107422.html>
IBM plans to reveal the first indication of the performance of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer Friday, a machine about the size of a dishwasher that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second.

The Future Of J2EE (Tod Nielsen, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2010-7343_3-5106960.html>
J2EE has enjoyed some of the most successful eight years of any technology. With continued investments in reducing the complexity and accelerating innovation and standardization, I'm confident the next eight years will be even more successful.

Next-Gen DVD Riven By Two Competing Standards (Junko Yoshida and Yoshiko Hara, EE Times)
<http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20031113S0028>
There's division in the ranks of the DVD Forum, whose steering committee will meet in New York next week to vote on a next-generation optical-disk format.

Start-Up Looks To Do The Math With New Chip (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1006_3-5107396.html>
Start-up ClearSpeed Technology hopes to turbocharge supercomputers and servers with a new chip designed to absorb a lot of the excess math.

New Technology Makes International Newspaper Locally Available (NY1)
<http://www.ny1.com/ny/Search/SubTopic/index.html?&contentintid=34688&search_result=1>
Chances are, if you get a morning paper, Mitchell's Newspaper Delivery Service in Manhattan, the largest independently owned newspaper distributor in the nation, is where it comes from.

Google Vs. Microsoft (Dana Blankenhorn)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20031101.shtml#59923>

Princeton, HP Labs Demo Plastic Write-Once Memory (Tom Krazit, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/13/HNprincetonhplabs_1.html>
Memory cell that holds gigabytes of information can be produced inexpensively.

Wi-Fi Turns Us Into Busy Worker Bees (Robert Jaques, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33977.html>
The increase in network connection time makes staff almost a third more productive than they would have been if they had been tied to a wired infrastructure, a research claims.

Sun's Linux Desktop Off To Flying Start (Ashlee Vance, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33984.html>
Well placed sources have confirmed that Sun is teaming up with service providers to roll out a whole new set of "rented" desktop services. As of yet, Yahoo was the only name mentioned, although one source confirmed there will be more large service providers on board. This news comes us Sun's desktop business nears profitability almost before it even opens for business.

Kill SMS Spam Where It Starts (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61226,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
New laws and regulations are specifically aimed at curtailing the tide of unwanted short message service spam. It's especially evident in Europe and Asia, where the technology is more widely used than in the United States.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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How Bush Betrayed Blair (Sidney Blumenthal, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/11/14/blair_bush/index_np.html>
The British P.M. thought he had a deal: He'd support the war and Bush would stand up to Ariel Sharon. But administration neoconservatives, led by Elliott Abrams, killed the deal.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Bringing Up Daddy: Dave Delivers The Poop On His New Life (Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2003/11/13/bringing_up_daddy_dave_delivers_the_poop_on_his_new_life/>
The Letterman reality has changed significantly over the years, as the 56-year-old talk-show host has opened the file on his private life.

Twilight Zone For ZIP Code At Ground Zero (Clyde Haberman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/nyregion/14NYC.html>
An inevitable question is what does the United States Postal Service intend to do with this ZIP code. Preserve it for the new buildings that will eventually rise? Or retire it, much as a ball club does with a great player's number?

A Life Stranger Than Fiction (Helena de Bertodano, Telegraph)
<http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/11/11/boamy10.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/11/11/ixartright.html>
First Amy Tan's grandmother committed suicide, then her mother tried to murder her.

Richard Pearson Dies; Post Obituary Editor Was Instant Biographer (Claudia Levy, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34329-2003Nov12.html>
Richard G. Pearson, 54, who crafted graceful obituaries for Cary Grant, George C. Wallace, Roy Rogers, Andy Warhol and thousands of other well-known and virtually unknown people, died of pancreatic cancer Nov. 11 at Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington.

MyAppleMenu Reader: EOF
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US Babies Get Global Brand Names (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3268161.stm>
Children have been named after big brands as diverse as beauty company L'Oreal, car firm Chevrolet and designer clothes company Armani.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Calls Article On Politics Out Of Line (AP, AFP)
<http://www.iht.com/articles/117565.html>
The government has no plans to relax its censorship rules, and foreign journalists should not comment on government policies, according to the city-state's information minister.

Civil Service Ideas Contest Needs Revamp (Alexis Hooi, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,219813,00.html?>
Changes on the way as too much time,  effort and money go towards preparing for elaborate annual Wits convention.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Dairy Farm Intl Hdlgs Acquires 35 Stores In Singapore (Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/031114/15/3fw1n.html>

Singapore Touts Its Softer Side To Lure Western Tourists (Jane Engle, Los Angeles Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2001790393_singapore16.html>
Singapore is well-nigh irresistible to any traveler, and it doesn't take an explorer to track down its charms.

QAF Confirms Talks To Sell Shop N Save Stores To Dairy Farm (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/corporatenews/view/57060/1/.html>
Singapore food firm QAF confirmed talks with Dairy Farm International over the selling of its 51 percent stake in local supermarket chain Shop N Save.

SAF Commanders Decide 'White Horse' Label: GPC Chairman (Ken Teh, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/57096/1/.html>
Some Singaporeans have trouble grasping how such a classification works.

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