[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Markets Await Apple Results (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7071>
Apple has not warned the markets of any significant failure to meet expectations in the current quarter.

Mac Job Seekers Disenfranchised (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7068>
Macintosh users are losing out on a government job-seekers' Web site because "Macs are used by a very small percentage of the UK population".

Apple Music Event To Be Shown At Apple Stores (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/13/musicevent>
Several Apple retail stores will be broadcasting a live satellite feed of Apple's music event scheduled to be held Thursday, October 16, at 10:00 a.m. PT in San Francisco.

FileMaker Ships Task Manager App (Peggy Watt, PC World)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/13/HNfilemaker_1.html>
FileMaker is adding to its line of add-on applications with the release of FileMaker Tasks, a task management program that works with the FileMaker Pro 6 database.

Apple Set To Unveil iTunes For Windows This Week (Duncan Martell, Reuters)
<http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/newsarticle.asp?siteid=mktw&sid=609&guid=%7B9EDB3ACF%2DBEC8%2D40B8%2DAE5D%2D25AA632BC33A%7D&symb=>
Some analysts say that while iTunes for Windows may be just the thing for fans, it may be coming too late for the broader market.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Israel Slams The Door On Microsoft (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33365.html>
The Israeli Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated that the ban will last throughout 2004. The de facto suspension means no upgrades for the duration, at a time when Microsoft is looking to roll out its Office 2003 upgrade; and the Ministry is said to be examining OpenOffice as an alternative.

It's Official: No Longhorn Until 2006 (Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch)
<http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1332766,00.asp>
Microsoft execs at last have admitted publicly, at last, that Longhorn will not ship in 2005. Does it matter?

Microsoft Sued Over Music Downloads (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5090679.html>
A small New York company has sued Microsoft, charging that the software giant's new music download service in Europe infringes on a patent it owns nearly 20 years old.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Are Search Engines Confusing Surfers? (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5090701.html>
The Federal Trade Commission remains concerned that consumers may not be able to tell when search results are advertiser-sponsored or not, thanks to sometimes-unclear disclosure on the part of search companies.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Turn That PC Into A Supercomputer (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60791,00.html>
A small chip-design firm will unveil a new processor Tuesday it says will transform ordinary desktop PCs and laptops into supercomputers.

Web Guru Fights Info Pollution (Jo Twist, BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3171376.stm>
To web guru Jakob Nielsen, it is computers which are starting to control us, and it is time to "rule the computer and put it back in its place".

Legislation Vs. Innovation: Part One (Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3868>
What lawmakers don't know about the Internet, could fill the Internet.

Grids Extend Reach (Gary H. Anthes, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,85884,00.html?SKC=home85884>
Grid computing technologies can work miracles in scientific and academic niches, but support for mainstream commercial applications is still evolving.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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The Story Behind The Story (John S. Carroll, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/recall/la-oe-carroll12oct12,0,4817752.story>
How The Times decided to publish the accounts of 16 women who said they had been sexually mistreated and humiliated by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Fly Me To The Moon (William E. Howard III, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/opinion/14HOWA.html>
What is needed is a new goal, one that is not only achievable but that will provide the experience needed if mankind eventually decides to go farther into space: a permanent human presence on the moon.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Can Rain Be Bought? Experts Seed Clouds and Seek Answers (Mindy Sink, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/science/earth/14CLOU.html>
Denver's water department has invested more than $1 million in cloud seeding in the last two years. Has it paid off? Possibly.

A Brief History of Infinity -- Galileo's Moment (Brian Clegg, First Science)
<http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/infinity1.asp>
The paradoxical twists and turns of infinity have baffled many great thinkers. The first person to truly come to grips with the concept was the remarkable Galileo Galilei.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Confirming Miracles Is Art And Science (Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-miracles14oct14,1,4500415.story?coll=la-home-leftrail>
To judge the works of candidates for sainthood, doctors are enlisted to recognize the unexplainable.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Pond, With Mud (Donald Antrim, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?031020fi_fiction>

Land Of Steady Habits (Dara Wier)
<http://www.poetserv.org/SRR18/wier.html>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Rocky Horror To Make Singapore Debut, 28 Years Later (Associated Press)
<http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/10/14/latest/14532RockyHorr&sec=latest>
The cult classic "Rocky Horror Picture Show,'' which premiered in U.S. theaters almost 30 years ago, will finally make its Singapore debut, media reports said Tuesday.

New Budget Airline Gears For Take-Off (Tammy Tan and Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,214488,00.html?>
No green light or details on destinations yet, but Singapore's Valuair ties up with DBS and looks to launch next year.

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