[MyAppleMenu] Mar 12, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[Top Stories]

*** Judge: Apple Can Pursue Fan Site Sources
<http://news.com.com/Apple+wins+round+in+lawsuit+against+fan+sites/2100-1047_3-5611285.html?tag=nefd.lede>
Ina Fried and John Borland, CNET News.com

Apple has the right to subpoena the electronic records of PowerPage, which published items about an unreleased product, a judge ruled Friday.

*** Timing Right For Mass Market Assault -- Apple CFO
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11057&Page=1&pagePos=1>
Karen Haslam, Macworld UK

Having invested a lot on marketing and extending its channels over the last few years, and with the benefit of the iPod halo effect, Apple feels that it is now in a position to address the broader market, according to the company's chief financial officer.

[News]

*** Mac Mini VW GTi Install
<http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/vehicles/mac-mini-vw-gti-install-035712.php>
Gizmodo

Matt Turner was kind enough to drop us a line about his month-long endeavor of permanently installing and integrating a Mac mini into his 2001 Volkswagen GTi.

*** Fetch 5.0 Goes Beta
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/11/fetch/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-0305>
Peter Cohen, Macworld

*** PearPC Developers Attack CherryOS "Code Theft"
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775386,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Ian Betteridge, eWeek

According th Charles Darvy, one of the contributors to PearPC, the released version of CherryOS includes both code and graphics directly taken from PearPC.

*** Scott Weintrob: Everybody Dance Again
<http://www.apple.com/pro/video/weintrob/>
Dustin Driver, Apple

"There was a time when filmmaking was a closed industry -- you had to have lots of money and equipment to shoot something. The idea of Apple is that anybody can go shoot footage and edit it and show it to a worldwide audience."

*** John Kuramoto: Animating Historic Architecture
<http://www.apple.com/pro/video/kuramoto/>
Bija Gutoff, Apple

"The most exciting thing for me is that you can design a full, retail-quality DVD on a single computer. I consider it groundbreaking that you can do all that on your Mac."

*** Poll: eMac Attraction Fades As Educators Turn To Portables
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11060>
Karen Haslam, Macworld UK

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed that independent third party research group Student Monitor had found that in education sphere intention to buy Mac -- particularly portable Macs -- is way up.

*** Jobs' Net Worth Increases To $3 Billion
<http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/03/11/jobs.worth.increases/>
MacNN

*** Microsoft Drops Support For Mac MSN Client
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/11/msn/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-0305>
Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral

"Beginning May 31, Microsoft will make changes and no longer support the MSN for Mac OS X Internet Software client. Instead of accessing MSN services using the MSN for Mac OS X Internet Software... customers will now access MSN services and features via their preferred browser."

[Opinion]

*** Apple's "Trade Secrets"
<http://dangillmor.typepad.com/dan_gillmor_on_grassroots/2005/03/apples_trade_se.html>
Dan Gillmor, Grassroots Journalism

Companies will simply slap "trade secret" protection on everything they do, and any reporter who gets a scoop on anything the company doesn't want the public to know about will be under a legal threat.

*** Apple Lawsuit: Thinking Different?
<http://news.com.com/Apple+lawsuit+A+case+of+sour+grapes/2010-1047_3-5611497.html?tag=nefd.ac>
Charles Cooper, CNET News.com

Such has been my dilemma, watching Steve Jobs operate over the years, that I still don't know whether to applaud or boo.

*** Apple Conspiracy Theory Of The Week
<http://www.backupbrain.com/2005_03_06_archive.html#a004447>
Dori Smith, Backup Brain

Note to self: never, ever, ever, again admit to Apple that a machine had third-party RAM installed.

*** Apple Springs A Leak
<http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=88655&page=1>
Michael S. Malone, ABC News

What I'm saying is that if you are an employee, supplier or distributor for Apple Computer, and you care more about the First Amendment than the Little People's Republic, you might think about dropping a dime on Apple, and help pre-announce everything the company's got in the works for the next five years.

[Sidetrack]

*** Rumor Today: Tiger In April
Heng-Cheong Leong

Think Secret <http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0503tiger.html>: Apple will officially announce Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's release at an event in early April and will begin shipping the operating system within two or three weeks afterwards.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Fans Of The Mozilla Browser Suite May Sustain It
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775574,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Matt Hicks and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, eWeek

*** Five Years After The Bubble, Have Its Lessons Been Forgotten?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/business/11norris.html?ex=1268283600&en=924debc07a1d15bf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Floyd Norris, New York Times

Five years later, the great bubble of 2000 does not look so bad. The conventional wisdom now is that it was not all that important, certainly nothing like the great bubbles of 20th-century stock market history, those of the United States in 1929 and Japan in 1989. But there are similarities indicating that it could be a very long time before technology stocks as a group become good long-term investments again.

*** Better Than The Wheel?
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/11/11OPeditor_1.html>
Steve Fox, InfoWorld

The search for groundbreaking technologies can be useful and productive; but it can also ignore or trivialize promisng ideas that don't carry the Next-Big-Thing name tag.

*** Fujitsu Sees Biometric Future In Palms
<http://news.com.com/Fujitsu+sees+biometric+future+in+palms/2100-7355_3-5611477.html?part=rss&tag=5611309&subj=news>
Dan Ilett, CNET News.com

Cross Fujitsu's palm with silver, and you'll get a biometric scanner that identifies people by looking at the veins in the hands.

*** MSN Sites Get Easy-To-Read Privacy Label
<http://news.com.com/MSN+sites+get+easy-to-read+privacy+label/2100-1038_3-5611894.html?part=rss&tag=5611309&subj=news>
Robert Lemos, CNET News.com

Microsoft is making it simpler for sufers to understand privacy practices on some of its MSN Web portals.

[Linux]

*** Linux A Picture Of Health At CeBIT
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39191133,00.htm>
ZDNet UK

Crowds, product launches, debates, giant penguins.. when it came to open source the CeBIT show had it all, and we have the pictures to prove it.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** 'I Have A Nightmare'
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/opinion/12kristof.html?ex=1268370000&en=f6295532e1ef719f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Nicholas D. Kirstof, New York Times

When environmentalists are writing tracts like "The Death of Environmentalism," you know the movement is in deep trouble.

[Life]

*** Plot Twists In Store
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28628-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_print/style>
David Segal, Washington Post

"Nearly everyone who publishes a book quickly realizes that if they want to publicize their work, they better take matters into their own hands."

*** The World's Biggest Book Market
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/013MEYERL.html?8hpib>
Mike Meyer, New York Times

After a decade in China, I thought I'd seen it all: murder, jail, aliens, rodeo. But nothing prepared me for its publishing industry, in puberty.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Youths Cheer New Land Space Given To Them
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/137047/1/.html>
Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia

*** Bye, Beloved Monorail
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/39621.asp>
Patricia Yap, Today

After chugging round Sentosa Island for 23 years, the monorail will make its last trip on Tuesday.