[MyAppleMenu] Thursday, Sep 11, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Sep 11, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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The Beatles Sue Apple Computers Over iPod, iTunes (Roger Friedman, Fox News)
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,97064,00.html>
The inevitable has happened: The Beatles have sued Steve Jobs over Apple iTunes and the Apple iPod -- at least the band's company, Apple Corps., has sued Apple Computers.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Within A Lilliputian Player, A Hefty Archive That Travels (J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/technology/circuits/11howw.html?ex=1063857600&en=da301b0e034a44d0&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
So how do these newer hard drives manage to pack even more songs into your pocket?

iBooks Are The Talk Of The Schools (Karen Shoffner, Schaumburg Review)
<http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/sc/09-11-03-106912.html>
With the new iBooks in District 54, it could be that students will be teaching their parents a thing or two about technology.

Adobe Profits Exceed Forecasts (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6874>
Adobe returned profits in excess of analysts' expectations in its third quarter 2003, the company announced last night.

Apple Expands Events' Reach (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6875>
Apple's plans for growth require the company to penetrate diverse markets, and the selection of events at which the company will take part in the coming weeks underlines the breadth of its corporate growth strategy.

Macs Called Virtually Virus-Proof (Frank Bilovsky, Democrat And Chronicle)
<http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/09119S1PAEC_Wozniak11_business.shtml>
"People have PCs that do everything they want them to do, but they just don't love them."

Apple Gears Up For Fall (Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/2003/09/09/cx_ah_0909tentech.html>
Apple may not be done with new product news for the rest of the month.

Bomb Scare Causes Seybold Evacuation (Jim Darlymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/10/bombscare/>
Attendees of this week's Seybold Seminars and OracleWorld were evacuated late this afternoon due to a bomb scare. Both tradeshows are held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Mac.Ars Takes On The Young People (Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica)
<http://arstechnica.com/etc/mac/index.html>
I hear Apple is popular with the young people.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Shadowbane (Chris RItchie, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=409>
Fans of RPGs in general will enjoy how this game is run, and those with lots of patience will be rewarded when they gain enough levels to start taking part in the in-game politics.

Making The Switch: A PC Guy Goes Mac (Douglas Schweitzer, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,84802,00.html?SKC=macos-84802>
After toying with the computer in the store and talking with the outlet's in-house  Apple representative, I decided to give the Apple eMac a try.

Publisher Of WinTel Gets Unsatisfactory BBB Rating (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#rating>
Until OpenOSX is more forthcoming about its products and how it is handling such issues, I'd urge extreme caution.

Dot Mac Revisited (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac091103,0,7583992.column?coll=bal-tech-utility>
Yes, .Mac still suffers from a few kinks, and the service may not be robust enough for those who need more sophistication and control than what Apple offers, but for the technically challenged who need a basic, easy means of sharing files over the Web and synching their data, .Mac lives up to its promise.

Email Encryption For OS X (Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/3753>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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New Study Backs MS Claims Overs Linux (Andy McCue, Silicon.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5074555.html>
Only Microsoft users on older versions of its desktop operating systems are likely to get any benefit from migrating to Linux, according to a new report by Gartner.

New Windows Virus May Hit Soon (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5074415.html>
A virus or worm that exploits newly revealed vulnerabilities in the current versions of Windows could emerge fairly soon, security experts say, in part because the vulnerabilities are very similar to the flaws exploited by the MSBlast worm.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Beyond Voice Recognition, To A Computer That Read Lips (Anne Eisenberg, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/technology/circuits/11next.html?8hpib>
Scientists are developing digital lip-reading systems to augment the accuracy of speech recognition.

Vint Cerf Hears VoIP Calling (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5073025.html>
Too much has happened in the last several years and too many crystal balls have proved wanting. But when it comes to forecasting the adoption of voice over IP, the veteran computer scientist has no such reluctance to qualify this as one of the next big things to affect the technology firmament.

'Amnesty' For Music File Sharing Is A Sham (Fred von Lohmann, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-vonlohmann10sep10,1,804028.story>
Rather than trying to sue Americans into submission, imagine a real solution for the problem. What if the labels legitimized music swapping by offering a real amnesty for all file-sharing, past, present and future, in exchange for say, $5 a month from each person who steps forward?

Antispyware Maker Hunts Down Gator (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5073826.html?tag=fd_top>
Just days after a federal judge ruled that software makers are within their rights to deliver ads over Web sites, a technology company is arming consumers with a way to stop them.

P2P Group: We'll Pay Girl's RIAA Bill (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5074227.html>
A peer-to-peer group says it will cover costs for a 12-year-old New York girl who agreed to pay record labels $2,000 to settle a file-swapping lawsuit.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Till Death Do Us Part (Joshua Davis, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.10/twins.html>
Laleh and Ladan Bijani wanted separate lives. Doctors wanted to make history. The inside story of what went wrong.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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WHO To Review Singapore Lab Safety After SARS Case (Reuters)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAN11540.htm>
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday it is sending two experts to Singapore to help the city state review laboratory safety after a medical researcher tested positive for the deadly SARS virus.

Singapore Signals Shift On IPOs (John Burton, Financial Times)
<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479735009>
Singapore has signalled it may take a tougher approach on policing initial public offerings after it rejected the proposed listing of NagaCorp, a Cambodian casino operator.

Under $20 (Karamjit Kaur, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,209134,00.html?>
>From Orchard to Kuala Lumpur: A bus to Senai, then a flight on AirAsia from Nov.

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