[MyAppleMenu] May 21, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

== AppleSurf (Top Stories) ===============

Laptops Open Global Doors For Piscataquis Pupils (Bangor Daily News)
<http://www.bangornews.com/cgi-bin/article.cfm?storynumber=34744>
With state-of-the art technology at their fingertips this year, Piscataquis Community Middle School pupils have become movie producers, world travelers, photographers and researchers, all because of a forward-thinking governor, a supportive local industry, a future-minded board of directors and a teaching staff that embraces change.

Grudge Match Boils Between Dell And Jobs (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/21/technology/21RIFT.html>
They represent the rival styles of the graying personal computer industry, and they don't seem to like each other very much.

== AppleSurf (News) ===============

Laptops Open Global Doors For Piscataquis Pupils (Bangor Daily News)
<http://www.bangornews.com/cgi-bin/article.cfm?storynumber=34744>
With state-of-the art technology at their fingertips this year, Piscataquis Community Middle School pupils have become movie producers, world travelers, photographers and researchers, all because of a forward-thinking governor, a supportive local industry, a future-minded board of directors and a teaching staff that embraces change.

Grudge Match Boils Between Dell And Jobs (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/21/technology/21RIFT.html>
They represent the rival styles of the graying personal computer industry, and they don't seem to like each other very much.

Take A QuickTime Tour Of The Store With Steve Jobs (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0105/21.tour.shtml>
"This is our store," said a proud looking Jobs at the beginning of the video.

== AppleSurf (Opinions) ===============

New Apple Store Opens Strong, But So Did The Cube (Right On Mac!)
<http://www.rightonmac.com/articles/01/05/21-applestore.html>

Apple's Retail Store's Genius Bar Is Genius (Macinstein)
<http://www.macinstein.com/pressrelease.cfm?ID=939>

== AppleSurf (Reviews) ===============

USB & FireWire Drives (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/macdan/010521dk.html>

The Cinderella iBook (The Macjunkie)
<http://www.themacjunkie.com/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid990420326,1139,?x>

== The Wintel Empire (Top Stories) ===============

Windowx XP: A Bundle Of Trouble? (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5976058.html?tag=owv>
When Windows XP is released in a few months, will smaller software companies benefit from jumping aboard the bandwagon or be run over by it?

Intel Launches 1.7GHz Xeon (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/19089.html>
Intel finally unveiled its Xeon server processor - codenamed Foster - today, two weeks after it canned the chip's launch at the last minute.

== The Wintel Empire (News) ===============

Decoding Microsoft's Open Source Argument (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2763276,00.html>

Dell's Game Of Chicken (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-5987702.html?tag=owv>
Dell Computer keeps digging trenches in the PC price war, but Wall Street questions whether the battle is even worth fighting.

Microsoft Retools For .Net (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5978207.html?tag=owv>
The software giant said it is building two higher-end versions of the next release of its development tools, called Visual Studio.Net. The package includes updates to programming languages Visual Basic, Visual C++, and the first version of C#, a new software-programming language intended to simplify the building of Web-based software.

Windowx XP: A Bundle Of Trouble? (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5976058.html?tag=owv>
When Windows XP is released in a few months, will smaller software companies benefit from jumping aboard the bandwagon or be run over by it?

WinXP Protection: It's The .NET, Stupid (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19090.html>

Intel Launches 1.7GHz Xeon (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/19089.html>
Intel finally unveiled its Xeon server processor - codenamed Foster - today, two weeks after it canned the chip's launch at the last minute.

Grudge Match Boils Between Dell And Jobs (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/21/technology/21RIFT.html>
They represent the rival styles of the graying personal computer industry, and they don't seem to like each other very much.

Compaq To Unveil "Evo" For Business PCs (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5976709.html?tag=lh>
With the new brand, Compaq also will introduce a new look. Taking a cue from iPaq--the company's hybrid PC and Internet access machine--Evo products will be black and silver, instead of the traditional beige. On Monday, Compaq will unveil two notebooks, two workstations and a thin client all under the Evo brand.

== Breaking Barriers (Top Stories) ===============

Schools Get Tool To Track Students' Internet Use (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/21/technology/21SNIF.html>
The eSniff system essentially resembles Carnivore, the F.B.I.'s Internet wiretap system. But instead of the evidence being scooped up by law enforcement agents working under the authority of a court order, eSniff is under the control of school administrators.

== Breaking Barriers (News) ===============

Like Dejanews All Over Again (Computer Shopper)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2710971,00.html>
A huge chunk of Internet history—a terabyte of discussions, FAQs, and flames—recently changed hands when popular search engine Google purchased the Deja.com Usenet archive.

Schools Get Tool To Track Students' Internet Use (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/21/technology/21SNIF.html>
The eSniff system essentially resembles Carnivore, the F.B.I.'s Internet wiretap system. But instead of the evidence being scooped up by law enforcement agents working under the authority of a court order, eSniff is under the control of school administrators.

== PenguinSurf (News) ===============

Decoding Microsoft's Open Source Argument (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2763276,00.html>

== SingaporeSurf (News) ===============

SingTel Scraps Bid For MobileOne (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010521/3/povi.html>
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd has decided not to pursue a takeover of MobileOne Asia Pte Ltd (M1), the city-state's number two mobile phone operator, SingTel Mobile chief Lucas Chow said on Monday.

Pro-Singapore Activists Welcomed (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/0,1381,17426,00.html?>
Get politically involved, even if you're not pro-People's Action Party, says Lim Swee Say, Acting Environment Minister and chairman of Young PAP.

== SingaporeSurf (Entertainment) ===============

Good Old Days (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,45201,00.html?>
Tune in to VH1, a music programming block aimed to catch the MTV generation aged from 25-49, which debuts on TV Works tonight.