[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Thanks To New Technology, Macintosh Gets In On The Action (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2003/09/24/thanks_to_new_technology_macintosh_gets_in_on_the_action/>
Even though there's little original game development for the Mac, this is a golden era for Mac gaming.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple May Benefit From Expected Increase In IT Spending (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/24/itspending/index.php?redirect=1064418895000>

iBook-Intensive Henrico Schools Win Another Tech Award (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/24/henrico/index.php?redirect=1064390309000>
Henrico County Public Schools has won the 2003 Governor's Gold Technology Award for the Teaching and Learning Initiative. The school system also earned the distinction in 2001 for the same initiative.

Supercomputer Goes Online (Bryan Nieder, Collegiate Times)
<http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=2029>
The computer cluster composed of Apple G5 machines will not only rank highly in computing power but also with the economically minded.

Apple Posts Darwin 6.7, 6.8 For Latest OS X (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/21250>

Stillwater: Board Gives Go-Ahead For Junior High Laptops (Megan Boldt, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/living/education/6836747.htm>
The Stillwater Board of Education approved a plan to give every junior high student in the district a laptop to use at home and school, despite requests from dozens of angry parents to delay the decision.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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As The Mac OS 10.2.8 Dust Settles: What Went Wrong? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#wrong>
An obvious question comes to mind: Doesn't Apple test its system updates before release? Another, that it is so involved in getting Panther out the door that maybe the Q&A process for the apparent final Jaguar update wasn't as rigorous as it should have been.

A Wireless iPod Can Torpedo The Pirates (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2003/tc20030924_0544_tc056.htm>
Riddle me this: What would you get if you crossed a BlackBerry with an iPod? The answer: The future of the music business.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Age Of Empires II Gold Edition (MacDirectory)
<http://www.macdirectory.com/game/AofEGoldII/index.html>
Age of Empires II Gold Edition will have you hooked -- it's challenging and visually impressive.

Heroes Of Might & Magic IV (Sabih Mir, MacDirectory)
<http://www.macdirectory.com/game/HeroesMM/index.html>
The interactive element adds an entirely new scope to the game as fighting real people is always more fun than just battling it out with the computer.

Finding Nemo: Nemo's Underwater World Of FUn (Amy R. Wood, MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=154>
Parents should find that the difficulty level isn't too daunting for little kids and the activities are interesting enough for older kids (in the 6-10 range). All in all, it's a fun game that'll keep kids obsessed with Nemo until the DVD release.

More iSight Video Tricks (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/09/23/more_isight.html>
When you're not video conferencing, you still have a powerful camera perched atop your Mac.

Nascar Racing 2003 (Andy Largent, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=410>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Security Report Puts Blame On Microsoft (Jonathan Krim, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54872-2003Sep23.html>
Viruses, worms and other cyber-attacks that are crippling computers with increasing frequency cannot be stopped as long as the software of one company -- Microsoft Corp. -- dominates computing, according to a paper prepared by corporate technology officers and researchers.

State Department Computers Hit By Virus (Associated Press)
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-State-Computer-Virus.html?hp>
The State Department's electronic system for checking every visa applicant for terrorist or criminal history failed worldwide for several hours late Tuesday because of a computer virus, leaving the U.S. government briefly unable to issue visas.

Microsoft Hops On The 64-Bit Bus (Ina Fried and John G. Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5080522.html>
Microsoft on Tuesday said it had released a beta version of its Windows XP operating system for 64-bit PCs based on Advanced Micro Devices' new Athlon 64 processor.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Chatbot Bids To Fool Humans (Jo Twist, BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3116780.stm>
A computer program designed to talk like a human is preparing for its biggest test in its bid to be truly "intelligent".

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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PalmSource Eyes Souped-Up Device Size (Munir Kotadia, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/mobile/0,39020360,39116629,00.htm>
The company behind the Palm OS is looking to extend its reach beyond conventional handheld computers into the notebook arena.

Recording Industry Withdraws Suit (Chris Gaither, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2003/09/24/recording_industry_withdraws_suit/>
Mistaken identity raises questions on legal strategy.

California Is Set To Ban Spam (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/24/technology/24SPAM.html>
California is trying a deceptively simple approach to the problem of junk e-mail: it is banning spam.

Four Legal Land Mines For CIOs (Kathleen Melymuka, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,85186,00.html?SKC=home85186>
We asked lawyers who specialize in technology to identify some of the more explosive risks and mitigation strategies. Here's what they said.

Soccer Flick Has Legs Online (Katie Dean, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60511,00.html>
Droves of fans frustrated with the delayed release of Shaolin Soccer have turned to peer-to-peer networks to download a copy of the Hong Kong movie, and observers say there's a marketing lesson to be learned.

Microsoft To Shut Down Chat Rooms (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60567,00.html>
Microsoft said Wednesday it would shut down its Internet chat rooms in 28 countries, saying the forums had become a haven for peddlers of junk e-mail and sex predators.

Linux Users Face Uncertain Future If SCO Wins (Robert McMillan, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/19/37FEsco1_1.html>
Notion of 'derivative works' may come to haunt Linux users and IBM.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Run? Hillary? Run? (Mark Leibovich, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55100-2003Sep23.html>
Clinton is one of the few who say she won't.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Forbidden Fruit: Something About A Mangosteen (R.W. Apple Jr., New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/24/dining/24MANG.html>
I'm a big-time mangosteen addict, which presents problems. The mangosteen -- a tropical fruit about the size of a tangerine, whose leathery maroon shell surrounds moist, fragrant, snow-white segments of ambrosial flesh -- can't get a visa.

Where Did Dewey File Those Law Books? (Michael Luo, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/nyregion/23DEWE.html?8hpib>
Who knew that someone owned the Dewey Decimal System?

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Fugue For Eye And Vanishing Point (Suji Kwock Kim, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2088727/>

MyAppleMenu Reader: EOF
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Clinton 'History' Doesn't Repeat Itself In China (Joseph Kahn, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/24/international/asia/24CHIN.html?hp>
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's autobiography has become a major best seller in China, but nearly everything she had to say about China has been censored.

Chinese Court Rules Dow Jones Violaed A Copyright With Logo (Leslie Chang, Wall Street Journal)
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB106425647430127900-H9jeoNplad2nJ2nZ3mIa6iEm4,00.html>
Publisher must stop using a calligraphic rendition of firm's corporate logo.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Slip-Up With A Sting (Tan Hui Leng, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/7172.asp>
Red faces as panel finds Sars virus came from lab.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Pay-TV License: Blaems Poor Econ Conditions (Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030924/15/3ef2j.html>
The Singapore government Wednesday said it didn't receive any bids for a proposed second pay-TV licence in the city-state, when its tender closed at midday.

Singapore Wants More (Steve Creedy, Herald Sun)
<http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,7359385%255E462,00.html>
Singapore will continue to press for a full open-skies agreement after heavy lobbying by Qantas delivered a deal that increased access to Australia but did not allow it flights between Australia and the US.

Lab Not A Good Idea, Admits Institute (Chang Ai-Lien, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,211243,00.html?>
EHI admitted that it had not been a good idea to set up a biosafety level 3 (BSL3) lab within the confines of a lower-level safety facility.

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