[MyAppleMenu] Aug 25, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Aug 25, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Virginia Expanding Laptop Program In Schools Despite First-Year Troubles (Associated Press)
<http://www.sunjournal.com/story.asp?slg=082502laptops>
Administrators are confident last year's problems have been solved and that the technology initiative will run much smoother, even as it is expanded to middle schools.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple May Ride Jaguar Into Mobile Computing (James Coates, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0208250014aug25.column?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dnav>
It's getting clearer by the day that Jaguar is just the opening salvo in a looming series of exciting schemes to add products to the Macintosh line.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Buy Or Hold? (Chris Taylor, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020902-344037,00.html>
If you're a Mac user who's been holding out on OS X, it could be time to play around with a furry feline.

Apple Turns Search Engine Into Concierge (James Coates, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0208250015aug25.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed>
Mac OS 10.2 is far bigger than just Sherlock 3, but this one huge improvement in how people can use their Macs stand out far more for most users than the rest.

In Apple's 'Jaguar,' Upgrades Quick And Mighty (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56013-2002Aug24.html>
You could say 10.2 is the company's biggest update ever. It's the first Mac operating system I've seen that took two CD-ROMs and more than an hour to install.

Setting Up A Site Server With Jaguar (James Duncan Davidson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/23/jaguar_server.html>
Did you know that almost all of the software to set up a heavyweight, full-fledged site server is already on your machine?

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Activists Take On Hollywood Cartel (Dan Gillmor, San Jos Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3935348.htm>
A movement is beginning to stir in America, an overdue reaction to the predations of a cartel that is bidding to control how digital information may be created and used.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Can Computers Do A Better Job Rating Stocks? (John kimelman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/business/yourmoney/25RATE.html>
Major computerized stock-rating systems hand out fewer postitive stock ratings than do Wll Street analysts, who seem to dole them out like candy.

The Little Penguin That Could (Chris Taylor, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020826-338649,00.html>
Ready to dump Windows? Rival operating system Linux is showing up in easier-to-use packages.

Linux, The Cheap Chic For Computer Fashionistas (Peter Henderson and Lisa Baertlein, Reuters)
<http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=FWSZA2BV3XHBQCRBAEOCFFA?type=technologynews&StoryID=1368224>
The decade-old operating system is getting as corporate as button-down shirts and PowerPoint presentations.

Optical Networkers Talk Survival (Jennifer Files, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3929931.htm>
People in the optical networking industry don't talk much about recovery these days. They talk about survival.

US Airlines Allowing Use Of PDAs That Can Connect To Net (Ng Hui Hui, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/cybernews/story/0,1870,139417,00.html?>
While the US aviation regulatory body has not banned the personal digital assistant, airlines in Asia-Pacific do not allow its use.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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'Redesigning Humans': Taking Charge Of Our Own Heredity (Gina Maranto, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/books/review/25MARANTO.html>
Gregory Stock advocates the wholesale adoption of genetic manipulations with the purpose of finally taking control of human evolution.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Venting On Venturing: A Few Things We Hate About Travel (Susan Spano, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/25/TR117510.DTL>
When I get grumpy like this, it means I need to travel.

Tiny-Book Publisher Is Losing Her Vision (Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-me-vision25aug25.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbooks%2Dmanual>
Age-related condition will force closure of Pennyweight Press, which has produced 530 miniature titles in 27 years.

Heartburn Hotel (Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42295-2002Aug20.html>
No one said it would be easy opening a trendy hotel in a 160-year-old abandoned government office building. But this was ridiculous.

Teaching The Teacher (Megan J. Breslin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/magazine/25LIVES.html>
I hadn't hesitated to bring politics into my classroom, until a mother taught me a thing or two about diplomacy.

Children Of The Night (Seth Kugel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/nyregion/25FEAT.html?8hpib>
Snug in bed? No. Like New York's adults, its kids are often up and about in the wee hours.

Tunnel Of Love: Riding The Singles Car (Jacob Gershman, The New York Sun)
<http://www.nysun.com/sunarticle.asp?artID=151>
In this lonely city of 8 million people, it happens all the time. You're minding your own business in the subway when you look up from the newspaper and notice the eyes of another rider -- an attractive person, someone you'd like to meet.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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3 In 5 Cash Out Of New Singapore Shares (Serena Ng, Business Times Singapore)
<mes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,55424,00.html?>
Three in five Singaporeans who have been alloted New Singapore Shares (NSS) have cashed out much of what is allowed in less than a year after the scheme was launched, to the surprise of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Let's Talk it Out: PSA Exec To PTP (George Joseph, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,55420,00.html?>
A Senior PSA Corporation executive has called for 'constructive competition' between the Singapore port operator and its rival Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), rather than the 'disruptive' one going on now.

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