[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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PC User Whistles A Happy iTunes (Katie Dean, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60870,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2>
Windows users who take the new iTunes for a spin will find a service that is fairly reliable and easy to use, making it a strong addition to the ever-growing collection of paid music services.

Buck A Song, Or Buccaneer? (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60901,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1>
Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store for Windows appears to be off to a grand start, but no matter how successful it may be, the online store will never, ever have the slightest impact on the file-sharing networks, experts say.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Crutchfield To Sell iPods (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/21/crutchfield>

Apple Expands TV, Radio Ads For iPod (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/21653>

New Apple Stores Open In Ohio, San Diego This Friday (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/21/stores/index.php?redirect=1066719113000>
Like other Apple Stores participating in the Panther release event scheduled for this Friday, the new Legacy Village and UTC locations will be open until midnight.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Facing The Music (Forrester Research, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2030-1027_3-5093879.html>
Apple Computer's Windows music store leads its rivals in ease of use and distribution. Together with Musicmatch and Napster, it will catapult legitimate music downloads into the mainstream.

Is Apple's 'Book Quality Slipping? (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/10/21/index.html>
If Apple doesn't proactively and effectively address the quality and reliability problems, they may well have trouble maintaining the sales momentum they've built up in this "year of the laptop."

Everybody Wants A Piece Of The iPod (Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek)
<http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_43/b3855077.htm>
For those who do need thousands of songs in their pocket, iPod will always be the cream of the crop. For everyone else, any of a slew of new rivals may be just as good -- at a fraction of the cost.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Seeking Information Within And Without: Reviews Of iPassepartout v1.0.2 And iSeek v1.0.0 (Gary Coyne, Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/seek-ipass-iseek.shtml>
For anyone who uses the web to do searches for information, iSeek is bound to make life more convenient -- and isn't that what it's all about?

More Theories On The PowerBook G4 15" (FireWire 800) 'White Spot' Issue (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20031020081129488>

Despite Updates, Exchange Server Support Still Lacking In Entourage (Ryan Faas, Computerworld)
<http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,86265,00.html>
With Exchange support effectively limited to e-mails, I fail to see much advantage to configuring an account as an Exchange account instead of an IMAP account.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Source Of Worry For Microsoft (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60896,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7>
With more than $32 billion in sales last year, Microsoft doesn't usually worry about losing one customer. But this one may be different.

Microsoft Lassos Music Customers (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60899,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6>
A Windows XP feature forces consumers to use Internet Explorer to purchase music online, even if they specify that they prefer a competitor's browser. The feature also steers users to a Microsoft-owned website. The DOJ and 19 attorneys general are not amused.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Information You Can Still Get On The Internet (Andy Oram, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3905>
I've been thinking back to when the Internet was heralded, around the 1980s, as the greatest potential medium for information ever invented.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Hill Hurrying To Renew Ban On Web-Access Taxes (Jonathan Krim, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55897-2003Oct20.html>
Congress is moving quickly to beat a Nov. 1 deadline for renewing a ban on taxes for getting online, but the push has sparked a furor over how broadly Internet services should be taxed and whether cash-strapped state and local governments might lose billions of dollars in revenue per year.

Submerging Technologies: Five That Are Sinking Fast (Gary H. Anthes and Robert L. Mitchell, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/0,10801,86122,00.html?SKC=home86122>
These technologies are rapidly taking on water. Is it time to jump ship?

Balancing Utility With Privacy (Mark Baard, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60871,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3>
Whereas some people may be willing to sacrifice their privacy if it keeps them out of the nursing home, designers of ubiquitous computing systems are admitting for the first time that their technology could be abused if it winds up in the wrong hands.

Yahoo Mail Delivers New Spam Measures (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5094171.html>
Yahoo on Monday launched new antispam tools for its Web-based e-mail service as part of an ongoing effort to curb the Internet's most reviled by-product.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Listening To Mahathir (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/opinion/21KRUG.html>
And to understand why he made those remarks is to realize how badly things are going for U.S. foreign policy.

The Stovepipe (Seymour M. Hersh, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact>
How conflicts between the Bush Administration and the intelligence community marred the reporting on Iraq's weapons.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Ethics 101: A Course About The Pitfalls (Gina Kolata, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/science/21ETHI.html>
With increasing corporate funding, there are questions of who owns data and what constitutes a conflict of interest. With data sharing on the Internet, there are questions of what is being revealed, and to whom, prior to publication. With larger and larger collaborations, there are questions of who is an author.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Studios Killing (But Carefully) For An R Rating (Laura M. Holson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/movies/21KILL.html>
These days the reason most filmmakers depend on an R, no matter how violent, is that NC-17 movies are severely limited in how they can be marketed.

Students Find $100 Textbooks Cost $50, Purchased Overseas (Tamar Lewin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/education/21BOOK.html?tntemail1>
Just like prescription drugs, textbooks cost far less overseas than they do in the United States. But thanks to the Internet...

The Plot Thickens (Emily Bearn, Daily Telegraph)
<http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife/story.html?id=AD3AA588-07AF-47DD-A94F-730DD719116A>
Julian Barnes says his new book, a series of essays on the famously fastidious author's experiences as an 'amateur pedantic cook,' isn't so removed from fiction.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Pelicans (Eli Alexander Brown, Cortland Review)
<http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/23/brown.html?ref=home>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Bush Talks Terror With Singapore Leaders (Associated Press)
<http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031021_625.html>
President Bush pressed for closer Asian partnerships in the war on terror, carrying his appeal Tuesday to free-trade partner Singapore and planning for a visit to Bali, Indonesia, under unusually tight security precautions.

Bush Brings Message To Singapore (Reuters)
<http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/21/apec.special.bush.singapore.reut/>
After agreeing with Pacific Rim leaders to crack down on terror and revive world trade talks, U.S. President George W. Bush has taken his message to Singapore -- but he will largely be preaching to the converted.

Singapore PM 'Just Plain Wrong' (AAP)
<http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7624782%255E1702,00.html>
The federal opposition has condemned remarks by Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong that Australia needed to have a majority Asian population before it could properly engage with the region.

DPM: Singapore Free To Refer To Third Party (Jane Ritikos, The Star)
<http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/10/21/nation/6535975&sec=nation>
It is Singapore's prerogative to refer to an international third party its long-standing dispute with Malaysia over railway land, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

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