[MyAppleMenu] Friday, Nov 28, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Nov 28, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Store Users Receive Apology (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7390>
Apple has admitted that it is having "several implementation issues" with the Apple Store after upgrading its logistics systems.

MyAppleMenu : News
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DVD-Jon: Critics 'Don't Understand DRM' (Reuters)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39118178,00.htm>

KidsBrowser 1.0 Is Designed For Children (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/28/kidsbrowser>
KidsBrowser 1.0 is powered by Apple's Safari HTML engine and allows the user (parent) to preset authorized Web pages that they child is allowed to visit.

EyeTV Digital TV Boost (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7388>
Elgato will today introduce new devices in its EyeTV range that are built for digital satellite and terrestrial TV.

UK Apple Chief's iPod Retail Push (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7380>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Should Apple Produce More Windows Software? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#software>
Apple needs to deliver exclusivity with the purchase of a Mac, as much as it can.

iPod's Dirty Secret Secret Revealed (iPodlounge)
<http://ipodlounge.com/ipodnews_comments.php?id=2111_0_7_0_C>
The Neistat brothers had no intent on letting people know that there were solutions available for replacing the battery in iPods.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Contour MiniPRO Mouse (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/11/25/index.html>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Baseball Throws Web A Curve (Mark McClusky, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,61119,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
MLB is on a quest to assert what it considers are its exclusive rights to transmit real-time information about its games online. And some of its partners aren't buying it.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Beware The Worm In Your Handset (Ken Belson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/technology/28cell.html>
As more consumers begin surfing the Web and sending e-mail messages on cellphone and hand-held devices, along comes a new worry: worms and viruses spread via Internet-enabled handsets.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Some Understand Covert Journey; Others Fear Bad Precedent (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17508-2003Nov27.html>
Although the White House lied to much of the press to conceal President Bush's Thanksgiving visit to Baghdad, many journalists and analysts yesterday were willing to give the administration a pass.

Be Thankful.. You're Not American (Gerard Baker, Financial Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,222347,00.html?>
So for once, let me turn the tables and offer six reasons why the rest of the world can be thankful it is not American.

An Imperial America? But It Lacks Political Clout (Jonathan Schell, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,222348,00.html?>
An empire with no political cement to hold it together is a sheet of loose sand. The consuls and proconsuls on the Potomac may have donned the imperial purple prematurely.

Bush Makes Surprise Thanksgiving Visit To Iraq (Brian Knowlton, International Herald Tribune)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/international/27WIRE-BUSH.html?hp>
The trip was an extraordinary gesture, with scant precedent, and was seen as an effort by Mr. Bush to show the importance he attaches to the embattled United States-led effort to pacify and democratize Iraq.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Borrowed Time: Interview With Michio Kaku (JR Minkel, Scientific American)
<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=0000AB94-4016-1FBE-801683414B7F0000>
A theoretical physicist contemplates the plausibility of time travel.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Red, White And Creepy? Could Be Santa (Clyde Haberan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/nyregion/28NYC.html>
Now that Macy's has assured everyone this Thanksgiving that Santa Claus is a straight guy with no eye for same-sex marriage, it may be time to face another issue squarely.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Visitor Arrivals Drop 23% In October (AFP)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,4390,222443,00.html?>
The decline was a marked improvement on the 25.2-per cent drop in the January to September period and a spokesman for the agency told AFP this reflected a continuing recovery.

Don't Pop The Champagne Yet Despite Robust Q3 Figures: DPM Lee (Teo Chia Leen, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/59490/1/.html>

Can President's Pardon Be Given Before Trial? (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,222324,00.html?>
That's the question being argued in Australian court, on whether Singapore government's assurance of 'no death sentence' is valid before murder trial is heard.

Doubts Emerge Over Singapore's Death Penalty Promise (ABC)
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s999006.htm>
The Federal Court has heard Australia will have legal recourse if Singapore breaks its promise to protect a British man from the death penalty.

Vietnam To Lift Visa Restrictions On Singaporeans (AFP)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,222244,00.html?>
Singaporeans visiting Vietnam for up to 30 days will not need entry visas from Dec 1, 2003, the foreign ministry in Vietnam said on Thursday.

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