[MyAppleMenu] Apr 30, 2002

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=== top =============

Grads Want To Study On EMacs, Too (Farhad Manjoo, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52181,00.html>
Some Macintosh fans took in the eMac news with exasperation: Being long out of school, they're blocked from buying the eMac and they're not happy about it.

=== news =============

ATI Confirms Radeon Problems On Beige Macs (Daniel Miller, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/04/29.6.shtml>

Apple Offers Adobe Software With G4s (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4589>

Chimera Web Browser Gets New Pre-Release Version (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/30.chimera.php>
Chimera, a project focusing on delivering a best-of-breed browser for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 0.2.6.

=== opinions =============

So Where's The eBook? (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=336>
Dump the G3 already.

=== internet top news =============

Make The Web WOrk For Your Newsroom (Dan Suwyn, Poynter.org)
<http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/042602.htm>
Deliver what readers need, when they need it.

=== internet news =============

Chimera Web Browser Gets New Pre-Release Version (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/30.chimera.php>
Chimera, a project focusing on delivering a best-of-breed browser for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 0.2.6.

Your Right To Link Threatened (Steve Watkins, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/practical/02/0430.html>
Deep-linking goes to the very heart and soul of the Internet.

Final Mozilla Browser Beta Readies Attack (Scarlet Pruitt, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/29/020429hnmozilla.xml>
Widespread testing of the browser is under way in anticipation of its final release, as over 200,000 users have downloaded the latest version of Mozilla from the Mozilla.org.

The Story Of '.us' Has Its Critics (David McGuire, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4827-2002Apr29.html>
NeuStar said to neglect public interest in not setting aside some domain names.

=== wintel news =============

Should Microsoft Dump Windows? Yah, Right! (David Morgenstern, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-895046.html>
How strong is your imagination?

Testimony Challenged In Microsoft Case (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/30/technology/30SOFT.html>
An executive from Qwest Communications International defended the Microsoft Corporation today, telling a federal judge that Microsoft would not be able to thwart emerging competition in the Internet services business using its monopoly power.

Microsoft Shortens Witness List (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-894947.html>
Microsoft chopped eight people off its witness list Monday, potentially speeding the close of testimony in its remedy proceeding.

Microsoft, Nvidia At War Over Xbox (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25076.html>
Microsoft wants to pay less than was agreed in the original deal.

=== reader : tech =============

"The Long Boom" Is Back! (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/30/longboom/index.html?x>
Recession? What recession? A coauthor of 1999's infamously optimistic screed says hte future is still bright.

Fads And Figures (Robert Matthews, Telegraph)
<http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2002/04/24/ecfmatt24.xml&sSheet=/connected/2002/04/24/ixconn.html>
Scientific theories shouldn't be treated like last year's fashion.

=== reader : life =============

Faith In America (Jeffery L. Sheler, U.S. News)
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020506/misc/6religion.htm>
It's as important as ever, no matter what you believe.

The New Yorker: Add Hard News, Hold The Glitter (David Carr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/business/media/29DAVE.html>
Four years after he was plucked from the ranks of staff writers at the magazine by S. I. Newhouse Jr., owner of Advance Publications, Mr. Remnick is not only the man who edits The New Yorker, he sits more comfortably upon the throne, which only four other editors have ever occupied.

=== singapore top news =============

Families Living In City Centre To Go Up 4 Times To 120,000: Mah (Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/6670/1/.html>
"The future of our city has to go beyond meeting functional needs of business community. A bustling city needs a large live-in population base."

=== singapore news =============

SQ006 Final Report Does Not Vindicate Taipei Airport: Saftey Council (Young Ming, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/6569/1/.html>
CAA should not have the false impression that the CKS airport had no role in the accident.

Singapore Most IT-Savvy Country: Survey (Tan Ooi Boon, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,117144,00.html?>
In a global survey of 75 countries by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Harvard University, Singapore came out tops as the nation which has the most wired Government and the most effective in promoting the use of IT among its citizens.

Taiwan Says Singapore Report On Crash "Misleading" (Reuters)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/TP103959>
"It would be a waste of the huge investigation effort that has been expended on this accident, if blame and liability became the focus of attention instead, of safety improvement for the benefit of the whole of the traveling public throughout the world."

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