[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Jan 13, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2004

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Stock Up On Positive Coverage (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/01/13/applestock/index.php?redirect=1073997447000>
Speculation from analysts is buoying Apple's stock price in Tuesday trading.

Portable Audio Players Duel For Listeners (Michel Marriott, TechNewsWorld)
<http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32579.html>

OWC Reduces Prices On External FireWire Storage (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/22924>
Other World Computing has reduced prices by as much as 10 percent on many of its external storage solutions.

Apple Upgraded By Thomas Weisel (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/01/13/weisel>

A Mac User's Look At The 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (David Schloss, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/01/13/ces/index.php?redirect=1074002830000>
The trade show offers a bountiful display of the Mac platform's possibilities, with hundreds of exhibitors displaying their wares.

Laptops Approved For Four Schools (Chris Kenning, Courier-Journal)
<http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/01/13ky/met-front-school0113-6682.html>
Starting this fall, more than 3,200 students and teachers at four underperforming Jefferson County schools will receive laptop computers, with wireless Internet connections, in an effort to improve achievement.

Net iTunes-Sharing Tool Debuts (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7655>
TunesAtWork is new beta software that claims to allow iTunes users to access their personal iTunes collections remotely over the Internet from their Mac.

Hewlett-Packard: No WMA For iPod (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61897,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
A spokesman for HP denied any [WMA] plans.

PocketMac Smartphone Edition Announced (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/01/13/pocketmac>
Information Appliance Associates has released PocketMac Smartphone Edition, a new solution to allow Mac users to synchronize data between their Mac and a Microsoft Smartphone.

Apple Posts Retail Jobs In Austin (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/22912>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Macworld Expo SF 2004: Enter The Musical Trojan Horse (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07499>
Even if you're not a music aficionado, I encourage you to keep an eye on the large wooden horse with Apple logo emblazoned on its side that was just wheeled into the center of the computer industry.

Steve Jobs Keeps Wowing 'Em Just Like He Did 20 Years Ago (Andy Ihnatko, Chicao Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy13.html>
Whether you're an Apple-logo-tattooed member of the Cult or a mere observer, you can't deny that Jobs puts on a fabulous show.

The Mac Hardware Report: Do New Computers Make A Difference? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#difference>
New computers will remain the major source of business for Apple, although music's share will grow tremendously.

20 Years Ago Today (John Halbig, Mac Design)
<http://www.macdesignonline.com/issues/janfeb04/on_apple.html>
So many possibilities are on the horizon, and an even better environment.

Apple Quietly Chases The Enterprise Customer (Network Magazine)
<http://www.networkmagazine.com/shared/article/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=X3HP1OKTPR2L0QSNDBCCKHQ?articleId=17300504>
The unexpected appearance of a networking closet rack-mount display was what caught me off-guard, hidden as it was near the rear of the sprawling Apple layout. What was even more surprising was the fact that the rack-mounts were drawing their fair share of onlookers and tire-kickers.

Apple Nibbles At New Markets... (Mark Hall, Computerworld)
<http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/server/story/0,10801,88952,00.html>
What's stunning isn't that Apple's engineers can, say, design a server with two 2-GHz G5 processors, 1GB of memory, storage capacity of 80 to 750GB and loads of other goodies all in a slim 1U package. No, what's stunning is that Aple's marketers will price the Xserve system at $3,999.

Forced Obsolescence Must Be Addressed (John Jerney, Daily Yomiuri)
<http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040113wo62.htm>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Nostromo SpeedPad n52 (Greg Grant, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=453>
The n52 feels like a much more complete product but gamers have to evaluate the games they play.

Sick Of Your Loud 12-Inch PowerBook G4? Me Too. (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/#note_2192>
Apple turned this machine from a toasty but quiet machine into an endless wind machine.

Microsoft Office 2004 For Mac: A First Look (Bonnie Cha, ZDNet UK)
<http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,39024195,39119045,00.htm>
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is all about the view.

Apple iLife '04: A First Look (Rebecca Viksnins, ZDNet UK)
<http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39024105,39119036,00.htm>
Based on what we saw at Macworld, '04 looks to be a very good year.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Yahoo Tests Syndication Technology For MyYahoo (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1032_3-5139636.html>
Yahoo plans to test RSS technology for its personalization tools, giving people the ability to automatically receive news and information feeds from third parties onto MyYahoo pages.

Women Put Off By Gadget Shopping (Alfred Hermida, BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3386533.stm>
A new generation of tech-savvy women is emerging but they are still being treated like idiots when it comes to selling gadgets, say experts.

Disk Drives Take On The Living Room (Alfred Hermida, BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3391929.stm>
The hard drive is not something that is seen as a common household item. But it could soon become part of the living room.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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The Allure Of An Outpost On The Moon (Kenneth Chang, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/science/space/13SPAC.html>
For some, it is the steppingstone of the Moon, not the distant goal of Mars, that is the irresistible destination in the human venture into space.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Softens Stance On Malaysia Relations (John Burton, Financial Times)
<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1073280978635>
Singapore will not insist on a package deal to resolve all bilateral disputes with Malaysia, in what appears to be an important concession in the prickly relations between the neighbours.

KL And Singapore Agree On Way Forward (Paul Jacob, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,229798,00.html?>
Abdullah suggests restarting bilateral talks; PM Goh agrees to look at the idea but does not rule out third-party option.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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SPH Raises Cover Price For ST And 8 Other Papers (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,229896,00.html?>
Explaining the rationale for the increase on Tuesday, SPH's Chief Executive Officer Alan Chan said that the company has kept a tight rein on costs for some time, adding that few firms have managed to keep prices unchanged for as long.

Malaysia Seeks To Mend Fences On Singapore Trip (Associated Press)
<http://www.iht.com/articles/124631.html>
Malaysia's new prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, met Monday with Goh Chok Tong, his Singaporean counterpart, in an effort to ease strained relations between the Southeast Asian neighbors.

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