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Comments: Only "Illegal" Beatles Music on the Internet?
   John H. Farr     10/14/2003
There's a rather confusing article about online Beatle music at BBC.com, not hard to understand per se, but difficult to penetrate as far as understanding everyone's motives is concerned. In a nutshell, the Beatles' Apple Corps music company has apparently decided not to facilitate legitimate digital music sales online. If so, that's one bargaining chip of Steve Jobs' that's been taken off the table.

Israeli Government Suspends All Contracts with Microsoft
   John H. Farr     10/14/2003
According to the Register, Israeli Antitrust Authority director general Dror Strum "has finally acknowledged that Microsoft is a monopoly." As a consequence, the Ministry of Commerce has banned all governmental contracts with Microsoft untl 2005.The Register also says that the Israeli Ministry of Commerce is "said to be" looking into OpenOffice as an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.

The Ferrari Of Notebook Computers
   Charles W. Moore     10/14/2003
Unfortunately, it’s not a PowerBook

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
   Charles W. Moore     10/13/2003
I don’t recall spending any Canadian Thanksgiving Sundays in the hot sun at the beach before, but that’s where I went yesterday

Comments: Spammer Dirty Pool
   John H. Farr     10/09/2003
We'll keep this one short. There are lots of kinds of junk emails, and many of them attempt to deceive you into opening them.But one kind of message we've been getting lately would rate a punch in the nose if someone tried it on us in person.

New Cooling Technology for Chips
   John H. Farr     10/07/2003
It would appear that a group of mechanical engineering professors at Stanford University have hit the jackpot in more ways than one. Their company, Cooligy Inc., has developed a passive, closed-loop cooling system for high-speed computer chips that's been tested and approved by Apple, Intel, and AMD (plus the Defense Department).

And Now For Something Completely Different - The OQO Ultra-Personal Computer
   Charles W. Moore     10/07/2003
If Only It Was A Mac!

Apple Pen Antics
   John H. Farr     10/03/2003
Hah! So what if there isn't any news, we'll just make up our own! See this? We found it on Steve Jobs' desk and stole it for our cat to play with. Maybe you'd like one, too. That's fine, but you'll have to ask Hobbes. And no, you can't buy one. We had to steal ours, remember.

TollFreeISP Global Dialup Internet Service Supports Mac OS X and Classic
   Charles W. Moore     10/02/2003
Offers prepaid dialup service in more than 100 countries

Tidbit: WMD Search Funding Squabbles & What the Money's For
   John H. Farr     10/02/2003
A news story at the New York Times site has a computer industry tie-in, so we thought we'd lay it out for you. First you need to know that the government wants another $600 million to fund more searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, this on top of the $300 million already spent. The Army is jealous, too, and for good reason

RIAA Will be "Nice" Now, Sort Of
   John H. Farr     10/01/2003
The Recording Industry Association of America has decided to talk to fileswappers before they sue them, according to the Washington Post. That's the good news.

Comments: IE Security Hole a "Gold Mine for Hackers"
   John H. Farr     09/29/2003
There's something very disturbing about the latest chapter in the unending story of how inviting most Microsoft apps are for those who would do digital harm. According to ComputerWorld, the "long-ignored" Internet Explorer vulnerability is allowing malicious hackers to install software on PCs through hacked Web sites and instant messaging programs. What's even worse, though, is Microsoft's apparent inability to get its act together and issue a workable patch.

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