[MyAppleMenu] Jul 8, 2005

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[News]

*** IBM To Apple: Eat These Chips
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/08/ibm_powerpc/>
Andrew Orlowski, The Register

As a parting shot to Apple, a piqued IBM today announced two new lines of its PowerPC 970 processor, better known as the G5. And they're impressive beasts.

*** Fiddly No Longer
<http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4157673>
The Economist

Apple introduces yet another new medium to the mainstream.

*** In-Store Studios Building On Apple's Core Audience
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-apple7jul07,1,5287742.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>
Terril Yue Jones, Los Angeles Times

Tucked against one side of the second level in the digital utopia is a clutch of customers who struggle with the dystopian aspects of technology. A couple of retired women hunch over laptops. A white-haired man looks puzzled as an Apple staffer explains different kinds of computer cables. A woman with two teenage daughters gets briefed on setting up a home wireless network. This is daily life at the Studio, a new area in a handful of Apple stores where experts in digital media dole out advices.

*** Macworld Boston Kicks Off Next Week
<http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/5820/>
Macsimum

*** Reading Rewarded With iPod
<http://www.perrycountytimes.com/news/070705h.htm>
Liz Dudley, Perry County Times

Would you read for an iPod?

*** Laptop Plan Goes To Court
<http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/0705/08laptop.html>
Kirstina Torres, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A judge today will be asked to halt Cobb County's new laptop computer program, because opponents think it is a waste of taxpayer money.

*** Apple Boosted By Upbeat Q3 Outlook
<http://www.forbes.com/markets/2005/07/07/0707automarketscan01.html>
Forbes

Banc of America Securities reiterated a "buy" rating and adjusted estimates on Apple.

*** Podcasting Set For 'Huge Growth'
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4658995.stm>
BBC News

Market researchers and analysts continue to buoy up podcasting's future with latest figures suggesting a US audience along of 56 million by 2010.

*** Patent Reveals Apple's Automobile iPod Cup Holder
<http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/patent_reveals_apples_automobile_ipod_cup_holder/>
Macsimum

*** Apple Retail Exec Leaves For Abercrombie
<http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-5778224.html?part=rss&tag=5778224&subj=news>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

The chief financial officer for Apple's retail unit is leaving to become CFO of clothier Abercrombie & Fitch.

*** Bruddy Makes Shuffle Buddy
<http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-5778355.html?part=rss&tag=5778355&subj=news>
Michelle Meyers, CNET News.com

The newly launched BruddyClip is a hybrid of sorts for the iPod shuffle -- part case, part clip, part cord-management system.

*** Flap Over Dault Podcasts And iTunes
<http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/07/flap_over_adult_podc.html>
Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing

[Opinion]

*** Everybody In The Pool
<http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2005/07/08/apple-cellphone-service-cx_de_0708apple.html>
David M. Ewalt, Forbes

Steve Jobs might be planning a move for Apple that will leave even his biggest fans surprised -- becoming a phone company. It might sound far-fetched, but the pieces are in place for it to happen later this summer.

*** The Lonely Apple Repairman?
<http://www.computing.co.uk/forbes/news/2139472/lonely-apple-repairman>
David A. Andelman, Forbes

Twenty-five years after the first PC, the desktop and the laptop are still not nearly as reliable as the most basic automobile, washing machine, refrigerator or, even closer to home, television for that matter.

*** iTMS Dropping Mature Content?
<http://www.tuaw.com/2005/07/07/itms-drops-mature-content/>
Jay Savage, Unofficial Apple Weblog

[Review]

*** How iTunes 4.9 Got It Wrong
<http://www.corante.com/podcasting/2005/07/07/how_itunes_49_got_it_wrong.php>
Matt May, Corante

A growing number of flaws have emerged in both the design of the software and how Apple has communicated -- or failed to communicate -- with the content providers they're now leveraging.

*** DataPilot 2.0: Data-Transfer Application Makes The Mac-Cell Phone Connection Smoother
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/07/reviews/datapilot20/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Peter Cohen, Macworld

If you have a phone that iSync won't support, or if you'd like to expand the capabilities of an iSync-supported phone's connection with your Mac, DataPilot 2.0 is for you.

[Wintel]

*** Microsofft Downgrades Claria Adware Detections
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1834607,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Ryan Naraine, eWeek

Less than a week after published reports of acquisition talks between Microsoft and Claria, distributor of the controversial Gator ad-serving software, security research have discovered that Microsoft has quietly downgraded its Claria detections.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Internet Taxes? It's Just A Matter Of Time
<http://news.com.com/Internet+taxes+Its+just+a+matter+of+time/2010-1071_3-5778677.html?part=rss&tag=5778677&subj=news>
Charles Cooper, CNET News.com

The cybergeneratin's period of grace comes with an implied statute of limitations.

*** Will RFID-Guided Robots Rule The World?
<http://news.com.com/Will+RFID-guided+robots+rule+the+world/2100-7337_3-5778286.html?part=rss&tag=5778286&subj=news>
Alorie Gilbert, CNET News.com

*** Subway Fracas Escalates Into Test Of The Internet's Power To Shame
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070601953.html>
Jonathan Krim, Washington Post

If you no longer marvel at the internet's power to connect and transform the world, you need to hear the story of a woman known to many around the globe as, loosely translated, Dog Poop Girl.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** I Do. I Do. We're Done.
<http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/cover/2005/cover0708.html>
Jeff Horwitz, Washington City Paper

The ceremony itself lasts a little over a quarter of an hour, leaving fewer than 15 minutes for photos before the next couople arrives. Then it's three escalators back down and into married life.

*** The Culler Of Money
<http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=10258>
Dave Jamieson, Baltimore City Paper

Late-night infomercial clown Matthew Lesko has authored nearly 100 books on government grants. His formula? "I don't write," he says. "I plagiarize."

[EOF]

*** It's All In How You Take The News
<http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-notebook8jul08,0,203263.story?coll=cl-home-more-channels>
Paul Brownfield, Los Angeles Times

The tone of BBC coverage could be described, finally, as adult. To watch the BBC handle this crisis was to sense a network not nearly so paranoid as its American counterparts that the viewer might be about to switch the channel, surfing for better video.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Dollars And Cents Kill Yet Another Singapore Arts Publication
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/156861/1/.html>
Today

With another arts publication going belly up, the landscape for arts magazines is returning to its desperate state of affairs. Again.

*** PM Lee Condemns Terrorist Attacks In London
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/156766/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

*** Comfort, CityCab And Yellow-Top Revise Taxi Fares
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/156759/1/.html>
Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia

The current booking charges will be raised from $3 to $4 during peak hours on weekdays.

*** Singapore Increases Security After London Terrorist Attacks
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=abODH7E7vMXs&refer=asia>
Will Kennedy, Bloomberg

Singapore has increased security at its borders and stepped up police patrols after today's terrorist attacks in London, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement.

*** Home Affairs Ministry Says No Specific Threat To Singapore After London Blasts
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/156770/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

The Ministry, however, has taken the "necessary precautionary measures" to safeguard the country's security.

*** Singapore Airlines To Further Raise Fuel Surcharge
<http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2005/07/07/afx2127269.html>
AFX

Singapore Airlines said it has decided to further increase its fuel surcharge on ticket prices from July 20 to partially defray the cost of high jet fuel prices.

[Opinion]

*** The Ruthless Business Of The Media
<http://yannisms.com/archives/2005/07/07/the-ruthless-business-of-the-media/>
yannisms

While [My Dear Corpse] may have won the battle last year, resulting in the closure of its rival, the publication has lost all credibility,w hatever little there was, in my most humble opinion.

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[Tunes]

*** Can't Find Forgiveness
<http://www.theknives.net/indexframes.html>
The Knives
<http://www.theknives.net/cant_find_forgiveness.mp3>

*** California
<http://www.theknives.net/indexframes.html?>
The Knives
<http://www.theknives.net/cal.mp3>