[MyAppleMenu] Friday, Jan 9, 2004

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Friday, Jan 9, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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The 20 Macs That Mattered Most (Owen Linzmayer, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61796,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2>
Twenty years after the introduction of the first Macintosh, here's a list of the 20 most memorable Mac models. Presented in chronological order, all of these machines advanced the state of the art on the Mac, and many featured innovations that influenced the computer industry at large.

Apple Drinks Its Own Juice (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1045_3-5137846.html>
Trying to make the case that its products belong in large companies, Apple showed how it runs its own business using a great deal of Apple gear.

Yes, They're Cool (Steven Levy, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/default.aspx?id=3900437&p1=0>
It might have been smart for Apple to release a frustratingly hobbled player that could have been profitably sold for $200. But it just isn't in Apple's DNA to cut corners and capture a market by cutting prices.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Claims Storage Price Lead (News IS, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/34785.html>

BETT: Apple Making UK In-Roads (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7630>
Apple's share of the UK education sector climbed to 8.5 per cent from 6.4 per cent year-on-year in the quarter ended October 2003.

Despite Fewer Exhibitors, Expo Happy With San Fran Show (Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/01/08.12.shtml>

Battle Of The Bands: Gates Vs. Jobs (Steve Gillmor, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1429065,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
In back-to-back keynotes in San Francisco and Las Vegas, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates this week underlined the vanishing difference between consumer and enterprise markets.

Focus On The Rest Of Your Life (Daniel H. Steinberg, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/01/08/jobs_keynote.html>
When you have free time to play or to create, how do you spend your time?

Gov. Benson Delivers Paul School Laptops (Ann McClure, Granite State News)
<http://www.granitestatenews.com/010804bensonlaptops.html>
Seventh grade students at Paul School had an interesting morning Tuesday, one that will make the rest of their school year interesting as well.

iPod mini Comes With iPod mini Software 1.0 (And Other Notes) (iPodlounge)
<http://ipodlounge.com/ipodnews_comments.php?id=2579_0_7_0_M>
The iPod mini does not use the same software as the iPod itself.

New RealPlayer Avoids Apple DRM License (Steven Davis, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1427992,00.asp>
Analysts said RealPlayer's support for iTunes songs is likely to prove controversial and could spur Apple to consider legal action, or implement software patches that would prevent playing of its music file format.

Apple To Report 'Blowout Quarter' On iPod, Music Sales (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/01/08/aapl>
When Apple reports its earnings for the fiscal first quarter of 2004 next week, Wall Street expects the company to post a profit of 14 cents a share, compared with a profit of 3 cents a share a year earlier.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Forget Macworld. Think Macsnore. (Charles Cooper, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2010-7354_3-5137859.html>
The more interesting announcement actually came out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Apple announced that it will make digital music players for Hewlett-Packard.

A Grain Of Salt With Your Apple (CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2452-7339_3-5137856.html>
Apple Computer once again is bragging about its role in creating supercomputing technology with the biggest bang for the buck. But don't let the marketing message carry you away.

A Day In The Life: Macworld Expo 2004 (Jade, Ars Technica)
<http://www.arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/04q1/mwsf-day.html>

Confident Apple For 2004 (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/01/07/apple_2004.html>
Steve Jobs' first keynote of the year was relaxed, confident, and entertaining. And to me, it was a keynote for Apple in 2004 as much as it was for the Macworld conference.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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CodeWarrior 9 For Mac OS (Peter Coffee, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1427620,00.asp>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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The Click Heard Round The World (Ken Jordan, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/mouse.html>
It was December 1968. An obscure scientist from Stanford Research Institute stood before a hushed San Francisco crowd and blew every mind in the room. His 90-minute demo rolled out virtually all that would come to define modern computing: videoconferencing, hyperlinks, networked collaboration, digital text editing, and something called a "mouse."

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Push Into Living Room Is A Gamble (Ed Frauenheim and Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1003_3-5137997.html>
Computer companies face major obstacles in the consumer electronics market despite optimistic claims that it represents a promising new frontier for a waning PC industry.

AMD, Intel Put Antivirus Tech Into Chips (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-7355_3-5137832.html>
Advanced Micro Devices and Intel plan to soon release technology that will allow processors to stop many attacks before they occur.

Job Losses Slow In High Tech (American-Statesman)
<http://www.statesman.com/business/content/auto/epaper/editions/thursday/business_f3dfe07b402b50f40016.html>
Most of the jobs lost were at the bottom, driving average wages up.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Brain May Be Able To Bury Unwanted Memories, Study Shows (Anahad O'Connor, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/science/09MEMO.html>
Unwanted memories can be driven from awareness, according to a team of researchers who say they have identified a brain circuit that springs into action when people deliberately try to forget something.

Why Good Vibrations Make Opera Nonsense (Tim Radford, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1118070,00.html>
Three physicists report in Nature today that they tuned into opera and found a perfectly good reason for not being able to hear the words: the louder the song, the greater the resonance frequency of the vocal tract and the more difficult it is to hear a soprano's vowels.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Flavors Fresher Than Sushi (Julia Moskin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/dining/07JAPA.html>
New York is undergoing a crash course in Japanese flavors that goes well beyond sushi and soba.

'Sex And The City' Gives High Style A Leg Up (Robin Givhan, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2109-2004Jan8.html>
In its six seasons, the HBO series "Sex and the City" has served as the fashion industry's most successful runway show. It has been able to regularly accomplish what myriad fashion magazines and catwalk presentations only rarely achieve.

Fine Art In A New Light (Karin Lipson, Newsday)
<http://www.newsday.com/features/ny-p2cover3611380jan06,0,5156493.story?coll=ny-features-headlines>
Exploring the work of masters in popular novels, in movies and onstage.

8 Simple Rules For Dating My Ex-Wife (David Owen, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040112sh_shouts>
You are now dating my ex-wife, and her lawyer, my lawyer, and a state judge have all informed me in writing that you have a legal right to do so. So be it.

Five O'Clock Shadow? You're A Marked Man! (Andrew Leonard, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2004/01/06/terror_travel/index_np.html>
In times of terror alert, international travel turns into an endurance marathon -- and a financial train wreck.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Readies For New Leader (Tim Luard, BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3375797.stm>
As it stands on the threshold of its second leadership change in 40 years, Singapore is trying hard to shake off its reputation as an over-protective nanny state and embrace a new, more vibrant social and political era.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Named World's 2nd Freest Economy (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,229211,00.html?>
Singapore was named the world's second freest economy behind Hong Kong, in a survey released on Friday.

Buangkok's Blessing In Disguise (Teo Hwee Nak, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/12797.asp>
Flap over MRT station having an unexpected fallout.

LTA 'No' To Direct Buses To Senai (Karamjit Kaur, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,229064,00.html?>
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) last month officially turned down applications from Comfort Bus -- a subsidiary of transport giant ComfortDelgro, which operates buses and taxis -- and a Malaysian bus operator to ferry people between the two places.

New Mobile Numbers To Start With 8, As 9 Runs Out (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,229069,00.html?>
IDA move will add 10 million more numbers, and it believes there's demand.

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