[MyAppleMenu] Jul 5, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Jul 5, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Nokia Phone Camera, Pocket PC 2003, QuickTime, & RealOne (Todd Oqasawara, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3431>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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iChat Might Be Answer To Big Long-Distance Bills (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/135169967_ptmacc05.html>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Mulls At Least $10 Billion Dividend (Reuters)
<http://business.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2003/07/03/microsoft_mulls_at_least_10_billion_dividend>
Microsoft is considering paying its shareholders a special dividend of more than $10 billion to reduce its $46 billion cash pile.

More Wintel News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Extreme Mobility (Ray Ozzie)
<http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2003/07/03/extremeMobility.html>
Innovation now works its way into the enterprise; it no longer migrates outward.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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'Jetsons-Age' Pocket TV Jukeboxes Arrive (Franklin Paul, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3041159>
Portable digital video players make it easy to pack Bach, Beck and a season of "Brady Bunch" episodes into one pocket-sized gadget, but consumers initially may balk at the hefty cost and limited video programming choices.

Mobile Snaps (Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1901134>
Are camera-phones good news or bad for the phogoraphy industry?

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Throngs Return For Mall Fourth (Carol Morello, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10623-2003Jul4.html?nav=hptop_tb>
A dazzling fireworks show sprayed light across the Washington sky last night, viewed by throngs of visitors on the Mall who celebrated Independence Day against a backdrop of American troops under fire abroad and vigilance against terrorism at home.

Abolish Marriage (Michael Kinsley, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2085127>
Let's really get the government out of our bedrooms.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Trying To Clear The Static On Using Electronics Aloft (Jane Engle, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-insider29jun29,1,6090209.column?coll=la-travel-headlines>
Is it safe to use cell-phones, pagers and such in flight? Maybe yes -- but we aren't sure yet.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Where Have All The Lisas Gone? (Peggy Orenstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/magazine/06BABY.html>
Why did I recently receive birth announcements from three couples who had never met, who lived as distant from one another as Maine, Minnesota and California, yet who had all named their sons Leo?

In The Face Of Death (Alex Kotlowitz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/magazine/06MITIGATION.html>
They had already found Jeremy Gross guilty of a brutal murder. How did 12 pro-death-penalty jurors come to spare his life?

Barry White, Disco-Era Crooner, Dies At 58 (Jon Pareles, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/05/obituaries/05WHIT.html?hp>
Barry White, whose deep voice and lushly orchestrated songs added up to soundtracks for seduction, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 58.

Pawn Brokers (Steven Poole, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,991701,00.html>
The deepest and most inexhaustible of western games, chess, has exerted a peculiar fascination for artists.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Censorship: Let's Not Kid Ourselves (Warren Fernandez, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,198110,00.html?>
The old majority-rules, one-size-fits-all approach will have to be updated and applied in a more sophisticated and tolerant fashion, with more room for minority interests and pursuits.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Local Gays, Foreign Gays (Elisia Yeo, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/2552.asp>
In talking about hiring gay people in the context of the hunt for foreign talent, a message being conveyed is that perhaps if it weren't for foreign talent, homosexuality would be less acceptable.

More Singapore News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>

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