[MyAppleMenu] Friday, Oct 17, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Oct 17, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Will iTunes Make Apple Shine? (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5092559.html>
Apple Computer launched its iTunes Music Store for Windows amid much fanfare, but the company said it doesn't have any illusions that it can make great profits from selling songs over the Internet.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Irony In deal With Pepsi Is Hard To Miss (Mike Langberg, San Jos Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7035815.htm>
Twenty years later, it turns out changing the world occasionally includes selling sugar water.

Apple Music Event Available In QuickTime (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/17/musicevent>

iTunes, Now For The Rest Of Us (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,60851,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2>
During a slick presentation in downtown San Francisco Thursday morning, Mick Jagger, Bono and Dr. Dre joined Jobs to endorse a new version of Apple's iTunes software and music store for the Mac and Windows.

Two New Apple Stores Opening Next Week (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/16/applestores>
The stores are located at the University Towne Centre in San Diego, California, and the Legacy Village retail complex in Lyndhurst, Ohio.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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New Apple iTunes: Digital Hub Or Digital Flub? (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/AnchorDesk/4520-7298_16-5092603.html?tag=adts>
Apple's digital hub could very well be in trouble. The road from hub to flub could be a short one if Steve and Apple don't do something soon.

Software Bugs Could Cost Apple Users And Market Share (Adam Robert Guha, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/archive/03/1017.html>
When it's something critical like a system software update it should just work.

Rendezfoo (Rob Flickenger, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3892>
Last week, I had the marvelous opportunity to meet Stuart Cheshire, one of the founding fathers of Apple's Rendezvous implementation...

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Hell Freezes Over: Macworld's iTunes For Windows Review (Johnny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7110>
With iTunes Windows users get a very special tool that brings a little Apple elegance into their lives -- and that can only be a very good thing indeed.

Apple iTunes For Windows (8BitJoystick.com)
<http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/jake_review_apple_itunes_for_windows.php>
Apple has more music to buy than your typical Wal-Mart sore but not more than a dedicated music store. Once that they surpass a good physical music store than I will get really excited about iTunes for Windows.

First Impressions Of iTunes For Windows (Eugenia Loli-Queru, OSNews.com)
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4841>
I like iTunes for Windows... However, its overall UI speed needs to be worked out by Apple.

powerBook G4 15" (FireWire 800): More On White Spots On Screen (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2003101602295667>
The overwhelming majority of users who have contacted us confirm that although they may have anywhere from one to all of the spots shown in the picture, and the spots may vary in size relative to those shown, the locations of the spots match up perfectly.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Survey: Windows Developers Say Linux More Secure (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1354390,00.asp>
Is Linux built more securely than Windows? According to a new survey, Windows and Linux developers both say yes -- and for the first time, ranked it ahead of Windows XP.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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The Cultural Divide And The Internet's Future (Charles Cooper, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2008-7347-5092590.html>
The controversy attending the dispute over the Site Finder service revealed a deeper split between technologists who helped guide the Internet in its infancy and the businesspersons who later realized the platform's commercial possibilities.

A Connection In Every Spot (Mark Baard, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60831,00.html>
Engineers meeting this week at UbiComp 2003, a ubiquitous-computing conference in Seattle, believe that technology -- rather than isolating people within virtual spaces -- should be forming real-world connections amongst flesh-and-blood human beings.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Digging For Nuggets Of Wisdom (Lisa Guernsey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/technology/circuits/16mine.html>
Researchers are increasingly putting computer muscle into a technique called text mining, hoping to find clues and patterns in a library's worth of documents.

U.K. Retailer Tests Radio ID Tags (Andy McCue, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5092460.html>
Retailer Marks & Spencer has begun a trial of radio frequency identification tags in clothes at one of its U.K. stores this week as part of plans to improve stock accuracy and product availability for customers.

Oracle Builds In Single Sign-On (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5092240.html>
Oracle introduced on Thursday a security component for its database and application server products that manages access privileges to corporate networks and Web sites.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Extreme Maths: The Art Of The Infinite (Robert and Ellen Kaplan, First Science)
<http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/infinity.asp>
The true mysteries of mathematics lie at the limits of our thinking. Reach beyond what you think is possible and you start to explore the wonders of maths at the extremes.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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These Are Definitely Not Scully's Breasts (David Kushner, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/fakers.html?tw=wn_tophead_5>
Inside one man's crusade to save Gillian Anderson and the rest of the world from the plague of fake celebrity porn.

The Brand Called Vermont (Paul Greenberg, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/10/12/the_brand_called_vermont/>
How the Green Mountain state cornered the market on purity.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Railway Land: Singapore Wants Third Party Help (Laurel Teo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,214988,00.html?>
KL yet to respond to proposal to settle long-standing dispute amicably before ICJ or through international arbitration.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Low-Cost China Threatens Singapore's Electronics Recovery (Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/031017/15/3f1o9.html>
The shift of manufacturing to low-cost China is undermining Singapore's electronics sector, causing structural changes that are threatening the pace of Singapore's economic recovery, the country's central bank said Friday.

Soldier's Death Sparks Commando Shake-Up (Dominic Nathan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,214964,00.html?>
Combat survival course put on hold, top commando replaced, instructors suspended and investigations continuing.

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