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Book Reviews

Wednesday, December 4, 2002

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Understanding the Microprocessor: "This article, which is the first in a series, is aimed at providing the reader with the kind of background that he or she needs to understand the CPU technology coverage on Ars and on other sites. And with Itanium2, Yamhill, AMD's Hammer, and other new chips on the horizon, there's quite a bit of such coverage coming up." [Ars Technica]

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Radiation therapy turns patient into terror suspect: "A patient treated with a radioactive form of iodine for a medical condition set off radiation detection devices planted in Manhattan subway stations, causing police to strip-search him and detain him for questioning, researchers report." [Reuters Health eLine]

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Taxi drivers must pay royalties for radio songs: "Finland's Supreme Court has held that taxi drivers must pay royalties for music played in their cars while they're chauffeuring passengers -- even radio songs." [Boing Boing Blog]

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Mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 1.2.1 Mac OS, OS X Browser: "The good folks at the Mozilla organization have released an update to the Mozilla browser for Mac OS and Mac OS X. The new version is version 1.2.1, which fixes an issue with DHTML." (The Mac Observer via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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iApp Power Play: "You probably didn't realize this because Apple's marketing focus to consumers is simplicity, not integrated environments. But there's certainly more to the iApps than initially meets the eye." (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Where Lies Apple's Future? "Apple's future looks rosy in one area (the consumer market), sorta promising in a second (business/enterprise), and gloomy in a third (education). Let's look at each area in turn." (ComputerUser via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]