[MyAppleMenu] Friday, Oct 10, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Oct 10, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Takes A Powerful Leap Forward With New G5 (Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/6970136.htm>
Having Apple Computer's new Power Mac G5 around the office is like having a superhero assistant.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple's Panther: A Jaguar On Steriods (Jason Lopez, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22459.html>
Analysts say Panther looks great, but they still wonder why the company has not established a clearer marketing strategy.

Apple To Release WebObjects 5.22 For Panther (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/21506>
Apple will soon release WebObjects 5.2.2, an update to its enterprise rapid application development environment, to allow developers to build projects under Panther, according to WebObjects Product Manager Bob Fraser.

Free Web Page Designs, Contribute Discount At .Mac (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/09/macexclusives>
13 free Web page designs and a $20 discount on Macromedia's Contribute 2 Web publishing software.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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I Am Not A Mac Fanatic (Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/03/1009.html>
I am a choice fanatic.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Panther Worth Expense If Given RAM To Run (Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/weekly/2148922>
Regardless of which version of OS X you use, your Mac will run better and faster if it has more than 128 MB of RAM.

No One Lives Forever 2 (Michael Yanovich, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=417>
Personally, I think this is one of those exceptional single player games that will have an adequate -- if forgettable -- multiplayer experience, but frankly... that' ok.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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U.S. Innovation In Danger, Software CEOs Warn (Caron Carlson, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1330161,00.asp>
Even as many software companies have outsourced jobs overseas in recent years in response to growing competitive pressures, some of those same companies were in Washington last week urging policy-makers to do more to protect American jobs and promote U.S.-based innovation and expertise.

Microsoft Details New Security Plan (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5088846.html>
Microsoft will focus on adding new security technologies to its products, educating its customers and improving its process of releasing patches, CEO Steve Ballmer pledged on Thursday.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Book Promotion Tours, On $0 A Day (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60773,00.html>
Hensley is on a virtual book tour. His stops are weblogs scattered around the country.

Microsoft, ECMA Seek C++ And CLI Binding (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1330422,00.asp>
The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said it is working through ECMA International, the Geneva-based standards organization, to push the development of a standard set of language extensions that will create a binding between the International Standards Organization (ISO) standard C++ programming language and Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).

CEOs Defend Moving Jobs Offshore At Tech Submmit (Grant Gross, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/09/HNceosdefend_1.html>
Outsourcing allows cost savings and drives companies to focus their U.S. workforces on higher-paying IT jobs.

Developers Gripe About IE Standards Inaction (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5088642.html>
Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser, but they can't seem to spark a flame.

GSM Gaining Ground In North America (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5088920.html>
A cell phone technology that dominates Europe is now the fastest-growing standard in North America, according to a trade group.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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The Blogosphere And Political Process (Markos Zuniga)
<http://www.dailykos.com/archives/004513.html#004513>
It's about reshaping American politics to give people like me and you a more direct role in how we are governed.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Shakes Loose -- A Little Bit (Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post Foreign Service)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5902-2003Oct9.html>
As Singapore struggles to emerge from the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s, the government is trying to foster an image of a more relaxed place, with a climate conducive to attracting creative minds.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Economy Rebounds But Economists Cautious On Outlook (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/latest/story/0,4574,96365,00.html?>
Singapore's economy rebounded in the third quarter after a sharp Sars-led contraction in the second, the government said on Friday, but analysts were cautious that the recovery is not yet broad-based.

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