[MyAppleMenu] May 7, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, May 07, 2004

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Mac News for Mac Users

[Top Stories]

*** Apple Details More Job Cuts
<http://news.com.com/2100-1042_3-5207652.html>
by Ina Fried, CNET News.com
A restructuring at Apple that began last quarter will result in additional job cuts this year, the Mac maker said in a regulatory filing Thursday.

[News]

*** Mum's The Word On The Man Behind Apple's iPod
<http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend7_20040507.htm>
by Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press
The iPod was developed by a man with roots in suburban Detroit. Except he can't talk about it under an Apple company policy that avoids focusing attention on individual rather than corporate accomplishments -- except when it's the company's charismatic and, some say, egocentric chief executive officer, Steve Jobs, who's doing the talking.

*** Highlights From Apple's Quarterly SEC Filing
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/05/07/10q>
by MacMinute

*** After Effects On The Mac: Adobe Weighs In
<http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=25467>
by Kevin Schmitt, Creative Mac
Five questions with Steve Kilisky, After Effects product manager.

[Opinion]

*** MPEG-4 Is Dead; Hardware Loses And Firmware Wins
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4754>
by Damien Stolarz, O'Reilly Network
Hardware is irrelevant now; firmware is king.

*** Could A Worm On A Mac Or Linux Ever Get Traction?
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1586788,00.asp>
by Larry Seltzer, eWeek
The lack of targets is probably the reason why nobody writes mail worms for these platforms.

[Review]

*** iPod Means That iCan't Hear You -- And iLike It
<http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=2409>
by Dave Watson, Straight.com
Despite the lack of lows and the excess upper end, I really like the fidelity of the new earphones. It's just that you have to be somewhere quiet when listening to them.

*** Spending A Year With Mac
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6964>
by Nicholas Blachford, OSNews.com

[Sidetrack]

*** Pixar Triple Profits 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/05/07/#20040507bg000001>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
Pixar Animation has announced, reports the BBC<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3692479.stm>, "that for the first quarter of 2004 its net income rose to $26.7m from $8.2m in the same period last year. The San Francisco-based firm thanked the continuing popularity of the film, ["Finding Nemo"], on DVD.

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft Reveals Future Of Tablet PC
<http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1586107,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532>
by Mark Hachman, ExtremeTech

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The other things in life

[World]

*** When Liberators Become Tyrants
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/opinion/07ANDO.html>
by Antoine Audouard, New York Times
What the French learned in Vietnam 50 years ago today.

[Tech & Science]

*** The Kingmaker
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/mossberg.html>
by Alan Deutschman, Wired News
Walt Mossberg makes or breaks products from his pundit perch at a little rag called The Wall Street Journal.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Prime Minister Of Singapore Vows To Remain Tough On Terror
<http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=5D31C9A9-87EC-4C9E-B873A0F73A461FAA>
by Stephanie Ho, Voice Of America
The Prime Minister of Singapore has vowed to remain tough on terrorism in Southeast Asia, which he says is a crucial region in the global war on terror.

*** Longer Wait For Tallest HDB Blocks
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,249613,00.html?>
by Tan Hui Yee, Straits Times
The seven-block, 50-storey The Pinnacle at Duxton is expected to be completed by 2010, instead of 2007. And this depends on whether there are enough people willing to buy the units.